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Turkiye FM meets Syria’s new leader, calls for lifting of global sanctions
1 day, 19 hours ago

Turkiye FM meets Syria’s new leader, calls for lifting of global sanctions

Al Jazeera  

Meeting comes two days after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his minister will visit Damascus to discuss the new structure in Syria. Photographs and footage shared by the Turkish ministry showed Fidan and al-Sharaa hug and shake hands, their meeting coming two days after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Fidan would be going to Damascus to discuss the …

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Turkish FM denies Trump claim of ‘unfriendly takeover’ by Turkiye in Syria
4 days, 19 hours ago

Turkish FM denies Trump claim of ‘unfriendly takeover’ by Turkiye in Syria

Al Jazeera  

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan tells Al Jazeera the only ‘takeover’ in Syria was ‘the will of the Syrian people’. Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has denied a claim by incoming United States President Donald Trump that the toppling of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was an “unfriendly takeover” by Turkiye. In an interview with Al Jazeera broadcast on Wednesday, the …

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Assad told Iran about Turkey's efforts to topple regime before ouster: Report
1 week, 1 day ago

Assad told Iran about Turkey's efforts to topple regime before ouster: Report

India Today  

In the final days leading to his ouster, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad complained to Iran's foreign minister that Turkey was actively supporting Sunni rebels in their offensive to topple him, two Iranian officials told Reuters this week. Iran had backed Assad in Syria's long civil war and his overthrow was widely seen as a major blow to the Iran-led "Axis …

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Middle East latest: Blinken urges Mideast nations to support a peaceful Syrian political transition
1 week, 3 days ago

Middle East latest: Blinken urges Mideast nations to support a peaceful Syrian political transition

Hindustan Times  

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is pressing ahead with efforts to unify Middle East nations in support of a peaceful political transition in Syria. Middle East latest: Blinken urges Mideast nations to support a peaceful Syrian political transition He is meeting on Friday with Turkey's foreign minister after talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to try to bring Turkey …

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Middle East latest: Israeli strikes hit Gaza and also target suspected weapons sites in Syria
2 weeks ago

Middle East latest: Israeli strikes hit Gaza and also target suspected weapons sites in Syria

Deccan Chronicle  

Israeli strikes killed at least six people in the central Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical officials said Monday, while also hitting suspected chemical and long-range weapons sites in Syria to keep them from rebels who seized Damascus. ___ Here's the Latest: UN human rights chief says Assad and other officials should face justice GENEVA — The U.N. human rights chief said …

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Turkiye urges inclusivity, fair treatment of minorities in post-Assad Syria
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Turkiye urges inclusivity, fair treatment of minorities in post-Assad Syria

Al Jazeera  

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan emphasises importance of national unity and sovereignty after fall of Bashar al-Assad government. Doha, Qatar – Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has said the opposition takeover in Syria should not pose a threat to its neighbours as he stressed that help was needed to reconstruct the country. Speaking during a news conference at the Doha Forum …

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Syria latest: Syrians celebrate Bashar Assad’s fall as his whereabouts remain unknown
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Syria latest: Syrians celebrate Bashar Assad’s fall as his whereabouts remain unknown

Associated Press  

Crowds gathered in Syria’s Damascus on Sunday to celebrate the fall of Bashar Assad’s government with chants, prayers and the occasional gunfire after opposition fighters entered the capital following a stunning advance. German Chancellor calls for speedy return of order in Syria BERLIN — Reacting to the fall of Bashir Assad’s government, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Sunday that “what …

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Turkey calls for reconciliation between Syrian government and the opposition to end conflict
3 weeks ago

Turkey calls for reconciliation between Syrian government and the opposition to end conflict

Associated Press  

ANKARA, Turkey — The recent rapid advance by opposition fighters in Syria shows that Syrian President Bashar Assad must reconcile with his own people and hold talks with the opposition, the Turkish foreign minister said Monday. At a joint news conference in Ankara with his Iranian counterpart, Hakan Fidan said Turkey and Iran, which support opposing sides in Syria’s civil …

