Cat lovers in Turkey were uplifted by this week’s news that the country’s endangered Van species, hailing from the eponymous province bordering Iran, are multiplying in ever greater numbers. Professor ...

The latest crisis is another blow to the struggling economy in this region of 1.1 million people, which lies at the eastern ...

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Champions of breakfast: Van, a city in Turkey's far east, has developed a reputation for offering some of the best breakfasts in the country, if not the world.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - More than 300,000 people have left Turkey’s southeastern Kurdish province of Van over the past five years, moving to neighboring cities and other parts of Turkey, mainly due ...

Eastern Turkey was hit by a large earthquake of magnitude 7.2 yesterday. The earthquake, whose epicentre was about 16 km north of Van province, devastated the area where many buildings were demolished ...