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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
Istanbul summit addresses numerous issues, including Idlib demilitarised zone, constitutional reform and refugees. A four-way summit on Syria has ended with no major breakthrough, even as the leaders of Turkey, Russia, Germany and France agreed [ 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 … ]
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has welcomed Turkey to search the Saudi consulate in Istanbul following the disapperance of prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi who entered the mission earlier this week. In an exclusive interview with Bloomberg, published on Friday, [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday stated that Turkey and Germany had reached a consensus to revive cooperation mechanisms between the two countries. Erdoğan is on a three-day state visit to Germany and will [ More … ]
Turkish president announces negotiations with Russia are ongoing to sideline ‘damaging’ US dollar in global trade. Turkey will pursue non-dollar transactions in trade and investment with other countries, its president said on Sunday, adding recent [ More … ]
In international relations, a nation having enough power for a move does not mean that it can exercise that power as it wishes. Applying force will mobilize another power against it and in this case, [ More … ]
The turbulence in relations with the U.S. may perhaps be viewed as a new difficulty in Turkey’s foreign policy. Hence, the majority see this as a link in the chain of problems that Turkey is [ More … ]
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan unveiled the new cabinet under the new presidential system, saying the governance system will make the executive branch more efficient. Erdoğan announced new Vice President as Fuat Oktay. Here’s the full [ More … ]
By: Yasi Aktay* We all know that the June 24 elections were followed not only in Turkey but also across the world, with great interest and enthusiasm. Concordantly, our media broadcasted numerous footage and reports [ More … ]
By: Nagehan Alci* Turkey has entered a new period of five years with the presidential and parliamentary elections held on June 24. During this period, a new system will come into effect, in which the [ More … ]
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