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Iran rejects Turkey’s threat to launch incursion into Syria, calls for dialog
May 29, 2022 01:12Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh says Tehran opposes the use of military action against regional countries, stressing that the only way to assuage Turkey’s security concerns is through dialog, rather than another incursion into neighboring Syria.
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Turkey threatens to block Nordic NATO bids over ‘security concerns’
May 26, 2022 06:29Turkey has threatened to obstruct the process of Sweden and Finland joining the NATO military alliance if the two Nordic states fail to address Ankara’s “security concerns” related to the pair’s support for Kurdish militants outlawed in Turkey.
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Syria rejects Turkey’s call for safe zone in northern Syria as ‘aggressive, colonial act’
May 26, 2022 00:21Damascus has categorically rejected Turkish President Recep Tayyeb Erdogan’s call for the establishment of a so-called safe zone in the occupied northern part of the war-ravaged country, describing the proposal as an “aggressive, colonial act.”
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Finland PM says no nuclear arms or NATO bases on Finland's soil even after membership
May 19, 2022 09:46Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin has rejected the possibility of deploying nuclear weapons or establishing NATO military bases on her country's soil even in the event that Helsinki becomes a member of the US-led Western military alliance.
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Turkey: Erdogan says Sweden, Finland ‘harboring terrorists’, opposes NATO bid
May 18, 2022 13:25Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he cannot endorse the bid of Sweden to join the NATO military alliance as long as the two Nordic countries continue to lend support to terrorist groups against his country.
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Severe sandstorm sweeps across Iran, forcing closure of universities, offices
May 17, 2022 06:16A thick layer of dust has blanketed the otherwise clear azure sky in Tehran and many other Iranian provinces, forcing authorities to order the closure of schools, universities, and public offices.
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Experts warn situation still not favorable for Syrians to return home amid Turkey’s repatriation push
May 08, 2022 09:41While Turkey has announced plans for the repatriation of around one million Syrian refugees to their homeland, refugee experts warn that the present security conditions in the conflict-ridden Arab country are not conducive for the asylum seekers to rebuild their lives.
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Iran, Turkey discuss management of joint water resources
May 04, 2022 03:37The foreign ministers of Iran and Turkey weighed plans for cooperation between the two neighbors in the protection of the environment and management of the water resources that they share.
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Turkey to repatriate 1 million Syrian refugees: Erdogan
May 03, 2022 10:03Turkey’s president says the country is to send back around one million Syrian refugees to northern Syria, under a plan aimed at enabling their resettlement in houses partially built by Turkey there.
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Turkish warplanes bomb Iraq's Kurdistan again despite no agreement to allow operations on Iraqi territory
May 02, 2022 10:04Despite the Iraqi Foreign Ministry’s insistence that there is no agreement between Baghdad and Ankara pertaining to the Turkish military operations inside the borders of Iraq, Turkey’s armed forces have launched air raids targeting the purported positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.