Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday called for the “worrying” developments in eastern Ukraine’s Donbass region to come to an end after meeting his Ukrainian counterpart in Istanbul, adding Turkey was ready to provide any [ More … ]
Under a US law known as CAATSA, states that buy military hardware from Russia must be sanctioned. US politicians pressed the Trump administration to impose sanctions on Turkey over its purchase of a Russian missile defence system, [ More … ]
After talks with Putin, Erdogan says Kurdish fighters will withdraw 30km (19 miles) from the frontier within 150 hours. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says a deal has been reached with Russia for Kurdish fighters to withdraw [ More … ]
Erdogan condemns Syrian army offensive as Putin urges ‘terrorist attacks’ in rebel-held Idlib to end. The leaders of Russia and Turkey have held discussions about a possible expansion of defence industry cooperation, even as differences appeared [ More … ]
Turkey has a little more than two weeks to decide whether to complete a complex arms deal with the U.S. or risk severe penalties by going through with an agreement to buy a missile system [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held a meeting at the Russian leader’s presidential residence on Monday in the coastal city of Sochi. Erdoğan said on Monday that a joint [ More … ]
The agenda has already changed, but I want to write about the Tehran Summit and the Idlib issue. To begin with, let’s recall what happened at the Tehran Summit, which was attended by the presidents [ More … ]
We have entered the eighth year of the crisis in Syria and nowadays are in a situation in which it is acknowledged that the whole matter leads to the borders of Idlib. Now everyone is [ More … ]
Turkish president announces negotiations with Russia are ongoing to sideline ‘damaging’ US dollar in global trade. Turkey will pursue non-dollar transactions in trade and investment with other countries, its president said on Sunday, adding recent [ More … ]
Vladimir Putin has repeatedly spoken of this possibility, subject to study, calculations, says Kremlin spokesman Russia is aiming towards using national currencies in trade with Turkey, instead of dollars or euros, said a Kremlin spokesman [ More … ]
The meeting of foreign and defense ministers of Russia, Iran and Turkey about the future of Syria and the city of Aleppo at talks in Moscow on Tuesday became uncertain, as well as the Russian-Turkish [ More … ]
Western powers must balance Russian overtures to Turkey by reaching out to Ankara on its key concerns and being cautious with their criticism. A binational meeting was held in Moscow Oct. 2, bringing together Ahmet Tunc [ More … ]
Turkey has called on Russia to carry out joint operations in Syria against the Islamic State (ISIS) group, after crucial talks between President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan aimed at ending a crisis [ More … ]
Steps taken towards the normalization of relations between Turkey and Russia have raised expectations in the Turkish textile and apparel sectors that commerce with Russia will speed up. Following Turkey’s shooting down a Russian fighter, [ More … ]
Moscow will lift all restrictions on Turkey imposed in the aftermath of shooting down a Russian jet when it violated Turkish airspace last November, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said. In an interview with French [ More … ]
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