Turkey’s government is hoping to reach a $6 billion defense deal with Saudi Arabia that could see the kingdom buy warships, tanks and missiles, according to Turkish officials familiar with the matter.

ANKARA (AA) – Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will visit Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, according to diplomatic sources. Fidan is expected to highlight the growing strength of political relations between the two countries in his discussions and express the goal of further boosting the rapidly expanding trade volume with Saudi Arabia.

The European Union’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas referred to Turkey as “one of the EU's most important partners as a candidate country and major Nato ally playing a central role in European security” as on January 24 she paid a visit to Ankara and met with Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan.

Ankara has asked the opposition groups it has supported in the north to enlist in the new Syrian state army and hopes the armed groups in the south

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will visit Iraq on Sunday for talks with officials on the fight against Kurdish militants, security issues and bilateral ties, a Turkish diplomatic source said on Saturday.

Desperate guests at a Turkish ski resort that exploded into flames tried to escape using bedsheets as ropes hanging from the windows, while others died after trying to jump to safety.

Members of the Private Sector Teachers’ Union (Öğretmen Sendikası) were physically and verbally assaulted yesterday at the Era private school in Çayyolu, Ankara after protesting the holding of classes during the midterm break, which violates regulations.

More than 50,000 Syrian refugees have left Turkey to return home since Bashar al-Assad's ouster. But for many others living in the country, the thought raises a host of worrying questions. In Altindag,

Turkey has detained 11 people as part of an investigation into a fire that killed 79 people and injured dozens at a ski resort in the Bolu mountains, Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc said on Wednesday.

ANKARA, Turkey — A search and rescue operation was underway in central Turkey on Friday after a four-story building collapsed, trapping at least five people inside, officials said.

The new administration’s first visit to Ankara comes amid an intensifying struggle for the partition of Syria between the states behind the overthrow of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by jihadists led by the al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan expressed Ankara's hopes to improve relations with the U.S. under President Donald Trump's administration. Speaking in a news conference, Fidan stated expectations to address unresolved issues from the previous U.