Istanbul, April 11 () - Turkey and Saudi Arabia will seek to further deepen bilateral relations on the occasion of Saudi King Salman’s two-day visit to Ankara, which will observe the meeting of a high-level strategic cooperation council with the participation...

Istanbul, April 11 () - Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has criticized the government’s plans to strip “terrorist sympathizers” of their citizenship, saying that a similar “junta” practice...

Istanbul, April 4 () - Consumer price index (CPI) fell by 0.04 percent in March 2016, while the inflation saw 7.46 percent on annual basis and 1.75 percent in the first quarter of the year. According to Turkstat data, the inflation was 7.96 percent on the...

Istanbul, April 1 () - The first batch of migrants is set to be sent back to Turkey from Greece on April 4, under the terms of an EU-Turkey readmission deal reached this month.   However, the deal may experience delays due to unsolved organization...

Lahor, March 28 () - A suicide bomber attack killed at least 69 people and injured more than 250 others, mostly women and children, at a public park in the Pakistani city of Lahore on March 27.   The blast occurred in the parking area of Gulshan-e-Iqbal...

(Adds details) Istanbul, March 24 () - Central Bank of Turkey's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has decided to cut marginal funding rate by 0.25 points but kept the policy rate unchanged. The Committee kept the policy rate unchanged at 7.50 percent, as...

Istanbul, March 24 () - The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has assigned a new prosecutor to the controversial case of daily Cumhuriyet editor-in-chief Can Dündar and Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gül, two days before it first hearing to be...

Ankara, March 24 () - The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) will ready its own draft of a new constitution which includes a shift to a presidential system by the end of April and submit it to parliament in May or June, after losing hope for the...

Geneva, March 24 () - The use of terrorism legislation by governments as a tool to suppress freedom of expression is not a discussion limited to Turkey or elsewhere, as the United Nations human rights body has become preoccupied with the same discussion with...

Istanbul, March 24 () - The unemployment rate in Turkey rose 0.4 percentage points in 2015 at 10.3 percent, hitting double digits for the first time since 2010, according to the data released by TurkStat.   The number of unemployed persons rose to...

Ankara, March 24 () - Europe’s sole partner in providing security in the region is Turkey, the Turkish prime minister has said, calling on European countries to undertake a serious change in their Syria policy. “Europe has no partner other...

Ankara, March 24 () - Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu met with two senior United States diplomats on March 23 to discuss ongoing efforts to defeat the Islamic State (IS) and to resolve the Syrian problem through peaceful means. U.S....

Öykü Altuntaş / İstanbul, March 23 () - Veteran president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Massoud Barzani vowed a referendum for an independent Kurdistan was expected to be held before October. Barzani told London based media portal Al-Monitor...

Metin İliksoy / Gaziantep, March 23 () - A Japanese man, who was bound to join the Islamic State (IS) in Syria, was captured on late March 22 in the Nizip district of the southeastern province of Gaziantep. Gendarmerie teams captured the man identified...