TEHRAN, October 19 - Iranian First Vice President Esha’aq Jahangiri arrived in Turkey for talks with senior officials of the country and attending the 9th round of D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation summit.
TEHRAN, October 17 - A powerful earthquake shook the Greek island of Kos early Friday morning, damaging several buildings and the main port, killing at least two people and causing more than 120 injuries, authorities said.
TEHRAN, October 14 - Turkey has issued arrest warrants for 100 former police officers as part of the government’s widening crackdown following last year’s attempted coup.
TEHRAN, October 14 - Turkish authorities arrested four people over Wednesday’s explosion in a storage tank at a Tupras refinery which killed four people, the state-run Anadolu news agency said on Saturday.
TEHRAN, October 12 - The Turkish purchase of Russian-made S-400 air defense systems is Ankara’s business as the systems will not become part of joint NATO defenses, the chief of the alliance says. The US, however, has repeatedly voiced discontent over Ankara’s move.
TEHRAN, October 10 -Ankara has issued a detention warrant for a second US consulate worker, according to media reports. It comes after Turkey’s justice minister urged the US to reverse its decision to suspend visas for Turkish citizens.
TEHRAN, October 10 -Archaeologists have uncovered a 4,500-year-old skeleton wearing jewelry from an early Bronze Age village in Turkey. The site has also revealed female skeletons were buried with weapons.
TEHRAN, October 9 - Iraq’s central government has launched a probe into the the hefty oil revenues of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)
TEHRAN, October 9 -Turkey has suspended all visa services at its diplomatic facilities in the United States, the Turkish Embassy in Washington announced late Sunday, shortly after a similar U.S. move.
TEHRAN, October 7 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country’s army forces are supporting a full-scale military operation, which has just begun by the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA), aimed at liberating militant-held areas in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib.
TEHRAN, October 7 - Sadeq Maleki, senior political analyst from Iran, answered the questions of Mehr News, on the occasion of Wednesday visit of Erdogan to Tehran.
TEHRAN, October 7 -Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says Ankara intends to open a new border crossing with Iraq in cooperation with the central government in Baghdad after the Anatolian country closed the existing crossing in response to last week’s controversial referendum on independence in Iraq's Kurdistan region.
TEHRAN, October 5 - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged leaders of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region to fix their mistakes, stressing that Turkey and Iraq are obligated to take necessary steps to prevent any change in the region’s political borders.
TEHRAN, October 4 - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the United States and Israel benefit from the recent referendum in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, stressing Washington and foreign powers seek to create a new Israel.
TEHRAN, October 4 - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani stressed Tehran and Ankara are "anchors of stability" in the Middle East region, reiterating that battle against terrorism is top on the agenda of the two countries.