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  • Monday, 2 October, 2023
    Turkey
    Turkey detains 20 people linked to Kurdish militants over Ankara bombing

    Separatist group PKK claimed responsibility for Sunday’s suicide attack in Turkey’s capital

    Turkish police special forces and an armoured vehicle guard the area near the interior ministry
  • Monday, 4 September, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Turkey’s Erdoğan says grain deal to be revived ‘soon’ after talks with Putin

    Russian leader offers different interpretation and insists Moscow will not re-join until the west meets its demands.

    Vladimir Putin, left, welcomes Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Sochi
  • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
    Turkish economy
    Turkish spending boom fuels strong expansion of economy

    GDP growth of 3.8% beats forecasts on back of post-earthquake reconstruction and credit-fuelled consumption

    A shopper at a clothing store in Istanbul
  • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
    Turkish politics
    Istanbul mayor announces re-election bid in challenge to Erdoğan

    Ekrem İmamoğlu seeks to win race seen as crucial signal of opposition’s ability to counter Turkish president

    Ekrem İmamoğlu
  • Friday, 11 August, 2023
    Turkish economy
    Turkey gains current account surplus after surge in tourism

    Figure for June is first time country’s balance of payments has not recorded a deficit since 2021

    Tourists on a beach in Bodrum, Turkey
  • Monday, 3 July, 2023
    Turkish economy
    Turkey’s trade deficit falls 35% in sign of cooling economy

    Drop in imports last month reflects sharp devaluation in lira, which hit record low against dollar on Monday

    The port of Izmir in Turkey
  • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
    InterviewEkrem İmamoğlu
    Latest criminal case against Istanbul mayor is ‘baseless’, lawyer says

    Erdoğan administration accused of misusing law to discredit popular opposition politician

    Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu
  • Monday, 29 May, 2023
    FT CollectionsTurkish general election 2023
    ‘I can do it’: Erdoğan promises Turkey more strongman medicine

    Veteran leader faces economic reckoning after defeating rivals in Sunday’s presidential election

    Supporters of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan gather outside the presidential palace in Ankara
  • Sunday, 28 May, 2023
    FT CollectionsTurkish general election 2023
    Erdoğan extends rule into third decade with Turkish election victory

    Official results show veteran leader beat rival Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu in bitter presidential run-off

    Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addressing his supporters
  • Saturday, 20 May, 2023
    Turkish politics
    Turkey’s ‘desperate’ opposition plays nationalist card

    Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu tries to revive presidential campaign with promise to ‘send all refugees home’

  • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
    FT CollectionsTurkish general election 2023
    How Erdoğan beat the odds: Turkey’s election in charts

    President held together a coalition of conservative voters despite problems with economy

    Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
  • Monday, 15 May, 2023
    FT CollectionsTurkish general election 2023
    Erdoğan holds upper hand as Turkish election goes to run-off

    Veteran incumbent is clear favourite over opposition challenger in second round on May 28

    Supporters of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan gather outside the AKP’s headquarters in Ankara on Monday
  • Monday, 15 May, 2023
    FT CollectionsTurkish general election 2023
    Erdoğan poll lead prompts soul-searching for Turkey’s opposition

    Presidential challenger Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu faces ‘uphill struggle’ with second-round vote only two weeks away

    Supporters of Kemal Kiliçdaroğlu hold a rally
  • Monday, 15 May, 2023
    Turkish elections
    Erdoğan and Kılıçdaroğlu locked in tight race for Turkish presidency

    Both candidates claim to be ahead but latest count suggests neither have the 50% needed to win outright

    Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, left, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
  • Saturday, 13 May, 2023
    FT CollectionsTurkish general election 2023
    Erdoğan fights for survival with strategy of hope and fear

    ‘Tall man’ of Turkish politics faces presidential election on Sunday that could end his two-decade rule

    Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at a campaign rally in Istanbul
  • Tuesday, 11 April, 2023
    News in-depthChinese politics & policy
    ‘The hand of China reaches here’: how Beijing pushes Uyghurs to spy on each other overseas

    Xinjiang police try to manipulate Turkic Muslims abroad through offers of contact with family or threats to loved ones

    A Uyghur demonstrator in Turkey
  • Thursday, 6 April, 2023
    FT CollectionsTurkish general election 2023
    ‘Kurds will be decisive’: Erdoğan opponent piles on election pressure from jail

    Selahattin Demirtaş says Turkey’s opposition has its best-ever chance to oust president in May polls

    Selahattin Demirtaş
  • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
    FT CollectionsTurkish general election 2023
    Pro-Kurdish party switches to new banner to contest Turkish elections

    HDP will run parliamentary candidates on Green Left ticket to sidestep potential legal ban

    Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
  • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
    Turkish politics
    Pro-Kurdish party signals support for Turkey’s main opposition candidate

    HDP decision not to field contender boosts efforts of alliance seeking to unseat Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

    Pervin Buldan and Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu shake hands
  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Turkey drops opposition to Finland’s bid to join Nato

    Move paves way for military alliance to expand its direct border with Russia

    Finland’s president Sauli Niinistö, left, and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan shake hands after their meeting at the presidential palace in Ankara on Friday
  • Monday, 13 March, 2023
    Turkish economy
    Turkey’s current account deficit hits highest level since records began

    President’s economic stewardship under increasing scrutiny ahead of May general election

    President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
  • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
    Visual investigation
    From ‘paradise’ to hell: how a luxury residence in Turkey became an earthquake death trap

    A collapsed apartment complex symbolises rot in country’s construction system

  • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
    Turkish economy
    Turkey offers support to quake-hit businesses in southern region

    Presidential decree bars workplaces damaged by the natural disaster from dismissing staff

    A man looks at his damaged shop on an industrial estate after a powerful earthquake in Hatay, Turkey
  • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
    Turkey-Syria earthquake
    Fresh tremors hit earthquake-devastated province in Turkey

    Further deaths reported after buildings damaged two weeks ago collapse

    People caught in fresh tremors in Antakya in Hatay province, Turkey
  • Monday, 20 February, 2023
    Turkey
    Turkey denies exporting electronic technology used by Russian military

    Foreign minister’s remarks come as Ankara faces mounting pressure from US over ties to Moscow

    US secretary of state Antony Blinken, left, with Turkish foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, at a press conference in Ankara on Monday
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