Hamas is a political party: Turkey
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday (2nd of Dec, 2023) pushed back against mounting US pressure to cut Ankara's historic ties with Hamas in the wake of the…
Erdogan on Turkey’s EU membership
Nato’s efforts to present a united front at a summit focused on helping Ukraine defeat Russia and Kyiv’s push to join the alliance were undermined on Monday (10th of July,…
Resurgent Erdogan heads for historic election runoff
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday emerged from his toughest election test unbowed and in strong position to extend two decades of his rule by another five years…
Erdogan returns from 3-day campaign absence
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday (29th of April, 2023) appeared in public for the first time in three days after a stomach infection kept him off the…
Shehbaz extends Eid greetings to Erdogan
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday (22nd April, 2023) held a telephone conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and conveyed warm felicitations to the government, leadership and people…
Quake anger ebbs in Erdogan stronghold ahead of vote
KAHRAMANMARAS (TURKEY): Latif Dalyan offers shirts and sweatpants at knock-down prices to Turkey's earthquake victims from a storefront surrounded by piles of debris. The last person the 58-year-old shopkeeper wants…
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Iran hosts Putin, Erdogan
TEHRAN: Iran's president will host his Russian and Turkish counterparts on Tuesday for talks on the Syrian war in a three-way summit overshadowed by fallout from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.…
Eid: Shehbaz greets Erdoğan
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif held a telephone conversation with President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan here on Monday (1st of May, 2022) and conveyed warm felicitations to the…
Turkey’s Erdogan launches work on controversial Black Sea canal
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday launched the start of construction on a controversial canal aimed at easing congestion on the Bosphorus but which critics say courts environmental disaster.…
Turkey’s Erdogan unveils economic reform plan
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday unveiled a long-promised economic reform package that he hopes will boost the confidence of skittish foreign investors and temper inflation while boosting…
Facing Biden, Erdogan extends olive branch to EU
ANKARA: Facing a potentially hostile US administration, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to break his isolation by mending EU relations, torn by what the bloc views as his…
Erdogan hopes France will ‘get rid of Macron’ ASAP
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday he hopes France will "get rid" of his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron as soon as possible, in the latest salvo in an…
Erdogan blasts ‘disgusting’ Charlie Hebdo cartoons
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday vented his outrage at the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo for mocking him in a front-page cartoon. His office also vowed to…
EU condemns Erdogan’s Macron comments as ‘unacceptable’
BRUSSELS: The EU's top diplomat Josep Borrell on Sunday condemned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for making what he described as "unacceptable" comments about his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron. On…
Erdogan urges talks to defuse gas row with Greece
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for dialogue on Monday while still pushing ahead with a contentious Mediterranean gas development plan that has outraged Greece and alarmed NATO and…
PIA plane crash: Erdogan offers condolences to bereaved families
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered condolences to the bereaved families of the PIA crash victims. In a telephonic conservation with Pakistani President Dr. Arif Alvi he reiterated that…
Erdogan says Saudi threats kept Pakistan away from KL Summit
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Saudi threats of economic sanctions had forced Pakistan to stay away from recently concluded Kuala Lumpur Summit. “Unfortunately, we see that Saudi…
Killing of a Turkish soldier by Kurdish Militia shows fragility of the truce
ANKARA: As a result of an attack carried out by the Kurdish YPG today in the northeast Syrian city of Tel Abyad one Turkish soldier lost his life while other…
Turkey would crush Kurdish forces if pullout did not happen: Erdogan
ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned here today that if Kurdish forces did not withdraw from a proposed safe zone along the border Turkey would crush the heads of…
Turkish President’s postponed visit will be rescheduled: FO
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office Spokesman Dr. Muhammad Faisal while talking to journalists here during a formal weekly briefing told that the postponed visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would soon…
Embargoes would not stop Turkey’s offensive against Kurdish militants: Erdogan
ANKARA: Responding to the proclamations by France and Germany apropos suspension of arms exports to Turkey over its offensive in Syria against the Kurdish People's Protection Units, President Recep Tayyip…
Pakistan supports Turkey’s Syria offensive
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has offered rare backing to Turkey in its offensive against Kurdish forces in Syria, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expected to visit Islamabad later this month. Prime Minister…
World needs to know about Kashmiris’ suffering: Erdogan
ISTANBUL: Chief of Pakistan’s Naval Staff Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have jointly cut the first metal plate of the first of the four MILGEM…
Turkish President to arrive in Pakistan on 24TH October
NEW YORK/ISLAMABAD/ ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will arrive in Pakistan on a 24 October 2019 on a two-day official visit, announced ministry of the interior Turkey today. According…