Thursday, 16 July 2020_Turkish President Recep tayyip Erdogan called the july 15th coup attempt a historic breaking point in Turkey's modern history. His words came in a speech he made during the fourth commemoration of the failed coup attempt of 2016.
Tuesday, 14 July 2020_Libya’s conflict seems to be headed for escalation, with the pro-rebel parliament “approving” Egyptian military intervention in the country, and Turkey conditioning an earlier ceasefire to the handing over of Sirte city and Jufra airbase to the government.
Tuesday, 07 July _Hundreds of firefighters were working to extinguish a forest fire in northwest Turkey's Gallipoli peninsula on Monday (July 6), state-owned Anadolu news agency said, adding maritime traffic in the Canakkale straits was suspended due to the blaze.
Wednesday, 01 July _Turkey’s Ambassador to Paris has accused France of being “biased” toward the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, saying the French government is ignoring violations of a Libyan arms embargo imposed by the United Nations Security Council to the benefit of renegade General Khalifa Haftar.
Tuesday, 30 June_Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will host a virtual conference with his Russian and Turkish counterparts on the situation in Syria and the Arab country’s peace process on Wednesday.
Turkey says forces loyal to Libya’s renegade General Khalifa Haftar need to pull out of the strategic city of Sirte for a lasting ceasefire, denouncing France for “jeopardizing” NATO’s security by supporting the strongman.
Tehran, 17 June_Turkey says it has deployed special forces — backed by aerial and artillery support — to a northern Iraqi region in what it calls an operation against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group, despite Baghdad’s outrage over Ankara’s increased military activities on Iraqi soil.
Monday, 15 June_A report says the United Arab Emirates has allegedly provided financial support to the anti-Turkey PKK militant group in Iraq's northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
Monday, 15 June_Syrian government forces have been preparing to launch an offensive against militants in Idlib after Turkey failed to live up to its commitments under a deal with Russia.
Monday, 15 June_Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is in Turkey on a working visit to discuss, among other things, breathing a new life into the two countries’ trade ties that have been hit hard by the new coronavirus’ pandemic.
Tehran, 09 June_A roadside bomb planted by PKK terrorists has detonated in eastern Turkey, killing two and wounding eight others aboard a personnel shuttle.
TEHRAN, 29 May_Iran’s new Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf says the Islamic Republic and Turkey should further boost regional cooperation with the purpose of promoting peace and sustainable development.
Turkey has lambasted Israel’s scheme to annex the occupied West Bank, warning that such condemned policies will lead to “more conflict and escalation.”
Tehran, 13 May_Amid rising frictions between Ankara and Abu Dhabi, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has hit out at the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for “bringing chaos” to the already-troubled Middle East region through its interventions in Libya and Yemen.
Tehran, 12 May_Malls, barber shops, hair dressers’, and other facilities have reopened after a nearly two- month closure due to the spread of the coronavirus in Turkey.
Istanbul, Ankara and other major Turkish cities locked down for two days to combat the spread of the coronavirus under an Interior Ministry order, as the country's death toll from the pandemic rose above 1,000 on Saturday.
A Britain-based war monitor says Turkey has dispatched another military convoy to Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, as Ankara beefs up its military presence in the embattled region following a ceasefire reached earlier this month with Moscow to halt an escalation of violence there.
Iran’s natural gas exports to Turkey have stopped following an explosion on a pipeline near their joint border, an official at the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) said on Tuesday.
Former Turkey and Barcelona goalkeeper Rustu Recber has been taken to hospital after testing positive for COVIID-19, and is currently in critical condition.