Srinagar: China and Turkey are unlikely to attend the controversial G20 meeting on tourism in Srinagar in a move that would be seen as some diplomatic victory for Pakistan, which is opposing Indian attempts to portray the normalcy in the disputed region. India, the current president
Ankara: Foreign ministers for Turkey, Syria, Russia and Iran met on Wednesday in Moscow, marking the highest-level talks so far on rebuilding ties between Ankara and Damascus after years of animosity during Syria's civil war. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in a tweet that he
Ankara: A major earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck central Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday, killing more than 500 people and injuring hundreds as buildings collapsed across the region, triggering searches for survivors in the rubble. The quake, which hit in the early darkness of a
Ankara: The Legal Forum for Kashmir has released the "Ankara Declaration" rejecting India’s illegal occupation and denial of self-determination to Kashmiris.
Washington: Finland and Sweden joined the United States (US) in asking Turkey for its greenlight soon to join NATO, saying they have been fulfilling promises sought by Ankara on militants. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the Swedish and Finnish foreign ministers, meeting jointly in Washington,
Qamishli: Thousands of Kurds protested in the Syrian city of Qamishli against days of deadly Turkish cross-border strikes targeting Kurdish groups.
New Delhi: Turkey’s inking of a broad-based military framework agreement with Uzbekistan, the most populous and strategically situated of the five Central Asian States, has frustrated India because of the fear of Pakistan joining the agreement anytime in future.
Istanbul: Turkish police said that they have detained a Syrian woman with suspected links to Kurdish militants and that she confessed to planting a bomb that exploded on a bustling pedestrian avenue in Istanbul, killing six people and wounding several dozen others.
Sinan Ciddi According to Turkish government sources, bilateral trade between Turkey and Iran increased sharply over the last six months. Although formally a U.S. ally through NATO, Turkey appears determined to deepen its economic ties with Tehran, recalling its facilitation of Iranian sanctions evasion prior to
Istanbul: Rescuers desperately searched for signs of life on Saturday after a methane blast at a coal mine in northern Turkey killed at least 28 people and trapped dozens of others hundreds of metres underground. Updating the death toll, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca also tweeted that