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Interior ministry contradicts İstanbul mayor’s claim of more than 2 mln refugees in city

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has announced that there are some 1 million foreign nationals living in İstanbul, about half of whom are refugees, contradicting a...

Turks to pay one of the highest departure fees in the world with planned 19-fold hike

Turkish citizens flying to international destinations will soon have to pay one of the highest taxes of its kind in the world as the...

Turkey’s intel service spies on Gülen followers, PKK supporters in Germany: report

Followers of the faith-based Gülen movement and supporters of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) are the primary targets of Turkish intelligence agents in...

Colombia has seized more than 6 tons of cocaine on ships bound for Turkey since 2020: report

Over the past four-and-a-half years, Colombian authorities have intercepted more than 6 tons of cocaine destined for Turkey, according to a special report by...

Corbyn thanks jailed Kurdish leader Demirtaş for letter of support ahead of UK election

Former Labour Party leader and independent parliamentary candidate Jeremy Corbyn has expressed gratitude to Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş, the former co-chair of Turkey's Peoples'...

Turkish strikes in northern Iraq spark fires

Turkish airstrikes on Wednesday have caused widespread fires in the Al-Amadiya district north of Duhok in Iraqi Kurdistan, according to local sources. The airstrikes targeted...

Wildfire in Turkey disrupts traffic in Dardanelles Strait

A wildfire forced the partial suspension of shipping in Turkey's busy Dardanelles Strait for several hours on Tuesday, the country's coast guard said,  Agence...

Ministry launches probe into former district mayor in Ankara for irregular election spending

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has initiated an investigation into a former Ankara district mayor from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on accusations that...

Pro-gov’t media outlets least trusted in Turkey, according to global report

A report by Oxford University's Reuters Institute has revealed that pro-government media outlets in Turkey, which are frequently criticized for acting as the propaganda...

Erdoğan denies rift with ally, rules out early elections

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has expressed support for the continuation of his party’s alliance with a far-right party amid recent claims of a...

Fire on Turkish ship in Haifa started in engine room, not a missile attack: report

Images showing a Turkish-owned ship docked at the Port of Haifa on fire were falsely used to claim that a strike by Lebanese militant...

US and Turkey target ISIL-linked smuggling network

The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on four individuals with ties to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) following an...

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