The Guardian - The move against Palestine is not a step that can be stomached, says Erdo?an Turkey has threatened to suspend its diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates and recall its envoy, a day after the Gulf state announced it would become the third Arab country to establish full ties with Israel. The move against Palestine is ...

MNA The Secretariat of World Assembly of Islamic Awakening (WAIA) issued a statement, calling the reopening of Hagia Sophia Mosque in Turkey after 86 years as a courageous step taken in return of Islamic heritage to Islamic World. The full text of the statement is as follows, The Crusades coincided with a period in history that many ...

Reuters - Turkeys confirmed coronavirus cases have risen to 82,329, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Saturday, overtaking neighbouring Iran for the first time to register the highest total in the Middle East. An increase of 3,783 cases in the last 24 hours also pushed Turkeys confirmed tally within a few hundred of China, where the novel coronavirus ...

Reuters - Turkey confirmed its first case of the coronavirus on Wednesday, becoming the last major economy to report an outbreak after taking what the World Health Organization (WHO) described as vigilant, cautious measures to delay the disease. Turkeys tourism sector, which accounts for about 13% of its economy, stepped up calls on the government ...

Reuters - Seven people died and others were stuck under collapsed buildings in southeastern Turkey on Sunday after a magnitude-5.7 earthquake struck near the border with Iran, the Turkish interior minister said as rescue teams arrived in villages. Three of those killed in the shallow tremor were children and five people were reported injured, according ...

RT | Scott Ritter:Under the 2018 Sochi agreement, Turkey was supposed to disarm and disassociate itself from the terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. Its failure to do so has sown the seeds of Turkeys inevitable defeat in Syria. When Turkey threw its weight behind the anti-Assad rebellion in 2011, it did so believing that it would be able ...

Euronews | Kristina Jovanovski and Saphora Smith and Ammar Cheikh Omar withNBC News World News: The nearly nine-year-long Syrian civil war has faded from headlines amid competing international tensions and crises, but a renewed push by government forces has prompted aid groups to raise the alarm about the "staggering exodus" of people from the country's ...

Financial Tribune - Turkey is now overtaking Irans place in commercial exchanges with Afghanistan due to economic restrictions imposed by the Islamic Republic in the face of sanctions, says the head of Iran-Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce. Noting that trade is a two-way business, Hossein Salimi added that since Irans Agriculture Ministry has banned ...

IRNA Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on Tuesday to stress Tehran's opposition to any kind of military operation by Turkey in Syria. The statement said undertaking such a measure will not only fail to remove Turkey's security concerns but rather cause a huge financial and humane loss. Therefore, Iran is against any kind ...

Tasnim Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned Turkey against any military move in Syria and said regional nations security can be preserved only through respecting other countries territorial integrity. Addressing an open session of the parliament in Tehran on Sunday, Zarif pointed to the recent tensions between Syrian Kurds and the ...

Reuters |Emily Wither, Ezgi Erkoyun: Iranians in Turkey are finding ways to sidestep laws in their home country to buy properties and get Turkish passports, hoping to protect their savings even as the United States ramps up sanctions on Iran. As they find ways around Irans money-transfer restrictions, the spike in home-buying has propelled Iranians ...

Reuters - Iranian tanker Adrian Darya, at the center of a dispute between Washington and Tehran, has changed course away from the Turkish coast, Refinitiv ship tracking data showed on Thursday. The tanker, formerly called Grace 1, was released from detention off Gibraltar in mid-August after a five-week standoff over whether it was carrying Iranian ...

Sputnik - The oil tanker was seized by Gibraltar on 4 July on suspicion of carrying oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions and released on 15 August. Four days later, the Middle Eastern nation confirmed that the tanker had left Gibraltar's waters. The Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya, formerly known as Grace 1, has changed its course, sailing ...

Tasnim The Iranian oil tanker released recently by Gibraltar is heading to a port in Turkey, a report said. The crew of the Adrian Darya 1, formerly known as the Grace 1, updated its listed destination in its Automatic Identification System to Mersin, Turkey, a port city in the country's south, AP reported. The ship-tracking website MarineTraffic....

MNA Turkey's President Erdogan says that he is open to mediating talks between Tehran and Washington in a bid to deescalate tensions following the US hostile measures in the region. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said that he's willing to accept an offer to mediate talks between Iran and the US to ease rising tension in the ...

Press TV - Turkey says it has launched a military operation against Kurdish militants in a mountainous area of northern Iraq. In a statement released on Tuesday, the Defense Ministry said that the campaign, dubbed OperationClaw, kicked off in Iraqs Hakurk region at 8 p.m. local time (1700 GMT) on Monday. Over the past hours, artillery fire and ...

MNA A spokesman for Turkeys ruling AKP said Fri. that US sanctions on Iranian oil exports do not serve peace in the region. We state that such sanctions are only punishing people, and that it is not possible to reach the goals written in any way, mer elik, spokesman for Turkeys ruling AKP, told a wide-ranging news conference at the party headquarters,...

Tasnim Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi warned that the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers is coming to an end due to the "bullying behavior of the US. Speaking at a forum at Ankara-based Institute of Strategic Thinking (SDE) on Wednesday, Araqchi said Iran gave enough chances to the diplomacy on the deal but "enough ...

IRNA Nowruz, the first day of spring, that marks the new year for a large number of people is celebrated across the world, from the Central Asia and the Middle East to the Balkans. Turkey is among the countries where Nowruz has also a special status. Nowruz is Yenign in many Turkish speaking countries of Central Asia. Some communities in the ...

Alwaght - As Venezuela is divided into two blocs, with one supporting the elected President Nicolas Maduro and the other supporting the head of the National Assembly Juan Guaid, the world countries are divided into supporters of the two sides of the dispute in the Latin American nation. Shortly after the start of anti-Maduro protests in the ...