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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he will accept the outcome of Sunday’s elections, addressing criticism from his rival that members of the government might be unwilling to transfer power peacefully. The governing party and its allies “will consider any outcome at the ballot box as legitimate” and will do “whatever democracy requires,” Erdogan said […]
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu held talks with the defense ministers of Turkiye, Syria and Iran on Tuesday as part of closely-watched negotiations in Moscow aimed at normalizing ties between Ankara and Damascus. In a readout published after the meeting, Russia’s defense ministry said all four countries had reaffirmed their “desire to preserve Syria’s territorial […]
Turkey and Syria’s defense and intelligence chiefs will meet in Moscow on Tuesday as the two countries try to repair ties long strained by President Bashar Al-Assad’s war. The meeting will also include their counterparts from Russia and Iran, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said. Turkey will not take a decision that would put Syrians […]
Turkey and Egypt agreed on Thursday to work together to help stabilize Libya, in a fresh effort to rebuild ties that strained in part over their support for rival administrations in the North African OPEC member. “From now on, we will work closely on the Libya issue,” Turkey’s Mevlut Cavusoglu said at a joint news […]
As Turkey’s general election campaign enters its home stretch, a team of rivals is determined to dash Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s hopes of extending his rule into a third decade. On May 14, voters will in effect be choosing between an increasingly autocratic president and a quadrumvirate of opposition leaders dedicated not only to defeating the man but […]
ANKARA: The deputy foreign ministers of Russia, Turkiye, Syria and Iran will meet in Moscow next week for low-level talks ahead of a long-planned meeting between the countries’ four foreign ministers.Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday that his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian asked if Tehran could join the three-way talks as a fourth […]
ANKARA: Presidential and parliamentary elections will be held in Turkiye on May 14, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Friday. A second presidential vote will take place on May 28 if a runoff is required. These elections are considered the country’s most significant in many years, as the opposition bloc is united for the first […]
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday urged Turkiye’s leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan to “fight” Russian evasion via Turkiye of Western sanctions imposed over the war in Ukraine. Macron “underlined the concern of fighting any evasion of the sanctions in place,” his Elysee Palace office said, after he spoke to Erdogan by phone on the […]
A 7.8-magnitude earthquake, followed by a second of magnitude 7.5, hit a large region, destroying thousands of buildings. ISTANBUL—A second powerful earthquake battered Turkey and northern Syria on Monday just hours after a strong temblor shook the region, killing more than 1,400 people and destroying thousands of buildings, Turkish and Syrian authorities said. A 7.8-magnitude […]
The president has leveraged his closeness with Putin to expand his international influence and bolster the country’s faltering economy ANKARA, Turkey—Russia’s invasion of Ukraine one year ago unleashed global economic turmoil. In Turkey, it has proved an unexpected windfall for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Turkish leader has managed to make himself indispensable to all […]
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