Turkey

Turkey’s central bank has changed the criteria identifying short-term external debt, thus reducing the amount on its books by $25 billion, the bank announced in a statement last week. Short-term ...

Turkey cannot take the burden of a new migrant wave from Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday after talks with his German counterpart, as concerns about a new ...

Turkey has not made a final decision on a Taliban request for support to run the Kabul airport after foreign forces withdraw over security concerns and uncertainty in Afghanistan, President ...

Russia and Turkey are close to signing a new contract to supply Ankara with additional S-400 air defence units in the near future, the Interfax news agency cited the head ...

Flash floods that have swept through towns in the Turkish Black Sea region have killed 58 people, authorities said on Sunday, in the second natural disaster to strike Turkey this month. ...

By Mehmet Emin Caliskan and Bulent Usta Families of those missing after Turkey’s worst floods in years anxiously watched rescue teams search buildings on Saturday, fearing the death toll ...

A former official has accused the Turkish Statistical Institute (Turkstat) of manipulating inflation data, Ahval reported on Wednesday. Turkey’s last inflation report in July was at 18.95 per cent. This ...

Turkish e-commerce firm Trendyol, backed by Chinese internet giant Alibaba, said on Monday it had entered into agreements to raise $1.5 billion from a number of high-profile investors, valuing the company ...

By Daren Butler Turkish authorities battling the country’s worst ever wildfires have been accused of failing to prepare for the threat after official data showed they spent only a ...

NBA centre Enes Kanter has vowed to continue his fight against Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his regime’s alleged human rights abuses despite learning that the government had issued ...

Turkish inflation jumped to 18.95 per cent in July, the country’s statistical authority announced on Tuesday. This is an increase from 17.53 per cent in June, and the highest rate of ...

Days after a raging wildfire in southern Turkey drove his family from the home they lived in for four decades, Mehmet Demir returned on Saturday to discover a burnt-out building, ...

Turkey’s tourism revenues stood at $3 billion in the second quarter of the year, data from the Turkish Statistical Institute showed on Friday. Tourism income of the country stood at $2.45 ...

The death toll from wildfires on Turkey’s southern coast has risen to four and firefighters were battling blazes for a third day on Friday after the evacuation of dozens ...

Turkey’s central bank raised its year-end inflation forecast to 14.1 per cent on Thursday. In a report released by the Turkish central bank, the bank’s governor predicted inflation, which ...

One person has died and 10 people were trapped in a forest fire which was burning for a second day in southern Turkey on Thursday, Agriculture Minister Bekir Pakdemirli said, as ...

Turkish authorities are seeking up to 15 years in prison for the licence holder of ByLock, an encrypted messaging app Ankara says was used by the group it blames for an ...

Turkey on Sunday slammed a ruling by a top European Union court allowing the banning of headscarves under certain conditions as a “clear violation of religious freedoms”, adding the move ...

Turkey’s central bank kept interest rates unchanged for the fourth month in a row on Wednesday, as a weak lira and increasing inflation are expected to delay planned rate ...

The cost of food has reached a crisis level in Turkey, as production declines and the weak Turkish lira (currently at 10.30 to the euro) makes imports more expensive. The central ...

A bus carrying Afghan, Pakistani and Bangladeshi migrants crashed in eastern Turkey early on Sunday, killing at least 12 people and injuring 26 others, local authorities said. The crash occurred in Van ...

Turkey’s state-owned energy company TPAO has applied for a licence to explore for crude oil in the eastern Mediterranean, the Turkish Energy Ministry said in a statement in the ...

Turkey is considering a fresh capital injection for state banks but they also need a plan to deal with lingering bad debt after the lenders depleted their resources helping Ankara’...

Turkish annual inflation jumped to a two-year high of 17.53 per cent in June, exceeding a forecast of 17 per cent and continuing an extended rise after a brief dip, potentially delaying ...