Vice-president Cevdet Yılmaz has played a crucial backstage role managing the turn to financial orthodoxy
Concerns that instability will spill over from Syria add urgency to efforts to woo PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan from prison
Central bank slashes borrowing costs by 250bp as consumer demand slows
Hakan Fidan meets Abu Mohammad al-Jolani and says Donald Trump will back Turkey over Kurdish forces
Price of mince pies and turkey jump driven by energy crisis and supply chain disruption
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US president-elect claims Ankara has launched an ‘unfriendly takeover’ of its neighbour
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announces talks between the two countries to end dispute over breakaway Somaliland region
Advance from Aleppo highlights weakness of regime forces
Ankara, long a backer of opposition groups, sees chance to push back Kurdish militants and force Assad to negotiate
Australia and Turkey vie for COP31 event that draws tens of thousands from almost 200 countries
Qatar no longer willing to host Palestinian militant group as Gaza ceasefire talks with Israel remain deadlocked
And Turkish Trump trades
Where to stay and what to see – on either side of the Bosphorus
The psych band’s latest release weaves field recordings into tracks that confront the realities of modern Turkey
Turkey hopes to exploit recent setbacks for Iran but an armed attack near Ankara has thrown a question mark over his plans
Police detain 176 as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vows to eliminate ‘terrorism at its source’
Kurdish group says civilians among dead in wave of retaliation for Wednesday’s assault on state aerospace company
‘Highly likely’ Kurdish separatist group PKK was behind targeting of state aerospace company, interior minister says
Also in this newsletter: Parliament’s far right starts to flex its muscles
Customs system no longer allows exporters to proceed with sensitive shipments
US-based preacher helped president’s rise to power but was later accused of plotting bloody 2016 coup attempt
Preacher depicted by Erdoğan as his principal enemy was never extradited by US
Born in Cairo, raised in Istanbul and based in Paris for nearly 60 years, Yalter explores notions of exile, displacement and feminism
Slowest price growth in over a year comes after painful rate rises
