Standing alone in the desert heat, the McPhaul Suspension Bridge is a haunting reminder of a forgotten route. Once an essential crossing, it's now bypassed and slowly reclaimed by the landscape. This ...

As kindergartners cycled through the lunch line at Sandia Vista Elementary School on a recent day, food service worker Anita Martinez reminded each student to add one fruit and one veggie to their ...

Erdogan has branded the protests “street terrorism”. Turkey’s extended ban now applies to the country's three largest cities – Istanbul, Izmir and the capital, Ankara – while the latest ...

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Ekrem Imamoglu, mayor of Istanbul, has been jailed on corruption charges. Since then, there have been days of protests, leading to violent clashes between protestors and the authorities. Imamoglu ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Europe treads carefully While Turkey's president says the widespread protests — which included clashes with police — are a "movement of violence," France's foreign ministry has branded the ...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been running Turkey for 22 years, and has spent much of that time eroding its democracy. His government controls the courts, the security apparatus and almost all the media.

Erdoğan has been running Turkey since 2003, and he has maintained his hold on power, in part, by cracking down on political opponents and on the media. Some of those opponents come from Turkey ...

Tourists planning a trip to Turkey or those already enjoying their holiday have been advised to take care amid fresh travel warnings. The country, famed for bustling destinations such as Antalya ...

As Turkish cities braced for a sixth night of unrest on Monday, Turkey's interior minister said 1,133 people were detained between March 19 and March 23 in a post on X. Ali Yerlikaya added ...

While the economist kept going with the presentation, the guests kept waiting for the country’s state-run lenders to start selling more dollars — the Central Bank of Turkey’s typical method ...