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A powerful earthquake has hit a sparsely populated part of eastern Turkey, killing several people and injuring hundreds more. The epicenter of the quake was the town of Sivrice in Elazig province, but tremors were felt across the region.
Germany is the European champion when it comes to generating packaging waste - despite its longstanding system to separate trash. And the figures for plastic waste are nearly ach sotwice what they were 15 years ago.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is planning what is dubbed in Turkey as the construction project of the decade: a huge canal connecting Turkey's Marmara Sea and Black Sea. It will provide an alternative route to the Bosphorus, one of the world's busiest waterways, which divides Istanbul. But it's provoking outrage in Istanbul. Dorian Jones reports on what Erdogan calls his "crazy project."
The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is available in Turkey after the Constitutional Court ruled that an almost three-year block infringed freedom of expression.
Transport workers in France have been striking for six weeks, a particularly hard situation for Parisians. Plus: The world's largest glacier ski resort could be built in Austria, but is that good for the environment?
When animals are seriously injured, they're often put down. Hasan Kizil wanted to do something about that. With donations, he buys parts from bike shops and uses them to build prosthetics for injured cats and dogs.
Ghosn makes first public address since escape - US stocks hit record as Iran tensions ease - Russia, Turkey launch new TurkStream gas pipeline
Tensions between the United States and Iran could spread to Africa+++ Tripoli rejects Turkey's Troop deployment to Libya+++Fighting fake news in Cameroon
Turkish Presidential Spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin tells Conflict Zone at the Berlin Foreign Policy Forum: 'We are taking care of our own national security.' Does Turkey still want to be in the EU?
Greece, Cyprus and Israel have signed a deal for an undersea pipeline designed to move gas from the Eastern Mediterranean to Europe. EastMed is intended to provide an alternative gas source for energy-hungry Europe.
Turkish lawmakers have passed a bill allowing the country to deploy troops to war-torn Libya. The move is aimed at shoring up the UN-recognized government in Tripoli against rebel-leader Khalifa Haftar and his so-called Libyan National Army.
The Bulgaria-Turkish border is over 200 kilometers long. Bulgaria has started upgrading border security and the technical infrastructure to prevent illegal border crossings.
According to Ankara, the UN-backed government in Tripoli has requested the intervention to help stabilize the country. If Turkey follows through, the move could deepen a proxy struggle in Libya, which has been ravaged by civil war since 2014.
Homeless Christian Page uses social media to campaign for the rights of those living on the street. They are Turks and black: descendants of African slaves in Turkey reappraise their history.
They are Turks and black: descendants of the Ottoman Empire‘s African slaves form a minority in Turkish society that has long been all but invisible. Now, they’re trying to reappraise their history.
The plight of the Uighurs has been gathering momentum, with some public figures criticizing the Chinese government's treatment of the Muslim ethnic minority. Turkish people have been showing their solidarity with the Uighurs.
With the EU-Turkey accord of 2016, Ankara agreed to prevent the over 4 million mainly-Syrian migrants living in Turkey from going to the EU in exchange for EU money. The numbers of migrants crossing from Turkey to Greece dropped dramatically. But now they are rising again and Greeks are bracing themselves for another crisis. John Laurenson reports from Samos.
The persecution of the Muslim Uighur minority in China has caused many to flee to Turkey. According to experts, there are currently over a million Uighurs interned in detention facilities in northwest China.
In 1999 in Belarus, three opposition politicians disappeared without a trace. Now a key witness has spoken out for the first time. Also: The Muslim Uighur minority is facing forced detention in China, causing many to flee to Turkey.
Accused of being a terrorist, a Uighur woman now in Turkey bears witness to the cruelty and humiliation she suffered in one of the camps in China's Xinjiang region, where an estimated 1 million ethnic Uighur Muslims are being detained. Turkey has become a refuge for Uighur exiles, who fear for the family members left behind.
Greece is living a new migrant crisis. The number of people arriving, mainly on the islands close to Turkey, has more than doubled since July. The reception facilities on these islands are now massively overcrowded and conditions are deteriorating for the migrants and also for the islanders. John Laurenson sent this Postcard from Samos.
Some garbagemen in Ankara were upset about people throwing away books, so they started putting them aside -- and now they've set up their own library.
Lithuanian "elves" battle Russian cyber-trolls +++ Aftermath of the Halle synagogue attack
Police in Istanbul used force to break up the peaceful protest of several hundred women denouncing violence against women and femicide. Advocacy group "We Will Stop Femicide" claims 440 women were killed in Turkey in 2018, many by their own spouses.
