For the first time in history, the Pope led a mass using a Turkish hymn — and even included the word Allah.

🇯🇵 In Japan, Hiroshima fans bid farewell to Michael Skibbe and his assistant Serhat Umar with a choreography featuring Turkish and German flag

It’s raining, it’s December, and people in Istanbul are swimming 🇹🇷🏊‍♂️

This Turkish stray cat does its business in a trash can 🐈🇹🇷

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This month last year, Turkish archaeologists uncovered the tomb of Saint Nicholas — the man we know as Santa Claus.

This Kazakh traveler in Finland shows how Romanian migrants kept harassing him to the point that he can’t even walk the streets.

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The last person on Earth who can still speak and read Urartian — a language from 3,000 years ago — is a Turk.

Any idea why the Turkish flag wasn’t drawn on the ground?

🇺🇸 Tom Barrack: • Türkiye is America’s biggest NATO partner. • Türkiye doesn’t get as much respect from Europe as it should.

🇹🇷 Today marks 91 years since 1934, when Türkiye granted women full rights to vote and be elected. Long before many countries. 🇫🇷 France: 1944 🇮🇹 Italy: 1945 🇧🇪 Belgium: 1948 🇬🇷 Greece: 1952 🇨🇭 Switzerland: 1971

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Western tourists are surprised to find that Christmas feels safer in Istanbul than in many cities back home.

🇹🇷 Türkiye’s delegation condemned Israel’s approval for Eurovision participation.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan calls on the EU to finally speed up the €10B Central Asia investment promise. • Two years ago, Kazakhstan pledged not to recognize the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in exchange for that investment — yet the EU still hasn’t delivered.

The Székely community in Hungary performed an Ottoman Janissary march with their church choir 🇭🇺🇹🇷

🇺🇸 Tom Barrack: "Nation-states have held back the flow of Caspian wealth to Türkiye and Greece"

🇹🇷 Baykar, the company that created Türkiye’s iconic Bayraktar drones, has now begun work on modular nuclear reactors.

During the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979–1989), many of the deserters from the Soviet Union were Uzbeks and other Turkic soldiers who felt naturally closer to Afghanistan’s own Turkic communities.

Azerbaijan, Türkiye, Pakistan and the United States carried out a joint drill in the Eastern Mediterranean — “Eastern Mediterranean-2025.”

The origins of the 2,000 most commonly used words in modern Turkish 🇹🇷