The Latest Breaking News from Turkey

Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya says he will fully apply a law to remove millions of stray dogs from the streets following the death of a 2-year-old girl

Thousands of women have taken to the streets of Turkish cities to mark International Women’s Day, protesting inequality and violence against women

Turkey, with NATO's second-largest army and a Black Sea coastline, is looking to play a key role in Europe's security after Washington's pivot away from the region.

Harrowing story of ‘ES’, fleeing persecution to seek safety in US, shines light on judges who grant claims at exceptionally low rates – or not at all

Turkey’s central bank has lowered its key interest rate by a further 2.5 percentage points days after official figures indicated a slowdown in inflation that has eroded households’ purchasing power

On March 1, the start of the holy month of Ramadan — observed by most of Turkey’s Sunni population — the imprisoned leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Abdullah Öcalan, made a historic call for the party to disarm and end its 40-year-long armed struggle against the Turkish state.

Anne Towlson, 58, was found dead at home after complaining for days that her arm was ‘killing her’

Anne Towlson, 58, was found dead at home with open wounds to her armpits and triceps having complained that her arm was ‘killing her’ days earlier.

Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK), has called on the group to disarm and dissolve itself. In a letter read out by his political allies in Istanbul, Turkey, on February 27, he wrote: “I take on the historical responsibility for this call … All…

The Los Angeles Kings have apologized for selling scarves made in Turkey during Armenian Heritage Night last month

The mountains of northern Iraq have for years been a sanctuary for Kurdish militants fighting a decades-long insurgency against the government in neighboring Turkey