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Burak Akinci
Pedestrians walk along Istiklal Street, a busy shopping and entertainment hub in central Istanbul, a day after a suicide bomb attack, March 20, 2016. (AFP/YASIN AKGUL)
March 21, 2016, 2:01 am
Istanbul on edge after Islamic State blamed for bombing
Suicide bomber named by Turkish authorities as Mehmet Ozturk from Gaziantep, on the border with Syria
By Clare BYRNE and Burak Akinci
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) and Australian Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove (R) review an honour guard during an official welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Ankara on August 4, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN)
August 5, 2015, 6:38 am
Turkey’s troubles deal new blow to stumbling economy
Renewed violence with the Kurds and lack of government compound faltering tourism and depreciating currency
By Burak Akinci
A Turkish man reads a newspaper to check the results of elections in Diyarbakir on June 8, 2015. (AFP/BULENT KILIC)
June 15, 2015, 9:22 am
Turkey warily girds for return of coalition rule
Having lost its absolute majority, ruling Justice and Development Party hopes to avoid chaos of previous alliances
By Burak Akinci
Turkey's president-elect Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, greets Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu after he announced Davutoglu as his ruling Justice and Development Party's new leader, in Ankara, Turkey, on Thursday, August 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
June 9, 2015, 2:13 pm
Erdogan to meet Turkish PM after election setback
Ruling party prepares to form a coalition government for first time since taking power in 2002
By Burak Akinci
The Holy Trinity Church in Istanbul, Turkey. (screen capture: YouTube)
January 3, 2015, 11:32 pm
Turkey greenlights first new church in century
Decision comes three months after pope warns against Middle East ‘Christianophobia’ during visit
By Burak Akinci
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's grandiose new Ak Saray presidential palace (White Palace) on the outskirts of Ankara, October 29, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/ADEM ALTAN)
November 9, 2014, 12:24 pm
Erdogan’s grand palace: Folly or symbol of a new Turkey?
With 1,000 rooms and a $615 million price tag, Turkish president’s custom-ordered residence faces opposition
By Burak Akinci
Kurdish people watch smoke billowing from Kobani as they gather upon a hill overlooking the Syrian town of Kobani, also known as Ain al-Arab, in the southeastern village of Mursitpinar, Sanliurfa province, on October 15, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/ ARIS MESSINIS)
October 16, 2014, 4:35 pm
Kurds hold out in Syria’s Kobani one month into IS assault
International coalition strikes jihadist targets in northern battleground town, but Kurds say they need more help
By Burak Akinci and Mohamad Ali Harissi
Smoke rises from an airstrike in the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane by the Kurds, near the Turkish-Syrian border, seen from the southeastern village of Mursitpinar, Sanliurfa province, on October 9, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/ARIS MESSINIS)
October 14, 2014, 8:52 am
Coalition commanders seek plan to counter IS advance
Military leaders of 22 countries to meet in Washington to ‘discuss a common vision’ against Islamic State
By Burak Akinci and Rita Daou
Thick smoke, debris and fire rise following an airstrike by the US-led coalition in Kobani, Syria, as fighting intensified between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group, as seen from Mursitpinar on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
October 13, 2014, 12:53 am
Kurds thwart IS in Syrian town, but Iraq on back foot
Jihadists knocked back in Kobani, but threaten key oil refinery town
By Burak Akinci and Rana Moussaoui
Islamic State (IS) militants (Rear) stand next to an IS flag atop a hill in the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobani by the Kurds, as seen from the Turkish-Syrian border, with Turkish troops in foreground, in the southeastern town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, on October 6, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/ARIS MESSINIS)
October 12, 2014, 7:48 am
UN warns of looming ‘massacre’ in Kobani
But Kurdish forces in border town manage to halt push by Islamic State to cut off last escape route to Turkey
By Burak Akinci and Mohamad Ali Harissi
A screen-grab taken on April 19, 2014, from a video released by Dogan News Agency shows (from L) Liberation newspaper journalist Didier Francois and French freelance photographer Edouard Elias (photo credit: AFP/DOGAN NEWS AGENCY )
April 20, 2014, 1:59 am
French journalists free after 10-month Syria hostage ordeal
Turkish soldiers find men abandoned in no-man’s land on the border
By Frederic Dumoulin and Burak Akinci
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