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Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, has appointed a host of new ambassadors and permanent representatives at Turkiye's missions abroad, diplomatic sources said Thursday. Amid the normalisation of ties between...

Turkiye yesterday summoned Sweden's ambassador to Ankara after a public broadcaster aired content insulting Turkiye and its president, diplomatic sources said. According to the sources, Staffan Herrstrom was summoned...

Sweden's Inspectorate of Strategic Products (ISP) said on Friday that it had reversed a ban against exporting military equipment to Turkiye, following the Nordic country's decision to join the NATO military alliance...

For the first time in its long history, NATO's unity is under threat as a result of the rift between two of its members; Turkiye and Greece and their...

German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, on Tuesday said he was "very irritated" about Turkiye's attempts to join a Central Asian security body dominated by Russia and China, Reuters reports. Turkish...

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...

Following tirades of strong remarks, on Friday, the US and NATO called on Turkiye and Greece to use dialogue and diplomatic means to end the mutual tension. In a...

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced on Friday that Iran's latest response to reviving the agreement on its nuclear programme is a step "backwards", stressing that Washington will...

Turkish President, Tayyip Erdogan, said on Thursday he wanted grain from Russia to be exported, too, adding Vladimir Putin was right to complain that grain from Ukraine under an...

France's Foreign Minister heads to Turkiye on Monday to emphasise to Ankara the importance of its firms not circumventing Western sanctions on Russia, after the United States said Turkish...

A Turkish warship has docked at an Israeli port for the first time in over a decade, following the recent normalisation of ties between the two countries. The TCG...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared on Friday that "without Turkiye, NATO is weak," Turkish media reported. As Erdogan spoke to journalists following Friday prayer in Istanbul, he commented...

UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, plans to appoint a former Senegalese Minister to lead UN efforts to broker peace in Libya, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Thursday....

The US hopes Turkiye and Greece will refrain from statements and actions that could intensify tensions following Athens' recent harassment of Turkish fighter jets that were carrying out missions...

Greek air missile system locked on its fighter jets flying in international airspace over the Aegean Sea is an act against NATO, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during his...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that his country is disturbed by the recent stances of some countries that are considered to be Turkiye's allies. Erdogan made his...

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...

The Turkish Ministry of Defence said today that Greek planes harassed Turkish F-16 fighter jets who were taking part in a NATO mission in the Aegean Sea. The sources...

Last Saturday, Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk won the world heavyweight boxing championship in a fight against Britain's Anthony Joshua at King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah. The audience included Crown...

On the night of 4 August, 2011, Mustafa Naji Al-Morabit, his mother Fatima 'Omar Mansur, wife, Ibtisam, and three children: Mo'taz three, Mohamed six and Naji nine years old,...

Sweden will follow the conditions of a Memorandum of Understanding agreed with Ankara to overcome Turkiye's objections to Swedish membership in NATO, Reuters reports. According to the report, Prime...

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:...

It was no surprise that, even while negotiating with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement through Egyptian mediators to defuse the tension in the Gaza Strip following the arrest of...

As Arab states the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco began establishing ties with Israel over the past few years and warmed towards their old adversary, many...

Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, said that Sweden has not yet handed over the suspects who are wanted by Ankara over terror-related charges, despite the signing of a deal...

Turkey on Monday accused Greece of pushing a boat carrying migrants out of Greek territorial waters and back into Turkish ones, reports Reuters. The defence ministry in Ankara said...

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...

In a blog entry, reflecting on the G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting in Bali, Indonesia, on 7-8 July, the High Representative of the European Union, Josep Borrell, seems to have...

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 US House of Representatives, last Thursday, approved amendment that would create a new hurdle for President Joe Biden's plan to sell F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, Reuters reports....

A senior Iranian official and adviser to the country's Supreme Leader has expressed Tehran's readiness for dialogue with regional countries to resolve disputes.