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Erdoğan holds trilateral talks with Azerbaijani, Pakistani leaders

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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a trilateral meeting with Azerbaijani Counterpart Ilham Aliyev and Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif on the sidelines of the Shanghai Coope...

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Parliament speaker hosts smaller parties for constitutional talks

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Türkiye’s Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş on Wednesday received the leaders of three smaller parties as part of talks on overhauling Türkiye’s 1980 coup-era Constitution, a topi...

Türkiye eyes return home for villagers left amid PKK violence

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The local administration in Çukurca, a district of the southeastern Turkish province of Hakkari, mobilized to repopulate nine villages whose residents fled nearly three decades ago...

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Maldives assigns first ambassador to Türkiye

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The Maldives on Wednesday announced it had appointed its first-ever ambassador to Türkiye.

Erdoğan invites Putin to Türkiye as leaders discuss strategic ties

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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in Astana, Kazakhstan, where the two leaders arrived to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Summit (SCO...

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PKK terrorists set fire to village in northern Iraq

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The PKK terrorist group has set fire to an entire village in northern Iraq and blew up ammunition depots in another, Türkiye’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday.

Türkiye fights disinformation about Syrian refugees as unrest grows

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Türkiye is home to more than 3.1 million Syrian refugees. The group, under temporary protection status, is the largest of its kind in the country. Inevitably, they have become the...

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Turkish support for NATO on the rise, survey shows

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An international survey by the Pew Research Center on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of NATO’s founding indicates Turks have a favorable view of the military alliance.

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Ankara dismisses ‘distorted’ criticism on Syria policy amid riots

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Türkiye’s foreign policies aim to establish peace and stability in the Middle East, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday as it hit out at criticism of its policies regarding Syria a...

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Greek FM hails progress in rapprochement with Türkiye

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Greece's top diplomat highlighted that the positive outcome of talks with Türkiye to improve ties is tangible.

Tuesday, Jul 2

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Israel poses threat to regional stability: Erdoğan

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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan warned against Israel's threats to regional stability, as he said Türkiye is in favor of a safe and prosperous region.

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Erdoğan hosts Saudi defense chief in Ankara

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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman Al Saud at the Presidential Complex in the capital Ankara, Türkiye’s Directorate of Communications...

Swedish woman in charge of PKK terrorist group unit nabbed in Türkiye

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The National Intelligence Organization (MIT) captured Zozan Baransson, a Swedish woman in charge of the terrorist group PKK/KCK’s women’s units in Sweden, security sources announce...

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PKK/YPG abducts more Syrian Kurds amid ‘election’ backlash

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The Kurdish National Council (ENKS), a local political party based in northern Syria, announced on Tuesday that the PKK terrorist group's Syrian wing, the YPG, had abducted ne...

Erdoğan travels to Astana for SCO summit

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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will be in Astana on Wednesday and Thursday for a critical summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The president is expected to hold l...

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Turkish forces eliminate 13 PKK/YPG terrorists in Iraq, Syria

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Türkiye has eliminated 13 members of the PKK/YPG terror group in northern Iraq and Syria, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday.

Türkiye intercepts more than 2,500 irregular migrants in 1 week

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The Interior Ministry announced on Tuesday that 2,563 irregular migrants were captured in one week and 149 migrant smugglers were detained.

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Türkiye eyes further mediation between Somalia, Ethiopia

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Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan hosted a surprise meeting of the foreign ministers of Somalia and Ethiopia on Monday, hours after reports of Ankara's mediation efforts between th...

Türkiye, Syrian opposition fight xenophobia, provocation

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An isolated criminal incident in central Türkiye’s Kayseri escalated into provocative riots across Türkiye over the past two days. At a time of anticipated normalization between An...

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IFRC, Kızılay aid program achieves business recovery in earthquake zone

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The “Livelihoods Recovery Programme” launched last November by the Turkish Red Crescent (Kızılay) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) ha...

Monday, Jul 1

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President Erdoğan appoints new environment, health minister

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President Erdoğan appoints Murat Kurum to replace Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Minister Mehmet Özhaseki, who recently tendered his resignation

Türkiye gets new health, urbanization ministers in Cabinet reshuffle

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A Cabinet shuffle was announced after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appointed two ministers early Tuesday.

Foreign Ministry warns against provocations in Syria

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The Foreign Ministry said the exploitation of the incidents in Türkiye’s central province for provocations in Syria is wrong, amid the tensions in both countries over the sexual ab...

Türkiye's Environment Minister Özhaseki announces resignation

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Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Minister Mehmet Özhaseki announced Monday that he submitted his resignation due to health problems.

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Syrian Interim Govt warns against provocations, vows to keep unity

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The Syrian Interim Government led by the moderate opposition condemned the recent attacks against Syrian refugees following the sexual abuse of a child in Türkiye’s Kayseri provinc...

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Comms chief warns against provocations after riots in central Türkiye

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The Presidential Communications Directorate is closely following developments about the surge in provocations against Syrians in Türkiye, communications chief Fahrettin Altun said...

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Perpetrators claim 3rd party killed Turkish nationalist activist

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A much-anticipated trial over the killing of Sinan Ateş, former head of the nationalist Idealists’ Hearths, opened in the capital, Ankara, on Monday. The man who was accused of fir...

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Türkiye steps in as mediator for Ethiopia, Somalia on port deal

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Türkiye has stepped in as mediator between Somalia and Ethiopia regarding a port deal Ethiopia signed with the self-declared Republic of Somaliland earlier this year, according to...

Türkiye, Romania, Bulgaria launch action against Black Sea mines

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Commanders of naval forces from Bulgaria and Romania came together on Monday at a meeting hosted by Turkish naval forces. The meeting marked the formal launch of demining work in t...

Iraqi Yazidis lament PKK’s occupation of Sinjar

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Iraq’s Yazidi community is lamenting the terrorist group PKK’s occupation of their homeland, Sinjar, a decade after they had to leave due to attacks of Daesh terrorists and take re...