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Turkish President, Tayyip Erdogan, signalled that Ankara may agree to Finland joining NATO ahead of Sweden, amid growing tensions with Stockholm, Reuters reports. According to the report, Turkiye suspended NATO talks...

Swedish and Finnish hopes of quickly joining NATO have run into an obstacle in the form of objections by Turkiye, which holds veto powers over accession to the military...

Erdogan’s statement come after rightwing protesters burned the Quran during a rally in Stockholm

Mauritanian scholar Mohamed El-Hassan Ould-Dedew has said that Sweden and Swedish goods must be boycotted after a copy of the Holy Qur'an was burned outside the Turkish Embassy in...

Turkiye has surprised many policymakers and analysts over the past decade with its diplomatic prominence, soft power projection and hard power in the form of drones and other advances...

Sweden and Finland must deport or extradite up to 130 "terrorists" to Turkiye before the Turkish Parliament will approve their bids to join NATO, President Tayyip Erdogan said, Reuters reports. The two Nordic...

Sweden's Supreme Court today blocked Turkiye's request to have an exiled Turkish journalist extradited. Judge Petter Asp ruled that there was no crime committed sufficient for an extradition and...

Sweden takes the three-way memorandum signed with Turkiye and Finland on the Nordic countries' NATO membership bids very seriously, the country's prime minister said Tuesday, reports Anadolu Agency. Ulf...

More than 70 artists announced yesterday that they were going on strike calling on Finland's Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma to sever ties with a billionaire art collector whose...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Wednesday that Sweden and Finland have taken "positive steps" to combat terrorism, a condition stipulated by Ankara for accepting the Nordic countries' accession...

NATO Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg, on Thursday increased pressure on Turkiye on the acceptance of Sweden and Finland to the alliance, Reuters report. According to the report, officials from Turkiye,...

Finland and Sweden promise  to join NATO together in united front to Turkiye

A group of former European ministers have acknowledged that Israel's policies and practices against the Palestinians amount to the crime of apartheid and called on the international community to...

A delegation from Finland will visit Turkiye next Tuesday to hold technical talks on the extradition of accused terrorists sought by Ankara, as stipulated in a recent treaty, reports...

Sweden and Finland must fulfil the terms of the NATO-accession agreement concluded with Turkiye, the Swedish ministers of foreign affairs and defence said yesterday. In May, Sweden and Finland...

Finland has violated the rights of its child nationals stranded in detention camps in north-eastern Syria, according to United Nations child rights experts. In a statement by the UN...

Finnish Prime Minister, Sanna Marin, said that she hopes her country's NATO membership will be approved by Turkiye as soon as possible, Turkish local media reports. According to the...

Islamophobia remains a growing threat across Europe, with several countries enacting policies that have contributed to the institutionalisation of an issue that should, instead, be stamped out with urgency,...

The new Swedish government should now address security concerns that Turkiye has raised in return for lifting its veto on Sweden and Finland's membership of NATO, Turkey's Foreign Minister...

Morocco's army chief Lieutenant General Belkhir El-Farouk started an official visit to Israel today to participate in a military conference in Tel Aviv. An official reception ceremony was held upon...

Officials from Turkiye, Finland and Sweden agreed on Friday to continue talks in the coming months to discuss security concerns raised by Turkiye as a pre-condition of allowing the...

Officials from Turkiye, Finland and Sweden are expected to meet at an undisclosed location in Finland today to discuss security concerns which Ankara raised as a precondition for allowing...

Politics is at times compared to a game with Machiavellian actors and rogue figures who are out only for themselves. A former British Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston once said:...

Officials from Turkiye, Finland and Sweden will meet in August to evaluate the progress made in fulfilling Ankara's counter-terrorism demands from the Nordic countries to lift its veto on...

A group of supporters of the People's Defense Units (YPG) held a demonstration in Finland's capital on Tuesday, protesting against the recent memorandum between Turkiye, Sweden and Finland. During the demonstration, participants...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned yesterday that Ankara can still "freeze" Sweden and Finland's accession to NATO unless they meet Ankara's security demands. Last month, Turkiye lifted its...

The first Somali-born member of Finland's parliament has been appointed the country's special representative on peace mediation in the Horn of Africa, the northeastern region where Somalia is located,...

Turkiye has today renewed requests for Sweden and Finland to extradite individuals it considers terrorists after the countries reached a deal over the Nordic nations' NATO membership bids, Justice Minister Bekir...

Turkiye's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has warned that Ankara could still block the process if the two countries fail to fully meet his expectations, two days after agreeing to...

Turkiye's Justice Minister said on Wednesday that his country expects Sweden and Finland to extradite more than 30 "terrorists" under an agreement that lifted Ankara's objections to their bids...

After weeks of talks, Turkey has dropped its opposition to Finland and Sweden joining NATO in a deal that will see the two Nordic states address Ankara's security concerns...

Turkiye's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed a range of issues over the phone on Saturday, including bilateral relations and the enlargement of...