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US sanctions NATO ally Turkey over Russian S-400 defence missiles

US President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday imposed sanctions on its NATO ally Turkey over its purchase of a Russian air defence system, setting the stage for a further confrontation between the two nations as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office. The move comes at a delicate time in relations between Washington and Ankara, which have been at odds for more than a year over Turkey’s acquisition from Russia […]

today15 December 2020

International News

Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas to hold talks in Ankara

Palestinian party Fatah, which dominates the Palestinian Authority (PA) government in the occupied West Bank, will meet a Hamas delegation in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Tuesday as follow-up from a meeting earlier this month of the heads of Palestinian factions. The two rivals will discuss ending the internal division from when the Hamas movement took control of the Gaza Strip in 2007 after a pre-emptive coup by Fatah. […]

today23 September 2020

International News

Turkey pro-Kurdish leader to go on trial over ‘terror’ links

Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition party leader goes on trial in Ankara on Thursday over alleged links to Kurdish militants, after spending more than a year behind bars in a case his supporters say is politically motivated. Selahattin Demirtas, co-chairman of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), was first detained in November last year in a crackdown under the state of emergency that followed 2016's failed coup. Before his arrest Demirtas was considered […]

today7 December 2017

International News

Turkish police move to arrest 333 soldiers over Gulen links

Turkish police have launched raids in 49 cities to detain over 300 soldiers accused of links to the group blamed for last year's attempted coup, state media reported Wednesday. The Istanbul public prosecutor issued arrest warrants for 360 people as part of a probe into followers of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen in the Turkish armed forces, state-run news agency Anadolu said. Those targeted include 333 soldiers, as well as […]

today29 November 2017

International News

ISIL video shows ‘Turkish soldiers burned alive’

ISIL has released a video purportedly showing two captured Turkish soldiers being burned alive, after Ankara vowed to fight "terror" in Syria in response to 16 of its troops being killed in battle. The 19-minute video, showing two uniformed men being hauled from a cage before being bound and torched, was posted online and was supposedly shot in the ISIL-declared "Aleppo Province" in northern Syria. Speaking in Turkish, the killer […]

today23 December 2016

International News

Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov shot dead in Ankara

Russia's ambassador to Turkey was shot dead in front of a crowd at a posh art gallery in the capital Ankara as the angry gunmen screamed "don't forget Aleppo". Police later killed the assailant on Monday night, Turkish station NTV reported. Andrey Karlov, 62, was several minutes into a speech at an embassy-sponsored photo exhibition when a man who stood directly behind him in a dark suit shot the diplomat […]

today20 December 2016

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