Turkey

Balki Begumhan Bayhan, Turkey’s general election on Sunday, May 14 will see voters cast their ballots for 600 members of its parliament and the country’s powerful presidency. This election has ...

When a bomb exploded in the heart of Istanbul last year, killing six and wounding more than 80 people, Selcuk Ada did what journalists usually do in a crisis: he started ...

Istanbul barber Hakim Ekinci, a long-time supporter of Tayyip Erdogan, won’t be voting for the president next Sunday, blaming his economic policies for eroding Turks’ purchasing power and leaving ...

If Turks oust President Tayyip Erdogan in elections this month it will largely be because of an economic reversal that saw their prosperity, equality and ability to meet basic needs ...

Imprisoned Kurdish activist Kenan Ayaz’s indefinite hunger strike, which began on May 4, continued for the fifth day on Monday. Ayaz’s appeal against the decision to extradite him to ...

Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan accused the opposition of being “pro-LGBT” at a rally in Istanbul on Sunday, as he stepped up his rhetoric against his opponents a week before ...

Stuck in Tayyip Erdogan’s shadow throughout his career, opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu believes his time has come to set Turkey on a new path and roll back much of ...

Whoever wins Turkey’s elections this month, the NATO-member is expected to maintain cordial relations with Russia that have already endured several years of dramatic change in Ankara’s foreign ...

Turkey’s central bank is sticking to its inflation forecast of 22.3 per cent for 2023, Governor Sahap Kavcioglu said on Thursday – less than half of market expectations – even though the decline ...

Mexico’s army welcomed a new search puppy on Wednesday, gifted from Turkey following the death in the line of duty of a Mexican rescue dog who had been helping ...

Turkish annual inflation slowed to 43.68 per cent in April, official data showed on Wednesday, easing ahead of elections that polls show President Tayyip Erdogan risks losing largely due to a ...

Turkey has agreed with Russia’s Gazprom (GAZP.MM) on deferring payment for part of the natural gas it imported after a surge in prices last year, Energy Minister Fatih ...

Turkey has closed its airspace to Armenian flights heading to a third destination in response to the unveiling of a controversial monument in Yerevan last week, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut ...

Can inherently volatile cryptocurrencies become safe-havens? Apparently they can in some parts of the world, such as Argentina and Turkey, where soaring prices and tumbling local currencies have forced people ...

Turkey started natural gas production from its own massive Black Sea gasfield Sakarya on 20 April, less than three years after discovery. Sakarya is estimated to hold 710 billion cubic metres (bcm) ...

Turkish defence firm Baykar aims to begin production of its new unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) next year which is already attracting international interest, its chairman Selcuk Bayraktar said. Baykar ...

Turkish citizens based in Germany began voting on Thursday in Turkey’s elections at a record number of polling stations aimed at boosting their participation in a vote that is ...

Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Thursday that President Tayyip Erdogan was in good health and would continue with his daily scheduled programmes as soon as possible, after Erdogan ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan canceled his scheduled campaign rallies on Wednesday and Thursday for health reasons, weeks before May 14 presidential and parliamentary elections. “Today, I will rest at home with ...

Turkish central bank total gross reserves are expected to have fallen more than $5 billion to about $116 billion last week due to rising foreign currency demand as the May elections approach, ...

Turkish police on Tuesday detained 110 people over alleged militant ties, security sources said, with a pro-Kurdish lawmaker saying politicians, lawyers and journalists were among those held in raids that he ...

After months of hosting displaced survivors of Turkey’s massive earthquake in his Antalya hotels, Hakan Saatcioglu hopes his rooms will soon be filled with tourists again after the temporary ...

President Tayyip Erdogan flicked the switch on Turkey’s first delivery of natural gas to an onshore plant from a reserve discovered in the Black Sea, and promised to provide ...

Interest rates in Turkey are rising amid expectations that government policies will become more orthodox no matter who wins May 14 elections, and after a regulatory change to make holding Turkish ...