TEHRAN, June 19, YJC - Relations between Saudi Arabia and Turkey have begun to deteriorate over the Qatar rift, with Riyadh leading a blockade on the Persian Gulf emirate and Ankara sending troops to the small country.
As a coalition of Arab and Kurdish fighters known as the Syrian Democratic Forces are advancing on the self-proclaimed capital of Daesh in Syria, reports indicate that Turkey is planning to use the Free Syrian Army in its battle against Syrian Kurds. The Turkish government has been training FSA militants to fight Kurdish forces for some time now. The aim seems to be keeping the Kurds far from Turkey’s southern border. Our correspondent Rahshan Saglam reports from Istanbul.
TEHRAN, June 16, YJC - Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation (Rosatom) has won approval from Turkey's energy market regulator to go ahead with building its $20 billion Akkuyu nuclear power plant in the south of the country.
TEHRAN, June 13, YJC - The United Arab Emirates financed a high-profile coup attempt last year in Turkey and paid about three billion dollars to the putschists, a columnist in a Turkish daily has claimed.
TEHRAN, June 8, YJC - Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced his support for Qatar after Saudi Arabia and a number of other Persian Gulf Arab states cut their diplomatic ties with the country. His stance has raised some concerns in Turkey with critics saying Ankara must refrain from taking sides in this issue due to its possible repercussions.
TEHRAN, June 8, YJC - Turkey's parliament approves a measure to deploy troops to a Turkish military base in Qatar amid a widening rift between the Arab country and neighbors in the Persian Gulf region.
TEHRAN, June 7, YJC - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif is in Ankara to discuss issues of mutual interests as well as regional and international developments with Turkish officials.
TEHRAN, May 27, YJC - Turkey has arrested two employees of the opposition newspaper Sozcu over their alleged links to US-based Turkish figure Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for masterminding a failed military coup last year.
TEHRAN, May 25, YJC - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan have expressed their countries’ readiness to shore up bilateral ties especially in the economic field.
TEHRAN, May 25, YJC - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan says it would not be "a major issue" for Turkey if Germany decided to pull out its troops from the Anatolian country.
TEHRAN, May 24, YJC - NATO member states have agreed to approve collaborations with non-members on a case-by-case basis following member Turkey’s move to veto cooperation between the military alliance and non-member Austria.
TEHRAN, May 24, YJC - Turkish authorities have ordered the detention of 139 staffers from local councils and two ministries in Ankara, accusing them of links to the Turkish president’s archfoe.
TEHRAN, May 23, YJC - Russia has agreed to lift some remaining trade sanctions imposed on Turkey following the Turkish military's shooting down of a Russian warplane over Turkey-Syria border some two years ago.
TEHRAN, May 23, YJC -Turkey has opened the trials of 221 suspected organizers of a failed July 2016 coup against the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
TEHRAN, May 22, YJC - Russia has agreed to lift some remaining trade sanctions imposed on Turkey following the Turkish military's shooting down of a Russian warplane over Turkey-Syria border some two years ago.
TEHRAN, May 22, YJC - Iranian and Turkish deputy foreign ministers Rahimpour and Sedat Ünal met in Tehran on Sun. to discuss ways for expansion of bilateral and regional cooperation.
TEHRAN, May 16, YJC - Iran and Turkey are after mutual cooperation in pharmaceutical industry, said Director General of Iran-Turkey Chamber of Commerce Jalal Ebrahimi.
TEHRAN, May 15, YJC - Berlin has slammed Ankara's refusal to allow German lawmakers to visit a NATO base near Syria and warned it could move its troops elsewhere.