Ryan Taylor, 40, underwent a blepharoplasty procedure to reduce crow's feet and wrinkles around the eyes at a private clinic in the coastal city of Izmir last Tuesday (18th).

'Then, the phone rang': BBC's Mark Lowen on being deported from Turkey

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The BBC correspondent was deported from Turkey this week after covering ongoing mass protests in the country.

Erdoğan, not Trump, is Europe’s new best friend on security

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Ekrem İmamoğlu, Istanbul’s mayor and the main political rival of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been arrested. So what is Europe doing about it? Staying pretty quiet, it seems. Mass prot…

Olympic skier Berkin Usta dies aged 24 in fire at winter resort hotel

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Olympian and his father Yahya die in blaze in closed hotel in Turkey
Berkin raced slalom and giant slalom at 2022 Beijing Winter Games

The Olympic skier Berkin Usta and his father have died in a fire a…

I’ve never seen such clampdowns in Istanbul. Turkey’s democracy is fighting for its life | Orhan Pamuk

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The jailing of President Erdoğan’s main political rival is the low point of a decade-long march towards autocracy – but the protesters aren’t done yet either

• Orhan Pamuk won the 2006 Nobel prize in …

‘At 60, the bulk of your life is lived. What’s left now?’ Ralph Fiennes and Uberto Pasolini on their ripped and radical take on The Odyssey

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The actor and director on why The Return took 30 years to make, their joy at persuading Juliette Binoche to join them – and the punishing regime that earned Fiennes his battle-scarred physique

Uberto …