U.S. President Joe Biden may meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the NATO summit this week to discuss Turkiye’s concerns about bids by Sweden and Finland to join the alliance, U.S. national security adviser Jake [ More … ]
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Wednesday arrived in the capital, Ankara, on an official visit to the Republic of Turkiye. The Saudi crown prince’s Wednesday visit to Turkiye comes for the first time [ More … ]
NATO member Turkey changed its rhetoric to call Russia’s assault on Ukraine a “war” on Sunday and pledged to implement parts of an international pact that would potentially limit the transit of Russian warships from [ More … ]
The central banks of Turkey and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have inked a swap agreement with a nominal size of 18 billion UAE dirhams and TL 64 billion ($4.7 billion), the Central Bank of [ More … ]
Turkish president says he will visit Riyadh next month, following warming relations and the resumption of ties with the UAE Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that he plans to visit Saudi Arabia [ More … ]
Turkish Prosecution have indicted 16 people suspected of spying for Israel, a Turkish daily newspaper reports. Istanbul’s Public Prosecutor on Friday indicted 16 people suspected of spying for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, according to Turkish [ More … ]
Emirati Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology said on Wednesday that Turkey and the United Arab Emirates are entering a new era of relations, according to Anadolu News Agency. Speaking to Turkish state broadcaster, TRT, [ More … ]
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 … ]
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