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Self-exiled Turkish spiritual leader Fethullah Gülen dies in Pennsylvania
2 months ago

Self-exiled Turkish spiritual leader Fethullah Gülen dies in Pennsylvania

NPR  

Self-exiled Turkish spiritual leader Fethullah Gülen dies in Pennsylvania toggle caption Chris Post/AP SAYLORSBURG, Pa. — Fethullah Gülen, a reclusive U.S.-based Islamic cleric who inspired a global social movement while facing accusations he masterminded a failed 2016 coup in his native Turkey, has died. Gülen called the crackdown a witch hunt and denounced Turkey’s leaders as “tyrants.” “The last year …

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Israel-Hamas war latest: Hezbollah leader says Israel crossed a `red line’
3 months ago

Israel-Hamas war latest: Hezbollah leader says Israel crossed a `red line’

Associated Press  

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah is promising to retaliate for deadly attacks on its communication devices after Israel’s defense minister announced a “new phase” of the war. Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s leader, said Israel crossed a “red line” this week after bombings widely blamed on Israel in which hundreds of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah were remotely detonated in Lebanon …

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Turkey hopes to double its trade with North Macedonia to $2 billion
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Turkey hopes to double its trade with North Macedonia to $2 billion

Associated Press  

SKOPJE, North Macedonia — Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Thursday his country hopes to boost its trade with North Macedonia to $2 billion a year, or roughly double the current volume with the Balkan country. Fidan said following talks in the North Macedonian capital with North Macedonia’s Foreign Minister Timcho Mutsunski that Ankara wants to establish a “strategic council …

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Turkey hosts another round of talks to ease tensions between Ethiopia and Somalia
4 months, 1 week ago

Turkey hosts another round of talks to ease tensions between Ethiopia and Somalia

Associated Press  

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey hosted a second round of talks on Monday between east African neighbors Ethiopia and Somalia to try and resolve a dispute over Ethiopia’s deal with the breakaway region of Somaliland, officials said. Tensions between the two African countries have simmered since Ethiopia signed a memorandum of understanding with Somaliland in January, which Somalia denounced as infringing …

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Syria and Turkey: A path to reconciliation, or a defeat of the opposition?
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Syria and Turkey: A path to reconciliation, or a defeat of the opposition?

Al Jazeera  

Anti-Syrian riots in Turkey and protests in Syria are a symbol of a period of flux in relations between the two countries. “Erdogan’s Syria policy since 2016 has been helping the Assad regime,” said Gönül Tol, the founding director of the Middle East Institute’s Turkey programme. The Syrian opposition’s relations with the regime are based on their own free decision, …

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Russia Welcomes Turkey's Interest to Join BRICS Membership
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Russia Welcomes Turkey's Interest to Join BRICS Membership

News 18  

Russia welcomes Turkey’s reported desire to become part of the BRICS group of nations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, saying the subject would be on the agenda of the organisation’s next summit. Peskov said there was heightened interest in BRICS – a group comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Ethiopia, Iran, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates …

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The Latest | In Israel, Blinken pushes Hamas to agree on Gaza cease-fire deal
7 months, 3 weeks ago

The Latest | In Israel, Blinken pushes Hamas to agree on Gaza cease-fire deal

Associated Press  

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Israel on Wednesday to press for a cease-fire deal in the Israel-Hamas war, saying “ the time is now ” and warning that Hamas would bear the blame for any failure to reach an agreement to halt the war in Gaza. U.S. deputy ambassador Robert Wood told the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday …

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The Latest | Netanyahu vows to carry out Rafah invasion, which US says would be a mistake
8 months, 2 weeks ago

The Latest | Netanyahu vows to carry out Rafah invasion, which US says would be a mistake

Associated Press  

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has escalated his pledge to invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah, which is filled with around 1.4 million Palestinians, most of whom are displaced from other parts of the Gaza Strip. — Find more AP coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war Here’s the latest: TURKEY SAYS ISRAEL REJECTED ITS REQUEST TO HELP GAZA AID AIR DROPS …

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Book leads advance of Chinese classics in Turkiye
11 months, 1 week ago

