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The Queensland Times
April 24, 2018
U.S. News & World Report
April 24, 2018
ISTANBUL ( Reuters) - An earthquake struck Turkey's southeastern province of Adiyaman early on Tuesday, injuring 39 people and damaging buildings, state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The U.S. Geological Survey ( USGS) said the earthquake, which struck at 0034 GMT, had a magnitude of ...
Hurriyet Daily News
April 24, 2018
The Monitoring Committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) on April 24 called on Turkey to "postpone" the June 24 snap elections, citing the ongoing state of emergency in the country. "On the same day the elections were announced, the [Turkish] parliament approved the ...
The Conversation AU
April 24, 2018
With ongoing political instability and security concerns in Turkey, we are again likely to see a smaller turnout of Australians and New Zealanders for Anzac Day ceremonies at Gallipoli this year. But thousands of Turkish youth will be on the battlefields at dawn. They will be re-enacting the march by the ...
EL PAÍS in English
April 24, 2018
He did not want to use his real name or show his face because his family and friends are still in Turkey, and he is worried they might be punished in retaliation. "In my country they lock you up without any reason - it doesn't matter if they're old, a baby, sick or a housewife." What is real is his refugee ID ...
TIME
April 24, 2018
As Turkey gears up for snap elections on June 24, the country's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan faces a problem: Turkish society is profoundly polarized. Despite his efforts to build a stable majority as the foundation of his right-wing regime, his policies of demonizing centrist and leftist groups mean ... Putin
The Guardian
April 23, 2018
Turkey is outselling mainland Spain and the Canary islands as British holidaymakers return to the destination in big numbers. Package holidays to Turkey are up 84% year on year, according to Thomas Cook - a growth being fuelled by families, who account for 61% of bookings. The country is also ...
CNBC
April 16, 2018
Turkey's lira has hit record lows for the past week, thanks to what analysts say is the Turkish government's unwillingness to balance monetary policy to counter double-digit inflation. And the fall has been accelerated by geopolitical uncertainty over U.S. and Russian military actions in neighboring Syria.
Broadcasting & Cable
April 16, 2018
ANKARA, TURKEY – April 16, 2018 – At a joint conference held on Friday in Ankara, Turkey, executives from Nippon TV and MEDYAPIM came together with the Japanese Embassy in Turkey and Ankara University to celebrate the success of Mother (Anne in Turkey) and Woman (Kadin in Turkey), two of ...
Hurriyet Daily News
April 16, 2018
An American Christian pastor who has spent the last year-and-a-half in jail in Turkey strongly rejected terror-related charges as his trial got underway on April 16, in a case that has raised tensions between Ankara and Washington. Andrew Brunson, who ran a protestant church in the western city of İzmir, ...
Hurriyet Daily News
April 16, 2018
Turkey has removed a Greek flag planted on a rocky islet in the Aegean Sea, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said, urging Athens to refrain from “provocative moves” that would further escalate tension between the two neighbors. “There was an attempt to plant a Greek flag on an uninhabited rocky islet ...
MarketWatch
April 16, 2018
ISTANBUL--Moody's Investors Service said Monday that ongoing lira weakness is especially problematic for Turkey's economy because of its high degree of external vulnerability and low foreign-exchange reserves, a credit negative for the sovereign. Key officials said last week that they stand ready to take ...
CBC.ca
April 16, 2018
Turkey warned Greece on Monday to refrain from "provocations" after a Greek flag was hoisted on a disputed, uninhabited islet in the Aegean Sea off the Turkish coast. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told reporters that the Turkish coast guards had removed the flag from the island off the coast of the Aegean ...
NPR
April 16, 2018
The trial of American evangelical pastor Andrew Brunson began Monday in Turkey, accused of aiding groups said to have organized a failed coup there in 2016. The case is further straining relations between the United States and Turkey. The trial is taking place in Aliaga, a town on the Aegean sea north of ...
Aljazeera.com
April 14, 2018
The Turkish government says Gulen orchestrated the failed coup on July 15, 2016, in Turkey which killed 250 people - mostly civilians - and left nearly 2,200 injured. Gulen has rejected the accusations. Turkey also accuses Gulen's group of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state ...
Qantara.de
April 14, 2018
Since the attempted coup in Turkey in July 2016, the accusation that the Gulen movement was behind the failed putsch has met with scepticism in the West. A new book shows, however, that the movement was never just about dialogue and education, but has instead always sought to grasp the reins of ...
