Politicians and investors say arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu marks dangerous turning point in authoritarian slide ...

Ivan Hansen, a retired Danish police officer, loaded up his basket at the supermarket, carefully checking each product to ...

As India's northern megastate Uttar Pradesh prepares to open a new international air hub, an image purportedly depicting the ...

Syria’s interim president has signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five years ...

Few vacationers travel to Turkey for a road trip. Most tourists fly to Bodrum or Antalya for a sunny holiday or to splurge in Istanbul. Yet, Turkey holds plenty of adventures for all those who love a ...

The US President would love nothing more than a diplomatic coup involving the most influential Arab nation, but it's not that ...

A group of bipartisan House lawmakers are introducing legislation to redesignate Turkey as a Near Eastern country at the State Department, rather than a European country, as Ankara has moved away from ...

Since the beginning of 2025, more than 160 people have died from poisoning after drinking bootleg alcohol in Turkey. How did going out for a drink become so dangerous?

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. About a year into his job as Turkey’s spymaster, Hakan Fidan was dispatched to Damascus to persuade Syrian ...

With its vivid turquoise, green and blue waters, it’s no surprise Lake Salda is often promoted as the “Maldives of Turkey ... located deep in the country’s southwest.

For more than four decades, Turkey has been fighting an armed insurgency by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, a militant group that says it seeks greater rights for the country’s Kurdish minority.

For half a century, Kurdish militants have fought Turkey for independence in the southeast of the country, a region heavily populated by ethnic Kurds. The battle has claimed more than 40,000 lives ...