Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to forward Sweden’s membership bid for the Nato military alliance to Turkey’s parliament, Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg announced on Monday. “I’m glad to announce … that President Erdogan has agreed to forward the accession protocol for Sweden to the grand national assembly as soon as possible, and work[…]
Turkiye expects Sweden to fulfil its promises made under last year’s Madrid memorandum for its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) bid, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Friday, citing a pact signed with Turkiye, Norway and Sweden at a NATO summit. Speaking at a military graduation ceremony in Istanbul,[…]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hinted that Ankara will approve Finland’s bid to join Nato after months of negotiations. “Whatever the process is, we will run that process. We will do our part. We will keep our promise,” Erdogan told journalists at the Grand National Assembly in Ankara, the state-run[…]
Sweden has reaffirmed its decision to distance itself from Kurdish militant groups in its bid to join NATO, as it attempts to secure Turkiye’s approval to join the military alliance. Earlier this year, Sweden and Finland applied to join NATO as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the[…]
US President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday imposed sanctions on its NATO ally Turkey over its purchase of a Russian air defence system, setting the stage for a further confrontation between the two nations as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office. The move comes at a delicate time in[…]
At least 33 Turkish soldiers have been killed in an air raid by Syrian government forces in the northwestern Idlib province, the governor in the southeastern province of Hatay said early on Friday, raising an earlier death toll, while also threatening an escalation of conflict and another refugee crisis. The deaths[…]
A powerful suicide bombing targeted an under-construction medical facility near Bagram airbase north of the capital Kabul, the US military has said. While there were no US or coalition casualties, a medical base being built for locals was badly damaged, Resolute Support, the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan, said in a[…]
Russia has consistently opposed the idea of space militarization, but the actions of the US and its allies force Moscow to counterbalance this growing threat, President Vladimir Putin has said. “Russia has always opposed and continues to oppose the militarization of space,” the president told a government meeting on military policies.[…]
French president and Turkish foreign minister have been throwing verbal punches over Ankara’s military incursion into Syria that drove a wedge between NATO members. French President Emmanuel Macron warned Turkey on Thursday that it is alienating allies, and should not depend on support from the multinational alliance while also carrying[…]
Denmark offered to take over Canada’s leadership of NATO’s non-combat training mission in Iraq from the end of 2020 until mid-2022, the Danish Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. “With the contribution we will be able to deliver an even stronger effort in our fight against the terror group Islamic State[…]
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