Turkish Prime Minister President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered the world to stop confusing one of history’s great empires with an American bird.

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ISTANBUL—With a fivefold increase in solar and a near-tripling of wind power over the last decade, Turkey’s clean energy transition will be in the spotlight during the upcoming COP31 climate summit in...

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ISTANBUL (AP) — For centuries, Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar has been more than a marketplace. Behind its crowded passageways, generations of craftspeople have made, repaired and restored the objects that e...

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ISTANBUL—Enes Torun was trying to fall asleep in his ship’s cabin after his early-morning shift.

GÖCEK—Where the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas meet, tucked into Turkey’s coastal province of Muğla, Göcek has quietly become one of the nation’s leading nautical tourism destinations.

ISTANBUL—It is a scorching August afternoon in Istanbul.

Turkey’s system of ‘rule by replacement’ is becoming easier to recognize. My survey experiment suggests how — and why that is still not enough for the opposition.

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ISTANBUL (AP) — Cats are an inseparable part of daily life in Istanbul, where thousands of free-roaming felines share the city’s streets, waterfronts, markets and historic neighborhoods with its more ...

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ESKIŞEHIR—On an eastbound railway from Istanbul, past a series of narrow mountain valleys, the Anatolian plateau opens wide, inviting Turkey’s high-speed trains to zip by the town of Beylikova.

Suzy Hansen and Alexander Christie-Miller on the decisions behind their books

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Turkey Book Talk #274 – Sinem Adar, head of the Centre for Applied Turkey Studies at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, returns to the podcast. The conversation take…

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ALIAĞA—Hidden at the edge of the Aliağa peninsula, an industrial town on Turkey’s western Aegean shore, lies the world’s third-largest ship-breaking hub.

In this week’s episode of the Independent Thinking podcast, our experts discuss the outcomes of this year’s NATO summit and what it means for the future of the transatlantic relationship.

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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — NATO leaders gather in Turkey for a two-day summit at a pivotal moment for the alliance as the Trump administration calls for a "NATO 3.0" and urges Europe to take on a greater s...

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For ninety years, Turkey has been positioned as the principal gatekeeper of Black Sea security. As a result, European and NATO efforts to support Ukraine will require closer engagement with Ankara.

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