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Turkish police detain dozens in Istanbul during May Day demonstrations
May 02, 2022 01:59Scores of Turkish protesters in the coastal city of Istanbul have been detained by the riot police during May Day demonstrations against the country’s economic hardship caused by galloping inflation.
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Turkey air force pulls out of NATO’s military exercise in Greece set for next month
May 01, 2022 01:44Turkey will not participate in NATO’s annual drills in Greece next month, security sources say, amid a simmering standoff between Ankara and Athens over sea boundaries in the eastern Mediterranean.
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Turkish president in Saudi Arabia on first visit since Khashoggi murder
Apr 29, 2022 09:03Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has visited Saudi Arabia to mend fences between Ankara and Riyadh after the 2018 killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi drove a wedge between the two countries.
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Iraq slams Turkey’s Kurdistan offensive as threat to national security, summons Ankara’s envoy
Apr 20, 2022 01:48The Iraqi presidency says the recent cross-border Turkish military operation in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region is a “violation” of the country’s sovereignty and a “threat to its national security.”
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Turkey launches fresh military operation in northern Iraq to ‘prevent terror attacks’
Apr 18, 2022 08:57Turkey has launched a new cross-border military operation against purported positions of Kurdish militants in northern Iraq, saying the incursion was aimed to “prevent terror attacks” coming from the neighboring Arab country.
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Turkey condemns Israel's attack on Palestinian worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque
Apr 18, 2022 01:14Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned the latest Israeli attacks on Palestinian worshippers at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of East al-Quds, saying his country will stand against any threats to the holy site’s status.
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Several militants dead, injured in clashes between rival Turkish-backed groups in Syria: SANA
Apr 15, 2022 01:38Amid brazen attempts by rival Turkish-backed militants to consolidate their grip on areas under their control, the extremists have turned against each other and engaged in a fierce exchange of fire in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah.
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'Talks with neighbors over water rights, dam construction on Iran’s agenda'
Apr 11, 2022 08:59Iran’s foreign minister says the foreign, interior, and energy ministries have formed a joint committee to follow up on the issues related to cross-border rivers and the construction of dams in some neighboring countries, adding that Tehran has held bilateral talks with Turkey, Iraq, and Afghanistan over the issues.
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Turkey moves Khashoggi murder trial to Riyadh ahead of Erdogan's Saudi visit
Apr 08, 2022 13:54Ahead of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Saudi Arabia, a Turkish court has ruled to halt the trial of Saudi suspects over the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi and transferred it to Saudi Arabia.
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Lavrov accuses Ukraine of presenting 'unacceptable' draft peace deal in breach of Istanbul talks
Apr 07, 2022 13:44Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused Ukrainian negotiators of changing demands since last month's talks in the Turkish city of Istanbul, saying Kiev presented Moscow with an "unacceptable" draft peace deal that evinced a lack of interest in ending the protracted conflict.