Turkiye and Azerbaijan have signed a deal for a gas pipeline linking the two countries following Baku’s military victory over Armenian militants in Nagorno-Karabakh. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev met on Monday in the Azeri exclave of Nakhchivan. They hailed Azerbaijan’s military victory in Nagorno-Karabakh over[…]
Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani on Friday congratulated Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the occasion of his country’s Democracy and National Unity Day. “The Emir of Qatar sent a cable of congratulations to President of the Republic of Turkiye, Erdogan, on the occasion of the National[…]
INTERNATIONAL Turkey will reconsider a 2004 decision to abolish capital punishment, the justice minister has said, after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan raised the death penalty in connection with the cause of this week’s wildfires. Capital punishment was struck from the constitution in the early years of Erdogan’s rule. However, after a[…]
INTERNATIONAL Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that he no longer recognises Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, after the latter’s criticism of Ankara during his recent trip to the United States. “He [Mitsotakis] no longer exists for me,” Erdogan said in a televised address following a cabinet meeting on Monday.[…]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned Israel and its enabling allies over “state terror… in Palestine,” declaring, “Whoever is on Israel’s side, let everyone know that we are against them.” “We do not approve of silence on the state terror that Israel blatantly carries out in Palestine,” Erdogan said[…]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the Egyptian government should be tried in international courts for the death of former President Mohamed Morsi. Morsi, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood group which is now banned in Egypt, died on Monday after collapsing in a Cairo court while on trial on[…]
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won the country’s key presidential vote, electoral officials have said, in a result that will allow him to keep his seat with increased powers and become Turkey’s first executive president. With 99.2 percent of ballots counted, Erdogan received on Sunday more than half the votes required[…]
Turkey says it has launched a much-awaited air and ground offensive against the Kurdish-controlled enclave of Afrin in northern Syria. After days of shelling, Turkish fighter jets on Saturday carried out air raids on the border district targeting positions held by the Syrian Kurdish PYD and YPG groups. The heavy[…]
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Iraq could not deal alone with driving Islamic State from the city of Mosul and that the presence of Turkish forces in a nearby military camp was an insurance against attacks on Turkey. Turkey has been locked in a row with Iraq’s[…]
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday promised to reinvigorate ties after their first meeting since Ankara shot down a Russian fighter jet in November. Erdogan’s visit to Putin’s hometown of St Petersburg is also his first foreign trip since the failed coup against him[…]
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