Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a phone call with the UAE’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan late Monday in which the two discussed relations between Turkey and the Arab Gulf state. The United [ More … ]
Turkey’s President Erdogan said calm should be restored in Kabul before Turkey makes its decision on the airport, adding there was a risk of getting “sucked in” to something that would be hard to explain [ More … ]
Erdogan says Turkish contacts with UAE have made progress, Turkish president meets UAE National Security Adviser Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan for talks. Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, bitter rivals in the Middle [ More … ]
The death toll from six straight days of wildfires in Turkey has risen to eight! Fires raging across southern Turkey since Wednesday have burned down forests and some settlements, encroaching on villages and tourist destinations and forcing [ More … ]
At the press conference he organized ahead of his visit to the NATO Leaders’ Summit in Brussels, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said, “Turkey is the only reliable country that can prudently manage the situation in [ More … ]
Mehmet Gormez, the former head of the Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs calls on the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar and the Mufti of Egypt to intervene for intervening to stop implementation of the recent death [ More … ]
Erdogan told his US counterpart Joe Biden that Turkey will not backtrack on acquisition of Russian S-400 air defenses, or F-35s. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his US counterpart this week that Ankara will [ More … ]
Turkey’s lira currency had reached to new all-time lows after president Erdogan called for interest rate cuts in the next two months and said he spoke to the central bank’s new governor about it. “I [ More … ]
Al-Azhar has condemned in a statement “he Zionist entity’s terror and its brutal violations against the people of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem”. “Al-Azhar condemns in the strongest terms the Zionist entity’s terrorism and [ More … ]
To spite the Turkish government, Al Arabiya Network, funded by the UAE and Saudi Arabia, has chosen to promote an anti-Turkey narrative on the 1915 events related to the Armenian issue. While Armenian Orthodox Patriarch [ More … ]
Turkey remains opposed to the Muslim Brotherhood being designated a “terrorist” group by Egypt despite a recent push to repair strained ties between the two countries, Reuters reported Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said yesterday. He said Turkey [ More … ]
The move is a new step by Ankara to improve relations with Cairo following a series of talks conducted by the respective intelligence agencies The Turkish ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) lawmakers in [ More … ]
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said a Turkish delegation would visit Egypt next month in the first step toward normalization of ties between the two countries. Noting that he spoke with his Egyptian counterpart in [ More … ]
Turkey and Libya have reiterated their commitment to enhancing bilateral ties and the maritime deal, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara prioritizes the country’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and political unity. In a joint news [ More … ]
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday called for the “worrying” developments in eastern Ukraine’s Donbass region to come to an end after meeting his Ukrainian counterpart in Istanbul, adding Turkey was ready to provide any [ More … ]
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