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Ibrahim Yozoglu/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON and ISTANBUL) — A predawn fire at a hotel in the Kartalkaya Ski Resort in Turkey killed at least 76, with another 51 injured, Turkey’s Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said Tuesday. “We are in deep pain,” Yerlikaya told reporters during a press conference. The fire ignited after 3 a.m. […]

Ibrahim Yozoglu/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON and ISTANBUL) — Turkey’s Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said Tuesday that the death toll from a pre-dawn fire at a hotel in the Kartalkaya ski resort has risen to 66 and the number of injured is now 51. “We are in deep pain,” Yerlikaya told reporters during a press […]

Moe Zoyari/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ISTANBUL) — Voters in Turkey will return to the polls soon as no candidate was able to receive 50% of voting in the first round of the critical presidential election. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has ruled the country for 20 years and has won the majority of the elections, […]

Murat Saka/dia images via Getty Images (GAZIANTEP, Turkey) — The political fallout from last week’s massive earthquake in the Turkish-Syrian border has already begun, according to experts. Over the weekend, Turkish officials announced arrests against building developers following an outcry from residents about poor building construction that led to more than 30,000 deaths in the […]