Turkey

Turkey’s foreign trade deficit declined by 46.6 percent to $3.7 billion in September compared to the same month of 2014 due to a dramatic decline in the country’s energy...

China on Nov. 2 raised the daily reference rate for its yuan currency by the largest margin in a decade, officials and reports said, just three months after a...

Turkey’s wheat production hit a record high of 23 million tons this year after a drought year. Despite a dramatic rise in output, the country has kept importing wheat...

Turkey’s Atheism Association started a petition at change.org to ensure “equal treatment” of atheists before the law and among members of society, Turkish news website Bianet has reported. The...

Turkey’s Press Council has filed a complaint against a penal court judge who assigned a caretaker panel to the management of Koza İpek Group’s media outlets. The council said...

The editorial policy of dailies Bugün and Millet, which belong to the Koza İpek group that recently was assigned caretakers by the government, have changed their editorial policy in...

Four-fifths of minorities with Greek, Armenian, Jewish and Syriac origins said they could not freely express their ideas on social media, according to the survey conducted by the Yeniköy...

Some 70 percent of women with children under the age of 6 are not employed in Turkey, compared to 29 percent in Europe, U.N. Women Assistant Secretary-General Lakshmi Puri...

Deputies from Armenian, Syriac, Yazidi, Mhallami and Roma origins, who secured seats in the June 7 election, have all preserved their seats in the Nov. 1 election, weekly Agos...

Media freedom, pluralism and media playing the field for candidates were areas which raised concerns ahead of Turkey’s Nov. 1 elections, according to the Organization for Security and Co-operation...