Turkiye

ANKARA: Türkiye's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Sunday (Jul 30) urged Sweden to take concrete steps to prevent burnings of the Quran, a Turkish foreign ministry source said. Sweden and Denmark have seen several protests in recent weeks…

ANKARA: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi discussed Ukraine with his Turkish counterpart in Ankara and met President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday during his first foreign trip since being appointed, a Turkish foreign ministry source…

A Calgary man has just returned from Turkiye after spending nearly five months there helping his two siblings who were severely injured in the earthquake that struck Turkiye and Syria in February. More than 50,000 people were killed…

ABU DHABI: President Tayyip Erdogan visited the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday (Jul 19) as he toured wealthy Gulf Arab nations for investment and funds, hoping to revive Turkey's economy which has struggled with a weakened lira, heavy…

On Monday, Mr Erdogan demanded that the European Union (EU) revive his country’s stalled membership bid as a precondition for Sweden joining NATO. Türkiye has been a formal candidate to join the EU since 2005, but talks have long stalled…

ISTANBUL/WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden expressed a desire to see Sweden join NATO "as soon as possible" in a phone call with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in which they discussed Sweden's bid to become a member of the Western…

KYIV: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy brought home from Türkiye on Saturday (Jul 8) five former commanders of Ukraine's garrison in Mariupol, a highly symbolic achievement that Russia said violated a prisoner exchange deal engineered last…

ISTANBUL: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday (Jul 7) entered crunch talks with Türkiye's leader after securing a US pledge for cluster munitions that could inflict massive damage on Russian forces on the battlefield.…

BRUSSELS: Sweden and Turkiye made some progress in talks aimed at overcoming President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's objections to the Nordic country joining NATO but gaps still remain in their positions and their leaders will meet next week to…

BRUSSELS: Sweden failed on Thursday (Jul 6) to convince Türkiye to lift its block on Stockholm's path to NATO membership, and the issue will now go to a meeting of the Turkish and Swedish leaders next week. Speaking after talks with the…