Where Europe meets Asia, Istanbul is a dizzying array of Byzantine treasures and soaring minarets, bisected by the Bosphorus strait. Though it’s long captivated visitors with its ancient charms, a ...

If I hadn’t been there, I wouldn’t have believed it. Over the course of an evening, I watched a woman catch her hair on fire (it was quickly doused), a group of angels abandoning any angelic traits to ...

Straddling two continents, Istanbul is a city of bridges — not just physically between Europe and Asia, but culturally and emotionally. Here, centuries of history meet modern vibrancy: Ottoman palaces ...

Istanbul is at such high risk for a devastating earthquake that engineers at Purdue University and the Republic of Turkey have come up with a bold new proposal: build a second city. A second, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link As the only major city that rests in two continents, Istanbul has always been a connector of cultures and a strategic center of trade. Today, ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Thousands of people gathered at Istanbul’s city hall for a second night Thursday to rally against the arrest of the city’s mayor, which many see as a politically driven attempt to ...