clock menu more-arrow no yes mobile
Help keep Vox free Reader support helps keep our explainers free for all. Support our mission by making a gift today.

Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is one of President Trump's favorite strongmen. What does that relationship mean for the US, Turkey, and the world?

What Erdogan’s win means for the West — and the world

By Jen Kirby

Turkey’s extremely big-deal election, explained

By Jen Kirby
Play

How these buildings made the Turkey and Syria earthquakes so deadly

By Rajaa Elidrissi

Who is responsible for Turkey’s bad buildings?

By Jen Kirby

Why earthquakes are deadlier depending on where you live

By Rachel DuRose

Why the earthquake caused a “perfect storm” of a crisis in Syria

By Ellen Ioanes

Will Turkey’s earthquake response threaten President Erdogan’s grip on power?

By Jen Kirby

Deadly earthquakes in Turkey and Syria will add to the region’s humanitarian struggles

By Jen Kirby

This stream has:

Turkey and Syria earthquakes: Aftermath and updates on the humanitarian crisis

By Vox Staff

Turkey wants to send Syrian refugees to the new “safe zone.” Some refugees are terrified.

By Hannah Brown

State Department talking points counter Trump’s optimistic message on Syria

By Alex Ward

Trump loves dictators. Erdogan is the latest to take advantage of that.

By Alex Ward

The Syrian ceasefire the US brokered is already falling apart

By Alex Ward

“Don’t be a tough guy. Don’t be a fool!”: Read Trump’s wild letter to Turkey’s Erdogan

By Alex Ward

Lindsey Graham is leading a Senate bill to punish Turkey with crushing sanctions

By Alex Ward

How America’s relationship with Turkey fell apart

By Alex Ward

Turkey’s president snubs John Bolton over Syria

By Alex Ward

Turkish prosecutor: Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered

By Alexia Underwood

While the world focuses on Khashoggi, dozens of activists in Saudi Arabia are still behind bars

By Alexia Underwood

This stream has:

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears in Turkey

By Vox Staff

All the companies that have cut ties with Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi’s disappearance

By Alexia Underwood

Saudi Arabia won’t be able to sweep the Jamal Khashoggi case under the rug

By Alexia Underwood

Turkey releases US Pastor Andrew Brunson in a big win for Trump

By Alex Ward

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s mysterious disappearance, explained

By Alexia Underwood

Shots fired at the US Embassy in Turkey

By Jen Kirby

Why the White House just announced sanctions on Turkey

By Alex Ward

Why the US and Turkey are fighting over a US pastor

By Alex Ward

The past 3 days of Syria news, explained

By Alex Ward

Turkey’s president: Turks living in Europe should all have 5 children

By Zeeshan Aleem

Turkey just kicked a major refugee aid organization out of the country

By Sarah Wildman

Why the president of Turkey just accused Germany of behaving like "Nazis"

By Sarah Wildman

A gunman just assassinated Russia’s ambassador to Turkey

By Jennifer Williams

What is the Gülen movement, the group the Turkish government is blaming for a failed coup?

By Dylan Matthews

Vox Sentences: A suicide attack at a wedding in Turkey further scrambles Syria’s war

By Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews

Turkey’s failed coup could have disastrous consequences for Europe’s migrant crisis

By Jessica Brandt

Conspiracy, paranoia, and real plots: the bizarre history of Turkey’s military coups

By James Palmer
Play

Turkey's failed coup, explained in 3 minutes

By Matteen Mokalla, Joss Fong, and 2 more

Facetiming the coup

By Kieran Healy

Why Turkey’s coup failed, according to an expert

By Zack Beauchamp

Turkey has had several military coups in its modern history. A historian explains why. 

By Matteen Mokalla