Turkey

A top aide to Turkey’s president said on Friday the international community cannot end the war in Ukraine by ignoring Moscow, as Tayyip Erdogan headed to Russia to meet ...

Russian said on Friday that it was ready to discuss prisoner swaps with Washington through an existing diplomatic channel, a day after basketball star Brittney Griner was handed a nine-year ...

Three ships loaded with grain under a recently concluded deal have left Ukrainian ports, the Turkish defenсe ministry and Reuters witnesses said on Friday. The Joint Coordination Centre in ...

The net profit of Turkey’s banking sector leapt 400 per cent from a year earlier to 169.15 billion lira ($9.42 billion) in the first half of the year, the BDDK banking watchdog ...

Turkish inflation rose to a fresh 24-year high of 79.6 per cent in July, data showed on Wednesday as the lira’s continued weakness and global energy and commodity costs pushed ...

Turkey’s central bank governor dismissed criticism of recent loan regulations from a second business group on Tuesday, arguing the measures create favourable financial conditions for exporters. Companies have been ...

Turkey expects roughly one grain ship to leave Ukrainian ports each day as long as an agreement that ensures safe passage holds, a senior Turkish official said on Tuesday after ...

A big Turkish business group and the central bank clashed on Friday over recent regulations covering loans, with the Istanbul Chamber of Industry’s (ISO) head saying the measures create “...

Turkey’s inflation is expected to near 81 per cent in July and was seen declining to just 70 per cent by end-2022, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, as global energy ...

The possibility of the first grain-exporting ship leaving Ukraine’s ports on Monday is high, a spokesperson for President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday. “If all (details) are completed by ...

Turkey lashed out left and right on Friday, accusing Germany of losing impartiality in its role as mediator between Turkey, Greece and Cyprus, and also blasting the decision by the ...

An official at a Turkey-based grains trading company denied on Friday that barley and flour aboard a ship docked in a Lebanese port had been stolen from Ukraine, saying the ...

Firefighters succeeded in containing a wildfire close to residential areas in southwestern Turkey, the national forestry authority said on Friday. The regional forestry authority of Mugla province said the blaze, ...

Turkey’s lira weakened further on Wednesday to near 18.0 against the dollar and the record lows it hit late last year as worries about the government’s foreign exchange policy ...

Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar on Wednesday unveiled a centre in Istanbul to oversee the export of Ukrainian grains after a landmark U.N. deal last week, with the first ...

Sweden has not yet extradited suspects Turkey seeks over terrorism-related charges despite signing an accord to lift Ankara’s veto to its NATO membership last month, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut ...

The Turkish lira slipped again on Monday, sustaining a slow slide towards 18 against the dollar as concerns mounted about the government’s foreign exchange policy in the face of surging ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday there is no reason for high-level talks with Ankara’s estranged rival Egypt not to take place, as its efforts to mend ties ...

Turkey on Monday accused Greece of pushing a boat carrying migrants out of Greek territorial waters and back into Turkish ones. The defence ministry in Ankara said the incident occurred ...

Production in Turkey’s automotive sector jumped 26.3 per cent year-on-year in June to 135,424 vehicles, with exports climbing 22.9 per cent to 86,623, the Automotive Manufacturers Association (OSD) said on Monday. Automotive production ...

The resumption of the Cyprus talks will be impossible if Turkey does not cease its provocative actions, director of the President’s press office, Andreas Iosif said on Sunday. Speaking ...

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said there is no room for optimism regarding the prospects for the resumption of a meaningful and credible negotiation process on the Cyprus problem due ...

Turkish Cypriot parents complain of them promoting Islamic agenda By Esra Aygin The Turkish Cypriot community was once again bewildered earlier this week by revelations that children, who were taken ...

Iraq’s government will call back the Iraqi charge d’affaires in Turkey for consultation after accusing Ankara of carrying out a strike on a mountain resort in the northern ...