Europe & Russia

Nearly 500,000 million Turkish nationals have cast their votes abroad in the country's foreign missions and customs gates in the second round of Turkiye's presidential election scheduled for May...

Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has claimed that Islam is experiencing a "renaissance" in Russia on Friday, and also noted that Russian Muslims "stand shoulder to shoulder" with their...

Member of the British Labour Party Omar Mufid revealed that he managed to persuade the UK's Oxford University to retract its link of the cause of the occupation of...

An UN-led Joint Coordination Centre (JCC) in Istanbul overseeing shipments has registered six new vessels out of 15 applications to participate in the grain deal, a spokesperson said on...

The Turkish President, in an interview, discussed the second round of the presidential election on 28 May, expressing his belief that the Turkish people will, once again, demonstrate their...

Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, attended a Summit of the Arab League in Saudi Arabia on Friday to canvas support for his people, while Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman expressed...

The racism on display at Israel's Flag March has been condemned in an unexpected statement from the US State Department, along with Turkiye, Egypt, the UAE and Jordan

A Turkish-Jewish family in Israel has been fighting a legal battle to reunite with their baby who was taken away nine months ago by Israeli authorities over alleged child...

Murtaza Karanfil, head of the Libyan-Turkish Businessmen Association, has called for more investments in Libya, stating that a large number of government industrial facilities from previous eras are not...

Russia is seeking new partners to promote agricultural and industrial cooperation and create transport and logistics chains, Russian President, Vladimir Putin, said on Friday, highlighting the "significant role" of...

Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, arrived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Friday to attend the Arab League Summit, Anadolu News Agency reports. The leader is expected to deliver a speech...

Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales yesterday slammed Twitter over its recent decision to block certain Turkish content a day before the country's  presidential election. Wales told BBC that his organisation...

More than six million boys and girls in Turkiye and Syria are still struggling to cope, 100 days after the deadly earthquakes that hit both countries, the UN Children's...

Three new ships were authorised on Thursday to take part in a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain, said the United Nations, as global wheat...

A new report by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med Monitor) has revealed a significant disparity in the treatment of unaccompanied minors of asylum seekers compared to the accompanied...

A young earthquake survivor from Turkiye shared his first-hand experience of two devastating earthquakes on 6 February with the international community in his address to the UN General Assembly,...

The Kremlin, on Thursday, confirmed that Russia had renewed the Black Sea grain deal for two months after achieving some results in talks which had given it "certain hopes",...

Syrian President, Bashar Al-Assad, a pariah for more than a decade, is expected to steal the spotlight at Friday's Arab League Summit in Saudi Arabia, where he will rub shoulders...

The president of the International Judo Federation (IJF), the world governing body for the combat sport, has promised that Iran will be "welcome back" this September following a four-year...

Syrian President, Bashar Al-Assad, is expected to attend an Arab Summit in Saudi Arabia on Friday, ending his isolation by states that shunned him during a civil war that...

A British MP, has drafted a bill calling on the government to commemorate the Palestinian Nakba ("Catastrophe"), news agencies reported on Tuesday. Layla Moran has a Palestinian background and...

Israel and the Netherlands signed a five-year arms' deal worth $305 million, Israel's Defence Ministry announced yesterday. Israel's Elbit Systems, a company which sells weapons to the Israeli military...

A library established in a container city in Hatay province in south-eastern Turkiye is catering to the educational and recreational needs of children affected by the 6 February earthquakes,...

Director General of the Public Company for Rail in Iraq, Younus Khalid, announced on Tuesday the competition of designs for building a rail and road network with Turkiye. The...

Dozens of academics in Europe and the US signed an open letter calling on the Tunisian authorities to release the head of the Ennahda Movement, Rashid Ghannouchi, and all...

Western media has alluded to a possible boost of the Turkish economy to increase opposition presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu's chances of beating Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the runoff elections,...

The US national security advisor described the extension on Wednesday of the Black Sea grain deal as "a good thing". Speaking to reporters alongside White House spokesman Karine Jean-Pierre,...

The historic Hereke carpet will be restored in Istanbul in accordance with the protocol signed between the Carnegie Foundation which manages the Peace Palace in The Hague, and the...

Two Turkish journalists were released several hours after their arrest by the German police on Wednesday, sparking a diplomatic row between Ankara and Berlin, Anadolu News Agency reports. Ismail...

Tayyip Erdogan's rival in Turkiye's presidential race accused the government, on Wednesday, of allowing 10 million "irregular" migrants to enter the country, marking a nationalist turn in his rhetoric...

Microalgae, which was collected by Turkish scientists in Antarctica, will be tested during Turkiye's first manned space voyage, Anadolu News Agency reports. The Turkish Space Agency (TUA) and the...

Russia confirmed on Wednesday that a deal to allow Ukraine to export its grain safely across the Black Sea, despite Russia's war in Ukraine, had been extended for two months, Reuters reports. Foreign...