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Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu answers a question during an interview with Reuters in Ankara, Turkey, August 24, 2015. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Turkish FM Calls for Immediate Truce in Syria

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Dec 2, 2016 | Middle East

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called for an immediate ceasefire in Syria on Friday, describing the situation in Aleppo as critical and saying that regime head Bashar al-Assad was unfit to rule. Asked about Assad at a news conference in Beirut, Cavusoglu...

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a meeting with his Chinese counterpart in Moscow on March 11, 2016 (AFP Photo/Alexander Nemenov)

Lavrov Denies Russia, Syria Role in Deaths of Turkish Troops

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Dec 1, 2016 | Middle East

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that Moscow and Damascus were not behind an air strike in northern Syria that killed four Turkish soldiers last week. “Neither Russia nor Syria, its air force, had anything to do with this,” Lavrov...

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Turkey Demands That States “Exporting” Foreign Fighters Halt Them

by Saeed Abdelrazek | Oct 8, 2016 | World

The Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that everyone understands that defeating ISIS in a short time is possible through ground operations along the lines of operation Euphrates Shield, through which Turkey supports Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters in...

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Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu of Turkey speaks during a high-level meeting on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants at the United Nations General Assembly in Manhattan, New York, U.S., September 19, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Turkey Warns Shi’ite Militias Should not Have Role in Mosul Liberation

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 8, 2016 | Middle East

London- Ankara has warned of sectarian consequences from Mosul operation, objecting to involvement of Shi’ite militias. Shi’ite militias having a role in an operation to drive ISIS out of the Iraqi city will not bring peace, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut...

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Turkish soldiers surrender their weapons to policemen during the attempted coup in Istanbul’s Taksim Square, Turkey. REUTERS/Murad Sezer

Turkey Dismisses more Civil Servants amid Intelligence Gulen could Flee U.S.

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 28, 2016 | Middle East

Turkey widened on Thursday the purge of public sector employees by dismissing 88 foreign ministry personnel amid fears that Fethullah Gulen, who has been accused of orchestrating the failed July 15-16 coup attempt, could flee his residence in the United States....