Turkey

Turkish courts give life sentences to over 2,300 defendants over 2016 botched putsch

Nov 12, 2019 12:45

Courts in Turkey have handed down life sentences to a total of 2,327 defendants, including senior military officers, on charges of involvement in the failed July 2016 coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Erdogan defies EU sanctions threat over Cyprus drilling

Nov 12, 2019 09:10

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that he would not give in to EU demands to stop oil and gas exploration in the Mediterranean around Cyprus.
Turkey deports 2 captured Western members of Daesh

Nov 11, 2019 12:06

Turkey has deported two captured Western members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group despite unwillingness of the countries of origin.
Turkish drone pounds village in Syria’s Hasakah amid cross-border incursion

Nov 10, 2019 12:51

A combat unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), operated by Turkish military forces, has reportedly launched an airstrike against a residential neighborhood in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah, in the aftermath of a cross-border incursion by Turkish army troops and their allied militants into the Arab country's Kurdish region.
For Iran, neighbors always come first, Zarif says at 24th ECO summit

Nov 10, 2019 03:54

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is in Turkey to attend the 24th meeting of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), says for Tehran “neighbors always come first.”
Government soldiers take back northern Syrian village from Turkish forces, allies

Nov 10, 2019 03:28

Syrian government troops have retaken a village in the country’s Northeastern Province of Hasakah from Turkish military forces and their allied militants following intense clashes.
In video: Locals pelt Turkish forces with stones, shoes in Syria’s Hasakah

Nov 09, 2019 04:27

Dozens of people in Syria’s Northeastern Province of Hasakah have vented their anger by throwing stones at Turkish military forces for their presence in the area following a cross-border incursion by Turkish army troops and their allied militants against militants from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).
Erdogan says Turkey will not withdraw troops from Syria until other countries pull out

Nov 09, 2019 03:43

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country’s troops will not leave Syria until other countries pull out, insisting that Ankara will continue its cross-border offensive against Kurdish militants in northeastern parts of the Arab country until every one of them has left the region.
Russia deploys military helicopters to protect Syria-Turkey border patrols

Nov 08, 2019 09:19

Russia has deployed military helicopters to assist and protect its military police patrolling along Syria's border with Turkey.
UN report finds Jordan, Turkey and UAE violated Libya arms embargo

Nov 08, 2019 09:16

Jordan, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates have regularly violated the UN arms embargo imposed on Libya since 2011, according to a confidential report by UN experts seen on Thursday by reporters.