Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan held a phone call with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi on April 6, with the two discussing the course of the war and other developments, diplomatic sources said.
Turkish lawmakers will convene this week to decide on two critical issues, extending maternity leave and banning social media for children.
Yalçın Küçük, a prominent researcher, author and academic known for his role in Türkiye’s leftist sphere, passed away in Ankara at the age of 87, local media reported yesterday.
Türkiye has reached a milestone in pharmaceutical research, with the country’s first domestically developed drug candidate successfully completing Phase 1 clinical trials, Health Minister Kemal Memişoğlu announced.
A living piece of Turkish history has taken root at modern Türkiye founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's mausoleum in Ankara, after students from the northwestern province of Yalova planted a clone of the very tree that famously led the leader to move a mansion rather than cut a branch.
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has joined a meeting between Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky to boost trilateral ties, during the latter’s first trip to Damascus.
The Turkish Cabinet is set to convene at the Presidential Complex in Beştepe on April 6 under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, with the war in the Middle East and its impact on Türkiye expected to dominate the agenda.
Türkiye will not leave any threat unanswered, Defense Minister Yaşar Güler said in an interview with an Italian newspaper, underlining Ankara’s determination to respond to security risks.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan paid a snap visit to Damascus on March 5 to meet senior Syrian officials, including President Ahmad al-Sharaa, diplomatic sources have informed.
Bursa Mayor Mustafa Bozbey was suspended from office on April 4 just after a court jailed him pending trial over a corruption investigation, marking the latest crackdown on the main opposition.
Türkiye’s drillship Çağrı Bey will arrive in Somalia on April 10 to begin the country’s first offshore drilling operation in the Horn of Africa nation, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar has announced.
Türkiye’s eastern province of Kars has introduced 2,000 primary school students to skiing for the first time through a public initiative at a ski center in Sarıkamış, marking the close of the town’s ski season with a milestone achievement.
