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Turkey says end of US preferential trade deal contradicts $75bn target
May 17, 2019 10:18Turkish Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan says the United States' move to terminate its preferential trade agreement with Turkey will be against the $75-billion target for mutual trade laid out by the two countries.
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Russia’s S-400 deal with Turkey being fully implemented, presidential aide says
May 15, 2019 10:44A high-ranking Russian official says the implementation of his country’s deal to deliver advanced S-400 air defense missile systems to Turkey is in full swing despite US pressure and threats of imposing sanctions on Ankara over the purchase of the military hardware.
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Turkey detains 46 ex-policemen over affiliation to Gulen movement
May 14, 2019 01:26Turkish security forces have arrested dozens of former police officers on suspicion of affiliation to a movement led by US-based opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom the Ankara government accuses of having masterminded the July 2016 coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Anadolu’s Gaza office hit for exposing Israel’s dirty works: Erdogan
May 12, 2019 01:36Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Zionist regime hit and destroyed a building housing the offices of the Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency in the Gaza Strip in a bid to prevent it from exposing the regime’s “dirty works” to the world.
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Turkish military servicemen to travel to Russia for S-400 training in late May: Report
May 09, 2019 03:02A Russian military source says Turkish military personnel are set to travel to Moscow later this month in order to participate in a training course on the operation of advanced S-400 air defense missile systems.
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Turkey ‘may go into Syria region despite Russia deal’
May 06, 2019 02:37Turkey has hinted that it may send in military forces to the Syrian border region of Tel Rifaat despite an agreement with Russia to stay clear of the area.
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VP: Turkey will not bow to US sanctions over S-400
May 05, 2019 11:24Turkey will never bow to US sanctions over its agreement to purchase Russian S-400 defense systems, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said on Sunday in reference to a deal that has strained ties between the NATO allies.
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Turkey’s Erdogan vows to keep up exposing Israeli crimes in Palestine
May 05, 2019 01:24Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Israel’s attack on state-run Anadolu agency’s office in the Gaza Strip would not deter Ankara from exposing Israeli crimes and atrocities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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Damascus won’t let Turkey control even one centimeter of Syrian territory: Deputy FM
May 04, 2019 01:31Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad says the Damascus government “will not allow Turkey to control even one centimeter of the Syrian territory,” stressing that Ankara should know that “Damascus will not accept the survival of militant groups” in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib.
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US will move F-35 work out of Turkey if Ankara buys S-400: Pentagon
May 04, 2019 00:50The Pentagon says it will halt manufacturing support for the F-35 fighter jet in Turkey unless Ankara scraps its plan to buy a Russian missile defense system.