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Turkey’s ambassador to France on Wednesday said that Paris had informed NATO it was suspending its involvement in a naval operation in the Mediterranean after a probe into an incident between French and Turkish warships did not back Paris’ claims. Ties between NATO allies France and Turkey have soured in …

Up to 60 migrants may have been trapped in a boat that sank in an eastern lake last week, Turkey’s interior minister said Wednesday. Turkey launched a search-and-rescue mission involving helicopters and boats after the boat carrying migrants across Lake Van was reported missing on June 27. So far rescue …

The United States will continue working with Turkish companies producing some parts of F-35 fighter jets until 2022, Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu agency quoted a Pentagon spokeswoman as saying on Wednesday. Turkey said in May it was still producing and delivering parts for the stealth jets despite being suspended from the …

  Iraqi Presidency took a position on Turkish military operations in the country; this declared in a statement issued, on Friday, June 25, highlighted the following: “Iraqi Presidency calls for the cessation of hostilities to the repeated Turkish military violations on Iraqi territory in which unarmed civilians have been killed. …

A Turkish court on Friday handed down life sentences to 121 people for taking part in the 2016 attempted overthrow of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, state media reported. The court in Ankara sentenced 86 suspects to “aggravated” life imprisonment for “attempting to violate the constitution” while 35 individuals were given …

Iraqi Presidency took a position on Turkish military operations in the country; this declared in a statement issued, on Friday, June 25, highlighted the following: “Iraqi Presidency calls for the cessation of hostilities to the repeated Turkish military violations on Iraqi territory in which unarmed civilians have been killed. “While …

Two people were killed after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives outside Turkey’s largest overseas military base in Mogadishu on Tuesday, Somali officials said, the latest reminder of Somalia’s struggle to curb the deadly attacks that have haunted the country for years. The attack, which bears the hallmarks of the …

France will not tolerate Turkey’s military intervention in Libya, President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday, accusing Ankara of playing “a dangerous game”. Turkey has intervened decisively in recent weeks in Libya, providing air support, weapons, and allied fighters from Syria to help the government based in Tripoli repel a year-long …

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday said his country has a legitimate right to intervene in neighbouring Libya and ordered his army to be ready to carry out any mission outside the country, if necessary. Sisi’s comments came amid high tensions over regional rival Turkey’s intervention in Libya. He …

Kidnapped by members of the so-called Islamic State six years ago, a young Yazidi woman was recently found in Turkey and returned to Iraq’s Kurdistan Region on Saturday, a relative said. Halima Hussein Khalaf was kidnapped in 2014 and was moved to Turkey after the group’s territorial collapse in both …

Turkish bombardment killed a Kurdish shepherd in northern Iraq, a local official said Friday, the first known civilian victim of Ankara’s air and ground assault on the region. “He was a shepherd in Bradost district and was killed at dawn Thursday in Turkish airstrikes,” the official from Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish …

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad, summoned, again, the Turkish ambassador to Iraq and handed him a protest note regarding the Turkish attack on Kurdistan Region. In a statement received by AlghdeerTV, the ministry said that Iraq “condemns in the strongest terms the Turkish forces violation, on June 17, …

The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced, on Wednesday, the start of the second military operation in northern Iraq within two days, which it called “Tiger-Claw”, despite the Iraqi protest. “The operation (Tiger-Claw) has started, as commando units are currently in the Heftanin area,” the ministry said in a Twitter Tweet. …

Iraq’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the Turkish ambassador over recent deadly airstrikes carried out by Ankara against the purported strongholds of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group in the country’s northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region. The ministry said in a statement that Ambassador Fatih Yildiz was called in on Tuesday, …

Al-Fateh Parliamentary bloc condemned the attack on the city of Sinjar and called on the government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to register an official complaint with the United Nations, the Security Council, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation regarding repeated Turkish abuses. The Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC) …

An earthquake with a 5.7 magnitude shook Bingol province in eastern Turkey on Sunday, causing the collapse of a military observation tower which injured three people, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said. Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate (AFAD) said the epicenter of the quake was in the Karliova district of …

The Turkish government has informed Iraq and countries of the world of lifting travel restrictions related to entry and exit of citizens of all countries through air, land, and seaports. The Iraqi ambassador to Ankara informed the Iraqi government that Turkey has lifted travel restrictions on entry and exit of …

Turkey fiercely criticised Twitter on Friday for suspending more than 7,000 accounts that supported President Tayyip Erdogan, saying the company was smearing the government and trying to redesign Turkish politics. Twitter said it was taking down 7,340 accounts from a network detected early in 2020 that it said was being …

Twitter Inc. removed tens of thousands of accounts engaged in propaganda that were linked to Russia, China, and Turkey. In a Thursday blog post, the social media company disclosed that it had removed 32,242 accounts for violating its policy against manipulating the service. Twitter described the accounts as “state-linked information …

A Turkish court jailed a U.S. consulate employee for nearly nine years on Thursday for aiding a terrorist organization, a ruling the United States described as deeply disappointing and based on no credible evidence. Metin Topuz’s trial has been a major source of tension between the two NATO allies, which …