Tag: Turkey

Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle were in Istanbul for talks with Turkish leaders on Saturday as tensions soared between...

Russia furiously demanded answers from Turkey on Thursday after it forced a Syrian passenger plane flying from Moscow to land in Ankara on suspicion...

Turkey’s top military commander on Wednesday warned of a stronger response if Syrian shells continue to land on Turkish soil, as Syria’s army launched...

NATO warned on Tuesday against any escalation in hostilities between Syria and Turkey after border artillery exchanges as alliance defence ministers reviewed a difficult...

Turkey hit back on Saturday against what it said was a fresh round of mortar fire from Syria, little more than 24 hours after...

The Turkish army early Saturday returned fire after a new round of shelling from Syria hit the border province of Hatay, the Anatolia news...

Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that testing Turkey would be “a fatal mistake”, in a warning to Damascus in the wake of...

Turkish lawmakers on Thursday held an emergency session to vote on a government request for a cross-border military operation, a day after five nationals...

Syrian shells killed five people in a Turkish town near the border Wednesday, prompting Ankara to contact the UN over the incident, which it...

Fifty-eight people drowned on Thursday after a boat carrying illegal immigrants trying to reach Europe capsized in waters off western Turkey, the Anatolia news...

Fierce fighting rocked northern Syria on Friday as neighbouring Turkey kept up its calls for internationally protected safe havens inside Syria to stem the...

The visit of Turkish delegation to the affected areas of Myanmar consisting Turkish Foreign Minister (FM) Ahmet Davutoglu along with Emine Erdogan, wife of...

The actor’s regular haunt while shooting in Mardin in Turkey got renamed after him.Cafe Del-Mar is the sort of place you expect to find...

Kurdish rebels stormed a Turkish army post on the Iraq border Sunday, triggering fighting that killed 22 people in the latest clash since Ankara...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel to Turkey next Saturday for talks on the conflict in Syria, a State Department spokeswoman said. "Clinton...

The Syrian Foreign Ministry on Monday overtly accused Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey of rendering financial support and arms supplies to the armed insurgent...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Syria of letting Turkey's Kurdish rebels operate inside the north of the country and warned that Ankara...