Thursday, 13 May 2021_Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has raised the alarm about the spread of Islamophobia across Europe, saying the “virus” of anti-Muslim sentiments is turning the continent into an “open-air prison” for the millions of Muslims living there.
Tuesday, 11 May 2021 _Turkey says a rocket attack on its supply convoy has killed one soldier and injured four others in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, the last militant-held stronghold after ten years of foreign-backed war in the Arab country.
Sunday, 09 May 2021_Iran has dismissed as “fabricated” a report published by a Turkish news agency which claimed that the Islamic Republic is transferring fighters from Syria to Yemen.
Wednesday, 05 May 2021_High ranking Turkish delegation has paid a visit to Libya. The Turkish foreign minister as well as the country's defense minister were among the delegation. During the visit, Libya urged Turkey to implement a UN resolution on withdrawing foreign fighters from the North African country.
Damascus has called for international pressure on the Turkish occupation forces to stop cutting off access to drinking water through the Alouk water pumping station in Hasakah city and its suburbs.
Tuesday, 06 April 2021_Turkish F-16 fighter jets have conducted new airstrikes on Duhok Province in Iraq’s northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, defying Baghdad’s numerous protests at such violations of the Arab country’s sovereignty.
Thursday, 14 January 2021_Turkey has the longest continental coastline in the Eastern Mediterranean and rejects the maritime boundary claims of Greece and the Greek Cypriot administration in the region.
Wednesday, 25 November 2020 _A court in Turkey has named new suspects in the case against Saudi officials charged with the state-sponsored murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018, saying the measure is needed to help reveal the full truth behind the killing.
Monday, 19 October 2020_Turkish Cypriots in the northern part of the east Mediterranean island of Cyprus have elected Ankara-favored Ersin Tatar as their new president.
Monday, 28 September 2020_Turkish prosecutors have prepared a second indictment over the 2018 killing of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, formally charging six Saudi officials, media reports say.
Monday, 28 September 2020_Saudi Arabia will officially ban Turkish products this week after months of pressure it imposed on local businesses not to trade with Ankara as part of a “secret” embargo, a Turkish media report says.
Monday, 31 August 2020_Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lashed at the leaders of France and Greece as tensions escalate between the NATO allies over oil and gas exploration in the disputed waters of the Mediterranean.
Tuesday, 14 July 2020_The head of the security and defense committee at the Iraqi parliament has condemned Ankara’s ongoing cross-border operation in the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region against hideouts of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group, stating that Turkish forces are now deployed more than a dozen kilometers into the area.
Tuesday, 14 July 2020 _Several Turkish and Russian soldiers have been wounded after a roadside bomb planted by militants in Syria went off near a joint Moscow-Ankara patrol in the Arab country’s northwestern province of Idlib.
Tuesday, 16 June_Russia’s Defense Ministry says Russian and Turkish military forces have been attacked during a joint patrol on the strategic M4 highway in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, but there were no deaths or injuries among the troops.
Iran reiterates that a consignment of 40,000 Iranian-made COVID-19 test kits has been sent to Turkey, although with a delay caused by transportation restrictions amid the pandemic, days after Turkish sources denied that the delivery had been made.
An 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.
Saudi Arabia has blocked access to the online platforms of two Turkish state media outlets, as tensions continue to simmer between Riyadh and Ankara more than two years after the Saudi state-sponsored murder of a journalist in Turkey.