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  • Turkey’s Karpowership says it is shutting down power to Lebanon

    Turkey’s Karpowership, which provides electricity to Lebanon from two barges, said on Friday it was shutting down supplies over payment arrears and a legal threat to its vessels as the nation grapples with a deep economic crisis. The company, which supplies 370 megawatts (MW), or about a quarter of Lebanon’s current supply, told the government this week it would have to shut down unless there were moves toward settling the issues.

  • Perspective: A Relationship in Flux – Can Turkey and Saudi Arabia Stabilize Relations?

    Hopes of a Saudi-Turkish detente were dashed in January when Saudi F-15 fighter jets took part in a joint exercise with Greece in the eastern Mediterranean. Before the Greek-Saudi joint military exercises, however, Turkey established a large military presence in strategic locations in the east, south, and west of Saudi Arabia; the country maintains military bases in Qatar and Somalia, and Turkish warships have an enduring presence in the Red Sea.

  • Turkey seeks to reconcile with Egypt, Saudi Arabia

    Turkey has gone on a charm offensive in Egypt and Saudi Arabia in an attempt to break its regional isolation and end a harmful economic boycott.

  • Turkey says dialogue on disputes with Saudi Arabia to continue

    "With the Saudi foreign minister, we didn't just discuss our bilateral ties, but we also discussed the steps we can take within the OIC, Arab League and beyond," he said, using the acronym for the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. "We also evaluated other regional issues."

  • Egypt and Turkey seek to overhaul tense ties with frank talks on Libya

    Egypt and Turkey on Thursday held talks on the conflict in Libya, where they back competing factions,on Syria and the security situation in the eastern Mediterranean, in a push to rebuild their fractured relations.

  • Turkey Seeks Saudi Arabia Talks as Part of Regional Reset

    Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu’s visit to Saudi Arabia would be the first since the 2018 murder of columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul, according to people familiar with the matter. The visit, which is likely to take place on May 11, comes after Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz discussed ways to improve relations in a phone call on Tuesday.

  • Merkel tells Turkey’s Erdogan withdrawal of troops from Libya would be ‘important signal’

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday that the withdrawal of foreign troops from Libya would be an "important signal" as both leaders vowed to support the new interim government there, a German government spokesman said.

  • Egypt and Turkey to hold two days of talks in normalisation push

    Egypt and Turkey will hold two days of political consultations in Cairo on Wednesday and Thursday as part of a push to mend ties between the regional rivals, the two countries said.

  • Turkey: We Respect Saudi Decisions in Khashoggi Case

    "We will seek ways to repair the relationship with a more positive agenda with Saudi Arabia as well," Kalin said, adding that he hoped the boycott could be lifted. In a marked change of tone, he welcomed the trial in Saudi Arabia which last year jailed eight people for between seven and 20 years for Khashoggi's murder. "They had a court. Trials have been held," Kalin said. "They made a decision so we respect that decision."

  • Turkey ‘seeks ways to repair relationship’ with Saudi Arabia

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s top aide and spokesman Ibrahim Kalin on Monday said the country wanted to repair its ties with Saudi Arabia and that Turkey respected the decision made in the Khashoggi trial.