A massive earthquake has struck in Turkey's Balikesir region, impacting large areas across the country's west including ...

PANIC gripped western Turkey tonight as a powerful 6.1 magnitude earthquake sent residents running from their homes into the ...

On June 21, Turkish media reported that the Saint-Jean Theologos Greek Girls School in Smyrna, now known as Izmir, which has been empty since the extermination of the city's Greek Christians in 1922, ...

In the ancient city of Smyrna – located within the borders of the modern city of Izmir, Turkey – archaeologists have uncovered a communal commode facility at a theater over 2,000 years old. The ...

Two people were killed in an explosion Thursday near a courthouse in the city of Izmir in western Turkey, according to the country’s state-run Anadolu news agency. A police officer and a courthouse ...

Istanbul — Covered in dust but otherwise healthy, three-year-old Ayda Gezgin was pulled from the rubble of an 8-storey building on Tuesday, four days after a magnitude 7 earthquake battered her home ...

IZMIR, Turkey (JTA) — Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has been a popular tourist destination for both Jewish travelers and others interested in Jewish history. The Nazis left many of the ...

Smyrna has gone to the birds—well, at least one bird. There is a turkey, Smyrna residents say, that lives near the intersection of Sam Ridley Parkway and Motlow College Boulevard, by the YMCA. Named ...