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The entire Turkish leadership establishment has rebuked US decision to supply arms to Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) fighting Daech in Syria with help of US air power. Ankara considers the Syrian group as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Read more
Moscow, Teheran and Ankara agreed Thursday in Astana; Kazakhstan’s capital; to work towards peace in Syria as the three warring sides penned down agreement to create safe zones to allow the return of refugees and facilitate peace. According to Russian Read more
Amid the contestations from the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) regarding Sunday’s constitutional referendum, Turkey’s Central Election Committee (CEC) declared that the ‘Yes’ vote won the polls with 51.3% thereby paving the way for the 19 amendments that provide sweeping Read more
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met in Ankara on Thursday several Turkish senior officials. After a meeting with Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, he told reporters they discussed “options that are available” regarding issues that are affecting their bilateral ties. Read more
President Donald Tusk of the European Council has made his first remarks regarding the accusations made by senior Turkish officials against Germany and the Netherlands over the banning of political rallies in the two European countries to campaign for the Read more
Figen Yuksekdag of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) has lost her parliamentary seat after being convicted on terrorism charges but the party claims that the trial was politically motivated and the revocation of her seat was “unconstitutional.” She is HDP’s Read more
Opposition Syrian rebel groups that met in Ankara, Turkey, over the weekend have decided to attend the peace talks slated to take place on January 23 in Kazakhstan. The talks spearheaded by Russia, Turkey and Iran are expected to pave Read more
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has stressed that Iraq “will not accept anything other than the complete withdrawal of the Turkish troops from the Bashiqa base” before its relations with Ankara can go back to normality. Turkey claims that its forces Read more
The Turkish Foreign Minister Friday hailed Moroccan authorities’ decision to shut down all schools affiliated to Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen, a staunch opponent of the Ankara regime who lives in exile in the US. “We welcome the statement by Morocco’s Read more
“We have made it clear time and time again that we take care of European values more than many EU countries, but we could not see concrete support from Western friends … None of the promises were kept,” President Erdogan Read more