The US and Russia started talks in Istanbul to restore diplomatic staff in each other’s countries, Russian state news service Tass reported, a step by President Donald Trump to ease years of strained ties.

The mountains of northern Iraq have for years been a sanctuary for Kurdish militants fighting a decades-long insurgency against the government in neighboring Turkey.

Turkey's economy grew 3.0% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2024, bringing full-year growth to 3.2%, official data showed on Friday, exceeding forecasts despite the weight of high interest rates.

Diplomats from Russia and the United States will meet in Istanbul on Thursday to discuss the operation of their respective embassies in Moscow and Washington, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday.

Turkey's unemployment rate slipped by 0.1 percentage points month-on-month to 8.4% in January, official data showed on Friday.

Turkey emerged from a technical recession in the fourth quarter, bolstering investors’ hopes for stronger growth this year, aided by interest-rate cuts.

Iraqi Kurdish villagers, displaced by fighting between Turkish forces and Kurdish militants that has played out for years in northern Iraq, are finally allowing themselves to hope they will soon be able to go home.

Turkey has launched an investigation into anyone responsible for creating and spreading manipulative and misleading news that caused unusual price and volume fluctuations in Istanbul's stock market, state-owned Anadolu news agency reported.

Turkey, which has the second largest army in NATO after the US, is open to providing troops for a peacekeeping force in Ukraine, according to people familiar with the matter.

Turkey wants an Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline to operate at maximum capacity once it resumes flows through Turkey's Ceyhan, Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar was quoted as saying by the state-owned Anadolu news agency on Sunday.