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 U.S. has dusted off plans to add the Muslim Brotherhood to its list of foreign terrorist organizations. Officials said a designation was being prepared after President Donald Trump in April hosted his Egyptian counterpart [ More … ]
US President Donald Trump was only days into office in January 2017 when he first began considering a move with the potential to ignite a firestorm in the Middle East: designating the Muslim Brotherhood, a [ More … ]
The Trump administration is pushing to issue an order that would designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization, bringing the weight of American sanctions against a storied and influential Islamist political movement with millions [ More … ]
Turkish president’s comments follow condemnation of Israeli army’s killing of 17 Palestinian protesters in Gaza. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his comments targeting Turkey’s ongoing military operation [ More … ]
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that a joint Turkish-Iranian operation against Kurdish militants was “always on the agenda”, a week after Tehran’s top armed forces commander visited Ankara for rare talks. Turkey has [ More … ]
US’ James Mattis calls arming terrorist group necessity, not preference, responding to Fikri Isik’s concerns Turkey’s defense minister on Wednesday raised concerns over the U.S. arming the terrorist PKK/PYD in Syria. Fikri Isik raised the [ More … ]
In a statement released on Wednesday, the Hamas movement rejected statements made by US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley on Tuesday, who urged the United Nations to designate Hamas as a terrorist organization and [ More … ]
Counter-terrorism air raid hit terror targets in Avasin-Basyan regions 13 PKK terrorists were killed in an air operation in northern Iraq early Sunday, a military source said. Thirteen PKK terrorists were killed in northern Iraq’s [ More … ]
The U.S. President Donald Trump greeted President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the White House on Tuesday where the two leaders had a face-to-face meeting to discuss several issues, including the Pentagon’s plan to arm the [ More … ]
A regional leader of the Al-Shabab extremist group has been killed in a raid by Somalia’s military, the government announced Sunday, as the country’s new offensive against the fighters moves ahead. The statement by Somalia’s [ More … ]
İsmet Özçelik is the third FETÖ-affiliated suspect to be arrested by Malaysian police. Malaysia has arressted three suspects with alleged links to FETÖ, citing national security reasons. Malaysian police arrested FETÖ-affiliated İsmet Özçelik for suspected [ More … ]
BY: ÇETİNER ÇETİN* Tens of simultaneous airstrikes by Turkish fighter jets on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions in the northwestern Iraqi city of Sinjar (Shingal) and the People’s Protection Units (YPG) positions in northwestern Syria [ More … ]
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) claimed responsibility on April 12 for a bomb attack the previous day on a police compound in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır that killed three people. A statement on [ More … ]
BY: SAADET ORUÇ* Switzerland’s not banning the placard, reading ‘Kill Erdoğan’ during Saturday’s PKK demonstration shows the Old Continent has lost self-control We are currently on our way from the Great Wall of China to Beijing. [ More … ]
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