Turkey

Iraqi security forces on Thursday closed roads near the Turkish embassy in Baghdad after demonstrators gathered to denounce Turkish interventions in the north of the country, Al-Arabiya TV reported. Turkey re-launched military operations…
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Turkey summoned the US ambassador to Ankara on Monday to convey "in the strongest terms" its reaction to a statement on the killing of 13 Turks captured by Kurdish militants, which President Tayyip Erdogan called "a joke". Turkey said on…
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Joe Biden has opened his presidency by taking a visibly harder line on Turkey, with analysts expecting a rocky path ahead between the uneasy allies as their interests increasingly diverge. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, like…
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Turkey rejected Thursday the US call for the "immediate release" of businessman and activist Osman Kavala, condemning Washington's interference in the Turkish judiciary. The Turkish Foreign Ministry responded in a statement saying that…
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Enis Berberoglu, a deputy in Turkey’s main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), officially regained his position as an MP on Thursday after an Istanbul court halted criminal complaints against him. Berberoglu had beeen…
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ANKARA: Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar announced in an interview published Tuesday that Turkey is prepared not to use the S-400 missile system purchased from Russia as part of a possible deal with the United States to ease tension on…
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Ankara has announced that it will open a health care vocational school and a medical faculty in the Cobanbey (Al-Ra’i) town of Syria near the Turkish border. The surprise decision was published in Turkey’s Official Gazette on…
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The family of a British woman killed in a car crash has called on the government to recover the lead suspect in the case from Turkey, to where they fled just days after the incident. Vicky Lovelace-Collins died on Sept. 7, 2018, two days…
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Turkey has reignited its war of words with the US after a senior Turkish minister accused Washington of being behind the country’s failed 2016 coup. Suleyman Soylu, Turkey’s interior minister, blamed the US for orchestrating the failed…
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An Istanbul court ruled to keep renowned Turkish activist and businessman Osman Kavala behind bars in solitary confinement on Friday in the high-profile second trial of Kavala and Turkish-American academic Henri Barkey. The court also…
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