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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
The United Nations on Tuesday called on Turkey to end its 18-month-old state of emergency, saying that the routine extension of emergency powers has resulted in “profound” human rights violations against hundreds of thousands of people and may have lasting Read more
The Turkish embassy in the Danish capital Copenhagen was attacked early Monday with Molotov cocktails, local police said adding that no suspect has been arrested yet. Copenhagen Police spokesperson, Torben Madsen told Reuters that the building was empty at the Read more
The situation in the northwestern Syrian town of Afrin is deeply alarming as dozens of children have been killed since fighting began in the city, where people are under bombardment, hospitals have been shut down and water supplies cut off, Read more
Turkey on Friday criticized a European Parliament motion urging Turkey to withdraw from Afrin and to stop its ongoing operation in the Syrian district saying the motion is biased In a written statement, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said that with Read more
The European Court of Auditors has urged the European Union to better target funding for Turkey where reforms are overdue, as the auditors found out that EU financial assistance for Turkey, which aims to help align the country with EU Read more
Saudi Arabia has tossed Turkey in the ‘triangle of evil’, which includes arch rival Iran and extremist Islamist groups as tensions between the two countries hype over Ankara’s support to Qatar in the diplomatic row opposing the tiny Gulf country Read more