Xi and Erdogan met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Turkey is a dialogue partner of the SCO, which was set up in 2001 and consists of China, India, Pakistan, Russia and several ex-Soviet states.

Continuing with what it called "unwavering support for the Syrian people, US State Department said that will send $756 million in new humanitarian aid to Syria, where need remains "dire" after more than a decade of war. The funds were in addition to a trance of $808 million announced earlier...

Showcasing its growing rift with the Western world, Vladimir Putin will meet China's Xi Jinping and other Asian leaders in a regional summit in Samarkand. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization was set up in 2001 as a political, economic and security organization to rival Western institutions.

Another 73 migrants were also rescued off Mugla province in the southwest, the coastguard said. The migrants were pushed back to Turkish waters by Greek forces in four boats, according to the coastguard, who cited a detailed interview with the migrants.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said 49 troops had died, making this the deadliest escalation since the two side fought a six-week war over Nagorno-Karabakh that claimed more than 6,500 lives. "Armenia should cease its provocations and focus on peace negotiations and cooperation with Azerbaijan," Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu tweeted...

Henley Passport Index 2022 ranks 199 countries for the strength of their passports. Japan was ranked first, followed by Singapore and South Korea.

Desperate to rid the uncertainty hanging over their future, dozens of Syrian refugees in Turkey are planning to form a caravan to reach the European Union. According to organizers, plans are being drawn up online where calls are being issued to people to bring sleeping bags, tents, life jackets, canned...

The Kremlin said that President Vladimir Putin will discuss with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a deal allowing grain exports from Ukraine that Russia has criticized. The agreement between Russia and Ukraine, brokered by Turkey and the United Nations, designated three ports for Kyiv to send grain supplies through a...

Erdogan has maintained good working relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin while trying to stay neutral in the conflict and supplying Ukraine with weapons and combat drones. Erdogan is expected to meet Putin at a regional summit in Uzbekistan next week.

Erdogan told reporters before departing for a three-nation swing through the Balkans that European nations were "harvesting what they sowed" by imposing economic restrictions on Russia.

The sheer number of stray animals darting between people and lounging on public squares jumps out at most visitors to Turkey's ancient cultural capital.

Catherine Colonna met her Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu before flying to Athens on Tuesday to address a new spike in tensions between the two NATO neighbours and historic foes. Colonna made efforts at a joint media appearance with Cavusoglu to avoid a repeat of the public spat that developed during...

Tehran, Iran - Iran said Monday it hopes to see US sanctions eased or lifted to allow it to sell natural gas to Europe, easing the continent's shortfall as Russian energy exports are restricted. "Given Europe's energy supply problems triggered by the Ukraine crisis, Iran could provide Europe's energy needs...

The strategically important developing nation lurched into its latest economic crisis when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched an unorthodox experiment that attempted to fight inflation by lowering the main interest rate.

In the wake of months of diplomatic warming between the two countries, a Turkish warship docked in Israel over the weekend for the first time since 2010. The frigate, according to the Turkish defense ministry, will remain in the port of Haifa until September 6.

Turkey can mediate in a standoff over Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, occupied by Moscow's troops, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Saturday. "President Erdogan said Turkey can play a facilitator role in the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, as they did in the grain deal," the...

The NGO cited numerous cases of "unlawful killings, pushbacks by shooting and other unlawful returns, arbitrary detention, and torture and other ill-treatment of Afghans at the hands of both Iranian and Turkish officials."

The two uneasy NATO neighbors have long-standing sea and air boundary disputes which lead to near-daily air force patrols and interception missions mostly around Greek islands near Turkey's coastline.

Turkish foreign ministry denounced the comments as "unacceptable." The ministry said that French President has "difficulties in confronting his colonial past in Africa, especially Algeria."

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has organized a virtual seminar with 90 leading Turkish companies in the energy and water sectors.

Turkey's finance minister told businesses on Friday they should not be concerned by the threat of sanctions that Washington warns will follow if they do business with sanctioned Russians. Nureddin Nebati's Twitter comments represent Ankara's first official response to a letter the US Treasury sent to Turkish businesses on Monday.

The banking group is supporting efforts to combat global wildlife trafficking by joining the United for Wildlife financial task force.

Washington is growing increasingly alarmed that the Russian government and businesses are using Turkey to evade Western financial and trading restrictions imposed in response to the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine six months ago. Turkey's imports of Russian oil are ballooning.

The recent bloodshed came against a backdrop of increased tensions pitting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against Turkish troops and their Syrian proxies.

Two separate road accidents in southeast Turkey have left at least 32 people dead, including firefighters, emergency workers and journalists. One of the accidents, according to the governor of the region, involved a bus, an emergency team and an ambulance.

Two more ships carrying grain have left Ukraine's Chornomorsk port, Turkey's Defense Ministry said on Saturday, bringing the number of vessels to leave Ukraine's Black Sea ports under a UN-brokered deal to 27. The joint coordination center said Zumrut Ana and MV Ocean S were loaded with sunflower oil and...

