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Man soothes angry driver after crash in extraordinary scene in Istanbul

Man soothes angry driver after crash in extraordinary scene in Istanbul

Sivasspor, Beşiktaş still holding on to top spots

ISTANBUL - The top two spots of the Turkcell Super League remains unchanged as Sivasspor and Beşiktaş win again. Fenerbahçe wins and continues its trail, while free-falling Trabzonspor was held to a draw again to complete a month without a win and slipped to the fourth spot.

Dance wind blows in Istanbul at international festival

ISTANBUL - Starting from today, Istanbul will be hosting a multi-disciplinary artistic event, including dance, performance, film screening, video installations, for one month: the iDANS International Contemporary Dance and Performance Festival. The festival is the first of its kind in Turkey.

COLLECTION - Hurriyet stories on crash of Turkish Airlines flight

Here are the stories published on Hurriyet Daily News website on the Turkish Airlines plane crash in Amsterdam on Wednesday.

The force behind artistic hope

ISTANBUL - If you picture Beyoğlu as a Bohemian quarter, then you know Apel Galeri fits right in. Ten years ago, Apel was one of the first of the art galleries to be opened in the area and others have followed its lead.

Reputation of police

Ever since I was bitterly beaten up by four policemen on a May 1980 morning in front of, what was then, the Iş Bank headquarters across from the then headquarters of the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, or TRT, and had to spend three days in a hospital, I have developed an allergy to the policeÉ That is, I must admit that I am quite biased against the police...

Eye witness!

About 9:30 p.m. in the evening. With one eye, I was trying to follow a sitcom on TV, while with the other reading an excellent "State and the Kurds" book by Professor Metin Heper of the Bilkent University Ğ a book which has been waiting on my "must read" list since early summer. My wife, Aydan, was talking on the phone with my daughter, while at the same time cooking our evening must, Turkish coffee...

Hope in Iraq-Turkey relations up, dimming at home amid tension

The region around the Iraqi-Turkey border becomes a dizzying dichotomy of political fortune as the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government finds encouraging signs of progress in northern Iraq but is confronted by disturbing unrest among its own citizens.

Hope in Iraq-Turkey relations up, dimming at home amid tension

The region around the Iraqi-Turkey border becomes a dizzying dichotomy of political fortune as the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government finds encouraging signs of progress in northern Iraq but is confronted by disturbing unrest among its own citizens.

Hamas responsible for Jerusalem attack (UPDATED)

A Palestinian gunman killed eight people in a Jewish religious college in Jerusalem on Thursday, in the most lethal attack in Israel in two years. Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement, claimed responsibility on Friday for the attack.

Baykal's Claim Of Secret Agent In Mosul