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US demands security guarantee for Kurdish fighters from Turkey
Jan 22, 2019 11:10The protection of allied forces who fought and died battling Daesh in Syria must be guaranteed, the US secretary of state told his Turkish counterpart in a phone conversation.
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Erdogan: Turkey not to allow Syria safe zone to turn into ‘swamp’
Jan 22, 2019 04:09Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the country will never allow the implementation of a militant-free safe zone in Syria to be turned into "a swamp" like the one in northern Iraq, where US-backed Kurdish militants launch attacks on Turkish soil.
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Erdogan to Trump: Turkey ready to take over Manbij security
Jan 21, 2019 09:22Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country is prepared to take over security in Syria’s northern town of Manbij where a deadly bomb attack killed several American soldiers last Wednesday.
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1000s join rally in Turkey in solidarity with detained Kurdish lawmaker
Jan 20, 2019 03:20Thousands of people have taken part in a rally in the main Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey to express solidarity with a detained lawmaker from a pro-Kurdish party who launched a hunger strike in November.
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Syria arrests Turkish-backed militants planning terror attacks
Jan 17, 2019 11:15Syrian Kurdish officials have arrested a group of Turkish-backed militants from the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA), who was apparently plotting new terror attacks in the country’s northern province of Aleppo on orders from Turkey's intelligence agency (MIT).
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Turkey deports Dutch financial journalist over ‘security-related reasons’
Jan 17, 2019 11:15Turkey has deported a journalist working for a Dutch financial newspaper over unspecified “security-related reasons,” as Ankara continues its crackdown on the press over two years after a failed coup against the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Manbij bomb attack won’t impact Trump’s planned troop pullout from Syria: Erdogan
Jan 17, 2019 09:21Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he believes the recent deadly bomb attack in Syria’s flashpoint northern city of Manbij, which killed several American soldiers, would not impact US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from war-torn Syria.
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Trump, Erdogan talk Syria ‘safe zone’ amid war of words over Kurdish militants
Jan 15, 2019 10:39US President Donald Trump has held talks with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on the establishment of a militant-free safe zone in northern Syria.
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Turkey says 'not intimidated' after Trump threatens economic devastation
Jan 14, 2019 12:09Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says Turkey will not be intimidated by US President Donald Trump's threat to “devastate" its economy if Ankara attacked Kurdish militants in Syria.
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Trump to ‘devastate Turkey economically if they hit Kurds’ in Syria
Jan 14, 2019 04:44US President Donald Trump has threatened to “devastate Turkey economically” if it attacks US backed Kurdish militants in Syria after US withdrawal.