Book leads advance of Chinese classics in Turkiye

China Daily  

ANKARA — Giray Fidan, a Turkish expert in Chinese language and history based at Ankara's Haci Bayram Veli University, is dedicated to introducing the Chinese culture of peace to an expanding Turkish audience eager to grasp the Chinese way of thinking. Thanks to Fidan's expertise, the Chinese book on military strategy, The Art of War, written by Sun Tzu over …

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Book leads advance of Chinese classics in Turkiye
11 months, 1 week ago

Book leads advance of Chinese classics in Turkiye

China Daily  

ANKARA — Giray Fidan, a Turkish expert in Chinese language and history based at Ankara's Haci Bayram Veli University, is dedicated to introducing the Chinese culture of peace to an expanding Turkish audience eager to grasp the Chinese way of thinking. Thanks to Fidan's expertise, the Chinese book on military strategy, The Art of War, written by Sun Tzu over …

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Blinken says Turkey is committed to a ‘positive’ role in postwar Gaza as he opens a diplomatic push
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Blinken says Turkey is committed to a ‘positive’ role in postwar Gaza as he opens a diplomatic push

Associated Press  

CHANIA, Greece — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday that Turkey is committed to playing “a positive, productive” role for postwar Gaza and prepared to use its influence in the region to prevent the Israel-Hamas conflict from broadening even more. The latest Mideast mission by America’s top diplomat opened with talks in Turkey and Greece before shifting to …

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Hezbollah, Israel trade heavy cross-border fire as Blinken seeks to prevent regional escalation
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Hezbollah, Israel trade heavy cross-border fire as Blinken seeks to prevent regional escalation

LA Times  

U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, left, meets with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan at Vahdettin, a private residence of the presidency, in Istanbul on Saturday. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said that if his group didn’t strike back for the killing Tuesday of Saleh Arouri, Hamas’ deputy political leader, all of Lebanon would be vulnerable to Israeli attacks. and …

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US diplomat Blinken meets Turkey’s Erdogan, kicking off Gaza diplomacy tour
11 months, 2 weeks ago

US diplomat Blinken meets Turkey’s Erdogan, kicking off Gaza diplomacy tour

Al Jazeera  

The US secretary of state will also travel to Israel and the occupied West Bank as the war in Gaza rages on. United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken met senior Turkish officials in Istanbul before heading to Greece, his first stops on a week-long trip aimed at calming tensions that have spiked across the Middle East since Israel’s war …

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Is Turkey uniquely positioned to mediate between Palestinians and Israel?
1 year, 2 months ago

Is Turkey uniquely positioned to mediate between Palestinians and Israel?

Al Jazeera  

As one of few countries that have contact with both Hamas and Israel, Turkey would like to negotiate a lasting peace. “Turkey has a good communication channel with Hamas, which is an important asset,” Taha Ozhan, research director at the Ankara Institute, said. “Erdogan remains lionised in Gaza, the West Bank, and across much of the Arab world, due to …

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Turkey asks the EU to take bold steps to advance its membership bid, while the EU urges reforms
1 year, 3 months ago

Turkey asks the EU to take bold steps to advance its membership bid, while the EU urges reforms

Associated Press  

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s top diplomat on Wednesday affirmed his country’s resolve to join the European Union and urged the 27-member bloc to take courageous steps to advance its bid. “The European Union cannot be a truly global actor without Turkey,” Fidan said. The negotiations, however, came to a standstill in 2018 over Turkey’s democratic backsliding and erosion of the …

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Turkey and Greece agree to revive talks and seek ‘new approaches’ to resolve decades-old disputes
1 year, 3 months ago

Turkey and Greece agree to revive talks and seek ‘new approaches’ to resolve decades-old disputes

Associated Press  

ANKARA, Turkey — The foreign ministers of Greece and Turkey agreed on Tuesday to revive high-level contacts between their countries and seek “new approaches” to problems as part of efforts to improve ties between the two NATO allies who are at loggerheads over a string of decades-old disputes. Discussions between Greece’s Giorgos Gerapetritis and Turkey’s Hakan Fidan were held in …

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