Nargiza Unal met her husband, Adnan, 13 years ago when she was working in Turkey on a temporary visa with the hope of making money and returning to her home country, Uzbekistan. Nargiza's plans ...

Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc made headlines Monday, July 28th when he said that women should not laugh in public, when giving a speech about "moral corruption," according to the ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey -- The Turkish prime minister's daughter was married Sunday, a ceremony that was attended by Christian and Muslim leaders and held up by her father as a bridge between the West and ...

BILGE , Turkey, May 5 (UPI) -- Seventeen women and six children were among 44 people killed during an attack on a wedding party in Turkey's Mardin province, police said. Officials said the victims, ...

The oddly phrased message popped into my inbox on a Sunday afternoon in late July. It read more like a chain mail text than a note from my friend in Istanbul with whom I usually chat with in a mixture ...

She was so impressed by the other women, that she was inspired to enter the university exam in her thirties and become an academic. The women decided to face the prejudices that "feminists" faced in ...