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 … ]
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 … ]
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