By Ben Hubbard Ben Hubbard covers Turkey and the surrounding region. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known by its Kurdish acronym P.K.K., said on Monday that it would lay down arms and disband ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet him in Turkey this week to begin negotiations to end the three-year war between their countries. But he ...

ANKARA, Turkey — Four weeks after the arrest of Turkey’s leading opposition figure — Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu — a rare wave of unity has swept through the streets as protesters from ...

May 10 (Reuters) - Turkey is ready to undertake the duty to observe a possible ceasefire in Ukraine, its foreign minister said during a "coalition of the willing" call with Kyiv's partners on ...

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s top court on Wednesday rejected a request to annul a contentious law designed to remove millions of stray dogs from the streets, which critics said could lead to mass ...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has offered to meet Russia's Vladimir Putin in person in Turkey on Thursday. It comes after he said his team were "ready to meet" Russian representatives ...

Turkish authorities have banned the X account of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who was jailed in March. Imamoglu had been posting daily messages from prison via his lawyers, the BBC reports.

The gap between Europe and Turkey for establishing a closer, long-term security relationship has significantly narrowed. In light of changing U.S. security priorities, European nations have been ...

Turkey has slowed down a multibillion-dollar F-16 fighter jet deal with the United States as Ankara shifts its focus towards rejoining the next generation F-35 programme, two sources familiar with ...

Here is a timeline of the on Imamoglu and other figures that the opposition has criticised as a politicised and anti-democratic push in Turkey, a major emerging market and a NATO member country ...