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US President Donald Trump Wednesday threatened to cut aid for countries which voted Monday in the Security Council or which may potentially back a draft resolution at an emergency meeting of the UN General Assembly this Thursday (dec.21) condemning President Read more
Istanbul public prosecutor has requested a Turkish court to hand a four-year jail term to New York Knicks center Enes Kanter for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erodgan. The prosecutor, according to the state-run agency Anadolu, referred to a series of Read more
In response to Trump’s declaration of Jerusalem as capital of Israel, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said his country plans moving its embassy to East Jerusalem. “The day is close when officially, with God’s permission, we will open our embassy Read more
The Turkish national flag carrier has acquired its Boeing 777 freighter after the company announced in November that it was in talks for the acquisition of forty 787-9 Dreamliners. The new aircraft; 777-200LR passenger airplane type possesses twin engines. It Read more
The UN Security Council (UNSC) will hold an emergency meeting Friday on the status of the city of Jerusalem at the request of eight states after President Trump Wednesday defied international warnings and declared the old city capital of Israel. Read more
Iran and Turkey Sunday bolstered commercial ties with Qatar, isolated by its regional neighbors over alleged support for terrorism, under an agreement signed Sunday. The agreement underlines greater cooperation between the three coungtries, announced the Iranian state television. According to Read more
Iraq announced that it plans to build a new pipeline that will ship oil from Kirkuk’s oilfields to the Ceyhan port in Turkey, in an attempt to reduce dependence on the pipeline crossing the territories under the administration of the Read more
Bolstered by the setback of the Kurdish independence endeavor in Iraq, Ankara is set to halt US support for the Kurds of Syria who have been emboldened by their recent inroads against the Islamic State. During the Sochi summit convened Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin has brought Turkey’s Erdogan and Iran’s Rohani together in a meeting that resulted in a watershed agreement to hold a Syrian Congress comprising pro-regime and opposition leaders in a bid to end the six-year civil war. Read more
Saudi Arabia will host a meeting bringing together leaders of the Syrian opposition with a view to unifying ranks ahead of the direct negotiations in Geneva under the auspices of the UN. The meeting scheduled on November 22-24 will take Read more