Turkey

Poll seen as referendum on Turkey’s future a century since foundation of the secular republic

Opposition promising to restore democracy and halt authoritarian slide under Recep Tayyip Erdogan

More than 64 million people, including 3.4 million overseas voters, eligible to vote in elections

Polls give main challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu a slight lead

High stakes as charismatic strongman faces first credible challenge in recent memory

Runaway inflation has helped push voters towards the opposition in Mersin and elsewhere as poll approaches

Greece Letter: The Venn diagram of the country’s identity complicates political desires to westernise

Turkey’s president announces ‘neutralisation’ of Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi in Syria

In Little Aleppo in Ankara, poverty, police harassment and other intimidations are now routine for the Syrians Turkey is increasingly determined to send home

Turkey’s longest-serving leader cut short a live TV interview saying he had an upset stomach

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu leading Republican People’s Party in bid to oust authoritarian president and restore secular impetus

Patrick Smyth: EU capitals will be watching the Turkish elections in May, the toughest the autocratic ruler has yet faced

Recep Tayyip Erdogan came to power by leveraging anger about the 1999 earthquake - but the president risks losing this year’s election because of inadequate preparations, and reactions to, the latest disaster

Former strongholds looking for alternatives to Erdogan not necessarily translating into support for opposition

“This will allow us to conduct military and humanitarian operations in every corner of the world,” says president Tayyip Erdogan

Although Sweden is more or less surrounded by Nato members, the risk of a military attack from Russia – even though it is preoccupied in Ukraine – cannot be ruled out entirely

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov urges flexibility

A delicious Turkish recipe from the Cork-based chef

Decision not to run a candidate boosts prospects of opposition ahead of May poll

Move paves way for military alliance to expand its direct border with Russia

One group of asylum seekers claim they were ‘mocked and harassed’ and ‘ordered to take off their clothes’

Sixty cases of the life-threatening illness have been linked to a private hospital in Istanbul, says ECDC

Combined death toll across country and neighbouring Syria passes 54,000, millions left homeless

Eleven people rescued after dinghy sank in Aegean Sea, with five more found on nearby island

Turkey’s president faces biggest challenge of tenure, with main opposition uniting behind Kemal Kilicdaroglu

Good Party leader refuses to back head of largest opposition group in poll scheduled for May

Trade, diplomatic relations and geopolitical perspectives on democracy make many players feel closer to Moscow than Kyiv

Latest tremors rattle region still coming to terms with devastation caused by other quake two weeks ago that killed more than 47,000

Search and rescue efforts to be largely terminated on Sunday night, says Turkish official

The word earthquake shakes my heart. Images and videos of people standing in front of collapsed buildings calling out to their loved ones before they run out of oxygen and hope

Two women and three children rescued as combined death toll in two countries climbs to more than 41,000

Quake has worsened a dire situation in northwest region after a decade of war and a cholera outbreak

Focus of aid effort shifts to helping people without shelter as earthquake death toll rises to more than 37,000

Nicos Christodoulides seeks to form broad, gender-balanced cabinet and says he will reach out to Turkish Cypriots

More than 33,000 people killed as chances of finding more survivors growing more remote

Situation in northwest Syria, ravaged by more than decade of civil war, increasingly desperate, says UN

Engin Calar, who runs a shop in Carrickfergus, says his friends are still trapped under the rubble

German rescue groups suspend operations in Turkey due to security issues and reports of fighting

Erdogan could use state of emergency to strengthen grip of his unpopular regime, while Russia will work with Assad to prolong the suffering of Syria’s victims

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad makes first visit to the quake-ravaged region