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Foreign minister says Turkey will begin drilling for oil and gas off Cyprus

Turkey will begin drilling for oil and gas near Cyprus in the coming days, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Thursday, a move that...

Turkey condemns European Parliament committee call to suspend accession talks

Turkey on Thursday criticized as “unacceptable” a vote by the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee calling for a suspension of European Union accession negotiations...

Turks are dumping lira and hoarding dollars: report

Turkish households and companies that are faced with runaway inflation and near-zero real returns on local-currency deposits have converted $18 billion of their lira...

Assad adviser calls Turkey’s safe zone in northeast Syria illegal land grab

Bouthaina Shaaban, a senior adviser to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, on Tuesday said Turkey’s idea of carving out a safe zone in northeastern Syria...

S&P says NPL ratio in Turkish banking sector to double

Standard and Poor's said on Tuesday that it expects the non-performing loan (NPL) ratio in Turkey's banking sector to double to 8 percent and...

Pence asked Erdoğan to scrap Russian missiles in secret phone call: report

US Vice President Mike Pence made an abortive appeal to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, asking him to renege on a missile deal with...

Critically injured Nusra leader receiving treatment at Turkish hospital: report

Abu Mohammad al-Julani, the commander-in-chief of Syrian militant group Tahrir al-Sham, the successor of the al-Nusra Front, being treated at a hospital in southern...

TV ad for Turkish gaming company removed from air for plagiarism

A commercial that ran on 41 national TV channels for a Turkish mobile gaming company was discontinued after it was discovered to have been...

Erdoğan shrugs off US warning against purchase of Russian S-400 defense system

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan shrugged off US warnings against Ankara’s purchase of a Russian S-400 air defense system, Sputnik Turkish service reported. “Now they...

Minister announces 3.6 mln Syrians currently living in Turkey

Turkish Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu said on Monday that 3,644,342 Syrians had fled to Turkey since the start of the civil war in...

Twitter suspends account of closed-down pro-Kurdish newspaper

Social media company Twitter has suspended the account of Özgür Gündem, a pro-Kurdish daily that was closed down by a Turkish court in 2016...

State news agency runs story warning Turkish families of ‘dangers’ of K-Pop culture

Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu news agency on Friday ran a story warning parents about the “dangers” of South Korean-based K-Pop (Korean pop) music bands, which...

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