Tehran, 09 June_Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he and US President Donald Trump have come to unspecified agreements about the conflict in Libya, where a host of countries are aiding rebels against a Turkish-backed government.
Tehran, 26 May_Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reiterated Ankara's support for Palestinians, vowing to help protect their lands amid Israel’s plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank.
Tehran 11 March_Turkey’s president says the United States has offered to provide Ankara with the Patriot missile system if it refuses to operationalize the advanced S-400 defense system that it has bought from Russia.
Tehran 29 February _Russia says it has agreed with Turkey to ease tensions in Syria's embattled Idlib province, the last major terrorist stronghold in the war-torn country.
Tehran 25 February _Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says two Turkish troopers have been killed in Libya, despite an earlier assertion that Ankara had withheld the dispatch of forces to the North African country in an attempt to give peace a chance.
Tehran 13 February _An official at the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has dismissed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s threats of a military operation in Syria's northwestern Idlib province as hollow, stressing that they have been made by someone detached from realities on the ground.
Tehran 17 January_President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey is starting deployment of troops to Libya in support of the embattled United Nations-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) and in line with agreements relating to maritime border demarcation and enhanced security cooperation.
Tehran 06January_Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said Turkish soldiers had begun deploying to Libya after parliament approved such a move last week.
TEHRAN, Dec 28_Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's communications director says Tripoli has asked for Ankara's military aid, stressing his country's commitment to agreements signed with the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA).
TEHRAN, Dec 26_Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the Turkish parliament will soon pass a bill to send military forces to Libya as Tripoli has offered an “invitation” for the deployment.
TEHRAN, Dec 22_Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Saudi Arabia pressured Pakistan into pulling out of a recently concluded summit of Muslim nations in the Malaysian capital, adding this is not the first time that Riyadh has threatened Islamabad.
TEHRAN, Dec 18_The administration of US President Donald Trump says it does not consider the early 20th century mass killings of Armenians as genocide, rejecting a Senate resolution saying otherwise.
TEHRAN, Dec 16_Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to shut down the major US Incirlik airbase in response to Washington's recognition of the Armenian "genocide" and possible introduction of new sanctions against the country.
TEHRAN, Nov 14_US President Donald Trump lauds his relationship with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan amid S-400 tensions between Washington and Ankara.
TEHRAN, Nov 12_At the 2012 opening of Trump Towers in Istanbul, real estate mogul Donald Trump sang the praises of Tayyip Erdogan, telling a mostly Turkish audience that their leader, prime minister at the time, was “highly respected” around the world.
TEHRAN, Nov 9 _Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country’s troops will not leave Syria until other countries pull out, insisting that Ankara will continue its cross-border offensive against Kurdish militants in northeastern parts of the Arab country until every one of them has left the region.
TEHRAN, oct 23_Russia, Syria and Iran take a more prominent role in bringing a measure of stability and continuity to the Middle East as the American presence continues to diminish.
TEHRAN, oct 20_President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey will “implement its own plans” if Ankara and Moscow fail to find a solution to the presence of Syrian government forces in a “safe zone” that his country seeks to establish in northern Syria, warning also that Ankara will “crush the heads” of Kurdish militants if a deal with Washington on withdrawal of Kurdish forces from the region is not fully implemented.
TEHRAN, oct 16_Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country’s military forces and the Turkish-backed militants of the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) have launched a long-threatened offensive in northeastern Syria against Kurdish militants from the People's Protection Units (YPG) to push them away from border areas.