The Latest Breaking News from Turkey

The country wants to move away from 'negative meaning' from the bird and other connotations.

Annual inflation in Turkey hit 73.5% in May, the highest rate since 1998, according to official data released Friday as a cost-of-living crisis in the country deepens. The Turkish Statistical Institute said the rate represented an increase of almost 70% from the month before.

Kaielle Thompson, 23, went into labour two months early

Residents in northern Syria are bracing for a new fight since Turkey's president threatened a major military operation to push back Syrian Kurdish fighters and create a long sought-after buffer zone in the border area

Turkey has told the United Nations that, at the behest of its president, it wishes from now on to be called "Turkiye" in all languages, the UN announced Thursday. "The change is immediate," Stephane Dujarric, the UN chief's spokesperson, told AFP by email. He noted that Ankara's official letter requesting…

Turkey and its allied Syrian National Army continued to amass forces in northern Syria on Thursday ahead of the imminent launch of a Turkish offensive against the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces in Tal Rifaat and Manbij west of the Euphrates River. Turkey continued to send reinforcements to the frontlines in…

United Nations says request from Ankara has been accepted with immediate effect

Kaiah arrived two months early as her mother enjoyed a holiday in the sun

Earlier that day, the Geordie Shore star was left in tears at Istanbul airport after the couple were prevented from jetting to LA