The Lausanne Monument was erected in 1998 to commemorate the Turkish annexation of Edirne with a statue of a woman holding a treaty and a dove symbolizing peace. Photo by Asher Kohn Each Friday, Roads ...

EDIRNE, Turkey (Reuters) - Some 2,200 oil wrestlers began fighting bouts at a stadium in the northwestern Turkish city of Edirne on Friday, competing to win a golden belt in a contest dating back to ...

Near Turkey’s borders with Bulgaria and Greece, a new museum takes on centuries of Ottoman rule in the Balkans. Location was key. Strategically situated on the westernmost fringe of European Turkey, ...

EDIRNE, Turkey (AP) — After a year-long, pandemic-induced hiatus, the sounds of the zurna flute and beating drums again greeted thousands of Turkish wrestling fans who returned to the country’s ...

Bordering Greece and Bulgaria, Turkey’s northwestern Edirne province, looks forward to slake international visitors’ thirst for tourism with its historical sites, cultural heritage, rich cuisine, ...

A 1500-year-old Byzantine church was found during excavation in Turkey's northwestern Edirne province. Professor Engin Beksac from Trakya University's Art History Department is heading the excavation ...

Hundreds of refugees hold a protest in the Turkish city of Edirne on Wednesday night. Chanting and holding banners in English, the group is calling to be allowed to cross the border into Greece.

“You have synagogues next to mosques next to churches. Istanbul is wonderful but here there isn’t the sense of rush and urgency of a big city. Edirne gives you a sense of its history.” She is just one ...

Turkey on Thursday reopened a restored century-old synagogue built during the Ottoman Empire but closed for several decades, AFP reported. A special ceremony was held at the Buyuk Sinagog (lit. the ...

EDIRNE, TURKEY—Kitchen utensils, including a huge spoon, dating from the Ottoman Empire have been uncovered during the restoration of Edirne Palace, where Sultan Mehmet II planned his conquest of ...

A Jewish couple on Sunday became the first people to have a Jewish wedding in the Grand Synagogue of Edirne in over 40 years. The synagogue, located in northwest Turkey, was reopened in 2015 after a ...