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Turkey: Stance on buying Russian S-400 unchanged; working group can resolve row with US
Apr 15, 2020 02:56Turkey has once again defied US calls to abandon a deal for the purchase of Russian S-400 missile defense systems, repeating an offer for a NATO-led working group to resolve the long-running dispute with Washington.
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Iranian, Turkish companies set for production of 1mn coronavirus test kits per week
Apr 14, 2020 07:54An Iranian tech company says it has designed and developed coronavirus testing kits meeting international standards in cooperation with a science-based firm in Turkey, and that the two are ready to produce one million of them per week to help speed up the detection of patients infected with COVID-19.
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Zarif discusses Afghan situation, COVID-19 outbreak with Turkish, Qatari FMs
Apr 13, 2020 07:52Foreign Minister of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif held talks with his Turkish and Qatari counterparts on the latest political situation in Afghanistan and ways for collective action against the novel coronavirus.
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Turkish court indicts 20 Saudis for murdering Khashoggi
Apr 13, 2020 03:59A Turkish court has accepted an indictment brought against 20 Saudis, including two former associates of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, for the brutal murder of prominent dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018.
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Turkey's interior minister resigns over lockdown decision, Erdogan rejects
Apr 13, 2020 03:46Turkey's Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Sunday (April 12) he was resigning from his post over the implementation of a two-day curfew in major Turkish cities to tackle the coronavirus outbreak.
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One month since declared coronavirus pandemic, over 108,000 dead
Apr 12, 2020 03:42One month since the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), 108,867 people have died of complications caused by the pathogen and more than 1,777,666 people have been infected worldwide, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.
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Turkey dispatches some 300 allied Takfiri militants from Syria to Libya: SOHR
Apr 12, 2020 02:06Turkey has reportedly sent new batches of allied Takfiri militants from Syria to Libya, following a bill passed by the parliament earlier this year that allows the Ankara government to deploy forces to the North African country to intervene in the civil war.
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Turkey imposes two-day lockdown to fight coronavirus
Apr 11, 2020 12:21Istanbul, Ankara and other major Turkish cities locked down for two days to combat the spread of the coronavirus under an Interior Ministry order, as the country's death toll from the pandemic rose above 1,000 on Saturday.
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Turkey sends another convoy of military vehicles into Syria’s Idlib
Apr 10, 2020 02:04A Britain-based war monitor says Turkey has dispatched another military convoy to Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, as Ankara beefs up its military presence in the embattled region following a ceasefire reached earlier this month with Moscow to halt an escalation of violence there.
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Zarif: Iran ready to help Turkey in COVID-19 battle
Apr 08, 2020 02:01Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif voiced the country’s readiness to help Turkey to contain the novel coronavirus epidemic.