Negotiators for the warring sides in Istanbul appeared to make little progress on ceasefire terms or a possible summit between their presidents – with their meeting ending after less than an hour.

Istanbul’s historic buildings, including the Hagia Sophia and Basilica Cistern, are at risk from a major earthquake on the Anatolian fault line.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has stated that he wants to arrange a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin. Source: Erdoğan during a press conference, as quoted by Turkish news agency Anadolu and reported by European Pravda Details: On Friday 25 July,

Ukraine conducted the ninth stage of the prisoner exchange on 23 July, bringing seriously ill and wounded soldiers back home. Source: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on X (Twitter) Quote: "Today, already the 9th stage of the exchange agreed in Istanbul took place.

The American author and playwright first set foot in Istanbul in 1961, at the age of 36. Turkey was then alive with an artistic and intellectual effervescence, and for 10 years it became his refuge – a place of celebration and intense literary creation.

Minas Avramidis worked in early 20th-century Kutahya, long after Iznik's kilns cooled but before global capital flattened local craft. He turned humble glazed earthenware into narrative tableaux: a Christian martyr haloed by florals; a moustachioed man raising a pistol in theatrical despair.

With his signature Dadaist irreverence, the artist blends whimsy with menace and playfulness with subversion to unearth uncomfortable truths of our time.

A Turkish court has convicted Istanbul’s jailed opposition mayor of insulting and threatening a public official.

Kuwaiti artist Sabah Asad on Thursday expressed his great happiness and pride in representing the State of Kuwait at international forums