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Turkey and Angola Tuesday agreed to increase to $500 million up from $176 million their trade volume, Anadolu news agency reports. “Our trade volume with Angola is $176 million. The current trade volume is very low for such two powerful Read more
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Wednesday laid into the European football governing body, UEFA, arguing that the organization’s recent decision to move the final of the European Champions League to Porto instead of Istanbul was politically motivated, Arab News reports. Read more
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was elected Wednesday for the seventh time leader of the ruling Justice and Development (AKP) Party in the build-up to 2023 elections. Erdogan was nominated the party top leaders for the seventh congress of the Read more
Israel will restore ties with Turkey only after Ankara closes Hamas office in the city of Istanbul, an Israeli official has said according to media reports. “[President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan would be happy to return our ambassador to Ankara, but Read more
Egypt is sending a key delegation to Tripoli to meet with the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Faiez Serraj, seeking to counter Turkey which has been present in the oil-rich country since last year. The delegation headed Read more
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has appointed a former Budget and Planning Commission chairperson as the country’s new minister of Treasury and Finance after his son-in-law and Finance minister Berat Albayrak resigned on Sunday, citing health issues. Lütfi Elvan, 58, Read more
France Sunday said its envoy to Turkey is returning to Turkey after Ankara condemned a terror attack in the city of Nice in which three people have died. France summoned its envoy to Turkey one week ago after Turkish leader Read more
Turkish intelligence services have arrested a Palestinian man for allegedly spying on Arab nationals living in Turkey on behalf of the UAE, Middle East Monitor (MEMO) reports. The man, according to a senior Turkish security official who spoke on condition Read more
Egypt has instructed its media to water down criticism of Turkey at time both are engaged in secret talks to iron out conflicting files including Libya, reports say. A source in Egyptian state TV who asked not to be named, Read more
A top Emirati official has slammed Turkish President Erdogan’s remark that Turkish military base in Qatar has contributed to the stability of the Gulf region. “The Turkish military presence in the Arab Gulf is an emergency,” Anwar Gargash, the UAE’s Read more