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ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday Turkey will continue to retaliate after Syrian government shelling killed four of its troops and wounded nine in Syria's northwest Idlib region, where Turkish forces have bulked up in recent days. Erdogan said initial...

Turkey’s state-run news agency, Anadolu, said that Egyptian police raided its office in Cairo today and detained four of its staff members. It said it had no information on where its employees were taken to following the raid. One of those arrested is a Turkish national, it added. The raid...

China will rewrite the Bible and the Quran to 'reflect socialist values' amid crackdown on Muslim Uighur minority China will rewrite the Bible and Quran to 'reflect socialist values' amid crackdown on the country's religious groups, a report has revealed. New editions must not contain any...

Why Turkey does what it does.

Lindsey Graham dishes on Trump in hoax calls with Russians Sen. Lindsey Graham labeled the Kurds a “threat” in a phone call with a couple pranksters posing as Turkey's minister of defense. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has in the last year become something of a...

The ban on Turkish soap operas in the Arab world has backfired as the audience learns Turkish to watch from the websites of the Turkish channels, Miriam Berg, an assistant professor at Northwestern University in Qatar, has told Hürriyet Daily News. Last March, the Dubai-based MBC Group, the...

I stopped trying to understand whats going on. :coffee: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call on Monday he wants to address Turkey’s security concerns in Syria but stressed the importance that Washington’s Kurdish allies not...

I tried to gather all current and announced future Turkish military bases and installations in overseas, feel free to add the missing ones. International missions are not included. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_overseas_military_bases#Turkey...

Turkey will start a military operation east of the Euphrates river in northern Syria in a "few days," President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said. "It is time to realize our decision to wipe out terror groups east of the Euphrates," Erdoğan said in a speech at the Turkish Defense Industry Summit...

The relationship between the United States and the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) is a temporary, transactional and tactical one, a U.S. State Department official has said amid Turkey’s vociferous opposition to the ties. “We have not promised the YPG anything. They are in this...