Anadolu Agency
April 14, 2018
By Sinan Uslu. ANKARA. A total of 4,157 terrorists have been “neutralized” since the start of the Turkey-led Operation Olive Branch in Syria's Afrin region, according to the Turkish military on Saturday. In a weekly statement, the Turkish General Staff said 52 Turkish soldiers had also been martyred while 232 ...
New Straits Times Online
April 14, 2018
Meanwhile, Turkey on Saturday welcomed Western strikes targeting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime as an "appropriate response" in retaliation for a suspected chemical attack that left dozens dead. "We welcome this operation which has eased humanity's conscience in the face of the attack in ...
The Times
April 14, 2018
Greece's relations with Turkey have been deteriorating, with the tit-for-tat arrest of border guards, clashes over airspace and a row about harbouring members of the military accused of attempting to oust President Erdogan. Now another battlefront has opened: tourism. Greece is hoping to attract a record ...
Al-Monitor
April 14, 2018
During Russian President Vladimir Putin's April 3 visit to Turkey, the two sides finalized an agreement on the creation of a $500 million joint investment fund, among other deals. The fund, which, according to official statements, will focus on infrastructure, health care and information technology projects, will ...
Ahval
April 14, 2018
Turkey's prime minister Binali Yıldırım has welcomed U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria but said that only Turkey is truly working for peace in the country, Russia-controlled news outlet Sputnik said . The airstrikes, reportedly aimed at chemical weapons production facilities, were carried out by the United States, ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
April 13, 2018
What he neglected to mention is that it was Turkey's actions, or perhaps the lack thereof, that helped fuel the rise of the Islamic State in the first place. The two most commonly cited factors leading to the growth of the Islamic State are the Syrian civil war and the government of former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri ...
Ahval
April 1, 2018
The best policy for the U.S. is to play a mediator role to find some kind of solution between Turkey and the People's Protection Units (YPG) affiliated with People's Workers Party (PKK) forces, according to Kyle Orton, Syria expert and analyst focused on conflict and terrorism in Syria and Turkey. Orton holds ...
Aljazeera.com
April 1, 2018
Turkey's exports reached a record $15.1bn in March, economy minister Nihat Zeybekci has said on Sunday during a televised interview on private broadcaster CNNTurk. "We reached the highest number in our history in exports, $15.1bn," Zeybekci said. The Turkish Exporters' Assembly (TIM) also said in a ...
Hurriyet Daily News
April 1, 2018
Christians have started to celebrate Easter with masses in churches in Turkey on April 1, commemorating the day followers believe Jesus was resurrected 2,000 years ago. In the southern province of Mersin, people celebrated Easter with a mass in the Latin Italian Catholic Church, led by Priest Francis ...
Anadolu Agency
April 1, 2018
Turkish security forces held a total of 899 undocumented migrants in Turkey, according to a Turkish army statement on Sunday. In a statement, the Turkish General Staff said Turkish border guards rounded up 641 migrants trying to illegally enter Turkey from Syria. It added that security forces held 123 more ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 1, 2018
Russia, Turkey, and Iran are all deeply involved in the war in Syria and sponsor a series of peace talks in the Kazakh capital, Astana. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu held a telephone conversation on March 30 to discuss the Putin-Erdogan meeting, the ...
Ahval
April 1, 2018
Turkey has firmly grasped the initiative in its conflict against Kurdish forces linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), and statements from Ankara indicate a firm resolve to extend military operations from the northwest Syrian area of Afrin to locations in northern Syria and Iraq. Last week's roundup ...
Ahval
April 1, 2018
French President Emmanuel Macron has been criticised at home for his response to Turkey's Afrin Operation, with critics saying that he has abandoned the Kurds in Syria. The YPG militia, which makes up a large portion of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), have been at the forefront of the international ...
Deutsche Welle
March 30, 2018
Meeting a delegation from northern Syria including the Kurdish Kurdish Peoples' Protection Units (YPG), a part of the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Macron said he hoped "a dialogue can be established between the SDF and Turkey with help from France and the international ...
Hurriyet Daily News
March 30, 2018
If the anti-vaccination trend gains pace, this may produce serious consequences, including an epidemic, warns Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ceyhan, a member of the immunization advisory board of the Health Ministry. According to Ceyhan, a total of 23,000 parents refused to have their children vaccinated in 2017.
Ahval
March 30, 2018
Erdoğan, in the run-up to the meeting, tried relentlessly to inform Turkish public opinion and the EU that in Varna he would explain the inconsistencies in the EU attitude towards Turkey by giving concrete examples. Apparently he in fact did just that. And according to the Europeans observers, he did it ...
