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Top US general’s Ankara visit indicates no immediate plans of seizing Raqqa from ISIL

Head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford played down the idea of seizing the Islamic State in Iraq and the...

Turkish EU Affairs Minister: Gülen movement is worse than Nazis

Turkey’s European Union Minister Ömer Çelik on Monday portrayed the Gülen movement as being worse than the Nazis, saying the Nazis were like apprentices...

RISS head claims Russian jet downed by Erdoğan enemies, assisted by US soldiers

Leonid Reshetnikov, head of official Russian Federation think tank the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS), has claimed there were enemies of Turkish President...

Erdoğan advisor: Germany is behind all evil

Professor Burhan Kuzu, an advisor to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy, has said Germany is behind all evil...

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...

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