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President Erdoğan says he does not care about being called dictator

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said he does not care about being portrayed as a dictator in the Western press in the wake...

US-backed forces say operation to retake Raqqa from ISIL has begun

An operation to retake the Syrian city of Raqqa from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant has begun, the US-backed Syrian Democratic...

EP’s Harms calls for extraordinary EU foreign ministers meeting on Turkey

Rebecca Harms, the president of the Green-European Free Alliance group and a member of Alliance ‘90/The Greens at the national level, has called for...

Ankara cancels German minister’s visit, keeps him waiting on phone

Turkey has canceled a visit by German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the last minute, keeping him waiting on the phone twice, Deutsche Welle...

Number of Turkish asylum seekers in Germany doubles

The number of applications for political asylum filed by Turkish citizens in Germany has increased in recent months, the Bild daily reported on Saturday. A...

Turkish PM to EP president: Criticisms on Turkey are baseless, biased

In a phone conversation with European Parliament President Martin Schulz on Saturday amid an increasing crackdown on media and the opposition, Prime Minister Binali...

US expresses ‘deep concern’ about detention of Kurdish politicians

US State Department Spokesperson John Kirby at the regular press briefing on Friday said the United States was “deeply concerned” at the detentions and...

EP president issues statement, EU ambassadors in Ankara meet on detention of HDP deputies

Reactions within the European Union are mounting following the mass detention of Kurdish deputies from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) as European Parliament President...

EU rapporteur calls for suspension of talks with Turkey

Kati Piri, the European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, on Friday called for the suspension of membership negotiations with Turkey, following a crackdown on opposition Kurdish...

EU Commission expresses grave concern over detention of HDP deputies

The European Union is gravely concerned about the detention last night of a number of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputies on charges alleging...

Germany summons Turkish diplomat over detentions of pro-Kurdish deputies

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday summoned the Turkish chargé d'affaires over Turkey's detention of 11 pro-Kurdish deputies, foreign ministry officials said. "The overnight...

German Foreign Minister Steinmeier: I cannot comprehend Erdoğan

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Thursday that he “cannot comprehend comments made by Erdoğan” in which he called Germany a haven...

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