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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Saturday said if Washington continued threats to double tariffs on Turkey’s imports of iron and steel as a tool to secure the release of American Pastor, Ankara will look for new markets, Daily Sabah reports. Read more
Turkey Wednesday slammed the US sanctions targeting two key ministers of the cabinet and vowed to take equivalent measures in retaliation if necessary. The U.S. Treasury Wednesday pressed sanctions against Turkish Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul and Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu Read more
German player and London-based Premier League team Arsenal’s star Mesut Özil announced Sunday he will no longer play for Germany after he was abused by racist comments following his meeting with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in May in the Read more
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Sunday solidated his authority after he knocked out his main rival in the first round of the presidential elections. Erdogan won his second term in office as the country’s first elected president. The leader of the Read more
Turkey’s autocratic ruler Recep Tayyip Erdogan has pledged to lift years-old state of emergency if re-elected on June 24. Erdogan in an interview Wednesday on 24 TV said his first decision if re-elected on June 24 will be to lift Read more
Turkey’s foreign ministry Wednesday rejected the 32-month sentence pressed against state official Hakan Atilla by a US court as an unfair ruling, pointing out that the New York court decision was based on fake evidences provided by supporters of Ankara’s Read more
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Tuesday slammed Israel as he refuted the Jewish state’s reference to Hamas as terrorist group arguing that the Islamist movement ruling the “world’s open prison” defends Palestinian homeland against an occupying power. “Hamas is not Read more
Turkey’s main opposition party, Republican People’s Party (CHP), Friday picked Muharrem Ince to represent the party at June 24 snap presidential and parliamentary elections, to challenge incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who has been nominated as the ruling AKP candidate. Read more
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Tuesday told members of his ruling AK Party that three Turkish men, aligned with his US-based rival cleric Fethullah Gulen, had been detained in the African country of Gabon where the men have been charged for Read more
France is not planning military engagement in Northern Syria on the side of rebels and Kurdish forces labeled by Ankara as terrorists, a source from the French presidency told Turkish Daily Sabah. The source who did not want to be Read more