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US may stop training Turkish pilots to fly F-35 jets over S-400 deal: Sources
May 29, 2019 04:24The United States is reportedly considering halting the training of Turkish pilots to fly American F-35 warplanes as Ankara keeps resisting Washington’s pressure to ditch a deal to buy Russian S-400 air defense systems.
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Erdogan aide warns Saudi king against executing Muslim scholars
May 29, 2019 04:18An advisor to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has written to Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Ale Saud, warning that the planned execution of Muslim scholars would bring nothing but “disaster” to the monarch.
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Delivery of S-400 systems may be delayed until after June: Turkish DM
May 29, 2019 00:54Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar says the delivery of advanced Russian built S-400 air defense missile systems to his country “might be delayed until after June” irrespective of US pressure and threats of imposing sanctions on Ankara over the purchase of the military hardware.
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Turkey ‘begins operation against Kurdish militants in Iraq’
May 28, 2019 07:45Turkey says it has launched a military operation against Kurdish militants in a mountainous area of northern Iraq.
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Separatist figure jailed in Turkey calls for end to hunger strikes
May 27, 2019 01:50A separatist figure jailed in Turkey has called for an end to the hunger strikes staged by a number of Kurdish legislators and prisoners in the country in solidarity with him.
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Russia denounces US deadline given to Turkey to scrap S-400 deal
May 22, 2019 10:35The Kremlin has denounced as “unacceptable” a deadline the United States has reportedly given to Turkey to annul a deal to purchase Russian S-400 missile defense systems or get penalized.
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Turkey says preparing for bans as reported US deadline on Russian S-400 deal looms
May 22, 2019 08:41Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar says his country is preparing for potential American sanctions as a deadline reportedly set by the US for Ankara to cancel an arms deal with Russia or face penalties draws near.
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Turkish arms in Libya before 'vast operation' to break siege
May 19, 2019 08:00Libyan forces loyal to the government based in Tripoli say they have received new weapons and armored vehicles to fight off an offensive backed by the UAE, Egypt and Saudi Arabia to seize the capital.
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Turkey now eyes Russia’s S-500 weapons
May 19, 2019 02:46Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country is seeking to acquire the Russian S-500 missile defense system, a more advanced version of the S-400, taking a dispute with the United States up a notch.
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Turkish court sentences 14 to life imprisonment over Istanbul twin bombings
May 18, 2019 01:28A Turkish court has sentenced fourteen people to life in prison without parole for involvement in twin deadly bombings in the country’s largest city of Istanbul in 2016.