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Erdoghan knows Turkey’s pullout from Syria’s Afrin is a must
Apr 18, 2018 06:11After 2016, Turkey made a clear political U-turn on the Syrian case and opted to get close to Russia and Iran, both staunch allies of the Syrian government, and then engaged in Astana peace process, cultivating an atmosphere in which it hoped to make considerable gains.
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Eurasia integration is on the move
Apr 13, 2018 04:12The Islamic Republic of Iran, along with its Muslim neighbour Turkey, and the two regional giants Russia and China, is part of the emerging independent bloc for collective development of a vast region that ought to be protected from the meddling western powers, their local agents, and the terrorists they breed.
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Turkish president accuses France of 'abetting terrorism' in Syria
Apr 08, 2018 02:03Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused France of supporting terrorists amid growing tensions between the two NATO members over their different positions with regard to Kurdish militants in northern Syria.
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Jordan joins Turkey in pressuring Syrian refugees
Mar 26, 2018 02:47Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticized Jordan's decision to end medical protection for Syrian refugees living outside camps in the kingdom.
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Turkey begins operations in northern Iraq to hunt down PKK militants: President Erdogan
Mar 26, 2018 01:21President Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkey had begun operations in Iraq's Sinjar region, an area where it has threatened a military incursion, two days after sources said Kurdish PKK militants would withdraw from the area.
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Kurdish militants shell Turkish town, kills 1
Jan 31, 2018 10:46Turkish media say Kurdish militants have fired two rockets from the northern Syrian region of Afrin at a Turkish border town, killing a teenage girl and wounding another person.
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Turkey's Olive Branch operation & ‘Syrian end-game’
Jan 30, 2018 13:20Whereas Turkey’s operation Olive Branch is nothing short of an attack on the forces allied undoubtedly with the US, and thereby an attack on the US, this operation is as much a result of Turkey-US conflict of interests as it is aimed at modifying the US ‘end-game’ for Syria.
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OIC emergency summit in Turkey on al-Quds
Dec 13, 2017 08:23The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) convenes an urgent summit in Istanbul on Washington’s contentious declaration on al-Quds, with the Turkish foreign minister urging Muslim nations to respond by pressing the world for the recognition of the city as the capital of a Palestinian state.
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Turkey-Iran-Qatar entente mocks Saudi-led ‘Arab NATO’
Dec 09, 2017 02:26While Saudi Arabia played hosts to defence ministers of 41 countries on the pretext of forming an organization to fight terrorism, but actually to try to intimidate countries and forces which oppose it, a low profile but very important meeting took place in Tehran between the trade official of Iran, Turkey and Qatar.
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Thousands of Turkish people protest Trump's decision on Al-Quds
Dec 09, 2017 01:29Thousands of protesters have gathered in downtown Istanbul to demonstrate against US President Donald Trump's decision to move the US embassy in Tel Aviv to al-Quds.