Turkey

Five people were killed and another severely wounded when a boat carrying migrants hit a Turkish coast guard vessel off northwest Turkey on Sunday, a local governor’s office said, ...

In a brightly lit treatment room at a private hospital in Istanbul, doctor Erdal Dilekci makes dozens of small, quick incisions on a patient’s back as part of a ...

By William Gourlay A Turkish proverb – düştüğün yerden kalk – counsels that one should arise from where one has fallen. Ekrem İmamoğlu, the jailed mayor of Istanbul and ...

Turkish first lady Emine Erdogan has written to U.S. President Donald Trump’s wife, Melania Trump, and urged her to contact Israel’s prime minister and raise the plight ...

The mothers of some fighters in the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) called on Wednesday for an amnesty for their children and an end to decades of death, before a ...

The Kurdish YPG militia, which spearheads the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), should stop “playing for time” and abide by its integration agreement with the Syrian government, Turkey’...

One person was killed on Sunday when an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck northwestern Turkey’s Balikesir province, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said, adding 29 people were wounded and 16 buildings collapsed. The ...

Turkey’s aggressive and multi-faceted energy strategy is posing increasing challenges for Cyprus and the broader Eastern Mediterranean region, according to Andreas Poullikkas, professor of energy systems and former chairman ...

Turkey has arrested an LGBTQ+ youth activist over criticism he made abroad at Europe’s main rights body about the repression of opponents by President Tayyip Erdogan’s government. Enes ...

Turkey’s parliament launched a commission on Tuesday to oversee the disarmament of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group following its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan’s call for ...

Turkish annual consumer price inflation dipped more than expected to 33.52 per cent in July, official data showed on Monday, sustaining a downward trend despite strong rises in housing and education ...

The migration route from Libya across the Mediterranean, used by thousands seeking a way to get to Europe, was a top issue at a meeting on Friday between the leaders ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that he and his Kazakh counterpart Kassym Jomart-Tokayev had “discussed respecting the equal and inherent rights of the Turkish Cypriots”. Speaking following a bilateral ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday night said his government will “always stand by the Turkish Cypriots”. Speaking after a cabinet meeting, he said that during his visit to ...

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has had a second of his degrees revoked by Istanbul University, with the university on Monday night announcing that it had elected to cancel his master’...

Firefighters battled to put out wildfires on Monday in three separate provinces in Turkey, in Greece and near a tourist resort in Albania, stoked by strong winds after days of ...

It is “not right” to call northern Cyprus a “baby homeland”, Turkish opposition party CHP leader Ozgur Ozel said. He made the comment when asked by a journalist about the ...

Turkey will directly intervene to stop any attempt to fragment Syria and will prevent any attempts by militants to obtain autonomy after clashes in southern Syria, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan ...

Turkish Cypriot economist Mertkan Hamit on Wednesday said he had been denied entry to Turkey after finding himself on the country’s N-82 list. Being on the N-82 list means ...

Turkey reached deals with NATO allies Britain and Germany on Wednesday that pave the way to acquiring dozens of Eurofighter Typhoon jets, which Ankara has sought to bolster defences in ...

The European Union has eased rules for Turks to use its open-border Schengen area, the bloc’s ambassador to Ankara said on Friday, calling for the urgent revival of negotiations ...

President Tayyip Erdogan risks losing support among nationalist Turkish voters in making peace with Kurdistan Workers Party militants, whose burning of weapons last week was dismissed by some as a ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan promised “empathy for the other side” ahead of the enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem, which got underway in New York in the early hours ...

An Istanbul court on Wednesday sentenced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the main rival of Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan, to a fresh prison term, state broadcaster TRT reported, extending a ...