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 …
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 …
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 …
An internationally respected former banker gets top economy job, powerful intelligence chief is named foreign minister. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has named former economy chief and internationally respected ex-banker Mehmet Simsek as treasury and finance minister as he unveiled his new cabinet. Hakan Fidan, Erdogan’s intelligence chief and a former soldier, was named as the new foreign minister replacing …
