Turkey News
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Turkey's Erdogan in rare Iraq visit to discuss water, oil, security
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is due Monday (Apr 22) in neighbouring Iraq for his first state visit there in...
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Ukraine's Zelenskyy brings home Azovstal commanders released to Türkiye
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy brought home from Türkiye on Saturday (Jul 8) five former commanders of Ukraine's garrison in Mariupol, a...
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Turkey's Merve Dizdar wins best actress at Cannes
Turkish actress Merve Dizdar has won the Cannes Film Festival's best actress prize for her role in About Dry Grasses...
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Türkiye votes in runoff election, Erdogan positioned to extend rule
Turks began voting on Sunday (May 28) in a presidential runoff that could see Recep Tayyip Erdogan extend his rule...
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Life in a cemetery after Turkey’s earthquakes
Tasked with burying hundreds of victims of Turkey’s massive earthquakes, undertaker Ali Dogru brought his wife and four sons to...
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Three women, two children pulled from rubble in Turkey; some aid reaches Syria
Two women were pulled from the rubble in Turkey's southern city of Kahramanmaras and a mother and two children were...
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Turkey finds more survivors as anger grows a week after earthquake
Rescuers in Turkey pulled several children alive from collapsed buildings on Monday, a week after the country's worst earthquake in...
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Turkey investigates building contractors as earthquake deaths pass 33,000
Turkish authorities are targeting contractors allegedly linked with buildings that collapsed in the powerful Feb. 6 earthquakes as rescuers found...
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Survivors still being found as quake death toll tops 28,000
Ibrahim Zakaria lost track of time drifting into and out of consciousness while trapped for nearly five days in the...
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Death toll in Turkey, Syria earthquake surpasses 15,000
The death toll from the catastrophic earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria rose to more than 15,000 as more bodies...
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Death toll from Syria-Turkey quake nears 10,000
Families in southern Turkey and Syria spent a second night in the freezing cold on Wednesday as overwhelmed rescuers raced...
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Frantic search for survivors in Turkey, Syria after quake kills more than 5,000
Rescuers raced Tuesday to find survivors in the rubble of thousands of buildings brought down by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake...
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At least 1,400 dead, many trapped after quake hits Turkey, Syria
More than 1,400 people were killed and thousands injured on Monday when a huge earthquake struck central Turkey and northwest...
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Finland says time-out needed in talks with Turkey over NATO bid
Finland's foreign minister said on Tuesday that a pause of a few weeks was needed in Finland and Sweden's talks...
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NATO allies U.S., Turkey try to mend fences but rifts persist
The United States and Turkey on Wednesday looked to brush aside differences that have strained relations for years but were...
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Sweden, Finland must send up to 130 'terrorists' to Turkey for NATO bid
Sweden and Finland must deport or extradite up to 130 "terrorists" to Turkey before the Turkish parliament will approve their...