Americans are expected to gobble up more than 40 million turkeys between now and the end of the year. But two massive birds will escape the holiday season thanks to presidential intervention.

The past decade and a half of Turkey’s history has been consistently tumultuous, from the mass anti-government Gezi Park protests in 2013 to an attempted coup to a devastating earthquake. Alexander ...

A lame-duck president will "pardon" a turkey Monday. Not to be snood-y about it, but this fowl tradition has a long and oft-confused history. So let's dispel the myths that get stuck in our beaks that ...

Powerful earthquakes that shook Turkey and Syria last week had resulted in more than 41,000 deaths as of Tuesday. It is among most devastating and deadliest disasters seen in recent history. Hundreds ...

The White House turkey pardoning ceremony, a long-held Thanksgiving tradition formalized 77 years ago, traces its origins back decades further. Since the 1800s, it has been customary for the sitting ...

Turkey, a hotbed of seismic activity, sits on the Anatolian Plate, which borders two major faults as it grinds northeast against Eurasia. By John Yoon The deadly earthquake on Monday in Turkey, which ...

HASANKEYF, Turkey (Reuters) - Every day hundreds of people gather on the banks of the Tigris river in southeast Turkey to watch a 12,000-year-old town disappearing before their eyes. Rising water ...

This isn't the first time the military has tried to seize power in the country. — -- A faction of the military in Turkey has attempted to take over the country's government in a coup, according ...