People were jolted awake when a 5.8 magnitude quake shook the Turkish coastal town of Marmaris, around 40km north of the ...

Outlawed Kurdish group the PKK, which has waged a 40-year insurgency against Turkey, has announced it's disbanding. More than 40,000 people were killed during its fight for an independent Kurdish ...

Delegations from Ukraine and Russia came face-to-face for talks for the first time since March 2022 – one month after Moscow's full-scale invasion of its neighbour. The setting was an Ottoman- era ...

Ukraine entered the talks in Istanbul hoping to move forward on their most urgent objective – a full and unconditional ceasefire – though that remained elusive, writes Orla Guerin, our ...

with Vitaliy Shevchenko and Orla Guerin in Istanbul Tom Bateman Travelling with Marco Rubio in Istanbul I’m with Rubio and we’ve just landed in Istanbul. The mood remains pretty lacklustre.