UAE embassy now sits on corner of Fahreddin Pasa Street, as UAE and Turkey squabble over record of former Ottoman governor of Medina For years the embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Ankara was [ More … ]
Ukraine and Turkey are the “natural and real” partners, Andrii Sybiha, Kiev’s ambassador in Ankara told Anadolu Agency. “Our main duty is to form a cooperation with key countries like Turkey and to maintain it [ More … ]
Turkey has reiterated its aim of solving the rift between the Gulf states through diplomatic channels, urging Saudi Arabia to lead the dialogue efforts and solve the Qatar issue peacefully PresIdentIal spokesman İbrahim Kalın said [ More … ]
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel says German cabinet will decide Wednesday on withdrawing troops from air base in Turkey German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said Tuesday he did not expect a rapid normalization of ties [ More … ]
BY: SAADET ORUÇ* After a busy day with NATO and European Union officials in Brussels on Thursday, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan returned to the country with good news regarding Turkish relations with the EU. In addition [ More … ]
Two suspected militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) believed to be planning an attack in Ankara were killed in a police raid early on May 21 in the Turkish capital [ More … ]
Russian Prime Minister Medvedev will head the Russian delegation at the meeting of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization to be held in Istanbul on May 22 Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will make a [ More … ]
Ankara is in talks with Washington seeking the reversal or softening of the new US ban on electronic devices larger than cellphones in the cabin of US-bound flights from 10 airports in Muslim-majority countries, Turkey’s [ More … ]
The Secretary General of the ministry of Foreign Affairs Hassane Rabehi was received Friday, in Ankara, by the Turkish Ahmet Yildiz, with whom he conducted an overall review of the relations between Algeria and Turkey [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who on Sunday kicked off his three-nation Gulf tour in Bahrain, will arrive in the Saudi capital on Monday for consultations with top Saudi officials on key bilateral and regional [ More … ]
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu speaking at a joint press conference in Ankara yesterday praised Turkish-Saudi relations while his Saudi counterpart Adel al-Jubeir said, “The cooperation between Turkey and Saudi Arabia is not only to [ More … ]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel pays a one-day working visit to Turkey on Feb. 2 amid ongoing bilateral disagreements between Ankara and Berlin, with the German leader pursuing dialogue with Turkey due to the countries’ increasingly [ More … ]
May visits Anitkabir — mausoleum of Turkish republic’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk British Prime Minister Theresa May arrived in Ankara Saturday during which she was expected to meet Turkey’s leadership, including the president and prime [ More … ]
BY: BERIL DEDEOĞLU* All players in Iraq and Syria should take a step back to reach a solution to stop the bloodshed in the two war-torn countries Relations between Ankara and the Iraqi government have been [ More … ]
BY: BURHANETTIN DURAN* The PKK is an existential threat for both Iraq and Turkey. Baghdad, Irbil and Ankara need to work more closely on counterterrorism to succeed A nationwide cease-fire in Syria helped Turkey make a [ More … ]
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