Turkey

Erdogan lobbies Musk for new Tesla factory

ISTANBUL – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged tech tycoon Elon Musk to open his next Tesla factory in Turkey,…

2 months ago

Turkey’s annual inflation nears 60% in August

ISTANBUL – Turkey’s annual inflation approached 60 percent last month, official data showed Monday, putting pressure on the central bank…

3 months ago

Erdogan ascendant as Turkey heads for historic runoff

ISTANBUL – Turkey on Monday woke up to the prospect of its first presidential runoff vote after conservative President Recep…

7 months ago

Turkey braces for momentous runoff after election drama

ANKARA, Turkey | Turkey braced Monday for its first election runoff after a night of high drama showed President Recep…

7 months ago

To beat Erdogan, Turkey’s Gandhi may need lessons from Lincoln

AS TURKEY’S general election campaign enters its home stretch, a team of rivals is determined to dash Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s…

8 months ago

An Erdogan mea culpa must precede Turkey’s recovery

As the Sichuan quake of 2008 showed, an acknowledgment of past failures is essential to building back better  A DEVASTATING…

9 months ago

Turkey rescuers find three people 13 days after quake: TV

HATAY, Turkey – Turkish rescuers on Saturday pulled three people, including a child, alive from the rubble 13 days after…

10 months ago

Focus turns to survivors as Turkey-Syria quake toll passes 35,000

KAHRAMANMARAS • Among the rubble, hundreds of thousands of homeless people face cold and hunger as authorities in Turkey and…

10 months ago

Miracle rescues a week after Turkey-Syria quake

KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey • Rescuers pulled more survivors from the rubble a week after an earthquake struck Turkey and Syria leaving…

10 months ago

UN admits aid failure for Syria as quake toll tops 33,000

KAHRAMANMARAS • The United Nations (UN) decried Sunday the failure to ship desperately needed aid to war-torn regions of Syria,…

10 months ago

Turkey-Syria quake deaths pass 28,000, millions in need of aid

KAHRAMANMARAS – Rescuers pulled a seven-month-old baby and a teenage girl from the rubble on Sunday, nearly a week after…

10 months ago

Aid trickles in as Turkey-Syria quake toll passes 24,000

SYRIA – International aid was trickling into parts of Turkey and Syria on Saturday where rescuers toiled to pull children…

10 months ago

Children rescued as Turkey-Syria quake toll nears 24,000

KAHRAMANMARAS – Rescuers pulled out children Friday from the rubble of the Turkey-Syria earthquake as the toll approached 24,000 and…

10 months ago