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Sweden approves NATO entry as Turkey, Hungary ratifications drag on
Sweden's parliament voted Wednesday in favor of joining NATO despite delays by Hungary and Turkey to ratify its membership bid, which will likely lead...
US targets Iranian, Turkish entities and individuals for supporting Iran’s weapons program
The United States Treasury on Tuesday sanctioned four entities and three individuals in Iran and Turkey for procuring equipment, including European-origin engines for unmanned...
US State Department human rights report cites Albania’s closure of Gülen-linked schools
The US State Department included Albania's decision to close two schools allegedly linked to the Gülen movement, a faith-based group outlawed by Turkey, in...
Top court member, interior minister and AKP MP signed 2016 order to rendition Turkish radiologist
Newly obtained documents reveal that Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, then-General Director of Security and current lawmaker from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) Selami...
7 billion euro pledge sends message that quake survivors in Turkey, Syria not alone: Swedish PM
A pledge of 7 billion euros in assistance sends the message to people affected by devastating earthquakes in Turkey in early February that they...
US State Department annual report details Turkey’s human rights abuses
The US State Department on March 20 issued its 2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices with a subsection on Turkey in which it takes...
High-level bureaucrats, AKP lawmakers accused of obtaining fraudulent degrees
An opposition lawmaker has revealed allegations of high-level bureaucrats and lawmakers from Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) obtaining fraudulent master’s and doctoral...
Kılıçdaroğlu to win against Erdoğan in first round of election despite rival contenders: poll
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the presidential candidate of an opposition bloc, is likely to win the upcoming May 14 elections in Turkey by securing 53.1 percent...
Turkey and Egypt move toward normalizing relations
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu met with his Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Shoukry, in Cairo on Saturday, the first visit by Ankara's top diplomat to...
Turkey still hopeful of extension to Ukraine grain deal
Turkey is hoping that a grain export deal between Kyiv and Moscow, key to alleviating a global food crisis, can be extended for another...
[ANALYSIS] Search for drone wreckage may offer a chance to mend US-Turkey ties
Fatih Yurtsever*
Two Russian Su-27 fighter jets intercepted a US Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) MQ-9 Reaper UAV (Unmanned Air Vehicle) operating in...
58 detained over alleged Gülen links in a week
Fifty-eight people, including teachers, businessman, active duty and dismissed military officers and former cadets, have over the past week been detained on warrants issued...