Sultan Ahmed I was determined to build a mosque that rivaled the nearby Hagia Sophia, and most would agree that he accomplished this task or, at least, came close. Since the early 1600s, the Blue ...

Turkey offered to help rebuild the Syrian military shattered by the fall of the long-ruling Assad regime and Israeli airstrikes, potentially filling a void left by Russia's diminishing forces.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Turkey is hoping for a breakthrough in efforts to end a four-decade insurgency by Kurdish militants after ...

ISTANBUL, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Turkey's Karpowership, owner of a floating power plant fleet, said on Monday that the company is one of many alternatives being evaluated for providing electricity to ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Share ISTANBUL (AP) — Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey’s banned Kurdistan Workers ...

Turkey is a popular source of meat in the United States. In 2023 alone, people in the U.S. ate 4.96 billion pounds of turkey. That works out to about 14.8 pounds per person. It’s also twice as ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Turkey’s central bank lowered its main interest rate for the first time in almost two years, pointing to ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Persistently high inflation triggered by currency depreciation and President Erdogan’s abandoned economic ...

Turkey's Soaring Costs Are Creating a 'Lost Generation' of Kids Forced to Help Their Families Get By ISTANBUL (AP) — In a dim one-room apartment in one of Istanbul’s poorest neighborhoods, 11 ...

A court in Turkey has sentenced the owner and architect of a hotel which collapsed in an earthquake in 2023, killing 72 people, to jail. The owner of the Isias Grand, Ahmet Bozkurt, and architect ...

For more than a decade, Bashar Assad presided over a regime that brutally repressed dissent, fueled a devastating civil war and transformed Syria into a proxy battlefield for regional and global ...