Pope Leo XIV has visited Istanbul’s Blue Mosque without praying there as he focused on strengthening ties with Orthodox patriarchs.

Pope Leo XIV has visited Istanbul’s Blue Mosque, emphasizing Christian unity during his trip to Turkey.

Ukraine has used Sea Baby naval drones to strike two Russian oil tankers in the Black Sea.

Pope Leo XIV is encouraging Turkey to be a source of stability and dialogue in a world riven by conflict.

Pope Leo XIV is embarking on his first foreign trip.

Pope Leo XIV is set to embark on his first trip abroad with a visit to Turkey, marking a key event in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity.

A Turkish parliamentary committee has agreed to meet with Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan at his prison island.

A Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine's western city of Ternopil has killed at least 25 people, including three children.

Turkey’s soccer federation has temporarily banned 102 players from playing in matches over a betting scandal.

Turkey's defense minister has announced that all 20 personnel on board a military cargo plane that crashed in Georgia have died.

A Turkish military cargo plane has crashed in Georgia near the Azerbaijan border, according to Turkish and Georgian authorities.

Iraq's Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein has praised a Kurdish separatist group's decision to withdraw fighters from northern Iraq and Turkey.

A Turkish court has sentenced the owner of a ski resort hotel and 10 others to life in prison for severe negligence in a deadly fire.

Prosecutors have filed new espionage charges against Istanbul’s jailed mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, intensifying pressure on the opposition leader seen as a top rival to President Erdogan.

A militant Kurdish group has announced its withdrawal from Turkey to Iraq as part of a peace effort with Turkey.

Turkey is negotiating with Qatar and Oman to acquire used Eurofighter Typhoon jets to boost its air force capabilities.

A Turkish court has dismissed a case challenging the legitimacy of the main opposition party's 2023 internal election.

Hopes for a resumption of long-stalled talks to heal Cyprus’ decades-old ethnic rift have been buoyed after Turkish Cypriots elected a leader who campaigned on getting back to negotiating a two-zone federation with rival Greek Cypriots after an eight-year stalemate.

A senior official says Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made it clear he would not accept Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s presence at a high-level summit in Egypt.

The Egyptian president says U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace proposal represents the “last chance” for peace in the region.

World leaders have expressed hope for peace after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a breakthrough deal between Israel and Hamas.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says talks on bringing an end to the war in Gaza are on the verge of reaching a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.

Protests are being held in several countries protesting the war in Gaza and calling for its end as Israelis mark two years since the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023.

Turkish journalist Fatih Altayli has been imprisoned, but his reporting continues through a YouTube channel.

Turkish Airlines has announced plans to add 225 Boeing aircraft to its fleet.

A Turkish court is expected to rule on whether to annul an internal leadership election of the country’s main opposition party over alleged irregularities.

Jose Mourinho’s Fenerbahce has surged into the Champions League qualifying playoffs by rallying strongly against Robin van Persie-coached Feyenoord.

An official in Turkey says the country faces a “very risky week” for wildfires as blazes across parts of southeast Europe and the Balkans damaged homes and led to a huge firefighting operation that included evacuations.

Turkish officials say Syria’s interim government has requested Turkey’s help to boost its defense capabilities.

Turkey and Britain have signed a preliminary deal for the sale of Eurofighter Typhoon jets to Turkey.

Clashes that shook southern Syria this week have killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drawn in an array of both local and international players, harking back to the dynamics of the country’s nearly 14-year civil war.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hailed the disarmament of militant Kurdish separatists as the end of a “painful chapter” in Turkey’s history.

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down their weapons.

A U.S. envoy says that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging their forces after the latest round of talks.

The imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party has renewed his call for fighters to disarm.

A Kurdish militant group has announced plans to start disarming as part of a peace process with Turkey.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced plans to step up the production of medium- and long-range missiles in a sign that the Israel-Iran war could trigger a new arms race in the region.

