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The Turkish Rear Admiral who has applied for asylum in the USA has been identified by Anadolu News Agency as Mustafa Urgulu. He is stationed at the NATO Allied Command Transformation headquarters in Virginia, US. Turkey launched the arrest warrant Read more
After Ankara’s relations with Brussels strained following European Union criticism of Turkish authorities crackdown on those involved in the failed military coup, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan moved closer to Russia. He travelled this Tuesday to Moscow where he was received Read more
The Turkish foreign ministry has summoned Germany’s chargé d’affaires after President Erdogan was barred from addressing an anti-coup d’état rally on Sunday in Cologne, Germany. Organizers wanted to invite the Turkish president to give a speech but the city’s police Read more
President Erdogan has brought the armed forces and the national intelligence agency under his direct control as the crackdown continues after the failed coup d’état on July 15. More than 10,000 people have been arrested and detained by security forces Read more
Egyptian lawmakers Monday urged Cairo to grant political asylum to US-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen accused of plotting the failed military coup against Turkish President Erdogan, in a move that would further strain relations between the two countries, reports say. Read more
After President Erdogan claimed that Fetullah Gulen, on a self-imposed exile in the US, is behind last week’s coup d’état, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden had a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Binali Yildirim wherein he gave assurances that Washington Read more
Turkey has reacted to Egypt’s actions that stopped the UN Security Council from releasing a statement condemning the attempted coup d’état against President Erdogan. “It is natural for those who have come to power through coup to refrain from taking Read more
Turkish authorities led by President Erdogan Sunday called on the United States to extradite U.S.-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen and his supporters; accused of formatting the Friday failed military coup. Ankara firmly believes that Gulen, based since 1999 in the Read more
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim is pursuing his approach of Turkey needing to “increase its friends and decrease its enemies” since coming to office in May and his latest statement called for the renewal of ties with Syria. “It is our Read more
Turkey Monday said it has not undertaken any step to normalize tensed ties with Cairo at the time it seeks to thaw ties with Israel and Russia. “No official or unofficial step has been taken on the normalization of the Read more