Press TV - Syria has censured a recent decision by Turkish and US military forces to begin joint ground patrols in a so-called safe zone east of the Euphrates in northeastern Syria, arguing that the move constitutes a blatant violation of the international law and the Syrian sovereignty. The Syrian Arab Republic condemns in the strongest terms the ...

MNA Syria has expressed categorical rejection of the agreement between the US and Turkey on establishing a safe zone, affirming that it constitutes flagrant aggression against Syrias sovereignty and territorial integrity. An official familiar with the matter said on Thursday that Syria expresses a categorical rejection of the so-called safe zone,...

MNA Turkey on Thursday called on the US to respect the Supreme Election Councils (YSK) decision for election rerun in Istanbul. Everyone must respect the decision taken by the Supreme Election Councils (YSK), said Hami Aksoy, spokesman for the Turkeys Foreign Ministry, in a reaction to a statement by spokeswoman for the US Department of State Morgan ...

Alwaght - The S-400 air defense systems deal between Russia and Turkey remains a serious challenge in the Turkish-American relations, despite the fact that over the past year Ankara leaders did much to alleviate the Western concerns and the US and NATO kept opposing Turkish purchase of the state-of-the-art anti-aircraft systems. Turkeys instance ...

Press TV - US National Security Adviser John Bolton has not ruled out that Turkey is a foe of the United States, blasting Ankara for maintaining a very bad relationship with Washingtons close ally Israel. When asked by AM 970 radio host John Catsimatidis on Sunday whether Turkey was a friend or foe to the US, Bolton refused to give a straight answer ...

Al-Monitor | Bryant Harris: Although Congress has yet to coalesce around a path out of the monthlong government shutdown, it has at least reached a consensus on a Middle East aid package for 2019. The compromise contains good news for several US allies namely Egypt, Morocco and Turkey as it undoes significant setbacks they faced when the House ...

Tasnim President Donald Trump's warning that if Turkey attacks US-backed Kurdish forces in Syria, the United States will "devastate Turkey economically" has drawn a sharp response from Ankara and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman. Turkey's presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin responded to Trump on Twitter by saying, "Terrorists can't be ...

Tasnim US President Donald Trump's National Security Adviser John Bolton is preparing to leave Ankara after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan denied his requested meeting. Erdogan earlier in the day slammed statements Bolton made that Washington's condition for a troop withdrawal from Syria is that Turkey protects the PKK's Syrian affiliate People's ...

Press TV - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogans spokesman has denounced as irrational US claims that Turkey was attacking Kurds in Syrias northeastern parts. Ibrahim Kalin said Sunday that Ankaras military campaign in the neighboring Arab country, besides Daesh, has only targeted members of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and the ...

Press TV - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused the United States of launching what he called a "heinous economic attack" on Turkey after the national currency lira hit a record low following US sanctions. During a speech to officials from his AK Party in Ankara on Friday, Erdogan also said Turkey would see the result of the central ...

Reuters - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused the United States on Wednesday of bullying even its own allies, as he arrived in Turkey which is locked in a row with Washington. The United States has doubled tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminum imports over the detention of an American Christian pastor, with Ankara responding with ...

Alwaght - The new Turkish era, ushered in by the rise of Justice and Development Party (AKP)to power in 2002, is marked by the neo-Ottomanism of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his fellow party members who seek to restore their countrys historical role as a regional hegemonic power and a weighty actor on the global stage. Despite the fact that the modern-...

Reuters - The lira weakened on Thursday, staying under pressure as a damaging standoff between Turkey and the United States centred on the fate of a Christian pastor showed no signs of easing. Ankara accused Washington of waging economic war and failing to respect its legal system over Andrew Brunson, whose trial in Turkey on terrorism charges -...

Press TV - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusogluhas described US PresidentDonaldTrump's recent sanctions policy targeting Ankara as "self-defeating." In a Monday article for USA Today,Cavusogluwrote that the US attempts to undermine Turkish economy had hurt the NATO alliance. "Aiming to undermine an allys economy to score domestic political ...

Press TV - President Tayyip Erdogan has resembled an attack on Turkey's economy to a strike against its flag or call to prayer, saying the campaignaims to bring "Turkey and its people to their knees." "The attack on our economy has absolutely no difference from attacks on our call to prayer and our flag,"Erdogan said in an address released Monday ...

Press TV - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country will not surrender to the United States under the sanctions imposed by the US over the detention of an American pastor, accusing Washington of launching an attempted economic coup against Ankara. Today some people are trying to threaten us through the economy, through interest ...

Press TV - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Ankara will freeze the assets in Turkey of the US ministers of "justice and interior," in tit-for-tat response to US sanctions on his country over the detention of an American pastor. "Today I will give our friends instructions to freeze the assets in Turkey of the American justice and interior ministers,...

FNA- Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu warned that Ankara may close Incirlik air base for Washington. "There are no reasons why the US will not supply F-35s to us. We do not want to spoil relations with our US ally," Cavusoglu said, as quoted by the NTV broadcaster. "The F-35 aircraft should be delivered to Turkey as planned. But in case ...

MNA Turkey and the US have established working groups to discuss the stabilization of Manbij and other Syrian cities east of the Euphrates, Turkeys foreign minister said Friday. We have reached a common understanding with the Americans on the issue of the stabilization of Manbij and other cities east of the Euphrates. We have established working ...

Alwaght- Over the course of past few years, the US-Turkey relations have been the worst in the history of the two countries' ties as a result of the West Asia regions developments. The root cause of the divisions between the allies can be sought in the Syrian crisis. Since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the then ...