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Turkish protesters condemn curfew in southeast
Feb 28, 2016 04:19Thousands of demonstrators protested on Saturday against a three-month military crackdown as well as a strict curfew in southeastern Turkey.
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Saudi forces in Turkey for air campaign in Syria
Feb 25, 2016 17:01More than two dozen Saudi Air Force personnel and a cargo of military equipment have arrived in Turkey to prepare for a joint air campaign in Syria.
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Turkey not bound by Syria truce deal if security threatened: PM
Feb 25, 2016 09:02Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says Turkey will not honor a planned cessation of hostilities in war-hit Syria if its security is threatened.
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Russia urges appraisal of Turkey shelling of Syria
Feb 24, 2016 18:56Russia has called on international human rights organizations to appraise Turkish artillery shelling inside the Syria territory, denouncing as illegal Ankara’s military campaign in the crisis-hit Arab country.
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Keep Kurds out of Syria ceasefire: Erdogan
Feb 24, 2016 14:24Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Syrian Kurdish forces must be excluded from a ceasefire agreement between the warring sides in Syria.
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EU warns of possible Turkey-Russia ‘hot war’ over Syria
Feb 24, 2016 06:09The European Union (EU) foreign policy chief has cautioned against the risk of a war with active military hostilities between Turkey and Russia over Syria, where regional powers have sided with warring sides to the conflict gripping the Arab country.
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DNA proves Ankara attacker as Turkish
Feb 24, 2016 02:57DNA evidence shows that the culprit behind a deadly blast in Ankara was Turkish-born, not Syrian as initially claimed by Turkish authorities, says a security official.
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Turkish-Saudi invasion of Syria not on agenda: Turkey’s FM
Feb 22, 2016 11:14Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says Turkey and Saudi Arabia have currently no plan for a ground incursion into Syria.
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Turkey military says 14 militants killed in southeast Turkey
Feb 22, 2016 11:08Turkey's military says it has killed 14 Kurdish militants in its ongoing crackdown on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the southeast of the country.
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Ankara announces new anti-terror 'action plan'
Feb 21, 2016 01:51Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says his country is set to introduce fresh security measures following a recent blast that claimed the lives of 28 people in Ankara.