Turkey

Turkiye’s presidential election is being anxiously watched by Kurds in Syria and Iraq as economic interests compete with fears of a regional military escalation against some Kurdish groups. The long-running and deadly conflict between…

More than 6 million children in Turkiye and Syria remain in need of humanitarian aid 100 days after the devastating February earthquakes, the UN International Children’s Emergency Fund warned on Wednesday. The earthquake and aftershocks…

A little-known nationalist who helped push Turkiye’s election to a runoff told AFP on Tuesday he could throw his support behind either President Recep Tayyip Erdogan or his secular rival. Entering the campaign at the last minute, Sinan…

Recep Tayyip Erdogan was on course on Monday for a crushing runoff victory in two weeks’ time after coming within a whisker of winning Turkiye’s presidential election in the first round. A final count showed that Erdogan had defied…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s opponents face an uphill struggle to end his two-decade rule of Turkey in a runoff vote on May 28 after he performed better than predicted in a first round of voting on Sunday but fell short of an outright…

Following droughts and lack of precipitation, boats spent months waiting in the recently used car parking lot near Lake Uluabat, located in Türkiye's northwestern city Bursa. Lake Uluabat, the ninth-largest lake with an area of ​​136…

Adding another victory to his two decades of wins, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan dominated the polls in presidential elections on Sunday, according to unofficial results. As of 2 a.m. on Monday, Erdoğan had 49% of the vote. His Justice and…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has ruled his country with an increasingly firm grip for 20 years, was locked in a tight election race early Monday, with a make-or-break runoff against his chief challenger possible as the final…

The Iraqi government has called on Turkey to apologize for an attack on an airport in the country’s northern Kurdish region, denouncing what it called a “flagrant aggression” against its sovereignty in the area. The demand on Saturday…

Iraq called on Turkey on Saturday to apologize for what it said was the shelling of Sulaymaniyah airport in the country’s north, saying the Turkish government must cease hostilities on Iraqi soil. The Iraqi presidency said in a statement…