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British MPs ask gov’t to take more active stance on rights violations in Turkey

Fifty-three lawmakers in the British Parliament have in a letter expressed concern about widespread human rights violations in Turkey and called on the UK...

Turkish power firm halts generation for Lebanese grid

A Turkish firm has halted power generation from two barges moored off Lebanon's coast that provided as much as a quarter of its mains...

Pope John Paul attacker dismisses ‘Bulgaria link’ as Cold War propaganda

The man who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, on Thursday said allegations that Bulgaria masterminded the attack were...

Erdoğan calls French separatism bill ‘guillotine’ of democracy

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday denounced a planned French law designed to counter "Islamist separatism" as a "guillotine" of democracy, Agence France-Presse...

World needs to give Israel a ‘strong’ lesson, Erdoğan says in call with Putin

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said the world needs to give Israel a "strong" lesson on Wednesday in a call with his Russian counterpart,...

Italian and Turkish fishing boats in high-seas skirmish

A skirmish broke out between Turkish and Italian fishermen near the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus on Tuesday, Agence France-Presse reported, citing the Italian...

Turkey’s withdrawal from Istanbul Convention poses dangerous risks for region: HRW

In its statement on the 10th anniversary of the Istanbul Convention, the Council of Europe’s (CoE) binding treaty to prevent and combat violence against women,...

Turkish Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu in fence-mending visit to Saudi Arabia

Turkey's foreign minister arrived in Saudi Arabia for talks on Monday, his first trip since dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi's 2018 murder in İstanbul worsened...

Erdoğan vows to mobilize world to stop Israeli ‘terror’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vowed Monday to mobilize the world to stop Israeli "terror" in phone calls placed to Palestinian leaders during a...

Turkey demands end to Israel’s ‘heinous, cruel’ attacks

Turkey on Monday called Israel an "apartheid state" that must end "heinous and cruel attacks" against Palestinians, as clashes raged at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque...

Erdoğan calls Israel ‘terror state’ over Jerusalem clashes

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan denounced Israel as a "cruel terrorist state" in a speech in Ankara Saturday in which he referred to recent...

Dictated by the present, restricted by the past: Turkey’s détente with Egypt

Ali Dinçer* Earlier this year Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced talks to repair diplomatic ties with Egypt, which have been severely strained since the...

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