TRT World
March 30, 2018
Six alleged senior members of the Fetullah Gulen Terror Group (FETO) in the Balkans were arrested Thursday in Kosovo and brought to Turkey in a joint operation by the Turkish and Kosovar intelligence services. (AA). Turkish intelligence officers on Thursday brought six alleged senior Fetullah Terrorist ...
Hurriyet Daily News
March 30, 2018
More than 3 million foreigners visited Turkey in the first two months of 2018, with the tourism sector seeing a significant recovery in the number of arrivals from Europe, official data has shown. Data from the Tourism Ministry showed on March 30 that this figure represented a 35 percent year-on-year increase ...
Miami Herald
March 30, 2018
A road accident in eastern Turkey has killed 17 people, mostly migrants, who had crossed into the country illegally, a senior official said. Governor of Igdir province, Enver Unlu, said 36 people were also injured in the accident late on Thursday on a highway linking his province with neighboring Kars ...
Ahval
March 29, 2018
Turkey's military and civilian leaders warned Greece against recent “unneighbourly behaviour” in the Aegean and Mediterranean at a meeting late on Wednesday. The National Security Council, chaired by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said in a written statement that Turkey would protect its rights in ...
U.S. News & World Report
March 29, 2018
Turkey Orders 70 Army Officers Detained Over Gulen Links: CNN Turk ... The U.N. human rights office said earlier this month Turkey has detained 160,000 people and dismissed nearly the same number of civil servants since ... Turkey says the measures are necessary to combat threats to national security.
Hurriyet Daily News
March 29, 2018
Turkey on March 28 again warned it may “take action” in Syria's Manbij if the region is not cleared of militants. The warning came in a written statement issued by the National Security Council, chaired by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the capital Ankara. “It was stated [during the meeting] that terrorists ...
Ahval
March 29, 2018
Conflict between NATO members and Aegean Sea neighbours Greece and Turkey is increasingly possible as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan flexes his regional muscle, writes John Psaropoulos for the Weekly Standard. The combination of upcoming elections in Turkey, Erdogan's concerns ...
Anadolu Agency
March 29, 2018
Turkey's counter-terrorist efforts in the Middle East benefit not just itself, but the welfare and security of Europe and southeastern Europe as well, said Turkey's prime minister on Thursday. "Turkey's fight against terrorism in the Middle East, in Syria and in Iraq not only secures our own citizen, it also prevents ...
Al-Monitor
March 29, 2018
While speculation was rife this week about whether Turkey's next move in Syria would be toward Tell Rifaat or Manbij, Russia unexpectedly withdrew its troops March 27 from Tell Rifaat. The Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) now controls the area around Tell Rifaat, while according to unconfirmed ...
USNI News
March 28, 2018
The history of the U.S.-Turkey relationship is complicated. Although the United States and Turkey support each other's interests in some vital ways (see “U.S./NATO Cooperation with Turkey”), harmonizing priorities can be difficult. These priorities sometimes diverge irrespective of who leads the two ...
New York Times
March 24, 2018
KILIS, Turkey — After two months of uncertain fighting, Turkey appears suddenly to be riding high in its military campaign to take control of a larger piece of northern Syria. Along the border, studded with spring flowers and pistachio and olive groves, the artillery guns and fighter jets that until recently ...
Voice of America
March 24, 2018
Turkey and the European Union are seeking to reset relations following months of acrimony. Despite fears that Turkey is sliding into authoritarianism, EU leaders will host the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in the Bulgarian resort of Varna on Monday. The meeting comes as the EU is looking to ...
Atlantic Council (blog)
March 24, 2018
The Atlantic Council Turkey Office promotes dialogue and transatlantic engagement in Turkey and the wider region. Turkey, located at the crossroads of economic and energy routes which span from Europe through the Black and Caspian Seas to the Middle East and Central Asia and through the Mediterranean Sea to ...
Al-Monitor
March 22, 2018
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ruled out early elections again this week, but speculation that the government could still surprise Turkey with an early vote has parties jostling to pick popular presidential candidates and form electoral alliances. Out of the scrum has emerged an unexpected power ...
Aljazeera.com
March 22, 2018
The idea that Germany was involved in the failed coup attempt in Turkey is 'completely stupid'. ... We are not encouraging separatism in Turkey. ... Ties between Ankara and Berlin were strained after the 2016 failed coup in Turkey, as Turkish politicians heavily criticised their German counterparts for failing ...
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