Turkey

Istanbul meeting ends with agreement to swap 2,000 prisoners of war

Binyamin Netanyahu accused of being too ‘passive’ amid ‘tectonic’ shifts in region

US secretary of state Marco Rubio to travel to Istanbul to meet Turkey’s foreign minister and Ukraine’s delegation on Friday

Jet sent after Estonian navy followed flagless vessel to ensure it did not tamper with underwater cables

Donald Trump will also skip meeting, Washington says shortly after Moscow’s announcement

Move could strengthen Turkey‘s aspirations to become a regional power

Zelenskiy says Kyiv is willing to talk but Moscow must agree to a ceasefire

Demonstrators angry at detention of president Erdogan’s main political rival

Kerem Cubuk from Türkiye moved to Armagh in October 2018

It was bizarre living in Dublin during my formative years, feeling both at home and out of place in the very country that was nurturing me

Late pontiff visited nine countries in the region and north Africa, cultivating ties between Christians and Muslims

Istanbul quake: No immediate reports of injuries as president Recep Tayyip Erdogan urges calm

Republican People’s Party head Ozgür Ozel outlines strategy after arrest of star campaigner triggered mass protests

‘Irresponsible rhetoric and disinformation’ in United States is a threat, warns global association of judges

Worldview: Erdogan’s Turkey is sliding decisively into autocracy, with a pliant judiciary co-opted, democratic norms abandoned, and media muzzled. But the young are standing up

‘Extremely positive’ talks with DEM are part of efforts to end 47-year insurgency by militant group PKK

Demonstrations were sparked by arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu

Court told the medication used without proper supervision has the potential to kill people with certain conditions

Jailing of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival for presidency on graft charges widely criticised

Detention of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has triggered the biggest street protests in Turkey in more than a decade

Detention of mayor Ekrem Imamoglu follows fall in popularity of Turkey’s president due to the country’s economic and financial crisis

The arrest and charging of the main challenger to president Erdogan represents a new low

Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was detained following a raid on his residence earlier this week

Erdogan dismisses criticism as opposition ‘theatrics’

Politicians and investors say arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu marks dangerous turning point in authoritarian slide

Ekrem Imamoglu is considered the chief challenger to leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Kurdish community to get citizenship and language rights denied under Assad regime

Tishreen Dam, on the Euphrates river, has become a flashpoint in the conflict between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces and the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army

Call for peace by Kurdish leader being held in Turkish jail is first step in complex web of negotiations

Imprisoned PKK leader called for group to disarm

Abdullah Ocalan is serving life sentence, but could be freed under tentative Turkish peace process

Worldview: We need to forge a a rational, interest-based response to America First

Blaze broke out overnight in restaurant section of hotel in Kartalkaya ski resort in Turkey’s northwest

Explosion occurred at factory in village of Kavakli in Balikesir province

As China and Russia weigh up their options in anticipation of Donald Trump’s second presidency, horrified countries in the Global South see Gaza as an emblem of US and European double standards

‘Multiple case series relating to this phenomenon on the health service have been reported in recent years,’ medics say

Neither neoliberalism nor the ‘radical left’ seems able to solve the problem in most Greek people’s minds: the almost unbearable increases in the cost of living

Arab countries called for end to hostilities in Syria and said they would support the transitional government

The group that brought down the Assad regime might be in the process of reinventing itself but it would be foolish to imagine that the Islamists of HTS have converted to the cause of liberal democracy

The country deserves maximum international and regional support as it confronts the mammoth tasks ahead