CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. poultry producers should ramp up testing and monitoring of turkeys for bird flu before they are slaughtered to ensure the virus stays out of the food supply, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday.

As it became increasingly clear that Syrians were not imminently leaving Turkey, the Turkish government formalized the Temporary Protection Regulation in 2014. It allowed Syrian nationals access to the Turkish education and health care systems and laid the groundwork for them to pursue employment if they could secure work permits.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, who turns 71 next month and is in his third decade as the nation’s leader, has an appetite for power that appears as healthy as ever. On Monday, he declared 2025 to be “the year of the family” and unveiled measures aimed at raising the national birth rate.

Meat industry giant Cargill has agreed to pay $32.5 million to settle a class action accusing it of conspiring with rival processors to fix the price of turkey, according to a filing in Chicago federal court.

A fresh drive to bring an end to Turkey’s 40-year Kurdish conflict has seen politicians from the pro-Kurdish party meet jailed leaders

Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomed a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel but expressed concern over continued attacks.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan marked the launch of Turkey’s “Year of the Family” with an attack on the LGBTQ+ community and the announcement of measures to boost birth rates.

Turkey is ready to provide support to the new Syrian administration for the management of Islamic State camps in the country, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Wednesday. "As we have always said,

Nakia Holmes, the former owner of the Turkey Leg Hut in Houston, has spoken out for the first time since the Third Ward restaurant unceremoniously shuttered at the end of 2024. In a recent interview with Essence Magazine—which generously credited much of our original reporting on the matter (thank you)—Holmes touched on a handful of pivotal moments in the restaurant's timeline.

A new cold storage warehouse will help meet the growing demand for Turkey Hill ice cream and reduce the company’s need for off-site storage.

Seven migrants drowned in the Aegean Sea off the western coast of Turkey after falling overboard when the authorities tried to intercept their boat, the Turkish coast guard said Friday.