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Acting Pentagon chief: We need Turkey to buy Patriots

Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said on Tuesday that he wanted NATO ally Turkey to remain in the F-35 fighter jet program but added that...

Turkey to continue withholding lira liquidity overseas at least until Sunday’s elections: report

Turkey will continue directing its banks to withhold lira liquidity from a key overseas market at least until after Sunday’s local elections, three sources familiar with...

Greece presents demarche to Turkish envoy protesting harassment of PM’s helicopter

Athens on Tuesday handed a demarche to Turkish Ambassador to Greece Burak Özügergin to protest an incident on Monday with Greek Prime Minister Alexis...

Russia claims no more moderate rebels in Idlib, all militants aligned with al Nusra

Oleg Syromolotov, Russia’s deputy foreign minister, has claimed all the militants in northern Syria’s Idlib region have sided with al Nusra and that the region no longer...

Turkish lira’s swap rates see highest since 2001 economic crisis

The Turkish lira’s overnight swap rate in London soared on Tuesday to 330 percent, and the weekly swap rate rose to 125 percent, according to Refinitiv...

CHP’s US representative claims CNN investigating CNN Türk’s ‘poor journalism’

Yurter Özcan, the US representative for Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), claimed on Tuesday that CNN has started looking into the “poor journalism” of CNN...

Espionage trial of Turkish employee of US Consulate begins in İstanbul

A Turkish employee of the US Consulate General in İstanbul appeared in court on Tuesday charged with espionage and attempting to overthrow the Turkish government in...

Germany aims to cut domestic Muslims’ ties to Turkey: report

Germany wants to cut the financial and personal ties of German Muslims of Turkish origin to Ankara in an effort to reduce foreign influence, the Financial...

Erdoğan again plays mosque shooting video at rally hours after meeting with New Zealand FM

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan replayed graphic footage of New Zealand’s worst mass shooting at an election rally on Friday -- just hours after...

Erdoğan calls some EU politicians ‘enemies of Islam’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused EU politicians Kati Piri, Federica Mogherini and Johannes Hahn of being enemies of Islam while criticizing a recent report adopted...

4 former Milli Görüş executives in Germany get suspended sentences for tax evasion

A German court on Friday handed down suspended jail sentences for tax evasion to four former executives of a Milli Görüş association, a Turkish-Islamist network active...

Erdoğan calls Turkey’s main opposition leader, Australian senator ‘terrorists’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday continued his targeting of opposition leaders, in particular Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, equating him with Australian...

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