Ahead of his visit, Leo shared a Thanksgiving message with NBC News encouraging all people "to recognize that we have all received so many gifts."

Pope Leo XIV completes pilgrimage to Turkey, meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and religious leaders while promoting peace and unity before traveling to Lebanon.

In Ankara’s reading, the rapidly changing regional dynamics seem to be inexorably leading to three outcomes it finds undesirable: the normalization of the principle of “might makes right,” Israel’s ascent to regional domination and the apparent end ...

As airports in the Middle East expand, they are facing new competition: each other. The region’s hubs in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Turkey and Saudi Arabia are on an expansion drive that

Turkey, Egypt and Qatar officials meet in Cairo to discuss the next phase of a Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal amid ongoing violation allegations and obstacles.

ANKARA >> Pope Leo arrived in Turkey on his first trip outside Italy as leader of the Catholic Church today and was expected to make appeals for peace in the Middle East and urge unity among long-divided Christian churches.

Turkey is now a leading partner for many states within Central Asia. Sharing a common cultural inheritance, Ankara has been able to create numerous shared institutions with the region. The future of these links will depend on a variety of domestic and international factors,

The pontiff's first visit abroad has prompted land-grab allegations, with some Turks also seeing it as a violation of the republic's secularist principles

If you haven’t met chef Ahu Hettema, you should. Perhaps not in person, but through a good story or a proper sit-down at her esteemed restaurant Istanbul Hawaii. She and her mom run the kitchen at the restaurant,

Pope Leo visits Istanbul's Blue Mosque and celebrates mass as he calls for peace and unity among Christians and Muslims.