A Turkish court on Thursday acquitted four journalists, including AFP photographer Yasin Akgul, who were on trial over mass demonstrations in Istanbul in March, a case that drew condemnation from press freedom watchdogs.

In Istanbul, Pope Leo XIV will meet the patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church to show amity between two of the world’s largest Christian groups.

ISTANBUL -- Turkey’s state-run news agency says the gunman who carried out the attack on the Istanbul nightclub was wanted in his home country of Uzbekistan for ...

A court in Istanbul on Thursday cleared four photographers of charges linked to the March demonstrations sparked by the arrest of opposition Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.

After his momentous election victory last year, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made it clear that Turkey’s economic and political powerhouse was next in his sights. “Are we ready to win Istanbul back?” the veteran leader asked his roaring audience as he ...

The organizers of the annual sports festival in Istanbul see it as an opportunity to create and reclaim spaces for the LGBTQ community in Turkey,... Every summer since 2017, Istanbul has played host to a sporting event known as the "Queer Olympix.

Each Friday, Roads & Kingdoms and Slate publish a new dispatch from around the globe. For more foreign correspondence mixed with food, war, travel, and photography, visit their online magazine or follow @roadskingdoms on Twitter. ISTANBUL—In ...

On a hilltop in Istanbul, overlooking a sweep of the Bosphorus strait, sits a fantasy of Ottoman opulence, its rooms filled with the enticing secrets of Turkish bazaars. On March 17 two days before the New York Times ran an op-ed, "McCarthyism Comes to ...

Turkish officials recently arrested several suspected Iranian spies. But these cases are but a pale echo of Turkey's heyday as a mecca for spies.... Istanbul, A City Of Spies In Fact And Fiction Headlines today in Turkey feature stories of alleged Iranian ...