Turkey

A fistfight broke out in Turkey’s parliament on Friday when an opposition deputy was attacked after calling for his colleague, jailed on charges of organising anti-government protests but since ...

A forest fire in Turkey’s western coastal province of Izmir, fanned by strong winds, is near residential areas, forcing some people to be evacuated, the local governor said on ...

A surge in demand for gold from inflation-stricken Turkey boosted exports of jewellery from Italy’s industrial district of Arezzo in Tuscany, data showed this week, offsetting a drop in ...

Meta Platforms (META.O) said on Tuesday that it welcomed Turkey’s reopening of access to its Instagram social media platform and that it continues to talk to Turkish authorities ...

Turkey is fully committed to its responsibilities to NATO, its defence minister told Reuters, amid concern amongst some Western allies that Ankara may be tilting away from the West. Last ...

The appointment of the new Turkish ambassador in the north Yasin Ekrem Serim was made official by the Turkish government on Saturday evening, with the appointment appearing in the country’...

Turkey has blocked access to the popular video game platform Roblox (RBLX.N) over concerns about content that could lead to child abuse, the country’s justice minister said. “Our ...

Turkey will submit on Wednesday a declaration of intervention in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague, a diplomatic source ...

Turkey has blocked access to social media platform Instagram, the infotech regulator said on Friday, without stating a reason or duration for the ban, which also left the platform’s ...

Turkey wants to complete negotiations for a free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council by the end of the year, the Turkish trade ministry said on Wednesday, after Ankara ...

President Tayyip Erdogan said late on Sunday that Turkey might enter Israel as it had done in the past in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh, though he did not spell out what ...

Turkey’s central bank is not even considering a rate-cutting cycle at this time because easing too early could reignite inflation and extend the pain for an economy on the ...

 Greece’s Council of State has ruled in favour of extraditing a Turkish businessman, legal sources told Reuters on Wednesday, who is wanted by Ankara to serve a prison sentence ...

Turkey’s central bank held its policy rate steady at 50 per cent on Tuesday as expected and repeated it remains highly attentive to inflation risks, even as it expects disinflation ...

Greece’s coast guard denied accusations by the Turkish defence ministry on Monday that it had pushed back migrants off the island of Lesbos into Turkish territory. Earlier, Turkey’s ...

Turkish opposition political party CHP leader Ozgur Ozel on Thursday evening said the north is not a “baby homeland”, but in fact a “sister country”. Ozel was speaking at late ...

A series of events are to be held in the north over the weekend to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the failed coup d’état which took place in Turkey ...

Turkey’s central bank is determined to combat soaring prices and will stick patiently to its tight policy stance, Governor Fatih Karahan told Reuters, as a series of aggressive rate ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that Ankara could help establish a basis to end the Ukraine-Russia war and that a fair peace suiting both ...

Turkey’s finance minister said on Friday “we succeeded”, a remark that appeared to indicate the international crime watchdog Financial Action Task Force is about to announce the removal of ...

President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey stood in solidarity with Lebanon amid growing tensions with Israel on Wednesday and called on regional countries to also support Beirut. Cross-border strains between Israel ...

Turkish authorities have brought under control an agricultural fire that killed 12 people and wounded 78 others in a region near the Turkish border with Syria and Iraq, local media reported on ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that U.S. President Joe Biden is undergoing “a test of sincerity” in his handling of the Gaza war. In an interview with ...

U.S. authorities on Friday arrested a Turkish author and her 16-year-old son wanted by Turkey on charges he was involved in a fatal car crash in Istanbul then fled ...