The Latest Breaking News from Turkey

Georgia, Turkey, Austria and Spain won over a lot of new fans but too many of the favourites flopped

Cut-price branded perfumes and fake high-end handbags line the ornate alleys of Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, with traditional merchants saying the luxury counterfeits are stripping the marketplace of its character.

A bookseller in Turkey notched a victory over a French luxury house in a copyright battle to be able to call itself Hermes, the shop's lawyer said Tuesday, hailing an infrequent win against a major brand.

From Georgia beating Portugal to missing out on good currywurst, our writers reveal their ups and downs of Euro 2024

Greece’s concern for its own security has made it a supporter of Ukraine since the full-scale Russian invasion.

From Spain’s Lamine Yamal to Cristiano Ronaldo’s and Kylian Mbappe’s failures, Euro 2024 wasn’t short on talking points.

Bremen says symbol, used to call for silence in class, ‘in danger of being mistaken’ for Turkish extremist ‘wolf salute’

Facing mounting domestic tensions over Syrian refugees, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is reaching out to Syrian President Bashar Al Assad for dialogue. The initiative, reportedly supported by Moscow, is complicated by Turkey's significant military presence in Syria.

In July 1974, Colin Smith was the Observer’s correspondent in Cyprus. Five decades on, he recalls paratroopers dropping from the skies and a grand hotel under siege

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday announced the imminent end of his government's operations against Kurdish PKK fighters in northern Iraq and Syria.

Ankara has carried out repeated ground operations against Kurdish fighters, launching its most recent in 2022.