Turkey

The World Bank has approved $1 billion in financing to Turkiye for the rehabilitation of rural homes and key public services in earthquake-affected areas. The World Bank said in a statement on Wednesday that the Turkiye Earthquake…

Turkiye is intensifying efforts to boost foreign reserves in its central bank, the country’s finance minister has revealed. Writing on Twitter, Mehmet Simsek said the bank’s net international reserves rose to a record $8.5 billion last…

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday he has called a meeting of senior officials from Turkiye, Sweden and Finland on July 6 to try to overcome Turkish objections to Sweden joining the military organization. Hungarian…

Turkiye’s opposition, still reeling from election defeat to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, suffered a fresh blow to its prospects of renewal on Thursday as a court began hearing a case against one of its brightest stars on a tender-rigging…

Turkish shelling in northern Syria early Monday hit a vehicle killing one Russian soldier and wounding several others, Syrian Kurdish media and an opposition war monitor reported. Monday’s shelling came after a day of violence between…

An 11-year-old child died after losing consciousness on board a Turkish Airlines flight en route to New York from Istanbul, with medical services unable to resuscitate the child after the plane made an emergency landing in Budapest, news…

The crew of a cargo ship boarded by Italian special forces may not have been threatened by knife-wielding “pirates” as initially reported, Italian media said on Saturday. On Friday, Italy’s defense minister said marines had dropped onto…

Five people were killed in an explosion at a military factory in Ankara’s Elmadag district early on Saturday. The bodies of the victims have been recovered and judicial and administrative investigations into the cause of the explosion…

As part of recently re-elected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s attempts to overhaul his economic team, the country’s central bank will be governed by a female executive for the first time. US-based Hafize Gaye Erkan, 41, is…

Huddled inside a tent in rebel-held northwestern Syria, Umm Khaled says she fears her baby will die unless she gets specialist treatment in neighboring Turkiye for a congenital heart defect. Seriously ill Syrians in the country’s last…