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Ankara’s 2017 decision to purchase $2.5 billion worth of S-400 air defence systems from Moscow caused serious complications in its relationship with its US allies, with Washington booting Turkey out of the F-35 programme and sanctioning a key defence sector agency.
Read More »Turkey escalates attacks against PKK rebels across northern Iraq
Ankara says it has captured a PKK militant responsible for “logistics,” while also launching a new operation against the group in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Turkey says it has netted a high-level Kurdish militant in a covert operation mounted by its national intelligence organization in Iraq’s Yazidi-dominated Sinjar region. …
Read More »Turkey Launches New Operation Against Armed Kurdish Separatist in Country’s South, Reports Suggest
Turkey’s Interior Ministry said on Monday that a new operation was launched aimed a combating Kurdish separatist movements in the country’s southern regions, media reported.
Read More »Turkey offers language, religion courses in northern Syria
With Turkey’s support, courses on both religion and the Turkish language are available for the residents in the Syrian towns of Tal Abyad and Ras al-Ain. Locals of the towns, which were liberated from the PKK terrorist group’s Syrian offshoot, the YPG, during Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring in 2019, demanded …
Read More »Turkey Brings New Military Reinforcements To Syria’s Northwest
A Turkish military convoy has entered Syria’s northwestern de-escalation zone, despite the Russian-Turkish agreement to demilitarize the Idleb Governorate, writes North Press.
Read More »Turkish Leader Killed in Idleb Countryside
On Sunday, unknown assailants shot dead a Turkish leader in the western countryside of Idleb, days after an attempt to assassinate him with a car bomb.
Read More »Russia has sent a huge heavily armed convoy to Syria
Moscow sent a substantial military convoy of equipment and weapons systems of the Russian Federation to the area of the Syrian city of Ayn Issa, some Russian agencies report, including Aviapro. According to sources in the Russian news agency, it is a convoy of at least 16 vehicles, including armored …
Read More »How Turkey fits in regime-Kurdish showdown in Syria
Some claim that a secret deal between Ankara and Damascus is behind the latest escalation between the Syrian government and the Kurds, but the situation could be more complex than it seems.
Read More »US National Security Advisor Voices Concerns Over Turkey’s S-400 Purchases
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in a phone call with the Chief Advisor to the President of Turkey Ibrahim Kalin said that Turkey’s acquisition of the Russian S-400 air defense system undermines NATO effectiveness, the White House said.
Read More »Misinformation, propaganda cloud Turkey’s Africa policies
Myths and falsehoods abound in Turkish and Arab press about Turkey’s regional ventures, nourishing overblown elations and fears. Turkey’s regional ventures, spurred by Ottoman nostalgia, have earned it a hostile Arab front led by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt. Though Turkey’s ambitions have hardly translated into a …
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