Turkey wants an Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline to operate at maximum capacity once it resumes flows through Turkey's Ceyhan, Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar was quoted as saying by the state-owned Anadolu news agency on Sunday.

Turkey's economy grew 3.0% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2024, bringing full-year growth to 3.2%, official data showed on Friday, exceeding forecasts despite the weight of high interest rates.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Tayyip Erdogan's long-held goal of ending Turkey's conflict with Kurdish militants is a step closer after their jailed chief's peace call, giving the president a potential political boost at home and a chance to resolve key regional security concerns.

The country has made construction a pillar of economic planning, but local opposition is stalling a tourist development on parkland.