What this publication is
TurkishPress is a magazine of Türkiye that carries news and heritage under one masthead. The Wire runs the daily news from Türkiye and its region. The Engine Room follows the longer strategic and economic stories, energy, industry, defense, and foreign partnerships. Alongside them sits the Anatolian atlas: essays on the civilisations that shaped Anatolia, its cities ancient and modern, its seven geographical regions, its kitchens, and the seasonal rhythms of the year.
The reading register stays literary throughout, whether the subject is this morning's headline or a Bronze Age city.
For the geography of the Republic itself, its borders, coastlines, and climate, see our sister site CountryOfTurkey.com.
A long pedigree on the open web
TurkishPress.com went online in 1996 as an English-language news site about Türkiye, alongside its sister site Mersina.com. In 2001, the U.S. Library of Congress selected TurkishPress.com for its September 11 Web Archive. The site later went dormant.
It relaunched in 2026, publishing news through The Wire and the Engine Room, alongside the Anatolian atlas. An archive of the original material is still to come.
Editorial standards
Every page is fact-checked before it publishes. For news, the order runs from our own archive to Anadolu Ajansı, then Hürriyet, Sözcü and Cumhuriyet, then the Western agencies (AP, Reuters, AFP, DW), with a Turkish source and a Western one paired wherever possible rather than a Western source used alone. For heritage and reference, it runs from official government sources, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the provincial governorships (Valilikler), GoTürkiye and TÜİK, to the Diyanet's İslâm Ansiklopedisi and the Encyclopædia Britannica, and then peer-reviewed academic work. Facts are verified; contested claims are attributed to a named source.
Where a place has been touched by recent events that affect a visitor's experience, most notably the February 2023 earthquakes in southern Türkiye, the page acknowledges this honestly, near the top, without making the page about disaster.
The family of sites
TurkishPress is part of a small family of Türkiye-focused sites, each with its own focus:
- JoltLine.com, a live earthquake tracker: real-time seismic activity across Türkiye and the wider region.
- CountryOfTurkey.com, the geography of the Republic: borders, coastlines, climate, the Mavi Vatan doctrine.
- TurkishCooking.com, every recipe, by category.
- TurkishJews.com, Sephardic and Romaniote heritage in Anatolia.
- Çukurova.info, the great Mediterranean plain: Adana, Mersin, Hatay, Osmaniye.
- Rakı.com, the drink, the ritual, the meze table around it.
Get in touch
Corrections, suggestions, photographs you'd like to contribute, or just a note: [email protected]. The newsletter goes out once a month with whatever's new; subscribe via the form on the homepage.