Turkey will carry out a military operation east of the Euphrates River in Syria in a couple of days, and this step will facilitate the country’s political solution, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday. [ More … ]
Turkey’s Opposition Nationalist Movement Party Leader Devlet Bahçeli says Saudi Arabia, UAE are backstabbing Muslims Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chairman Devlet Bahçeli on Tuesday slammed Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, accusing them of backstabbing [ More … ]
Turkish defense minister says country repeatedly conveyed discomfort to US on planned observation points in northern Syria Turkey has repeatedly conveyed its “discomfort” to the U.S. officials over their country’s planned observation points in northern [ More … ]
Following talks with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Gazprom was “working out in practical terms” the construction of a second gas line stretching from Turkey to Bulgaria for Turkish Stream, which [ More … ]
Leaders from across the world gathered in Paris to mark Nov. 11 Armistice Day. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump chatted for a while on Saturday during a dinner hosted [ More … ]
By: Yasin Aktay At the beginning of the last week, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar visited Libya, Sudan, and Somalia on a four day trip. He was joined by Chief of General Staff Yaşar Güler, Libya special [ More … ]
NSA whistleblower claims Pegasus spyware was used to track slain Saudi journalist Software made by an Israeli cyber security firm was used to track murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a former U.S. National Security Agency contractor [ More … ]
The United States on Friday removed two top Turkish officials from the Global Magnitsky Act sanctions list, according to the Treasury Department website. The United States had imposed sanctions on the officials, Justice Minister Abdulhamit [ More … ]
Turkey has started work on making its first domestically produced long-range air defense missile system and the first delivery is planned for 2021, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday. Turkey is also purchasing S-400 surface-to-air [ More … ]
Turkey’s 95th anniversary of the Republic witnessed the inauguration of the giant new Istanbul airport, showing that Turkish national determination is still alive, just as in the very first days of the Republic Turkey celebrated [ More … ]
Turkish President says investigation into who ordered journalist’s killing must extend to highest levels of Saudi government Jamal Khashoggi was the victim of a “gruesome murder” carried out inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in [ More … ]
Turkey-EU relations have had their ups and downs; however, the last three years have been really trying times. A turning point was the July 2016 failed military coup attempt. The EU failed to support the [ More … ]
Turkish, Russian, German, French leaders to hold summit on Syria in Istanbul on Oct. 27 A four-way summit between the leaders of Turkey, Russia, Germany and France on the conflict in Syria will be held [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay The trial of pastor Brunson in Turkish courts is over, and he has been sentenced to three years, one month and 15 days in prison for “promoting terrorism,” and aiding and abetting terrorist [ More … ]
There are more than 15 US nationals who have been detained in Egypt for years with no attention on the part of US President Donald Trump. On the other hand, Turkey has been beaten down [ More … ]
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