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  • Value of Saudi imports from Turkey drops further in January

    The value of Saudi Arabian imports from Turkey dropped further in January, official data showed on Thursday. Imports from Turkey amounted to 14.1 million riyals ($3.76 million) in January, down from 50.6 million riyals in December, and from 622 million riyals in January 2020, according to Saudi Arabia’s General Authority for Statistics.

  • Turkey withdraws from E.U. treaty on violence against women

    President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a surprise decree early Saturday withdrawing Turkey from a landmark European treaty that women's rights groups said had played a critical role in protecting Turkish women from gender-based violence. The treaty, the Istanbul Convention, sought in part to ensure equal legal protections against abuse for women across Europe. Turkey was the first country to sign the convention, in 2011, when Erdogan was prime minister. But some conservative Muslims who form a critical bloc of support for the Turkish leader had criticized the treaty from the start, framing it as part of a Western plot aimed at harming the country’s traditional notions of family and encouraging divorce.

  • Erdogan says Saudi Arabia wants to buy armed drones from Turkey

    Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia is seeking to buy armed unmanned aerial vehicles from Turkey, after years of tension between the two regional powers. Ties with Riyadh have been strained over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018. Trade has collapsed under an informal Saudi boycott, but both countries have said they will work to improve relations.

  • Turkey says it has restarted diplomatic contacts with Egypt

    Turkey has resumed diplomatic contacts with Egypt and wants to further cooperation, Turkish leaders said on Friday, after years of tension since the Egyptian army toppled a Muslim Brotherhood president close to Ankara.

  • Boycott brought down Saudi imports from Turkey by 72% in December

    The value of Saudi Arabia’s imports from Turkey fell by 72 percent to a record low in December 2020, reaching SR50.6 million, down from SR182.2 million in the previous month. According to the latest figures of the General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT) published on Wednesday, the December value is the lowest in the volume of imports from Turkey in at least a year.

  • Commentary: Turkey Signals Sweeping Regional Ambitions

    A nationalist Turkish television station with close ties to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dug up a 12-year-old map that projects Turkey’s sphere of influence in 2050 as stretching from South-eastern Europe on the northern coast of the Mediterranean and Libya on its southern shore across North Africa, the Gulf and the Levant into the Caucasus and Central Asia.

  • Turkey accuses U.S. of supporting Kurdish militants after 13 Turkish hostages are killed

    The latest outburst came a day after Ankara said that 13 Turkish hostages being held in northern Iraq by the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, had been found executed by their captors. The State Department issued a statement condemning the killings but suggesting the PKK’s involvement had yet to be confirmed.

  • Biden Extends Ban on Turkey Buying F-35 Stealth Fighter

    “Turkey is a longstanding and valued NATO ally, but their decision to purchase the S-400 is inconsistent with Turkey’s commitments as a U.S. and NATO ally,” Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said during a Friday afternoon press briefing. “Our position has not changed. The S-400 is incompatible with the F-35 and Turkey has been suspended from that program. We urge Turkey not to retain the S-400 system.”

  • Greece extends coastal claim to Ionian Sea waters, indirectly warns Turkey

    Simultaneously, Turkey was told publicly by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis that Athens had "zero naivety" before talks due in Istanbul next Monday over rival maritime claims, focused since last year over eastern Mediterranean offshore gas deposits claimed by Turkey .

  • No intention of altering ties with Turkey, Iran after Saudi summit, Qatar says

    “It will take some steps among the countries to rebuild the relationship ... there will be differences, some outstanding issues that will be discussed bilaterally between the countries,” he said. “Each country has a different set of disagreements with Qatar.”