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Erdoğan’s Islamist ally opposes mixed-gender education

Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu, leader of the radical Islamist Free Cause Party (HÜDA-PAR) and an election ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, sparked controversy by calling...

Economist criticizes Turkey’s financial management despite recent interest rate hike

Daron Acemoğlu, a prominent professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), on Sunday acknowledged that the Turkish Central Bank's recent interest...

CPJ calls on Turkey to investigate suspected Syria drone strike that injured journalist

The Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ) has called on Turkish authorities to immediately and thoroughly investigate a recent drone attack in Syria that killed...

[ANALYSIS] The Erdoğan doctrine: Cyprus as a lever in Turkish foreign policy

Fatih Yurtsever* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has a clear foreign policy strategy aimed at advancing his political goals. Typically, when he decides to make...

Chairman of Turkey’s drone maker visits US aircraft carrier at ambassador’s invitation

Selçuk Bayraktar, chairman of Turkish defense contractor Baykar, visited the USS Gerald R. Ford, the US Navy's largest aircraft carrier, at the invitation of...

Turkey’s foreign minister meets with Zelensky in Kyiv

Turkey's foreign minister on Friday met with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky for talks aimed at reviving a deal with Russia allowing the safe passage...

‘Animals are thirsty’: Dust and bones on Turkey’s shrinking lake

Shepherd İbrahim Koç recalls his youth with fondness as he grazes cattle on a barren field that was once lush with vegetation on the...

Wildfires contained in northwestern Turkey, 10,000 acres destroyed

Wildfires that erupted in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday were contained on their third day after destroying 4,080 hectares (around 10,000 acres) of land, Agriculture...

Investigation into opposition leader over Gülen links dropped after 7 years

Turkish prosecutors have decided to drop an investigation into a nationalist opposition leader over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement seven years after...

Turkey’s central bank surprises with huge interest rate hike

Turkey's central bank on Thursday delivered a huge surprise by raising the interest rate to 25 percent as part of a transition from President...

Turkey seeks extradition of 1,269 from 112 countries over alleged Gülen links

Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç on Wednesday said the Turkish government has sought the extradition of 1,269 people living in exile in 112 countries over alleged...

Journalist will go to prison for insulting Erdoğan, former ministers: report

A local Turkish journalist will start serving a prison sentence on Thursday on three convictions of insulting the president and two former ministers following...

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