by Said Abdul Razzak | Jun 16, 2017 | Middle East
Ankara- Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that his country is willing to deploy armed troops to Qatar amid rising tensions in the Gulf diplomatic row. A bloc of three Gulf states joined by Egypt have led a boycott against the gas-rich peninsula in a joint...
by Saeed Abdelrazek | Mar 31, 2017 | Middle East
Ankara- US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has signaled a new US stance on Syria that meets with Turkey’s own positions on some issues but differs on others, mainly concerning the fate of the head of the Syrian regime Bashar Assad. “The status and the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 9, 2017 | World
Germany’s foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel voiced Wednesday cautious optimism that Berlin and Ankara may end a bad-tempered row with Turkey to begin to restore diplomatic ties back to normal. Dispute between the NATO allies, Ankara and Berlin, sparked over the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 27, 2017 | Middle East
Turkey has demanded the retrial of eight soldiers who fled to Greece after a failed coup last year and threatened to take measures, including scrapping a migration deal with Athens, after the Greek Supreme Court rejected an extradition request. “We are now...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 6, 2017 | World
Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said that the UN has been invited to participate in negotiations between parties to the Syrian crisis that are due to be held in Astana at the end of January. The Russian news agency Tass...
