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Erdogan says US not honoring Syria deal ahead of Trump talks
Nov 07, 2019 11:33Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the United States is not fulfilling its pledge to remove Kurdish militants from a Syrian border region and that he would raise the issue when he meets US President Donald Trump next week.
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Scathing criticism for EU over Syrian refugee policies
Nov 07, 2019 04:49Once again the subject of EU asylum policy has been debated in the European Parliament. This time the focus was on reports that refugees are being forced to move from Turkey into war-torn northeastern Syria.
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YPG still not fully cleared from Syria safe zone, Erdogan says
Nov 05, 2019 11:23Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says militants from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) have not fully withdrawn from border areas of the so-called safe zone in northern Syria as specified in the agreements with Russia and the United States, and that US forces are still carrying out joint patrols with the militants.
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Delivery of Russian S-400 second batch might be delayed: Turkey
Nov 05, 2019 04:12A senior Turkish official says the delivery of a second batch of Russian S-400 missile defense systems may be postponed beyond a planned 2020 timeline after bilateral talks on technology sharing and joint production.
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Turkey says it captured sister of slain Daesh leader in Syria
Nov 05, 2019 03:37A senior Turkish official says his country has captured the elder sister of the slain leader of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in what he calls an intelligence "gold mine" in northwestern Syria.
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Kushner gave Saudi Crown Prince Bin Salman permission to arrest Khashoggi: report
Nov 04, 2019 08:58US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner gave permission to his friend, Saudi Arabia’s de-facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) to arrest the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi before he was brutally murdered last year, a whistleblower alleges.
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Daesh prisoners will be sent back to home countries in Europe: Turkey
Nov 03, 2019 03:46Turkey says it will send foreign members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group back to their home countries in Europe after the suspected terrorists were captured by the Turkish army troops during Ankara’s cross-border offensive into northeastern Syria.
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Turkey begins joint patrols with Russia in northern Syria
Nov 02, 2019 05:33Turkey has begun joint patrols with Russia in northern Syria after Kurdish militants met a 150-hour deadline to leave border areas near Turkey as part of a deal struck between Ankara and Moscow in Sochi late last month.
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Assad: Liberating northern Syria from Kurds 'ultimate goal'
Nov 01, 2019 04:57Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says his country's ultimate goal is to restore state authority over Kurdish-controlled northeastern regions in the wake of an abrupt US troop withdrawal and a Turkish offensive against the Kurds there.
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President Rouhani: Iran-Turkey cooperation guarantees regional peace
Nov 01, 2019 04:34President Hassan Rouhani congratulated Turkey on the anniversary of its Republic Day and stressed that cooperation and unity between Tehran and Ankara would guarantee regional peace and security.