Turkey

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan appointed as his new justice minister Akin Gurlek, the Istanbul chief prosecutor behind the unprecedented crackdown on the main opposition party, drawing fierce criticism and defiance ...

Turkey is laying the groundwork to restrict social media access for minors with a parliamentary report this week calling for broad measures including age verification and content filtering, joining a ...

European Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos has spoken of an “opportunity” for Turkey to progress its process towards accession to the European Union through a new round of talks to resolve ...

The six suspects who were spared jail in the case of the collapse of the Isias hotel in the Turkish city of Adiyaman, which killed 72 people, including 35 Cypriots, were freed ...

Turkey’s defence ministry said on Thursday that Ankara has issued a maritime notice pushing Greece to coordinate with Ankara on all research activities in parts of the Aegean Sea ...

Turkey’s foreign minister on Wednesday urged the U.S. to resolve its disputes with Iran “one by one” instead of through a sweeping deal, saying this would avoid humiliating ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s response to an invite to attend an informal meeting of European Union member states and neighbouring countries in Cyprus in April was “not positive”, ...

Turkish Cypriots on Tuesday expressed their distaste at the first high criminal court in the southeastern Turkish city of Adiyaman’s decision to free six former public officials who were ...

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party said on Monday that the Turkish government had no more “excuses” to delay a peace process with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) now that a ...

Three public officials who had been on trial over the collapse of the Isias hotel in the Turkish city of Adiyaman, which collapsed and killed 72 people, including 35 Cypriots, were on ...

Greece plans to extend its territorial waters further, including potentially in the Aegean Sea, Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis said, despite Turkey’s long-standing threat of war should Athens take such ...

Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Oncu Keceli on Thursday night said his country’s government “rejects” the use of terms including “occupation”, “invasion”, and “division” during speeches made at Wednesday night’...

Turkey’s car and light commercial vehicle market climbed to an all-time high in 2025, with nearly one in six cars sold being fully electric, industry data showed on Wednesday. Despite ...

Turkey’s foreign minister will stress the “strategic priority” of maintaining security in the Black Sea at a summit on Ukraine in Paris this week, a Turkish Foreign Ministry source ...

Three Turkish police officers and six Islamic State militants were killed in a gunfight in northwest Turkey on Monday, the Interior Minister said, a week after more than 100 suspected IS ...

Libya’s army chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad, was killed on Tuesday when a private jet carrying him and members of his entourage crashed near Ankara shortly after ...

Garanti Bank (GARAN.IS) expects another tough year for Turkish lenders in 2026, with growth likely to remain constrained as authorities keep most credit restrictions in place to tame inflation, CEO ...

The U.S. is in discussions with Turkey regarding Ankara’s rejoining the F-35 fighter jet programme and Washington hopes that talks will yield a breakthrough in the coming months, ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Tuesday called for an end to the “inhumane embargo” placed on Turkish Cypriots as he addressed his country’s parliament during discussions over his ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Wednesday said the “very scary” attacks of recent days on Russia-linked tankers in the Black Sea threatened the safety of all in the region ...

Pope Leo lamented that the world was seeing an unusual number of bloody conflicts during his first trip outside Italy as Catholic leader on Thursday, and he warned that a ...

After 26 years in a Turkish prison, Abdullah Ocalan is carving out a key role for himself as Ankara tries to end his outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party’s four-decade insurgency. In ...

Turkish lawmakers overseeing the disarmament of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group will visit its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan in his island prison, state broadcaster TRT Haber said ...

A huge investigation into insider betting in Turkey’s football leagues is likely to widen and include coaches, commentators and club chairmen, a prosecutor was cited as saying on Thursday. ...