Istanbul: Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has asked Turkey to be a guarantor of any future deal with Russia, along with the UN Security Council’s five permanent members and Germany, Ankara’s top diplomat said Thursday. “Ukraine made an offer on the collective security agreement: P5 (the UN Security Council’s five permanent members), Turkey and Germany,” […]
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Blaming Turkey for Belarus border crisis ‘misguided’: Erdogan aide
Blaming Turkey or its national airline for the humanitarian crisis at the Polish border with Belarus is “misguided”, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s top foreign policy adviser told on Saturday. Ankara on Friday banned citizens of three Middle Eastern countries from flying from Turkish airports to the former Soviet republic because of “the problem of illegal […]
Turkish President Erdogan urges pope to help end Israel’s ‘massacre’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip on Monday urged Pope Francis to help rally the world to adopt sanctions against Israel for its “massacre” of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The phone call between Erdogan and the pontiff came as Turkey presses ahead with a furious diplomatic push to help end bloodshed that has claimed the lives […]
Deposed Istanbul mayor vows ‘revolution’ for democracy
Istanbul’s deposed mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who was stripped of his election victory this week, told AFP he would lead a “revolution” for democracy ahead of next month’s vote re-run. “What we are doing now is a fight for democracy and mobilization for democracy. It will of course be a revolution once we carry it to […]
Turkish local elections – 2019
The Turkish local elections of 2019 were held on 31 March 2019 throughout the 81 provinces of Turkey. A total of 30 metropolitan and 1,351 district municipal mayors, alongside 1,251 provincial and 20,500 municipal councilors were elected, in addition to numerous local non-partisan positions such as neighbourhood wardens (muhtars) and elderly people’s councils. Turkey holds […]
Imran backs Turkey in times of ‘severe economic challenges’
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and prime minister-in-waiting Imran Khan has extended support to Turkey which has been embroiled in a dispute with the United States resulting in the lira crisis. In his twitter message, Imran said Pakistani nation was praying for ‘Turkey’s success in dealing with the severe economic challenges confronting them’. On behalf of […]
Erdogan declared winner of Turkey presidential polls
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won tightly-contested presidential polls, the election authority said Monday, extending his 15-year grip on power as the opposition complained bitterly about the conduct of the vote count. Turkish voters had for the first time cast ballots for both president and parliament in the snap elections, with Erdogan looking for […]
Turkey’s Erdogan showcases new Istanbul airport ahead of elections
ISTANBUL: A plane carrying President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday touched down at Istanbul’s new airport, the first such landing by a passenger aircraft ahead of its official opening in October. The landing came three days before tightly contested elections on Sunday, with Erdogan seeking to showcase the gigantic new facility as evidence of his […]
Erdogan holds controversial election rally in Bosnia
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday addressed thousands of expatriate Turks in Sarajevo at his only election rally outside Turkey after other European countries banned such events. The Bosnian capital was chosen for the event — ahead of Ankara’s presidential and parliamentary elections next month — after European Union states such as Germany, Austria […]
Erdogan hopes Turkey to soon open ’embassy to Palestine in Jerusalem’
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed hope on Sunday that Turkey would soon be able to open an embassy to a Palestinian state in East Jerusalem, as he again denounced Donald Trump’s recognition of the city as the Israeli capital. Erdogan has sought to lead Islamic condemnation of his US counterpart’s move, calling a summit of […]