The Latest Breaking News from Ankara

Finland and Sweden jointly applied for membership, but Ankara has so far backed only Helsinki’s bid.

Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that his government would move forward with ratifying Finland’s NATO application, paving the way for the country to join the military bloc ahead of Sweden. The breakthrough came as Finnish President Sauli Niinisto was in Ankara to meet with Erdogan. Both Finland and…

This week marks one month since the ground shook under southern Turkey and northern Syria. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake and subsequent aftershocks killed over 50,000 people, making it one of the deadliest quakes worldwide in the past century. Entire cities were flattened and millions of people were made homeless. But…

Stuck in Recep Tayyip Erdogan's shadow throughout his career, Turkish opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu believes his time may have come after suffering repeated election defeats and scorn from the man who has dominated politics for two decades. An opposition alliance on Monday named Kilicdaroglu, chairman of the Republican People's Party…

Social democrat becomes opposition bloc’s candidate against President Erdogan after compromise between two main parties.

The six-party alliance has named Kemal Kilicdaroglu as their joint candidate for the May 14 presidential race.

Turkey's right wing IYI Party has proposed that the mayors of Ankara and Istanbul serve as vice presidents if the opposition wins the May election, an spokesperson said on Monday, after the party left the main opposition alliance last week.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday that Ankara is working hard to extend a UN-backed initiative that has enabled Ukraine to export grain from ports blockaded by Russia following its invasion. The Black Sea Grain Initiative brokered by the United Nations and Türkiye last July allowed grain to…

Türkiye's nationalist IYI Party leader Meral Aksener said on Friday the six-party opposition alliance of which her party was a member no longer reflected the national will, signaling her party's withdrawal from the grouping ahead of May elections. Aksener told a news conference that the IYI Party's proposed presidential candidates,…