Violence has intensified on Syria’s northern border with Turkey leaving 21 civilians dead, many of them children. The bloodshed comes amid growing enmity that pits the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against Turkish troops and their Syrian proxies.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron called for independent inspections at the Moscow-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the Kremlin said Friday. Putin said "the systematic shelling by the Ukrainian military of the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant creates the danger of a large-scale catastrophe that...

A flare-up in fighting around Europe's largest nuclear facility in Russian-controlled southern Ukraine has sparked urgent warnings from world leaders, and UN chief Antonio Guterres cautioned during talks with Erdogan that any damage to the plant would be akin to "suicide". "We are worried. We don't want another Chernobyl," Erdogan...

The Turkish leader met his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in Lviv just two weeks after flying to Sochi for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin during which the two sides pledged to boost economic cooperation.

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid hailed the step as an "important asset for regional stability and very important economic news for the citizens" of the Jewish state. Lapid's office said the decision to resume ties would see ambassadors and consuls general posted to the two countries once more and direct...

Tension spiked between Turkey and Syria after the former launched air strikes on Syrian border posts, killing 17 fighters. It is still not clear if the victims were affiliated with the government or Kurdish forces. The Damascus government has threatened to launch a retaliatory attack against Turkey.

Turkey’s top court has rejected a plea for the release of Aysel Tugluk, a Kurdish politician, but ordered that she receive regular neurological and psychiatric treatment in hospital. Her lawyer told media that providing medication was not enough, and her illness was only worsening in detention.

Ankara has launched successive military offensives in Syria. Most have targeted Kurdish militants that Ankara links to a group waging a decades-long insurgency against it.

A Turkish delegation will visit Washington next week to follow up on US President Joe Biden's pledge to deliver F16 fighter jets for Turkey's ageing air force, Ankara said Tuesday. Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said the team would arrive in Washington on Monday on the invitation of unnamed US...

The Sierra Leone-flagged Razoni was cleared for passage through the Bosphorus Strait by a team that included Russian and Ukrainian inspectors on Wednesday, and a Ukraine embassy spokesperson had later said it was expected to dock in Lebanon's port of Tripoli at 10 am (0700 GMT) on Sunday.

Tugluk was arrested for her activities with the Democratic Society Congress , an organization considered by the Turkish authorities to be linked to a "terrorist" organization by Ankara and its Western allies.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has confirmed that Turkey will start paying for some of its Russian natural gas imports in rubles. Avoiding paying for the gas in dollars helps Turkey protect its dwindling hard currency reserves.

Iraq's Ministry of Water Resources said Ankara's intends to increase the quantum of water to be released to the Tigris River, adding that a Turkish delegation will visit Iraq to look into the water reserves and construction of dams.

Moscow and Kyiv agreed in Istanbul last month to resume shipments of wheat and other grain from Ukrainian ports for the first time since Russia invaded its neighbor in February.

The bank's profits have been hit by Turkey's soaring inflation.

The official annual rate of consumer price increases reached 79.6 percent in July compared to 78.6 percent in June. Turkey plunged into a fresh economic crisis when Erdogan set off on an unusual economic experiment nearly a year ago that attempted to bring down chronically high inflation by slashing interest...

The Income Share Class B fund will be listed on ADX.

A spokesman for the Turkish presidency said there was a "high probability" that a first ship carrying Ukrainian grain could leave Ukraine's port of Odessa on Monday. That is despite Russian missiles hitting the city in the wake of the July 22 agreement on shipping grain between Russia, Turkey, the...

A Lebanese prosecutor ordered the seizure Saturday of a Syrian-flagged ship that docked at a northern port with a cargo of Ukrainian grain Kyiv's embassy in Beirut said was "illegal".

Mohammed bin Salman, who is visiting Greece and France, will meet the leaders of both countries 'to discuss bilateral relations and ways to enhance them in various fields'.

Sweden's charge d'affaires in Turkey was summoned at the weekend to explain the use of what Ankara alleges is "terrorist propaganda" in support of Kurdish militants, a diplomatic source said.

The UAE has welcomed the agreement reached between Russia and Ukraine on the export of grain, and has applauded the role of Turkey and the United Nations in helping the two countries to sign the Black Sea Grain Export deal.

Wheat prices tumbled Friday, retreating to levels last seen prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine following a landmark agreement to unblock Ukraine's Black Sea grain exports. Wheat and other grain have been blocked in Ukrainian ports by Russian warships and landmines Kyiv has laid to avert a feared amphibious...

Abandoned sandals and upturned chairs attest to the panic that gripped this peaceful rest spot in Iraq's Kurdish mountains when deadly shelling slammed into it this week. Turkey denies that its forces were responsible for the artillery fire that killed nine people and wounded 23 on Wednesday.