Turkey said it had dismissed a further 10,000 civil servants and closed 15 more media outlets over suspected links with terrorist organizations and U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Ankara for orchestrating a failed coup in July.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday (Oct 25) that Ankara could launch a ground operation in Iraq to remove any threats to Turkey that may arise.
Turkey and Russia has reached a significant moment in relations as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin set aside disagreements and sealed an energy agreement on Monday on the sidelines of the 23rd World Energy Congress in Istanbul.
Egypt on Monday condemned a terrorist attack in Turkey that killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens of others.
The European Union (EU) said in a report on Tuesday that the EU-Turkey Statement on refugees is delivering results despite some challenges.
Turkish and Chinese officials on Wednesday pledged to further promote bilateral ties that have been growing steadily lately.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey defended his decision to send ground troops into Syria on Tuesday, saying that his military’s incursion had helped establish “peace, balance and stability in a region taken over by hopelessness.”
Turkey has fired almost 28,000 teachers and suspended more than 9,000 others for suspected links to the failed July coup and Kurdish militants, deputy prime minister Nurettin Canikli said Monday.
Turkey appointed new administrators in two dozen Kurdish-run municipalities on Sunday after removing their elected mayors over suspected links to militants, triggering pockets of protest in its volatile southeastern region bordering Syria and Iraq.
U.S. President Barack Obama floated the idea of joint action with Turkey to capture the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in remarks published on Wednesday.
Turkish warplanes destroyed 12 targets in northern Iraq late on Monday, the military said, striking a region where Ankara says the leadership of Turkey's outlawed Kurdish militant group PKK is based.
Turkey has sent more tanks and other military equipment into northern Syria for an extended operation, signaling its readiness to wade deeper into the raging war in the neighboring country to confront challenges on the ground, analysts said.
Outdoor weddings have been prohibited in Turkey for security reason after a street wedding bombing killed 56 people in southern province of Gaziantep, Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Friday.
Turkey has swept Islamic State and the Kurdish YPG militia from an area of northern Syria, but Syrian Kurdish forces have still not met a Turkish demand to withdraw to the east of the Euphrates river, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday.
Turkey will continue offering its support to the negotiation process for an agreement on a Cyprus solution, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said during a visit to the occupied part of the eastern Mediterranean island on Wednesday.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement Tuesday that comments from the U.S. about the target of the Turkish military operation in Syria were "unacceptable."
U.S.-led coalition warplanes hit Islamic State targets near the Syrian frontier town of Jarablus overnight, the Turkish military said on Tuesday, as forces backed by Ankara pushed deeper into north Syria.
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