The Latest Breaking News from Istanbul

Tarawih prayers resume after 88 years this Ramadan at the museum-turned-mosque in Istanbul.

Police have found the possible whereabouts of a "missing" family of four whose relatives lost contact with them before Songkran. They flew from Suvarnabhumi airport to Istanbul on the night of April 10.

Turkey has decided to appoint an ambassador to Egypt after nine years of mutual withdrawal of ambassadors and downgrading the diplomatic representation to the rank of chargé d’affaires between the two countries. The move follows Egyptian authorities confirming that Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry would soon be visiting Istanbul to meet…

Attempt to close We Will Stop Femicide on moral grounds criticised as a ‘grotesque’ and divisive step as election looms

The Bayraktar TB2 is manufactured by Baykar, which is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.

The defence ministers of Turkey, Britain and Italy will meet in Istanbul on Friday to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine and security ties between the three NATO allies, the Turkish Defence Ministry said.

Turkish fisherman Sahin Afsut fears the worst: hitting a mine and "disappearing underwater in the blink of an eye". Like many fishermen in Rumelifeneri, a village set on the rocks of the Bosphorus in northern Istanbul, Afsut and his team remain in port since the discovery of a drifting mine…

Tony Rogers, 66, flew to Istanbul for an emergency procedure on Monday and died after receiving an anaesthetic in the dentist's chair the next morning

Leeds United supporters Christopher Loftus and Kevin Speight were murdered in Istanbul on this day 22 years ago and once more they were remembered at Elland Road in a moving service