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U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released its annual report for 2018 on Thursday, naming Turkey as the largest prison of journalists with at least 68 media employees kept…

Nine people were killed and nearly 50 injured after a high-speed train crashed into a locomotive in the Turkish capital on Thursday, officials said.

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz described Turkey's treatment of an Austrian journalist detained in Ankara as "unacceptable" Wednesday and again called for his release.

Turkey will launch a new operation in Syria within days against a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia that Ankara considers a terrorist group, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday.

Turkish woman Tulay Gercek stands in front of a vending machine at a busy Istanbul metro station but instead of putting coins into a slot, she crams plastic bottles into a hole.

Turkish police on Friday arrested dozens of military personnel in another round of nationwide raids against people with alleged links to the group blamed for the 2016 failed coup, state…

American actor Sean Penn was in Istanbul on Wednesday to film a documentary about the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom's consulate, Turkish media reported.

A Turkish court has issued arrest warrants for two suspects close to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, raising pressure on the kingdom's…

The bodies of three migrants believed to have frozen to death were found in three separate Turkish border villages.

Inflation in Turkey fell back last month after hitting a 15-year high in October, official statistics showed Monday, increasing the likelihood of an interest rate cut in the months ahead.