SEFERIHISAR—Until the summer of 2025, the village of Orhanlı on Turkey’s Aegean coast was known for its pine-covered slopes and ancient olive groves.

From jail, the former mayor of Istanbul accuses President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of hollowing out Turkey’s democracy to stay in power.

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For years, Turks have stashed their gold at home against a raining day, mistrustful of banks. Now the government says that tradition hurts the economy.

Exclusive: Cop31 leader calling for global curbs on climate-heating gas has landfills producing some of world’s worst plumes

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SEFERIHISAR—Until the summer of 2025, the village of Orhanlı on Turkey’s Aegean coast was known for its pine-covered slopes and ancient olive groves.

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For one Istanbul confectioner, distributing fried dough balls as memorials is not just a job. It’s personal.

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Thirty years of Turkey-EU policy papers have changed their diagnosis completely and their prescription not at all.

Turkey is neither drifting away from the West nor is it coming home. It has become an embedded outsider: a middle power that has learned to build strategic auto

This week Mark Leonard welcomes Aslı Aydıntaşbaş , associate senior policy fellow at ECFR and a fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe at the

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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The Turkish textile industry is at risk after hundreds of apparel factories have closed

From jailed mayors to comedians, Emily Wither investigates Turkey's crackdown

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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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Mehmet Kusman did not spend very long at school, but he traced the ancient inscriptions chiselled into the black basalt rock and read: "Before me there was nothing. But by the power of the god Haldi…

On a Turkish hillside overlooking the olive-covered slopes outside Izmir is a cave known to generations of locals as the place where Homer penned "The Odyssey".

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.