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Israel's Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon has said that the Turkish government has decided not to resume security coordination with Tel Aviv. Such coordination stopped in mid-2010 following Israel's...

Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has said that the Turkish government headed by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is completely uninterested in a diplomatic rapprochement between Ankara and Tel Aviv. In...

The Turkish government has banned all Syrian aircraft from its airspace in response to its own aircraft being banned from Syrian airspace. A foreign ministry official said that the...

Turkey's parliament approved on Thursday a memorandum granting the government powers to conduct military operations in Syria if necessary. The decision was followed by an announcement from the Turkish...

Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the elected Palestinian government in Gaza, has called on the international community to read Israel's report on the Mavi Marmara attack carefully before prosecuting...

On Sunday, under the auspices of the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) celebrated the graduation of the first group of rehabilitated Palestinian...

Anadolu Agency reported that the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency of Turkey has confirmed the birth of 2,500 children in the Syrian refugee camps across Turkey since the first...

Israel has condemned the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for interviewing the deputy chairman of a Turkish welfare organisation. Hussein Oruc's NGO, known by its acronym IHH,...

Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç revealed that Turkish military warplanes shot down a Syrian military helicopter that crossed into Turkish airspace. Arınç explained that the Syrian helicopter had...

The Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza called his Turkish counterpart on Friday to discuss the rising level of Israeli attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque and occupied Jerusalem. After congratulating Recep...

According to Israel's national security advisor Yaakov Amidror, Egypt's military coup led by General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi against the legitimate President Mohammed Morsi has thwarted the rise of Islamic...

Turkey's Department of Defence has announced that between 613,000 and 715,000 landmines have been planted along the Turkish-Syrian border. Turkish Defence Minister Ismat Yilmaz told Jihan News Agency that:...

Spokesman of Egypt's interim president, Ehab Badawi, said "Egypt's patience with Turkey is running out". Badawi made his statement in an apparent reference to Turkey's official statements which oppose...

The interim Egyptian presidents' spokesman, Ehab Badawi, has said that Egypt will reassess its relations with Turkey in light of Turkey's contradictory messages towards the country. Badawi said the...

The Egyptian coup authorities have today ordered the Turkish ambassador to leave the country saying that Turkey has blatantly interfered in Egypt's internal affairs, a foreign ministry statement said....

A senior member of the Egypt-Turkey Business Council has called to keep political disagreements separate from economic relations following the Egyptian foreign ministry's decision on Saturday to expel the...

Few countries and organisations have condemned the execution of the deputy leader of the Islamic Movement in Bangladesh, Sheikh Abdul-Kader Mulla, who was executed on Friday. Turkish Prime Minister...

Turkey is greatly disappointed by the meeting between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and American President Barack Obama in Washington last week. Talk of Syria took up most...

Israeli newspaper Maariv has reported that the United States suspended an arms deal in which Washington was due to sell US-made drones to Turkey, after Turkey disclosed the names...

The Turkish government has declined an offer of help from Israel following the devastating earthquake in the east of the country. Israel made its offer of help on Sunday...

Reports in Turkey say that debris from the wreck of an Israeli Air Force reconnaissance drone has been found in the Turkish town of Karatas. An inquiry has been...

Media reports have claimed that consultations are underway between the Turkish government and the Hamas Movement over the possibility of opening offices for the Islamic Resistance Movement on Turkish...

The Turkish foreign ministry has summoned the US ambassador to Ankara, Francis Ricciardone, to explain his criticism of the country's Judiciary. The Turkish newspaper, Zaman, said Ricciardone was asked...

Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister has said that his government will support Egypt until the latter's economy regains its position of regional strength and authority. Ali Babacan insisted that the...

The Turkish Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, has condemned the massacre of pro-legitimacy worshippers in Egypt this morning near the Presidential Guard Barracks. 42 protestors were killed by gunfire and...

The President of Turkey, Abdullah Gul, has demanded the immediate release of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, as well as guarantees that he will not be harmed. He expressed his...

Turkey's President Abdullah Gül has approved a legal amendment intended to prevent the army from carrying out military coups d'état. Article 35 of the Turkish Army's Internal Service Code...

The Turkish government has appointed a new armed forces leadership within the framework of comprehensive changes to emphasise its control over the military, which has at times dominated political...

A Turkish court has convicted the country's former Chief of the General Staff to life imprisonment. Retired General Mehmet İlker Başbuğ was sentenced for his role in the "Ergenekon...

VIDEO  Turkey's Prime Minister has said that he still believes Mohammed Morsi to be the legitimate president of Egypt. "Not," said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, "because it is him personally,...

Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Friday that the release of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi would facilitate national reconciliation. After he performed the Friday prayer at the Sultan Ahmed...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a supporter of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, has slammed the European Union and other parties because they did not condemn the killing...