Turkey

Turkey’s central bank posted a loss of 700.4 billion lira ($18.4 billion) in 2024, according to its balance sheet published in the Official Gazette this week. In 2023, the bank had posted a ...

Turkey’s Pro-Kurdish DEM Party called on parliament on Tuesday to pave the way for a renewed peace process by enacting legislation that would support the disarmament of the outlawed ...

Turkey recorded a budget shortfall of 261.5 billion lira (approximately $6.87 billion) in March, according to a statement released by the Treasury and Finance Ministry on Tuesday. The ministry also reported a ...

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the main rival of Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan, appeared before a court on Friday for the first time since his high-profile arrest last month, over ...

Turkish and Israeli officials began talks on Wednesday aimed at preventing unwanted incidents in Syria, where militaries of the two regional powers are active, Turkish ministry sources and an Israeli ...

President Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey is not expecting a negative situation for its trade, production and exports as a result of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which went ...

Turkey’s main opposition leader on Sunday pledged further protests against the jailing of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan’s chief rival, aiming to sustain Turkey’s biggest demonstrations ...

Turkey wants no confrontation with Israel in Syria, but repeated Israeli strikes on military facilities there are eroding the new government’s ability to deter threats from enemies, including Islamic ...

Turkish annual consumer price inflation dropped to 38.1 per cent in February, official data showed this week, lower than a Reuters poll forecast. Month-on-month, inflation was 2.46 per cent, according to the ...

Turkish inflation is expected to end the year a bit higher than previously expected, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday, reflecting fallout from a currency selloff after authorities detained and ...

Turkey’s manufacturing sector contracted further in March, with output and new orders continuing to ease amid difficult market conditions both domestically and internationally, a survey showed on Wednesday. The ...

Both Turkey and the north offered condemnation for the events held in the Republic of Cyprus to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of Eoka – the paramilitary organisation set ...

Turkey’s government denounced opposition calls for a mass commercial boycott following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu that sparked nationwide protests, describing them on Wednesday as an economic “...

Turkish authorities have detained a lawyer for jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan’s biggest political rival, an MP of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) ...

Turkey said on Thursday it rejected “prejudiced” international statements over the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and protests it triggered, following the detention of nearly 1,900 people since the nationwide ...

Turkey and the United States want to remove obstacles to defence industry cooperation, a Turkish Foreign Ministry source said, after talks between the NATO allies’ top diplomats in Washington. On ...

Turkish inflation is expected to end the year a bit higher than previously expected, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday, reflecting fallout from a currency selloff after authorities detained and ...

Istanbul’s opposition-run municipal council on Wednesday elected an interim mayor to run the city, broadcaster NTV said, after mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was jailed pending trial over graft charges that ...

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that his government would not get worked up over what he described as “provocations” by the main opposition, after the arrest of Istanbul Mayor ...

Many Turkish anti-government protesters said they were bracing for a long-term standoff after six nights of action and scattered clashes with police over the jailing of Istanbul’s mayor, rejecting ...

An early rally in Turkish stocks following last week’s slump fizzled out on Monday with tensions in the country running high after a court jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that protests over the jailing of Istanbul’s mayor had become a “movement of violence” and that the main opposition party would be ...

A Turkish court on Sunday jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, pending trial on corruption charges in a move that inflamed the country’s ...

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a potential challenger to longtime President Tayyip Erdogan, appeared in a Turkish court on Saturday for the first time since his detention on Wednesday for alleged ...