ANKARA: Austria’s decision to close down mosques and expel foreign-funded imams is a threat to dialogue between religions and the decision should be changed, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Tuesday. He made the comments at a news conference with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko ...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi leaves for Turkey today to attend a special summit of OIC to discuss recent massacre of innocent Palestinians by Israeli forces.    Turkish Prime Minister, Binali Yildirim had invited him to participate in the Extraordinary Session of the OIC ...

ANKARA: Turkey warned Greece on Monday to refrain from "provocations" after a Greek flag was hoisted on a disputed, uninhabited islet in the Aegean Sea off the Turkish coast. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told reporters that the Turkish coast guards had removed the flag from the island off the ...

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says around three hundred and fifty thousand refugees from Syria will return to their homes in Afrin region. Speaking at Golcuk Naval Shipyard Command in Kocaeli province today, Yildirim said Turkey, with its ongoing Operation Olive Branch, is making important ...

Turkey and Iraq have agreed to increase cooperation in fighting the terrorist groups in Syria's Afrin region. The understanding came at a meeting between Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and his Iraqi counterpart Haider al-Abadi on the side-lines of Munich Security Conference in ...

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says the French president has a flawed understanding of Turkey's cross-border offensive in northwestern Syria. The Turkish premier spoke during a joint news conference with visiting Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in response to comments by French ...

The Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has said the United States should end confusion over Syria's future and change its policy in Syria to mend relations with Turkey. Addressing provincial security directorate meeting in Ankara on Thursday, he said the practices of our NATO ally in Syria are ...

Bangladesh: Turkey’s prime minister on Wednesday dubbed the killing of minority Muslim Rohingyas in Myanmar by its security forces “genocide” and urged the international community to ensure their safety back home.Binali Yildirim met several Rohingyas in two refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar in ...

Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim will pay a two-day official visit to Dhaka on Tuesday at the invitation of his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina Wajid.He will hold meetings with high-level Bangladeshi officials on regional issues, especially the Rohingya crisis.The Turkish Prime ...

GENEVA: The United Nations reopens its Syria peace talks on Tuesday but the Damascus government’s last minute announcement that it may not come to Geneva delivered a blow to the already faltering negotiations.The eighth round of talks were seen as a chance for the UN to revitalise its push to end ...