One person was killed and 10 others were injured on Friday in the southern Turkish province of Antalya after a cable car cabin collided with a broken pole, sending its passengers plummeting to the mountainside below.
Twenty-four cabins were stranded (...)
Turkey's main opposition party retained its control over key cities and made huge gains elsewhere in local elections on Sunday.
The results are a major upset for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had set his sights on retaking control of those (...)
Turkey's main opposition party is closing in on victory in the main cities of Istanbul and Ankara, in high-stakes local elections.
Istanbul's opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who won the city in 2019, said that he was "very happy" so far.
A year (...)
Millions of Turks are voting in elections to decide who runs their biggest cities — and whether President Recep Tayyip Erdogan can wrest back control from the opposition.
Turkey's economic and social powerhouse, Istanbul, was won by a united (...)
Millions of Turks vote in elections on Sunday to decide who runs their biggest cities — and whether President Recep Tayyip Erdogan can wrest back control from the opposition.
Turkey's economic and social powerhouse, Istanbul, was won by a united (...)
Russia's Vladimir Putin has acknowledged "radical Islamists" carried out Friday's deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall.
But he has repeated his claim that they had some kind of link to Ukraine and the West.
Ukraine has rejected the Russian claim (...)
Hungary's parliament is on Monday expected to ratify Sweden's membership to the NATO military alliance, giving its stamp of approval 18 months after the Scandinavian country first made a bid to join.
Hungary is the last of NATO's 31 members to (...)
ANKARA — Saudi Arabia's attorney general Sheikh Saud Al-Mujib has met with Turkish minister of justice Yilmaz Tunç in Ankara.
During the meeting, they discussed judicial relations between Saudi Arabia and Türkiye, and explored ways to strengthen (...)
Turkish legislators on Tuesday endorsed Sweden's membership in NATO, lifting a major hurdle on the previously nonaligned country's entry into the military alliance.
The legislators ratified Sweden's accession protocol by 287 votes to 55, with four (...)
Israeli soccer star Sagiv Jehezkel, who plays for Turkish team Antalyaspor, was detained on Monday for "instigating the public to hatred and hostility," according to Turkish state broadcaster TRT Haber.
Jehezkel, who is being held by police in (...)
Reactions are pouring in from the Middle East after the United States and the United Kingdom carried out strikes against Houthi targets after the Yemeni group launched attacks against commercial vessels in the Red Sea.
Turkish President Tayyip (...)
ANKARA — Saudi Chief of the General Staff Gen. Fayyad Al-Ruwaili met with the Turkish National Defense Minister Yaşar Guler and Chief of the General Staff Gen. Metin Gorak in Ankara on Tuesday.
They discussed the ways to further strengthen defense (...)
Police in Turkey have arrested more than 300 people for suspected links to the Islamic State (ISIS) militant group during sweeping raids across the country, the Turkish Interior Minister has announced.
"304 individuals were arrested during the (...)
No speeches in front of cheering crowds. No joint public appearances between leaders. And a rumored joint visit to a Germany-Turkey football match in Berlin that is not happening after all.
For a state visit, Friday's visit by Turkish President (...)
Turkey's president has blasted the West's hypocrisy for shedding "crocodile tears" over civilian deaths in Ukraine, while idly standing by as Israel devastates Gaza.
Antony Blinken visited Turkey on Monday with the mission of appeasing the anger of (...)
By Fatih Ulusoy, Turkish Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
One hundred years ago, on October 29, 1923, the Turkish nation, under the visionary leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, laid the foundation for a sovereign, modern, democratic, and progressive (...)
Ahmet Halavuk, General Manager of Yuksel, expressed gratitude on Turkish Republic Day, acknowledging the significant support from the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in building Saudi Arabia's (...)
A drone attack on a Syrian military academy in the city of Homs has killed at least 100 people and left dozens injured.
The explosive-laden drones targeted a graduation ceremony attended by cadets' families, and women and children were among the (...)
Turkey's military carried out airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in northern Iraq on Sunday, just hours after the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing in the capital in the latest attack of its nearly (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia strongly condemns and denounces the attempted terrorist attack on the General Directorate of Security of Türkiye's Interior Ministry, which led to the injury of a number of Turkish security personnel.
In a statement issued by (...)
An explosion outside Turkey's Interior Ministry in the capital, Ankara, was a "terrorist attack", the interior minister has said.
Two attackers arrived in a commercial vehicle around 09:30 (06:30 GMT) and carried out the attack injuring two (...)
ANKARA — Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to Turkiye Fahd bin Asaad Abu Al-Nasr presented his credentials to Turkiye President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a reception at the Presidential Complex in Ankara on Wednesday. Some members of the Saudi embassy and (...)
More than 150 people were involved in efforts to save caver Mark Dickey after he developed stomach problems in the Morca Cave on 2 September. Organizers say it was one of the largest and most complicated underground rescues ever mounted. The lowest (...)
Rescuers are rushing to save an American man trapped in the third deepest cave in Turkey after he became ill, the Turkish Caving Federation said.
Some 150 rescuers are involved in a "complex" operation to save Mark Dickey, who was part of a research (...)
Russian forces launched a "massive" drone attack on Ukraine's Danube River area for the second straight night, Ukrainian officials said Monday, just hours before Russia's president is scheduled to meet with his Turkish counterpart to discuss (...)