Turkey

News coverage about Turkey accounts for 1.767% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is down 15.0% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -1.04 — mildly negative.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
1.767%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-15.0%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-1.04
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Turkey coverage volume: 91 days, latest 1.77% on 2026-10-040.005.010.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Turkey coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -1.04 on 2026-10-04+20-2Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (2/day latest)

Protest events located in Turkey: 77 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-10-030.0050.0100Jul 6Jul 21Aug 6Aug 20Sep 6Sep 20Oct 3

Diplomacy (5/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Turkey: 91 days, latest 5.00 on 2026-10-040.0025005000Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coercion & force (5/day latest)

Coercive events located in Turkey: 91 days, latest 5.00 on 2026-10-040.00250500Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Turkey, counted daily from GDELT's event stream (protests: root 14; diplomacy: 04–05; coercion through mass violence: 17–20).

Coverage origin: local vs international

Over the last two weeks, 66% of the coverage about Turkey came from outlets based in Turkey — the rest was written from abroad (107,403 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Turkey from domestic outlets (%): 91 days, latest 62.34 on 2026-10-040.0050.0100Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Share of articles about Turkey produced by domestic outlets, computed daily across GDELT's English and translated streams. Outlet home countries are mapped per news domain (GDELT source-country data); articles from unmapped outlets are excluded from the denominator. A very low share during major events can mean the story is being told about a place rather than from it.

Most-mentioned places

  • Istanbul (84)
  • Ankara (25)
  • Antalya (23)
  • Anatolia (20)
  • Konya (14)
  • Erzurum (14)
  • Eski (14)
  • Samsun (13)
  • Izmir (13)
  • Bursa (13)
  • Aksaray (11)
  • Gaziantep (9)

Places named in coverage about Turkey on 2026-10-04 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Turkey

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$1.60T
World Bank, 2025
Population
85.9M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
49.9%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
1.9%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
16
best estimate
Civilian deaths
3
within the above
Recorded events
6
organized violence

Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP GED), window 2025-10-01..2026-09-30, refreshed monthly. Recent months are preliminary candidate data.

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
0
within the country
Refugees abroad
149,405
originating from Turkey
Refugees hosted
2,390,414
from other countries
Asylum seekers
102,497
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 464 stateless persons. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.

Monitored relationships

Each link opens the bilateral co-coverage dashboard for the pair.

Coverage share measures articles published by Turkey-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).