Turkey

A Turkish court on Wednesday ordered the arrest of cartoonist Dogan Pehlevan and three others pending trial, after a drawing in their satirical magazine stirred outrage among religious conservatives and ...

A cartoon in a Turkish satirical magazine depicting what appeared to be Prophets Mohammad and Moses was an “Islamophobic hate crime,” the spokesperson for President Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party ...

Firefighters battled wildfires in Turkey and France on Monday as an early heatwave hit the region. In Turkey, the wildfires raged for a second day in the western province of ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Israel’s attacks on Iran right before a new round of nuclear talks with the United States aimed to sabotage the negotiations, ...

Turkey has stepped up security on its border with Iran since the start of Tehran’s conflict with Israel, but has not yet seen any increase in people trying to ...

Turkish annual inflation dipped to 35.41 per cent in May, official data showed on Tuesday, below a Reuters poll forecast and less than half the level of more than 75 per cent ...

The commander of Kurdish forces that control northeast Syria said on Friday that his group is in direct contact with Turkey and that he would be open to improving ties, ...

Turkey’s economy is expected to have grown by 2.3 per cent in the first quarter and by 3 per cent for 2025 as a whole, lower than government forecasts, a Reuters poll ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said the Turkic world would be “incomplete” without northern Cyprus. Addressing the day’s informal summit of the Organisation of Turkic States, which ...

Small Indian grocery shops and major online fashion retailers are boycotting Turkish products ranging from chocolates, coffee, jams and cosmetics to clothing amid growing anger at Turkey’s support for ...

Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan has probably never held more global sway: he will host the first direct Russia-Ukraine peace talks in three years on Thursday, days after his country’...

Turkey’s finance minister said the country’s economic transformation was on track and that the country was prepared to deal with slower growth. Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said that ...

The Dutch police have announced that they are looking for a second suspect in connection with the murder of Cemil Onal, the man who made allegations of a deep money-laundering ...

Turkey is embarking on a hazardous path to ensure the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group implements its decision to disband after 40 years of conflict, facing obstacles that need to ...

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, which has been locked in bloody conflict with Turkey for more than four decades, has decided to disband and end its armed struggle, ...

Turkey is ready to host talks on a ceasefire and permanent peace between Russia and Ukraine, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in a phone call ...

Former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who served under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, decried the “quagmire” of corruption, money laundering, and mafia activities in northern Cyprus, describing that quagmire as “...

Access to the X account of jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, has been blocked in Turkey in response to a legal demand, a ...

Popular support for Ekrem Imamoglu, the Istanbul mayor whose arrest sparked Turkey’s largest protests in a decade, has risen further above President Tayyip Erdogan since he was detained and ...

Turkey’s Halkbank (HALKB.IS) asked the US Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling saying it can be prosecuted for allegedly helping Iran evade American sanctions, a US-based ...

Turkish monthly inflation climbed to 3 per cent in April, data showed on Monday, partly due to a plunge in the value of the lira following the arrest of President Tayyip ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday issued a warning to Turkish Cypriot trade unions over their opposition to the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the wearing ...

A man who had given a series of interviews in which he made allegations of a deep money-laundering and smuggling network based in Cyprus involving some of the most powerful ...

Turkish police charged May Day protesters in Istanbul on Thursday, detaining hundreds of people and dragging some away in buses after they tried to defy a ban on public gatherings ...