Turkey Archives

Following the clashes, crossings remain closed along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border

World

Afghanistan, Pakistan to firm up truce at Istanbul talks

Afghan and Pakistani negotiators are to meet in Istanbul Saturday to address security issues and establish a lasting ceasefire along their shared border after...

AFPOctober 25, 2025

Although first announced in 2011, work has yet to start on the waterway itself

World

Canal Istanbul stirs fear and uncertainty in nearby villages

In Sazlibosna village, along the planned route of the vast Canal Istanbul project, 68-year-old Yasar Demirkaya fidgets with worn prayer beads as he sips...

AFPOctober 8, 2025

A flag-waving crowd gathered at Istanbul airport to welcome back the Gaza flotilla activists after they were deported from Israel

World

‘We were treated like animals’, deported Gaza flotilla activists say

International activists who arrived in Istanbul after being deported from Israel following the military’s interception of their Gaza-bound flotilla said Saturday they had been...

AFPOctober 4, 2025

At least 11 of the main opposition CHP's 26 mayors in the Istanbul province have been detained, including the city's powerful mayor Ekrem Imamoglu who was jailed in March over a graft allegation

World

‘Defect or be jailed’: Turkey opposition mayors face new threat

Turkish opposition leaders say the government has found a new way to silence dissent: pressuring its mayors and local officials to defect to the...

AFPOctober 2, 2025

The Turkish Airlines-Boeing deal includes 150 confirmed aircraft to be delivered between 2029 and 2034, with an option for 75 more

World

Turkish Airlines inks big Boeing deal after Erdogan visits US

Turkish Airlines announced on Friday a deal to buy up to 225 Boeing jets, one day after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made his first...

AFPSeptember 26, 2025

Istanbul's jailed mayor Ekrem Imamoglu appears in court

World

‘We are not afraid,’ jailed Istanbul mayor tells court

Istanbul’s jailed opposition mayor on Friday said he was “not afraid” as he denounced the legal case against him as part of a broader...

AFPSeptember 26, 2025

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press a he meets meets with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 25, 2025.

World

Trump urges Turkey’s Erdogan to stop buying Russian oil

US President Donald Trump on Thursday urged Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to stop buying Russian oil over the war in Ukraine, as Erdogan...

AFPSeptember 25, 2025

At the CHP congress, delegates reelected their leader Ozgur Ozel

World

Embattled Turkey opposition re-elects leader at party congress

Turkey’s main opposition CHP re-elected its leader Ozgur Ozel at an extraordinary congress Sunday as the party fights off a barrage of what critics...

AFPSeptember 21, 2025