Turkey

By Peter Apps If Western leaders were surprised to see Turkey throw a diplomatic wrench into plans to admit Finland and Sweden into Nato, they should not have been. Throughout ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who has objected to Sweden and Finland joining NATO, held phone calls with the leaders of the two countries on Saturday and discussed his concerns about ...

Turkey’s approach to the Nato accession process of Sweden and Finland is not a bilateral issue between Washington and Ankara, State Department spokesperson said on Friday, adding that the ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan dug in over his rejection of Sweden and Finland joining Nato, casting a shadow over a White House visit on Thursday by the leaders of the ...

– President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday Sweden should not expect Turkey to approve its NATO bid without returning “terrorists”, and Swedish and Finnish delegations should not come to Turkey to ...

Turkish house sales rose 38.8 per cent in April on the year to 133,058 houses, data from the Turkish Statistical Institute showed on Tuesday, with more than double the houses sold to ...

By Johan Ahlander and Simon Johnson Sweden will formally apply for Nato membership in the next few days, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said on Monday, but its accession process, and ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The Turkish economy has repeatedly been described as totally directed by President Erdogan’s inner circle. Economic decisions which are obviously political, such as ...

NATO and the United States said on Sunday they were confident that Turkish concerns would not hold up bids by Finland and Sweden to join the Western military alliance in ...

NATO is confident that it can overcome objections by Turkey and quickly admit Finland and Sweden, its deputy chief said on Sunday, as the alliance prepares for a historic enlargement ...

Turkey has not shut the door to Sweden and Finland joining NATO but wants negotiations with the Nordic countries and a clampdown on what it sees as terrorist activities especially ...

The United States is working to clarify Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s comments about Finland and Sweden but Ankara’s standing in the Nato alliance had not changed because of ...

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday it was not possible for NATO-member Turkey to support plans by Sweden and Finland to join the pact, saying the Nordic countries were “home ...

A six-day slide in Turkey’s lira has left traders predicting that authorities are now targeting a new level, as weak as 15.5 to the dollar, in a months-long effort to ...

Without clear and significant progress in EU-related reforms, the European Parliament cannot envisage resuming accession negotiations with Turkey, MEPs warned in a report adopted on Thursday. The report was adopted ...

The Turkish lira eased a further 0.85 per cent against the dollar on Wednesday, weakening for a fifth session and bringing the currency back towards the lows it hit in late ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and French counterpart Emmanuel Macron discussed the war in Ukraine in a phone call on Thursday, the Turkish presidency said, adding that Erdogan congratulated Macron on ...

Turkey’s annual inflation jumped to 69.97 per cent in April, above forecast and at a two-decade high, according to data on Thursday, fuelled by the Russia-Ukraine conflict and rising energy ...

Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala, who was sentenced to life in prison for trying to overthrow the government by financing protests in 2013, said on Wednesday that the ruling violated legal standards ...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) accepted some of Turkey’s complaints against European Union measures designed to curb imports of steel and advised the bloc on Friday to bring them ...

Turkey and Saudi Arabia have a common will to “reactivate a great economic potential” between the two countries, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, after his first trip to ...

Turkey’s TAV Airports (TAVHL.IS) is in talks with banks to refinance the debt of its Izmir Airport, which is worth around 200 million euros ($211 million), sources told Reuters. It ...

Turkey condemned Germany’s summoning of its ambassador on Friday and called in Berlin’s ambassador to Ankara in a tit-for-tat move amid a row over the jailing of a ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on Turkey on Thursday to stop violating Greek airspace with fighter jets, a behaviour which he said undermines the unity of NATO at a ...