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Finland PM says no nuclear arms or NATO bases on Finland's soil even after membership
May 19, 2022 09:46Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin has rejected the possibility of deploying nuclear weapons or establishing NATO military bases on her country's soil even in the event that Helsinki becomes a member of the US-led Western military alliance.
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Turkey: Erdogan says Sweden, Finland ‘harboring terrorists’, opposes NATO bid
May 18, 2022 13:25Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he cannot endorse the bid of Sweden to join the NATO military alliance as long as the two Nordic countries continue to lend support to terrorist groups against his country.
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Severe sandstorm sweeps across Iran, forcing closure of universities, offices
May 17, 2022 06:16A thick layer of dust has blanketed the otherwise clear azure sky in Tehran and many other Iranian provinces, forcing authorities to order the closure of schools, universities, and public offices.
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Experts warn situation still not favorable for Syrians to return home amid Turkey’s repatriation push
May 08, 2022 09:41While Turkey has announced plans for the repatriation of around one million Syrian refugees to their homeland, refugee experts warn that the present security conditions in the conflict-ridden Arab country are not conducive for the asylum seekers to rebuild their lives.
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Iran, Turkey discuss management of joint water resources
May 04, 2022 03:37The foreign ministers of Iran and Turkey weighed plans for cooperation between the two neighbors in the protection of the environment and management of the water resources that they share.
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Turkey to repatriate 1 million Syrian refugees: Erdogan
May 03, 2022 10:03Turkey’s president says the country is to send back around one million Syrian refugees to northern Syria, under a plan aimed at enabling their resettlement in houses partially built by Turkey there.
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Turkish warplanes bomb Iraq's Kurdistan again despite no agreement to allow operations on Iraqi territory
May 02, 2022 10:04Despite the Iraqi Foreign Ministry’s insistence that there is no agreement between Baghdad and Ankara pertaining to the Turkish military operations inside the borders of Iraq, Turkey’s armed forces have launched air raids targeting the purported positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
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Turkish police detain dozens in Istanbul during May Day demonstrations
May 02, 2022 01:59Scores of Turkish protesters in the coastal city of Istanbul have been detained by the riot police during May Day demonstrations against the country’s economic hardship caused by galloping inflation.
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Turkey air force pulls out of NATO’s military exercise in Greece set for next month
May 01, 2022 01:44Turkey will not participate in NATO’s annual drills in Greece next month, security sources say, amid a simmering standoff between Ankara and Athens over sea boundaries in the eastern Mediterranean.
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Turkish president in Saudi Arabia on first visit since Khashoggi murder
Apr 29, 2022 09:03Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has visited Saudi Arabia to mend fences between Ankara and Riyadh after the 2018 killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi drove a wedge between the two countries.