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Jailed PKK leader urges implementation of Damascus’s integration accord with Syrian Kurds

Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has called for the implementation of a March 10 agreement aimed at integrating...

Trump says he is weighing F-35 sale to Turkey despite Netanyahu’s objections

US President Donald Trump said Monday he is considering selling Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, during a visit to the US leader's...

[OPINION] Operation against Fenerbahçe president Saran exposes Turkey’s political fault lines

Ömer Murat* Turkey is experiencing one of the deepest political and economic contractions in recent decades. The crisis extends far beyond inflation and interest rates,...

Erdoğan ally calls ISIL a ‘Zionist proxy’ after Yalova raid leaves officers dead

Far-right leader Devlet Bahçeli, a key ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, called the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) “a...

Turkey cannot achieve peace with Kurds without democratic reforms: main opposition leader

Özgür Özel, the chairman of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has said that lasting peace with the country’s Kurds is impossible without...

3 Turkish police officers, 6 ISIL militants killed in clash: minister

Turkish police killed six suspected Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants and lost three officers in an early morning raid on...

2 French crew members died in Ankara crash that killed Libyan army chief

Two French crew members died in the crash of a private jet in Turkey this week that also killed Libya’s top military commander from...

Turkey jails 17 in İstanbul drug probe targeting businesspeople, media figures

An İstanbul court has ordered the arrest of 17 suspects and the release of two others under judicial supervision in a drug investigation that...

Erdoğan’s son hails sidelining of West-oriented elites, calls for a ‘national’ intelligentsia

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s younger son, Necmettin Bilal Erdoğan, said Thursday that Turkey’s “old” intellectual class had been sidelined and argued it was shaped...

UK confirms £550 million C-130 sale to Turkey in 2025 export statement

The UK government on Friday said the export and sale of 12 C-130 aircraft to Turkey has a combined value of over £550 million...

ECtHR fast-tracks jailed İstanbul mayor’s case, lawyer says

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided to examine the application of İstanbul mayor and main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) presidential...

Antakya’s remaining Christians mark Christmas Eve in Saint Peter’s cave church after quake

A cave church believed to be one of the oldest Christian worship sites in the world drew Orthodox Christians in Turkey’s quake hit city...

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