The City of Cape Town and the Turkish city of Izmir signed a co-operation agreement on Tuesday. “In terms of our co-operation agreement, this means a cultural exchange,” Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille said in a speech prepared for delivery in the Izmir metro municipality. “It means learning from[…]
Unidentified gunmen have killed three Turkish soldiers on the Syria-Turkey border in Sanliurfa province, Turkish media said. The governor of Sanliurfa told the semi-official Anatolia news agency that the soldiers on guard duty on the border in Ceylanpinar district were shot dead early on Tuesday. Izzettin Kucuk said it was[…]
Thousands of Germans have participated in silent candle vigils to pay tributes to Tuğçe Albayrak, a young Muslim girl of Turkish origin, who lost her life after rushing to help two women who were being harassed in a restaurant in the city of Offenbach in Main. “Like countless citizens, I[…]
Pope Francis has urged Muslim leaders to “clearly” condemn violent attacks carried out in the name of Islam after returning from a historic three-day visit to Turkey. The Catholic pope made the remarks on Sunday during a press briefing on board a plane carrying him back to Rome after wrapping[…]
Pope Francis has taken part in a Muslim prayer alongside the Grand Mufti of Istanbul on the second leg of his three-day visit to Turkey. Francis stood on Saturday morning with his head bowed and hands clasped in front of him in a two minutes of silent prayer inside the[…]
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has met with leaders in Iraq’s Kurdistan capital of Erbil, his second stop in the violence-plagued country after Baghdad, as he continues the bond-building visit. In talks with the Kurdish region’s President Masoud Barazani on Friday, energy and military cooperation were discussed following a visit[…]
The Turkish president has said he is expecting 200 Kurdish Peshmerga fighters will head from Iraq to the besieged Syrian town of Kobane through Turkey after authorities agreed their passage. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that he had learned of the agreement to send the fighters, while Kurdish authorities[…]
Turkey has said it is helping Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters to cross its borders to join Syrian Kurdish forces battling the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group for the Syrian town of Kobane. “We are assisting Peshmerga forces to cross into Kobane,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told[…]
Turkish forces have attacked suspected Kurdish PKK positions in the southeast of the country, in the first major confrontation with the rebel group since peace talks began two years ago to end a 30-year conflict. Military statements on Tuesday said rebels belonging to the PKK movement attacked an outpost in[…]
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday vowed to press on with efforts to make peace with Turkey’s Kurds despite deadly pro-Kurdish protests, saying he would work for an agreement until “my last breath”. Protests by pro-Kurdish demonstrators angry at the government’s policy on Syria have left 31 dead in Turkey[…]
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