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Erdogan Says Everybody Wins with Peace in Ukraine
There can be no losers where peace is concerned in Ukraine, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a dinner hosted by the Turkish American National Steering Committee in New York. 'We have achieved many diplomatic successes <…>. Believing that ‘there is no winner of a war, and a loser of a peace', we continue our efforts in a multifaceted manner,' Erdogan said in a speech posted on the Turkish presidential office’s ...
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Turkey Carries Out an Air Operation against PKK in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq
Turkey carried out an air operation hitting targets in the Qandil and Asos regions of northern Iraq early on Friday to eliminate terrorists, said the country's National Defense Ministry. The operation was carried out to 'neutralize the PKK/KCK-PYD/YPG and other terrorist elements, to eliminate the terrorist attacks against our people and security forces from northern Iraq, to ensure border security and to destroy terrorism at its source,' the ministry said in a ...
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Turkey’s Top Diplomat Seeking to Discuss Grain Deal with Lavrov
Turkish officials are discussing three scenarios of how the situation around the stalled grain deal may evolve, and Turkey’s top diplomat Hakan Fidan is planning to discuss the results of these discussions with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmitry Kuleba, the pro-government newspaper Yeni Safak reported on Friday. If no solution is found 'the [food] crisis would escalate' under a scenario that would not meet the interests of ...
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Russia, Turkey Agree on Putin Visit to Turkey Soon, Interfax Reports
President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have agreed that the Russian leader will visit Turkey 'soon', Interfax cited a Kremlin aide as saying on Friday. The visit would be Putin's first to a NATO country since he ordered tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. Putin has only rarely traveled outside Russia since the beginning of full-scale hostilities. 'There is an invitation from the president ...
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