A Turkish court has sentenced a far-right politician to more than two years in prison for incident public hatred and hostility.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey will export 48 of its nationally produced KAAN fighter jets to Indonesia.

The U.S. flag has been hoisted outside of the long-shuttered ambassador’s residence in Damascus.

Turkey's president says he has appointed a team of legal experts to start working on a new constitution which critics say could allow him to remain in power beyond 2028, when his current term ends.

The first direct Russia-Ukraine peace talks since the early weeks of Moscow’s 2022 invasion ended after less than two hours.

Russia and Ukraine are set to hold their first direct peace talks in three years, but hopes for a breakthrough are still dim after Russian President Vladimir Putin spurned an offer by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to meet face-to-face in Turkey.

The PKK Kurdish militant group says it will disband and end its armed struggle as part of a new peace initiative with Turkey, ending four decades of armed conflict.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has challenged Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to meet him personally in Turkey on Thursday.

Turkey's president and Iraq's prime minister reaffirmed their commitment to cooperate against security threats, including against Kurdish militants based on Iraqi territory.

The X social media platform has blocked access to jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s X social media account in Turkey, complying with a Turkish court order.

Several thousand Turkish Cypriots took to the streets of the northern half of ethnically divided Cyprus’ capital Nicosia to protest what they say is Turkey’s attempt to erode their secular roots and to strengthen the hold of political Islam over their society.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have witnessed the formal exchange of a dozen cooperation agreements including on defense.

Police in Istanbul have detained 47 people in dawn raids linked to a corruption investigation that saw the city’s mayor imprisoned last month.

Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on preserving the monument’s historic domes from the threat of earthquakes.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Washington for a hastily organized visit bringing a long list of concerns.

Syrian state media has reported that at least nine people in southwestern Syria have been killed in Israeli strikes.

Turkish police have detained 11 people for supporting a shopping boycott as part of protests against the imprisonment of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival.

Greek and Turkish officials have reported the sinking of two boats carrying migrants in the early hours of Thursday in the narrow stretch of sea between Turkey and a nearby Greek island, leaving a total of at least 16 people dead, including three children, one missing and more than 40 survivors.

Protests that erupted across Turkey following the arrest of the main challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have taken a new direction with calls for a one-day shopping boycott.

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms says it has been hit with a hefty fine for resisting Turkish government demands that it limit content.

Turkish authorities have arrested a Swedish journalist dispatched to cover ongoing nationwide protests on charges of terrorism and insulting the president.

Turkey’s president has accused the political opposition of “sinking the economy” during the country’s largest protests in more than a decade.

The head of Turkey’s main opposition party has visited jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu after six nights of massive protests calling for his release.

A court has formally arrested the mayor of Istanbul and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's key rival and ordered him jailed pending trial on corruption charges.

Protests erupted across multiple Turkish cities denouncing the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul even as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a stern warning that demonstrations would not be tolerated.

Turkish police have arrested Istanbul’s mayor — a popular opposition leader and key rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — and several other prominent figures as part of investigations into alleged corruption and terror links.

A momentous ceasefire declaration has stirred a mix of emotions in southeast Turkey and northern Iraq, where people bore the brunt of the 40-year conflict between Kurdish militants and the Turkish state.

Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey have declared a ceasefire, just two days after their imprisoned leader called for the group to disarm.

Fenerbahce manager Jose Mourinho has been given a four-match ban and fined by the Turkish Football Federation following his comments about Turkish referees after a match at Galatasaray on Monday.

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on his militant group to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a bid to end a four-decade long conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.

Galatasaray plans to start criminal proceedings against Jose Mourinho and file complaints with soccer’s governing body after accusing the Fenerbahce coach of making racist comments after a Turkish league game.

Turkish police have detained 282 suspects in a large-scale operation targeting the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.

A Turkish opposition party delegation has arrived in Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region against the backdrop of peace efforts between Ankara and a banned Kurdish separatist movement in Turkey.

