Once they were untouchable. Some were members of Turkey’s elite military class known as “pashas,” a title of respect harking back to Ottoman times. For decades, Turkey’s senior officers, self-appointed guardians of the...

Sixteen people were believed to have been killed in Istanbul province and five in neighboring Tekirdag province, according to provincial officials. Three of the five killed in Tekirdag were from the same family. Another two people were feared dead in...

Turkey’s prime minister has described ethnic violence in China’s Xinjiang region as “a kind of genocide”. “There is no other way of commenting on this event,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. He spoke after a night-time...

Each day, police vans deliver batches of illegal migrants to the Gaziosmanpasha detention center, an hour’s drive north of Istanbul. The migrants have been deported from Greece, an entry point into the European Union, where they had hoped to start...

The Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat) has already announced the “new” gross domestic product (GDP) accounts, aiming at revising the extension of national income coverage and improving methodology. In that regard, revised accounts, which now...