Turkey news API
Coverage about Turkey from 861 distinct publishers, in whatever language
it was reported. Pass country=TU to filter.
What coverage of Turkey looks like
A large domestic press with substantial syndication between outlet groups, and extensive coverage of the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Middle East that often precedes Western reporting.
The media landscape
A large market with substantial syndication between publishers in the same ownership group, plus a business press and a broad regional-affairs layer. Coverage of the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Middle East is genuinely specialised and frequently precedes Western reporting on the same developments.
Does this cover articles published in Turkey, or about it?
About it. The country filter matches the places an article is about, so a wire
piece about Turkey filed from London is in scope and a Turkey outlet writing
about somewhere else is not. To filter by where the publisher is based, use
publisher_country instead, and combine the two when you want domestic
reporting about the domestic market.
How do I filter news to Turkey?
Turkish agglutination makes keyword matching unreliable, so use semantic or hybrid mode rather than exact terms when querying this market.
GET /search?country=TU&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20Identifiers are FIPS 10-4, not ISO 3166 — why that matters.
What catches people out with Turkey coverage?
Agglutination defeats exact matching more completely than in most languages — a single word can carry what English needs a clause for, and the surface forms a stem generates are effectively unbounded. Treat keyword mode as unavailable. Regional coverage of the Caucasus and Central Asia is a genuine specialism and frequently precedes Western reporting.
Recent coverage
Pulled from the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.
- Erdogan says Turkey ready to support reconstruction in southern Lebanon
- Greek Visa Scheme Gives Turks Easier Entry to Islands in EU
- Hamas says it's reached an agreement to disarm, a significant move that will face major challenges
- Hamas approves final draft of Gaza ceasefire 2nd-phase roadmap: sources-Xinhua
- Tintagel? It was a trading hub, not the seat of King Arthur
- Brussels Raises the Stakes: EU Moves to Leverage Turkey Ties in New Cyprus Push
- Spanish border 'collapse' is awful news for Brits as 49,000 migrants surge in
- How Jewish progressives embrace Jew-haters
Which outlets cover Turkey most?
The most active publisher on this country is haberler.com at roughly
13% of the coverage, and the three busiest
— haberler.com, birgun.net, haberport.com — carry about 18% between them.
That share is worth reading before the volume figure: concentrated coverage
means a large result count can still be a small number of newsrooms. Combine
country with source to narrow to publishers you trust,
or with language to separate domestic reporting from international.
haberler.com · birgun.net · haberport.com · mersinhaber.com · bursadabugun.com · sabah.com.tr · ensonhaber.com · haber7.com · iheart.com · dunya.com · bursahakimiyet.com.tr · haberturk.com · aa.com.tr · sozcu.com.tr
Cities with their own coverage
Places inside Turkey that carry enough coverage to filter on individually,
using city.
city=Istanbul— 539 articles, 155 outlets
What this market is best for
Best for energy corridors, construction, and regional affairs across the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Middle East, frequently ahead of Western reporting. Weakest for technology and financial markets. The tokenisation difficulty is real but the regional coverage justifies working around it.
Narrowing further
Two constraints do most of the work on this axis. Adding a language separates domestic reporting from international commentary about Turkey, which an unscoped country query returns together. Adding a signal range with a lower bound narrows to articles written in a particular register — supply disruption, financial stress, conflict — rather than to articles that merely mention the subject.
# domestic-language coverage only
GET /search?country=TU&language=<iso639-3>&mode=hybrid
# supply-chain risk language, about this country
GET /search?country=TU&signal=signal_supply_disruption&signal_min=0.2Counts are provisional pending a snapshot taken against the API. Outlets and headlines are real.