Two years on from a devastating earthquake that shattered Turkey's southern region, nearly half a million people remain in temporary “container cities.”.

Turkey’s central bank has lowered its key interest rate by 2.5 percentage points to 45%.

Officials say a waitress who jumped out of a burning hotel at a popular ski resort has succumbed to her injuries.

Witnesses have described standing helplessly and paralyzed by the horror of people screaming for help or jumping out of windows as flames tore through a 12-story hotel at a popular ski resort.

Officials in Turkey say that a fire has raged through a 12-story hotel at a popular ski resort in the northwestern part of the country during a school holiday, killing at least 76 people.

A group of 30 Kurdish fighters have ceremonially burned their weapons in northern Iraq, marking a major step toward ending a decades-long insurgency.

A delegation from one of Turkey’s biggest pro-Kurdish political parties has met a leading figure of the Kurdish movement in prison, the latest step in a tentative process to end the country’s 40-year conflict.

A Brooklyn real estate magnate has pleaded guilty to a charge alleging that he worked with a Turkish government official to funnel illegal campaign contributions to New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

An explosion at an ammunition factory in northwest Turkey left 11 dead and five injured Tuesday morning.

The rapid downfall of Syrian leader Bashar Assad has touched off a new round of delicate geopolitical maneuvering between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Top diplomats from the United States, the Arab League and Turkey have met in Jordan to discuss Syria’s transition after the fall of Bashar Assad's government last weekend.

Exuberant Syrians observed the first Friday prayers since the ouster of President Bashar Assad, gathering in the capital’s historic main mosque, its largest square and around the country to celebrate the end of half a century of authoritarian rule.

The jihadi rebels who toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad say they want to build a unified, inclusive country.

Syria’s prime minister says most cabinet ministers are still at work after rebels overthrew President Bashar Assad.

Syrian refugees across Turkey have jubilantly welcomed the downfall of Bashar Assad’s government with many embracing the chance to return to their homeland.

Syrian opposition activists say insurgents have captured four new towns, bringing them closer to the central city of Hama.

Insurgents have breached Syria’s largest city and clashed with government forces for the first time since 2016.

Syria's opposition groups say armed forces launched a large-scale attack on areas controlled by government forces and seized territory in northwestern Syria.

The Turkish doctor at the center of an alleged fraud scheme that led to the deaths of 10 babies says he was a “trusted” physician.

The United States has vetoed a U.N. resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

Doctors, nurses and an ambulance driver are among health care workers on trial accused of causing at least 10 infant deaths linked to a scheme to defraud Turkey's social security system.

The foreign ministers of Greece and Turkey say that recent efforts to smooth the frequently volatile ties between the neighboring countries and regional rivals are bearing fruit, although significant differences remain, notably over maritime boundaries in the Aegean.

The banned Kurdistan Workers' Party has claimed responsibility for an attack on the headquarters of a key defense company in Ankara that killed at least five people.

Turkey has struck suspected Kurdish militant targets in Syria and Iraq for a second day after a deadly attack on the premises of a key defense company.

Fethullah Gülen, a reclusive U.S.-based Islamic cleric who inspired a global social movement while facing accusations he masterminded a failed 2016 coup in his native Turkey, has died.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Istanbul.

Two evacuation ships have docked at the Turkish port of Mersin, bringing Turkish citizens and their families back from Lebanon amid an escalation of the war in the Middle East, this time between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

The first of over 2,000 evacuees in Beirut are boarding a Turkish military ship sent to provide aid to Lebanon and evacuate Turkish citizens and some foreigners from the country being hit by Israeli airstrikes targeting Hezbollah.

Palestinian officials say Israel’s bombardment of central and northern Gaza has killed dozens of people and trapped thousands in their homes.

The indictment against New York City Mayor Eric Adams contained five charges alleging that the Democrat solicited and accepted bribes or illegal campaign contributions from wealthy Turkish donors in return for various favors.