1 February – A gunman takes seven hostages at a factory owned by U.S. company Procter & Gamble in Gebze, Kocaeli Province, in an apparent protest against the war in Gaza. The perpetrator is later arrested unharmed and all the hostages are freed.[5]
10 February – Gunmen open fire at a campaign event in the Küçükçekmece district municipality of Istanbul for AK Party mayoral candidate Aziz Yeniay, critically injuring one person. Seventeen people are arrested in connection with the attack.[7]
Authorities annul the victory of DEM candidate Abdullah Zeydan in the mayoral election in Van and declare his rival from the AK Party the winner instead.[17] Following public uproar and an appeal from Zeydan, the Supreme Election Board reinstates him as the winner.[18]
12 April - One person is killed and seven others are injured after a cable car falls on rocky ground due to a collapsed pylon outside Antalya. The accident also leaves 184 people stranded across the entire cable car system.[19]
18 April - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Tokat Province, destroying several buildings there and in neighboring Yozgat Province.[20]
2 May – Turkey suspends all trade with Israel in response to their conduct in the war in Gaza, after previously suspending exports in a limited category of goods in April.[21]
2 June - One person is killed and eight others are injured after an apartment building collapses in Küçükçekmece, Istanbul.[29]
3 June - Mehmet Sıddık Akış, the DEM mayor of Hakkâri, is removed from office and arrested on suspicion of having links with the PKK.[30] He is sentenced to 19 years' imprisonment over the charges on 5 June.[31]
28 June - The Financial Action Task Force removes Turkey from its "gray list" of countries not fully complying with measures to combat money laundering and terrorism financing.[34]
9 July – A life raft carrying migrants bound for Europe sinks off the coast of Çeşme after being reportedly pushed back by Greek authorities, killing seven people.[40]
29 July – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey approves a law aiming to euthanize a portion of the country's four million stray dogs, specifically targeting those that are sick or deemed aggressive.[41]
9 August – An intercity bus traveling from İzmir to Ağrı crashes into an overpass pillar in Polatlı, Ankara Province, killing nine people and injuring 26 others.[48]
12 August – At least five people are injured in a knife attack at a mosque in Eskişehir. An 18-year old suspect is arrested.[49]
At least 26 people are reported injured following days of wildfires in the İzmir area.[51]
An Israeli businessman of Palestinian origin is killed in a gun attack in Kağıthane municipality of Istanbul.[52]
28 August – One person is killed and 38 others are injured, two of them seriously, when two Metrobus vehicles collide in Küçükçekmece, Istanbul.[53]
30 August – The Turkish Military Academy sees women cadets become valedictorians of the three service branches of the Turkish Armed Forces for the first time. However, an investigation is subsequently launched after around 400 cadets were found to have taken an unauthorized secularist oath at their graduation ceremony.[54]
5 September – A Turkish drone strike kills three people, including a child, in Iraqi Kurdistan one day after a similar attack on a car in the region killed three people from the same family.[57]
6 September – Vistara Airlines Flight VTI027 going from Mumbai to Frankfurt makes an emergency landing at Erzurum Airport after receiving a bomb threat that turns out negative.[58]
4 November – The DEM mayors of Batman, Mardin and Halfeti are dismissed on suspicion of having links with the PKK.[67]
5 November – At least 12 people are injured in an explosion and fire at an oil refinery of Tüpraş in Izmit.[68]
11 November – Former MKE Ankaragücü president Faruk Koca is convicted and sentenced to 3.5 years' imprisonment by a court in Ankara for assaulting a referee during a Süper Lig game in 2023.[69]
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