Istanbul

November 23, 2021

Factbox: Erdogan’s risky ‘experiment’ to heal Turkey’s economy

ISTANBUL, Nov 23 (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan has set Turkey’s $720-billion economy on a risky new path of aggressive…

September 1, 2021

ISTANBUL, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Retail prices in Turkey’s largest city Istanbul rose 1.88 percent month-on-month in August for an…

May 28, 2021

President Tayyip Erdogan inaugurated an imposing new mosque in Istanbul on Friday, fulfilling a decades-old goal and stamping a religious…

April 27, 2021

Some of Turkey’s biggest banks are reluctant to finance President Tayyip Erdogan’s planned Istanbul canal due to environmental concerns and…

April 23, 2021

Prosecutors in Istanbul on Thursday launched a probe into Turkish cryptocurrency exchange platform Thodex after its founder shut down its site and…

March 6, 2021

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) said on Friday it would keep campaigning under a different banner…

February 2, 2021

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s interior minister on Tuesday condemned protesters at a top Istanbul university as “LGBT deviants” in a…

November 1, 2020

IZMIR, Turkey (AP) — Rescue workers extricated a 70-year-old man from a collapsed building in western Turkey on Sunday, some…

October 31, 2020

IZMIR, Turkey (AP) — Rescue teams on Saturday plowed through concrete blocks and the debris of eight collapsed buildings in…

September 22, 2020

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish authorities are investigating the death of an American author and journalist who died while traveling…