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Turkey parliament approves Finland's NATO bid
President Tayyip Erdogan said last week during a visit by his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto to Turkey that parliament would ratify Helsinki's accession to NATO
Turkey's fractured opposition unites against President Erdogan in upcoming polls
A last-ditch deal aimed at averting a split of the opposition vote will see CHP chief Kemal Kilicdaroglu name the popular mayors of Istanbul and Ankara as vice presidents should he end Erdogan's two-decade rule
WATCH: Turkish football fans chant anti-govt slogans, shower pitch with soft toys in memory of children killed in quake
"Twenty years of lies and cheating, resign," the fans chanted. Chants of this kind became rarer after Erdogan cracked down on the Opposition in the wake of the failed coup against him in 2016
Erdogan admits 'shortcomings' as Turkey & Syria earthquake death toll hits 11,700
As criticism mounted online, Erdogan visited one of the hardest-hit spots, quake epicentre Kahramanmaras, and acknowledged problems in the response
Erdogan visits earthquake-hit south as anger grows over rescue effort
Any perception that the government is failing to address the disaster properly could hurt Erdogan's prospects in the vote, but analysts say that on the other hand, he could rally national support around the crisis response and strengthen his position
Finland hopes to join NATO with Sweden despite Erdogan remarks: Finnish FM
Ankara has also reacted with fury to a decision by the Swedish police to allow a protest at which a far-right extremist burned a copy of the Koran outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm earlier this month
Erdogan warns Sweden on NATO after Quran burning
Swedish leaders roundly condemned far-right politician Rasmus Paludan's actions but defended their country's broad definition of free speech
Hanging of Erdogan effigy in Stockholm not a crime: Swedish prosecutors
Turkey summoned Sweden's ambassador in Ankara last week after the Kurdish Rojava Committee of Sweden compared Erdogan to Italy's late dictator Benito Mussolini
Turkey summons Swedish envoy over 'heinous' protest action
Turkish officials describe the mannequin depicting Erdogan hung outside the city hall in Stockholm as 'terrorist propaganda' by supporters of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party and other Kurdish militant groups
Turkey suspends second largest opposition party over terror ties
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accuses the party of being the political wing of banned Kurdish militants who have been waging a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state
Erdogan asks Putin to declare 'unilateral' Ukraine ceasefire
Erdogan was due to follow the talks with a separate conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky later Thursday
Charlie Hebdo’s history of provocation: From Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to Prophet Muhammad
French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has earned notoriety for its ‘offensive’ cartoons. Now caricatures of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have angered the Islamic republic. A look at past controversies
Pakistan to Argentina: 5 key elections across the world to watch out for in 2023
Democracy is on the ballot in Nigeria, Turkey, Zimbabwe, Argentina and Pakistan this year. Common themes such as the handling of inflation and corruption may determine how incumbent governments and presidents fare at the ballot box
Erdogan starts speaking tough on Greece as elections approach
Greece and Turkey have come close to war three times in the past half-century. The most recent was in January 1996, when a last-minute US intervention averted an armed conflict over an obscure pair of uninhabited islets named Imia in Greek and Kardak in Turkish
Turkey: Erdogan uses weaponised judiciary to block Imamoglu, his strongest rival for presidency
Ekrem Imamoglu is a Turkish businessman, building contractor, and centre-left politician serving as the 32nd Mayor of Istanbul
Turkey: Istanbul mayor barred from politics over 'insult'
People sentenced to less than four years are rarely put behind bars in Turkey. But his conviction for "insulting a public official" disqualifies the 52-year-old mayor -- one of the brightest stars of Turkey's main secular party -- from politics for the duration of the sentence
Turkish President Erdogan, Russian leader Putin discuss Syrian corridor over phone call
The call came three weeks after Turkey launched air and artillery strikes in Syria and Iraq in response to a bomb attack in Istanbul on November
Erdogan vows to launch ground operation into Syria 'soon' as Russia calls for restraint
Turkey launched a series of air strikes in Operation Claw-Sword on Sunday -- hitting dozens of Kurdish targets across Iraq and Syria -- and announcing that its military was once again "on the top of the terrorists"
Turkey 'rejects' US condolences over Istanbul attack, here's why
Turkish police said the chief suspect is a Syrian woman working for Kurdish militants. At least six people were killed in the blast on Sunday
Istanbul blast: Turkey accuses Kurdish group of attack that claimed six lives
The PKK, blacklisted as a terrorist group by Ankara and its Western allies, has kept up a deadly insurgency for Kurdish self-rule in southeastern Turkey since the 1980s