President Erdoğan on Friday accused the main opposition CHP of pressuring the judiciary after one of its mayors was arrested on charges of rigging

In 2024, 110 people fell ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Istanbul, of whom 48 died, according to government officials.

Turkey's opposition leaders accuse President Erdoğan of using corruption and terrorism charges to undermine rivals, remove elected mayors, and consolidate power through appointed trustees.

Death toll comes as the İstanbul Governor’s Office revealed that 110 people were poisoned by tainted alcohol in 2024.

By Akin Nazli in Belgrade The Turkish government has been at it again, trampling on “Kurdish” and other opposition ballot box outcomes that stick in its craw. On January 13, it arrested the co-mayors of a municipality held by pro-Kurdish party DEM and appointed trustees.

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, launched the Year of the Family, by criticising the LGBTQ+ community for supposedly undermining traditional values. The president, who has held office since 2014,

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has received Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah at the Presidential Complex in the capital, Ankara,

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday welcomed Ukhnaa Khurelsukh, the first Mongolian head of state to visit the country in 21 years.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan launched a new “Year of the Family” initiative aimed at shoring up his country’s tumbling birthrate and held the LGBTQ+ community partly to blame for it. In his remarks at an event in Ankara on Monday,

Turkish Airlines is resuming flights to the Syrian capital, Damascus (DAM), and to Benghazi (BEN), Libya’s second city, from its Istanbul (IST) hub. The two destinations had featured on Turkish Airlines’ network in the past but were discontinued due to the military and political situation in both countries.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan marked the launch of Turkey’s “Year of the Family” with an attack on the LGBTQ+ community and the announcement of measures to boost birth rates.

Turkish Chief Rabbi Ishak Haleva died on Tuesday at the age of 84 after serving for 23 years in the position, the country’s Chief Rabbinate said. “We mourn the departure of our hakham bashi [chief rabbi], Ishak Haleva, who always believed in unity, peace, and love. He led our community with this belief for many years,” the body stated.