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Turkey to pay producers up to $100,000 per TV series episode to boost global reach

Turkey will provide financial support of up to $100,000 per episode to production companies for television series broadcast abroad under a new scheme aimed...

Turkey’s intelligence agency details thwarted espionage in 2025 report

Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) said in its 2025 annual report that it thwarted espionage activity and exposed agent networks run by foreign intelligence...

Turkish MPs back steps to reintegrate former PKK militants

Kurdish militants who have laid down their arms should be reintegrated into society, Turkish lawmakers said in a key report released Wednesday, while avoiding...

Cost of living remains Turkey’s top concern, TurkStat survey finds

The rising cost of living remains the most pressing issue for people in Turkey, according to the latest Life Satisfaction Survey released by the...

Turkey to imprison LGBT advocates, criminalize same-sex ceremonies in new bill: report

Turkey's justice ministry is drafting legislation that would imprison people for publicly praising LGBT identity, criminalize same-sex engagement and wedding ceremonies and impose sweeping...

[OPINION] Erdoğan reshapes Turkey’s electoral battlefield

Ömer Murat* Under Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, elections are often decided long before ballots are cast, during a prolonged pre-election phase in which rivals...

Turkey considers bill mandating social media identity checks, expanding content-removal powers

A Turkish government bill expected to be introduced in parliament in the coming days would require identity verification for social media users, impose new...

Majority of people in Turkey oppose bridge, highway privatization, survey finds

More than half of people in Turkey oppose the privatization of public assets such as bridges and highways and believe previous privatizations benefited certain...

5 ISIL militants who killed 3 police officers in Turkey had been acquitted months earlier

Five of the six Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants who shot three police officers dead in a pre-dawn raid in...

Turkey calls EU statements on Syria ‘misguided’

Ankara on Friday accused the EU of adopting "misguided" resolutions condemning violence in Syria and Turkey and said the EU legislature was interfering in...

[ANALYSIS] Foreign correspondence in an age of institutional contraction

Yasemin Aydın* When The Washington Post closed its foreign bureaus in February 2026, it was more than an economic decision. With each silenced correspondent, a...

Turks fear earthquakes but lack basic preparedness: survey

Nearly 60 percent of Turkey's population is anxious about earthquakes, yet three out of every four households do not have an emergency kit ready,...

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