By Ezgi Erkoyun and Tuvan Gumrukcu ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan fiercely criticised social media companies on Monday, saying they sought to "muzzle the Palestinian people's voices", after Turkey blocked access to Instagram last week. Turkey was holding talks with Instagram

By Tuvan Gumrukcu ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey blocked access to social media platform Instagram on Friday for failing to comply with the country's "laws and rules", a government minister said. The move came after a senior Turkish official accused the platform of

By Can Sezer and Tuvan Gumrukcu ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will launch a $5 billion package to boost its annual production of electric vehicles to one million cars, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday, adding that Ankara would unveil other incentive

By Ece Toksabay Ancient humans: ANKARA (Reuters) - Stone ornaments found around the mouths and ears of skeletons at an 11,000-year-old burial site in southeast Turkey prove that humans have been piercing their bodies since prehistoric times and thinking about self-image,

By Ezgi Erkoyun ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's competition authority imposed on Monday an interim measure on Meta Platforms Inc meant to hinder data sharing between the Instagram and Threads platforms as it investigates possible abuse of the company's dominant market position. In

By Nevzat Devranoglu ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey is preparing new legislation covering crypto-assets to persuade an international crime watchdog to remove it from a "grey list" of countries that have taken insufficient action to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing. The Financial

The future of Turkey will be decided on May 28, as there was no winner in the most pivotal elections in Turkey's modern history. The presidential election will go to a second round after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan failed to secure 50%

A person walks past a sign of Alibaba Group during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Shanghai, China, September 1, 2022. REUTERS/Aly Song By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd

By Ebru Tuncay ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish competition fines Meta: Turkey's competition authority has fined Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc 346.72 million lira ($18.63 million) for breaking competition law, it said on Wednesday. The Turkish regulator said the company held a dominant position in