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  • Syrian refugees cling on in Turkey, Lebanon as fears over coerced returns grow

    The first Syrian refugees in Lebanon to return home under a new repatriation scheme will leave on Wednesday, but few in worn-down camps in the central Bekaa Valley said they would sign up. Rights groups fear the programme may not be as voluntary as it purports to be, at a time when concerns are growing about a policy of coercion they say is already in force in Turkey, where 3.6 million Syrians who have fled their country are registered.

  • Turkey Backs Saudi Arabia Over OPEC+ Oil Production Cuts

    Turkey has sided with Saudi Arabia in its deepening standoff with the US over OPEC+’s decision to cut oil production. “We see that a country stands up and threatens Saudi Arabia,” Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in the Mediterranean port city of Mersin on Friday. “This bullying is not right.”

  • Erdogan Says Turkey to Explore for Oil and Gas in Libyan Waters

  • Turkey-Libya preliminary deal prompts Greece, Egypt to push back

    Libya's Tripoli government signed a preliminary deal on energy exploration on Monday, prompting Greece and Egypt to say they would oppose any activity in disputed areas of the eastern Mediterranean. Libya's eastern-based parliament, which backs an alternative administration, also rejected the deal. Speaking at a ceremony in Tripoli, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush said the deal was one of several in a memorandum of understanding on economic issues aimed at benefiting both countries.

  • The secrets of Turkey’s historic capital of cool

    At first glance Izmir looks very much like any other modern Turkish metropolis, densely populated with unimposing architecture. Yet once it was Turkey's most cosmopolitan city -- and that historical cachet can still be found hidden among Izmir's streets. Dial the clock back more than a century and you'd find wealthy Levantine, Greek, Turkish and Armenian families promenading along Izmir's waterfront in the latest fashions from Paris.

  • Turkey Plans to Send Police and Troops to Qatar for World Cup

    President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government on Saturday asked parliament to approve the deployment of an unspecified number of additional troops in Qatar for six months. Turkey already has an army base in Qatar and can deploy roughly 250 personnel there under a 2021 agreement.

  • Turkey to re-inforce military presence in northern Cyprus: Erdogan

    Turkey will re-inforce its military presence in northern Cyprus after the United States lifted defense trade restrictions on Cyprus, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday. Speaking in a televised interview with broadcaster CNN Turk, Erdogan said the lifting of the restrictions was “inexplicable in terms of content and timing.” Earlier this month, the US State Department said Secretary of State Antony Blinken had lifted defense trade restrictions for Cyprus for fiscal year 2023.

  • Kurds fear ‘everything will change’ if Syria, Turkey reconcile

    A decade into their experiment in self-rule, Syria's Kurds fear an apparent rapprochement between Damascus and their foe the Turkish government could cost them their hard-won way of life. Before Syria's conflict broke out, the country's roughly two million Kurds were not permitted to learn the Kurdish language in school or celebrate their cultural occasions. A year after Syria's uprising began in 2011, government forces withdrew from swathes of the north – paving the way for a Kurdish-led "autonomous administration" to run its own institutions, including schools where Kurdish was taught.

  • Turkey’s central bank reserves boosted by friendly country support, Erdogan says

    The Turkish central bank's foreign currency reserves are getting stronger as friendly countries are providing support, President Tayyip Erdogan said, broadcaster Haberturk reported on Friday. The central bank's reserves have come under pressure from its forex market interventions to support the Turkish lira and to meet government institutions' forex needs.

  • Turkey Plans New Loan Stimulus to Spur Growth Before Vote

    Turkey is priming a new round of cheap loans for businesses through a government-backed program, according to a person familiar with the matter, promising a fresh dollop of stimulus before next year’s elections to spur growth in an economy at risk of a slowdown. The government disclosed plans to extend loans under the Credit Guarantee Fund at a closed-door meeting held by Treasury and Finance Minister Nureddin Nebati in Ankara, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss information that isn’t public.