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Ankara Monday officially rebuked Washington as it summoned its ambassador for what the Turkish foreign ministry termed as “the inability of US authorities to take sufficient precautions at every stage of the official program” during the Turkish President’s visit to Read more
US President Donald Trump Wednesday vowed fidelity to ties with Turkey saying that Washington will remain on the side of Ankara against outlawed Kurdish groups. President Trump was speaking at a joint press conference with visiting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Read more
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
President Erdogan of turkey has voiced concern over the developments in neighboring Iraq before warning that the future military operations will have “not (only) a Syrian dimension, (but) also an Iraqi dimension” due to the “situations” in Tal Afar and 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
Visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday held a meeting with President Erdogan in Ankara, in a bid, among others, to warm up bilateral relations affected by the failed July 2016 coup d’état. At the joint press conference that followed Read more
As the search for the attacker of the Reina nightclub continues, Turkey has been marred with another attack by “terrorists” in a car bomb explosion that killed at least two people and left seven injured. The car was detonated in Read more
The arrival of 2017 was welcomed with sad events in Turkey as an armed individual went on a shooting rampage in the Reina nightclub in Istanbul, killing at least 39 people and injuring 69 others. The act widely condemned by Read more
Turkey has issued arrest warrants for Kurdish fighters in Iraq and Syria alleging that they took part in planning and executing a car bomb explosion that killed around 29 people in Ankara at the beginning of the year. The arrest Read more
Twelve deputies, including two co-leaders, Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) were arrested and detained by Turkish authorities in the early hours of Friday in the cities of Diyarbakir, Van and Bingol among others. The Read more