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Turkey maintains 'low-level' contact with Syria: Erdogan
Feb 04, 2019 09:20President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has confirmed for the first time that Turkey has maintained direct low-level contact with the government of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
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Turkey says can’t understand US silence over Khashoggi case
Feb 04, 2019 03:57Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that the US’ silence toward the killing in Istanbul of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi by its allies in Riyadh is not acceptable, and Ankara wants everything to be clarified about the case.
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Turkey warns against foreign meddling in Venezuela’s affairs
Feb 03, 2019 13:39Turkey says those countries that have recognized Venezuela’s self-proclaimed “interim president” Juan Guaido are worsening the Latin American country’s problems.
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UN believes MbS prime suspect in Khashoggi murder: Turkish official
Feb 03, 2019 08:55An investigative team led by the United Nations (UN) believes Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is the prime suspect in the state-sponsored assassination of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, an adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says.
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Turkey captures four Daesh suspects near border with Syria
Feb 03, 2019 01:02Soldiers have detained at least four suspected members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in a Turkish town on the Syrian border while they were trying to cross the frontier illegally.
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Turkey to set up safe zones in Syria: President Erdogan
Jan 29, 2019 04:23Turkey says it will form safe zones in northern Syria so that millions of Syrian refugees hosted by the Ankara government could return to their home country, which is now recovering from nearly eight years of foreign-sponsored militancy.
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Iran's first vice president arrives in Syria for key talks
Jan 28, 2019 15:00First Vice President Es'haq Jahangiri has arrived in the Syrian capital Damascus on a two-day visit to hold talks with senior officials of the Arab country.
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Iraq to summon Turkish envoy over killing of Iraqi Kurd
Jan 28, 2019 04:29The Iraqi Foreign Ministry says it will summon the Turkish ambassador to Baghdad over the death of an Iraqi Kurd by Turkish fire in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
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UN investigator in Khashoggi case demands access to Saudi consulate in Istanbul, not allowed yet
Jan 27, 2019 09:18A United Nations expert who has been assigned to investigate the state-sponsored assassination of Saudi Arabian dissident Jamal Khashoggi says she has requested access to Riyadh’s consulate in Istanbul, where the critic was brutally killed, but has not heard from Riyadh yet.
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Rare tornado wreaks havoc in Turkey's Antalya Airport
Jan 27, 2019 01:24At least 12 people were injured at Turkey's Antalya Airport on Saturday, as the area was hit by a number of tornados.