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Erdoğan says Turkey-Greece might find common ground despite disputes

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, prior to a visit to Athens on Dec. 7, has signaled Turkey's willingness to improve relations with neighboring Greece...

Turkish-German journalist briefly detained during family visit to Turkey

Tuncay Özdamar, an editor for German public broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (WDR), was briefly detained in September in Ankara, where he had travelled to...

Turkey freezes assets of 82 people, organizations suspected of financing PKK

Turkey has frozen the assets of 62 people and 20 organizations under Law No. 6415 on the Prevention of the Financing of Terrorism, the...

US Embassy in Turkey confirms release of former consulate employee from prison

A former US consulate employee jailed in Turkey on terrorism-related charges has been released, an embassy spokesperson told AFP on Wednesday, confirming a report...

Sweden says Turkey promised NATO approval within weeks

Sweden's foreign minister said Wednesday his Turkish counterpart had promised that Ankara would approve Stockholm's membership of NATO "within weeks,” Agence France-Presse reported. Turkey and...

Thousands gather to commemorate Tahir Elçi on 8th anniversary of his murder

Thousands have come together in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the killing of former Diyarbakır Bar Association chairman...

Turks’ irregular migration to Germany more than tripled since 2019

The number of Turkish citizens caught while attempting to enter Germany illegally increased more than threefold between 2019 and 2022, Deutsche Welle Turkish service...

Ministry launches probe into sports people involved in multi-million dollar fraud scheme

The Turkish Youth and Sports Ministry has initiated an inquiry into sports people involved in a fraudulent multi-million dollar investment scheme that ensnared some...

Impatient NATO allies push Turkey over Sweden delay

NATO allies on Tuesday pressured Turkey to finally approve Sweden's stalled bid to join the military alliance as impatience grows with Ankara over the...

EP rapporteur to visit Turkey to monitor Saturday Mothers’ vigil

Nacho Sanchez Amor, the European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, will travel to Turkey on Saturday to monitor the 975th vigil of the Saturday Mothers in...

[UPDATE] Iran’s Raisi a no-show at summit announced by Erdoğan

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi failed to show up Tuesday for a summit in Ankara that Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had earlier announced to reporters,...

Naïveté and greed: Famous Turkish footballers lost millions of dollars in investment scheme

In a scandal that laid bare how Turkey's elite football circles can easily misplace trust and use unsafe transactions for short-term gain, a bank...

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