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ISTANBUL: Turkiye’s six-party opposition alliance is set to announce in February their presidential candidate to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 20-year rule in elections set for May, an opposition party official said on Friday. Turkiye is heading toward one of the most consequential votes in the century-long history of the modern republic and Erdogan signaled on

The six-party opposition alliance has not yet been able to agree on a single candidate for the upcoming presidential election...

Turkey’s president and foreign minister have signaled that Turkish-Israeli normalization will not be derailed by the new Israeli government as former foe Benjamin Netanyahu returns to power. 

Turkey’s opposition, which has long failed to put up a coherent attitude to the government’s foreign policy, is now turning to a hawkish rhetoric that Erdogan himself might envy.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has chided NATO for failing to do more for Ukraine but remains averse to antagonizing Russia.

Turkey fears another exodus of Syrian refugees as Damascus, backed by Russia, is ramping up attacks against Idlib, the last Syrian rebel enclave. A Turkish military force stands in the way of Syrian…

The end of Turkey’s ‘precious loneliness’ may be on the horizon Sinem Cengiz Turkish Presidential Spokesman Ibrahim Kalin. (Getty Images) Short Url https://arab.news/zq6k4 In 2013, Ibrahim Kalin, who was chief foreign policy adviser to then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the time and is today’s presidential spokesperson, introduced the term “precious loneliness” to international relations literature in a bid to justify the state of Turkey’s Middle East policy, which was ve...

Amid an already frosty start with the new US administration, Ankara has renewed accusations that Washington was behind the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey.

The new sanctions follow Turkey’s controversial purchase and testing of the Russian S-400 missile system. “Despite our warnings, Turkey moved ahead with its purchase and testing of the S-400 system from Russia. Today’s sanctions on Turkey demonstrates the US will fully implement CAATSA. We will not tolerate significant transactions with Russia’s defense sector,” outgoing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. The decision was announced as part of the Countering America’s Adversarie...