Turkey

Syrian rebels say they are standing by to join a new offensive threatened by Turkey against Kurdish YPG fighters in northern Syria, as Ankara eyes another campaign against a group ...

Turkey’s annual inflation rate rose to its highest in more than 2-1/2 years in October, data showed on Wednesday, as the central bank, under political pressure to provide more ...

Turkey was forced on Wednesday to tweet out evidence that President Tayyip Erdogan was still alive after rumours hit social media earlier in the day that he had died, causing ...

Retail prices in Turkey’s largest city Istanbul rose 3.29 per cent month-on-month in October for an annual increase of 20.76 per cent, the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce (ITO) said on Monday. ...

Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan has cancelled plans to attend the COP26 climate conference after Britain failed to meet Ankara’s demands on security arrangements, two Turkish officials told Reuters ...

Rain fell on Bicar Icli’s fields in southeastern Turkey for the first time in eight months last week, but he and other farmers are already counting the cost of ...

U.S. President Joe Biden told Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan his request for F-16 fighter jets had to go through a process in the United States and expressed a ...

Greece said it would be willing to agree with Turkey on delimiting their respective economic zones at sea, urging its neighbour to tone down what it said were tensions harming ...

Turkey’s foreign trade deficit fell 47.5 per cent year-on-year in September to $2.547 billion according to the general trade system, data from the Turkish Statistical Institute showed on Wednesday. After trade ...

Democratic and Republican U.S. lawmakers urged President Joe Biden’s administration not to sell F-16 fighter jets to Turkey and said they were confident Congress would block any such ...

Turkey and its Western allies climbed down from a full-blown diplomatic crisis on Monday after foreign embassies said that they abide by diplomatic conventions on non-interference, averting a threatened expulsion ...

Germany has not received any official expulsion order for its ambassador in Turkey but acknowledged Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s statements with concern, ministry and government spokespeople said in Berlin ...

Turkey’s state banks are expected to cut borrowing costs on loans by around 200 basis points on Monday, according to three people with knowledge of the plan, following last week’...

By Daren Butler and Jonathan Spicer President Tayyip Erdogan’s political opponents said his call to expel the ambassadors of 10 Western allies was an attempt to distract attention from Turkey’...

By Daren Butler Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that he had told his foreign ministry to expel the ambassadors of the United States and nine other Western countries ...

Record sales of homes to foreigners in Turkey, driven by a sharply falling currency and the promise of citizenship, are starting to slow after a new government rule aimed at ...

Boston Celtics centre Enes Kanter was pilloried on Chinese social media and his name appeared to be blocked on the popular Weibo messaging platform after he criticized Chinese President Xi ...

The European Union’s executive said on Tuesday that Turkey‘s bid to join the bloc had “come to a standstill” amid serious democratic shortfalls, in its most critical annual ...

Europe’s top human rights court called on Turkey on Tuesday to change a law regarding insulting the president under which tens of thousands have been prosecuted, after ruling that ...

Turkish prosecutors ordered the arrest of 158 suspects including 33 serving soldiers in an operation targeting people allegedly linked to a Muslim preacher who Turkey says was behind a 2016 failed coup, state-owned ...

Turkey’s foreign ministry summoned the ambassadors of 10 countries, including the United States, Germany and France, over a statement calling for the urgent release of philanthropist Osman Kavala, state-owned Anadolu ...

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that the United States had proposed the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey in return for its investment in the F-35 programme, from ...

Turkey has expanded its exports of armed drones by negotiating sales deals with Morocco and Ethiopia after their successful use in international conflicts, according to four sources familiar with the ...

Turkish intelligence helped Iraq capture a senior Islamic State leader who had been hiding out in northwestern Syria, three security sources said on Tuesday, in an operation that points to ...