An allegedly cross-shaped configuration of a shopping center in the Black Sea province of Trabzon has disturbed the city's residents, leading the shopping center to alter the building's construction. Trabzon residents are particularly sensitive at the moment because their city is remembered for a series of events against Christians, including the murders of a priest and prominent journalist, according to city residents.
Turkey's Black Sea city of Trabzon has found itself cross with… well, a cross. And the outrage in the community over a shopping center configuration that looks like a Christian cross from the air has resulted in reconstruction to make the shopping more »
METU students protest against Ankara mayor Students at the Middle East Technical University, or METU, staged a protest yesterday against a decision by the Ankara Municipality to demolish allegedly illegal buildings on the university's more »
26 detained in new wave Ergenekon arrests
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Controversial historian dismissed from office The head of the Turkish Historical Society was dismissed from his post yesterday, a development whose timing coincides with the government's steps toward a rapprochement with Armenia. “I more »
Karadzic aims to defend himself, mirroring Milosevic Captured Bosnian Serb genocide suspect Radovan Karadzic is to defend himself before the U.N. war crimes court, his lawyer said yesterday, raising memories of the trial of his late ally, Slobodan more »