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Turkey blocks official Saudi, UAE news websites in retaliation
Apr 20, 2020 08:55Turkey has blocked public access to the websites belonging to the official news agencies of Saudi Arabia and its regional ally the United Arab Emirates amid simmering tensions between Ankara and Riyadh over the 2018 murder of a prominent Saudi journalist in Istanbul.
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Iraq summons Turkish envoy to protest deadly airstrike in Kurdistan region
Apr 17, 2020 01:18Iraq's Foreign Ministry has summoned the Turkish ambassador to Baghdad to protest Ankara’s latest deadly aerial raid on a refugee camp in the Arab country's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
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Turkey’s deadly drone strike on Iraqi refugee camp draws angry reactions
Apr 16, 2020 09:38Turkey has launched a deadly drone strike on a refugee camp in Iraq’s northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, drawing angry reactions from Iraqi politicians of different factions, who censured the attack as a violation of West Asian country’s sovereignty.
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Turkey begins releasing 90,000 inmates over coronavirus
Apr 16, 2020 01:26Turkey began releasing tens of thousands of prisoners on Wednesday to ease overcrowding in jails and protect detainees from the coronavirus, but excluded those jailed on terrorism charges.
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Turkish-backed Takfiri terrorists torch homes in northeastern Syria
Apr 15, 2020 13:53Turkish-backed Takfiri terrorists have reportedly burned a number of residential buildings in the countryside of Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah.
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Turkey: Stance on buying Russian S-400 unchanged; working group can resolve row with US
Apr 15, 2020 02:56Turkey has once again defied US calls to abandon a deal for the purchase of Russian S-400 missile defense systems, repeating an offer for a NATO-led working group to resolve the long-running dispute with Washington.
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Iranian, Turkish companies set for production of 1mn coronavirus test kits per week
Apr 14, 2020 07:54An Iranian tech company says it has designed and developed coronavirus testing kits meeting international standards in cooperation with a science-based firm in Turkey, and that the two are ready to produce one million of them per week to help speed up the detection of patients infected with COVID-19.
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Zarif discusses Afghan situation, COVID-19 outbreak with Turkish, Qatari FMs
Apr 13, 2020 07:52Foreign Minister of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif held talks with his Turkish and Qatari counterparts on the latest political situation in Afghanistan and ways for collective action against the novel coronavirus.
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Turkish court indicts 20 Saudis for murdering Khashoggi
Apr 13, 2020 03:59A Turkish court has accepted an indictment brought against 20 Saudis, including two former associates of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, for the brutal murder of prominent dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018.
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Turkey's interior minister resigns over lockdown decision, Erdogan rejects
Apr 13, 2020 03:46Turkey's Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Sunday (April 12) he was resigning from his post over the implementation of a two-day curfew in major Turkish cities to tackle the coronavirus outbreak.