Türkiye is close to securing nearly $6 billion (TL 256.89 billion) in financing, led by the World Bank and other lenders, for ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The implosion of the USSR suddenly opened up the former Soviet Union’s energy assets to western investment. Of these, the most important was the Caspian basin, whose 143,244 square miles and attendant ...

Residents of Istanbul have been taken aback in recent days after the Bosporus transformed from a darkish blue to a fluorescent turquoise. Scientists have finally explained why: a surge of plankton.

Istanbul’s landscape. As you head towards the city centre leaving Ataturk airport behind, the water channel seems like an omnipresence, compelling passers-by to gaze upon its radiance. Running across ...

Greeks and Romans referred to the current Kerch Strait as the Cimmerian Bosporus, the strait that connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Azov, separating the Kerch and Taman peninsulas in the vicinity ...

A Russian Kilo Class submarine passes by the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Köprüsü Bridge on the Bosporus, Turkey, on June 23. It is flying the Russian Navy flag. A Russian submarine passed through Turkey on ...