Turkey ordered the detention of 82 military personnel in an operation targeting supporters of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen who was behind a failed coup in 2016. According to Turkish news agency, operation is spread over 39 provinces and 63 people have already been detained. The ...

ANKARA - Turkey on Friday warned Washington that any meeting with the leader of a US-backed Syrian Kurdish-led force risked “legitimising terrorists”. US President Donald Trump on Thursday said he had talked with Mazlum Abdi, commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) which fought ...

*ANKARA: *Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for caution over blaming Iran for this month’s attack on a Saudi Arabian oil facility in an interview with *Fox News*. While Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for the strikes on September 14, Riyadh, Washington ...

ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday hailed the controversial delivery of a Russian missile defence system despite the threat of US sanctions, as Turkey marked the third anniversary of a bloody coup attempt. Just days before the anniversary, the first batch of the Russian S-400 ...

*ANKARA: Turkey received the first batch of Russia’s S-400 missile defence system on Friday, the defence ministry said, despite repeated warnings from its NATO ally United States against the purchase.* “The delivery of the first shipment of parts of the S-400 long range regional air missile ...

ANKARA - Turkey has ordered arrest of 128 military personnel over suspected links to Gulen network. According to Anadolu news agency, they were suspected of being supporters of U.S. based cleric Fethullah Gulen who is accused by Turkish authorities of masterminding the failed coup three years ...

ANKARA: Turkish police on Friday detained 115 soldiers suspected of ties to the group blamed for a 2016 coup attempt, state media reported, the latest arrests in a massive crackdown. The detentions came after the Istanbul public prosecutor issued arrest warrants for 210 active duty soldiers ...

ISTANBUL: Turkey’s government on Friday rejected US pressure over its disputed deal to purchase Russian missiles, saying Ankara was already in talks over delivery of the S-400 defence system. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has riled Turkey’s NATO allies, especially the US, by purchasing the ...

Ankara: Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday said Ankara and Baghdad would deepen cooperation against terrorism after tensions last month over Turkish air strikes against Kurdish militants in Iraq. "We know the importance of working together to be successful in our fight against ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has wrapped up a three-day visit to Germany with a visit to Cologne, where a security lockdown kept supporters and protesters away from a ceremony to open the country's largest Mosque. Police snipers were stationed on rooftops and the area was cordoned off after the ...