ANKARA – Turkey will launch a ground operation into northern Syria “at the most convenient time” to build a security strip, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday. “Our determination to secure all our southern [Read More]
ANKARA – At least 22 people were injured, including one seriously, in a magnitude-5.9 earthquake hitting Turkey’s northwestern province of Duzce early Wednesday, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said. The earthquake happened at 4:08 a.m. local [Read More]
ANKARA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday vowed to launch a ground operation “soon” in northern Syria against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG). “We will root out all of them with our [Read More]
ANKARA – Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on Tuesday urged other countries, particularly the United States, to cease any support for the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria. “We tell all our interlocutors, [Read More]
ANKARA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that his country planned to produce flour from Russian wheat for free delivery to the least developed countries. Erdogan said he had agreed with his [Read More]
ANKARA – Turkey wants to proceed with the normalization process with Egypt through high-level talks, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday, a day after his first meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi in [Read More]
ANKARA – More than 4.8 million foreign visitor arrivals were registered in Turkey in October, up by 38.3 percent year on year, official statistics showed on Monday. In October, the top country of origin among [Read More]
Bulgarian authorities have detained five suspects over connection with the deadly bomb attack in Istanbul, the country’s prosecution authority said Saturday. The five detainees were involved in logistics operations after the bomb attack, Siyka Mileva, [Read More]
ANKARA – Turkey launched an air operation on Sunday morning against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, the Turkish Defense Ministry said [Read More]
ANKARA – Turkey is trying to make the most of its good geographic location to become an energy hub between Russia, world’s leading exporter of natural gas, and the European market, even as the EU [Read More]
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