Stories by Constanze Letsch

'With historical buildings being turned into hotels, the pursuit of tourist will destroy what visitors come to see.'

VELI Yilmaz, a coal miner in Soma for nine years, was shocked when his bosses, the owners of the pit where 301...

HAKKARI (Turkey): Sitting in front of a small stone cabin on top of a hill overlooking green valleys, with the...

ISTANBUL: Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, has expressed regret for the shooting down of a Turkish jet by his forces, and said he hoped growing tensions between the two countries would not escalate into an armed conflict.

THE car park of the central bus station in the Turkish border city Antakya, a once-bustling junction of cars and coaches to and from Syria, was almost empty.