DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AFP) - Kurdish rebels killed three Turkish soldiers and 10 of their own militants died in an attack on a military outpost in southeastern Turkey, officials said Tuesday.
The attack was the latest in a surge of violence by Kurdish rebels, prompting Turkey's army chief to highlight the danger posed by Iraq granting the rebels safe haven in the north of the country from w [...]
ANKARA (AFP) - Turkey warned Israel Monday it will cut ties unless it gets an apology for a deadly raid on Gaza-bound aid ships, but the Jewish state said it will never say sorry for defending itself.
Ankara has already closed its airspace to all Israeli military aircraft in reaction to the May 31 bloodshed on a Turkish ship in which nine Turks were killed, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutogl [...]
ANKARA (AFP) - Turkey warned Israel Monday it will cut ties unless it gets an apology for a deadly raid on Gaza-bound aid ships, but the Jewish state said it will never say sorry for defending itself.
Ankara had already closed its airspace to all Israeli military aircraft in reaction to the May 31 bloodshed on a Turkish ship in which nine Turks were killed, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutogl [...]
ANKARA (AFP) - An explosion ripped through a pipeline carrying oil from Iraq to southern Turkey on Saturday, sparking a fire, the Anatolia news agency reported.
The blast, whose origin remains unknown, hit a section of the pipeline near Midyat town in the southeastern province of Mardin, the agency said.
The pipeline has in the past been targeted by Kurdish insurgents active in the regio [...]
ANKARA (AFP) - Turkish jets bombed Kurdish rebel targets in neighbouring northern Iraq overnight following deadly clashes inside Turkey, the military said Friday.
"The targets were hit successfully," it said in an online statement, without any mention of casualties among the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
The warplanes targeted PKK hideouts in the Qandil mountains and the Khakurk [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was meeting his hardline Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Friday in a bid to mend ties after sidelining him in talks aimed at ending a crisis with Turkey.
Israeli Trade Minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met on Wednesday in Brussels for secret talks seeking a way out of the feud sparke [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Secret talks between Israel and Turkey to resolve a diplomatic crisis has provoked a major row between the Israeli foreign ministry and the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The dispute erupted late on Wednesday after Turkish and Israeli media revealed that Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu had held secret talks in Belgium with Israeli Trade Minister B [...]
ANKARA (AFP) - Turkey and Israel held secret talks to seek a way out of a deep crisis in bilateral ties sparked by a deadly raid on Gaza-bound aid ships, officials said Thursday.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Israeli Trade Minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer met Wednesday in Brussels, where Davutoglu was on a visit to discuss his country's EU membership bid.
The talks were agree [...]
BRASILIA (AFP) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad voiced support Wednesday for the efforts of Brazil and Turkey to broker a diplomatic solution to the international tensions over Iran's nuclear program.
Under a May accord, Iran agreed to send some of its low-enriched uranium to Turkey in return for higher grade nuclear fuel from Russia and France for a medical research reactor.
Assad des [...]
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