Turkey

Turkey’s ties to Hamas, once a liability in Washington, have turned into a geopolitical asset. By persuading Hamas to accept Donald Trump’s Gaza deal, Ankara has reasserted itself ...

Turkish nationalist political party MHP leader Devlet Bahceli on Sunday night declared the landslide victory of pro-reunification Turkish Cypriot leader-elect Tufan Erhurman to be “unacceptable” and called for northern Cyprus ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday night said that the result of the day’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election – which saw pro-reunification candidate Tufan Erhurman elected in a landslide – “...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said he hopes the result of Sunday’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election will “be beneficial for the Turkish Cypriot people and for the entire island”. “...

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who has been in custody since being arrested in March, on Sunday said Turkey has a duty to respect the Turkish Cypriots’ will ahead of next ...

Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz on Thursday night made his third visit to Cyprus since the start of August and reiterated his and his government’s demand for a two-state ...

A Greek court has ruled that 12 Turks arrested in northern Greece on accusations of participating in an international criminal group smuggling weapons into the country should be detained pending trial, ...

Turkish officials proposed settling a U.S. legal case against state lender Halkbank for some $100 million during a meeting between President Donald Trump and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan at the ...

A rash of Russian violations of NATO airspace last month has prompted some allies to recall Turkey’s swift and deadly response a decade ago, when it shot down a ...

World Cup-winning former footballer Mesut Ozil visited northern Cyprus to boost incumbent Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s election campaign with less than three weeks to go until election day. ...

Turkey has joined Spain, Italy and Greece in monitoring an international flotilla carrying aid for Gaza that was sailing east across the Mediterranean Sea on Monday despite warnings from Israel ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he and President Donald Trump had made “meaningful progress” on a range of regional and bilateral issues at their first meeting in the White House ...

President Donald Trump said he is confident Turkey will agree to stop purchasing Russian oil, signaling progress in his talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. The discussions, held at the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump will host President Tayyip Erdogan at the White House on Thursday, where the Turkish leader hopes to leverage the countries’ warmest bilateral ties in years ...

Turkey jailed two men pending trial after prosecutors said their online show included a joke referencing a hadith or teaching of the Prophet Muhammad, which they allege could incite religious ...

Turkey said on Monday it had terminated retaliatory tariffs imposed in 2018 on U.S. imports ranging from passenger cars to fruit, in a sign of warming bilateral ties as President ...

The “rights of our brothers and sisters in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus” will be on the agenda when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the United Nations general ...

Sources from Turkey’s defence ministry were on Thursday quoted as having warned of “dangerous consequences” after the Republic of Cyprus took delivery of the Israeli Barak MX air defence ...

A Turkish court delayed on Monday a decision on whether to oust the main opposition leader and annul his party’s 2023 congress over alleged irregularities, in a case that has ...

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Friday said the Turkish authorities would even deny the existence of northern Cyprus so as to be able to revoke his bachelor’s degree. He ...

Turkish opposition lawmakers piled tables and chairs at the entrance of an office at their party’s Istanbul headquarters on Monday to block police and prevent the replacement of a ...

Five people were killed and another severely wounded when a boat carrying migrants hit a Turkish coast guard vessel off northwest Turkey on Sunday, a local governor’s office said, ...

In a brightly lit treatment room at a private hospital in Istanbul, doctor Erdal Dilekci makes dozens of small, quick incisions on a patient’s back as part of a ...

By William Gourlay A Turkish proverb – düştüğün yerden kalk – counsels that one should arise from where one has fallen. Ekrem İmamoğlu, the jailed mayor of Istanbul and ...