TEHRAN, September 16 -Turkey has censured an "unacceptable" decision by a court in Belgium not to prosecute the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) for terrorist activities, accusing the European country of being a "weak link" in the battle against terrorism.
TEHRAN, September 15 - Russia, Iran, and Turkey, which together act as guarantor states in peace talks for Syria, have agreed on the details of a “de-escalation zone” in the Arab country’s western Idlib Province during resolution talks in the Kazakh capital of Astana.
TEHRAN, September 15 - Iranian and Turkish senior military commanders cautioned of dangerous aftermaths of an upcoming referendum on secession of Iraq’s Kurdistan region.
TEHRAN, September 13 - The head of the European Commission (EC) urges Turkey to stop comparing EU leaders to “Nazis,” saying Ankara’s behavior has cast chances of its EU membership far-off.
TEHRAN, September 10 - Turkish troops have killed almost 100 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) during operations in the country’s southeast regions.
TEHRAN, September 7 - The Estonian foreign minister, whose country holds the European Union’s six-month rotating presidency, says any decision to end Turkey’s bid to join the continental bloc would not be made this year.
TEHRAN, September 5 - The US military is set to upgrade a number of its facilities in Turkey’s Incirlik Air Base and other discrete outposts that it uses to run operations across the region, according to the White House's proposed 2018 budget.
TEHRAN, September 4 - Iranian Foreign Ministers Mohammad-Javad Zarif and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu discussed the violent crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar in a phone call.
TEHRAN, September 1 -Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has decried a decision by US authorities to arrest his security personnel accused of inciting a brawl in Washington in May, calling the charges “scandalous.”
TEHRAN, September 1 - Iran's President Hassan Rouhani and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan have warned that secessionist moves are not in the interests of the regional peace and stability, but rather to the detriment of nations.
TEHRAN, August 31 - A bomb placed in a garbage container has exploded in the western Turkish city of Izmir, wounding at least eight people on a shuttle bus nearby.
TEHRAN, August 29 - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Turkey is fast pulling out of Europe, blaming President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the breakdown of accession talks between the Ankara government and the 28-member European Union.
TEHRAN, August 29 - Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said Turkey needs an environment of social consensus and urged for a new constitution.
TEHRAN, August 29 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Israel must stop its occupation of Palestinian territories, which he says undermines the so-called two-state solution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
TEHRAN, August 27 - Turkey’s main opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu has dismissed threats against him by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, saying the head of state is obviously scared of him and struggles to contain his rise in the Turkish politics.
TEHRAN, August 25, YJC - The Turkish government fired over 900 officials with the public sector and boosted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s powers over the country’s national intelligence agency.
TEHRAN, August 25 - Turkey will never be accepted into the European Union as long as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in office, Germany’s Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said, blasting the Turkish head of state for not taking accession talks seriously.
TEHRAN, August 24 - Amid a renewed war of words between Ankara and Berlin, Turkish EU Affairs Minister Omer Celik blasted German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel for copying “far right and racists,” accusing the top diplomat of trying to “sabotage” Turkey-EU relations.
TEHRAN, August 23 - Turkey’s foreign minister said his country expects the administration of Iraq’s northern semi-autonomous Kurdish region to cancel an upcoming referendum on its independence.