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  • Turkey
    Perspective: How Turkey is turning to Russia amid row with US over Syria

    The call comes as Turkey is increasingly expressing its displeasure over the Donald Trump administration’s reluctance to allow Ankara to retain a powerful military presence in northeastern Syria, where the Americans’ Kurdish allies are in control.

  • Turkey
    Turkey conducts largest ever navy drill as tensions rise in Mediterranean

    Turkish armed forces began the largest naval exercise in the country's history on Wednesday, with 103 military vessels and thousands of soldiers conducting operations in three seas surrounding the country.

  • Turkey
    Turkey Faces Crucial Vote on EU Accession Before Local Ballot

    On Wednesday, a European parliament committee voted to suspend the years-long talks, which have foundered over Ankara’s human rights record and the centering of power in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s hands. A final vote in the parliament’s plenum has not been set, but will take place before the March 31 vote in Turkey, according to the Turkish Foreign Ministry.

  • Turkey
    Turkey seeks life terms for 16 activists over 2013 protests

    Turkey’s state-run news agency says prosecutors have charged a prominent philanthropist businessman and 15 other people with seeking to overthrow the government by allegedly supporting anti-government protests in 2013. Anadolu Agency reported Wednesday that the prosecutors are seeking life prison terms for the all of those indicted. They include businessman Osman Kavala, exiled journalist Can Dundar and actor Mehmet Ali Alabora, who took part in the demonstrations.

  • Turkey
    Turkey orders 1,112 arrested over links to cleric Gulen – state media

    Turkey launched on Tuesday one of its largest operations against alleged supporters of the U.S.-based Muslim cleric accused of leading an attempted coup in 2016, ordering the arrest of 1,112 people, state media reported.

  • Intellectual Property
    Turkey and Saudi lead in patent applications in the Middle East

    Turkey and Saudi Arabia rank the highest in the Middle East for patent applications according to a report from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). Ranking in 22nd place, Turkey filed more than 11,000 patents in 2017, up from 4,200 in 2010, while Saudi Arabia ranked 29th with 4,400 patents, up from 1,100 in 2010. While both countries have experienced a substantial rise, the region still lags behind the rest of the world where intellectual property (IP) is concerned.

  • Syrian Refugees
    Commentary: A refugee compact for Turkey?

    The Syrian crisis is entering its eighth year and shows no sign of ending. More than 3.6 million Syrians have sought refuge in Turkey, which now hosts the largest number of refugees worldwide.

  • Khashoggi Killing
    U.N. Khashoggi investigator seeks more information in Turkey

    The U.N. investigator leading the inquiry into the killing of Jamal Khashoggi said in Turkey on Thursday she had not yet received all the information she is seeking, but still hopes to conduct a successful probe.

  • Turkey
    Turkey in a pickle over Syrian olives

    Kurds in Turkey and the Syrian region of Afrin, which Turkey now controls, have accused Turkish forces of stealing the region's olive crops. "After this area fell to the Turkish occupation, thousands of olive trees have been cut down. It has since emerged that they have been stealing the olives," said a commentary in the Turkish Kurdish newspaper Yeni Ozgur Politika last week.

  • Jamal Khashoggi
    UN executions expert to visit Turkey to lead Khashoggi inquiry

    A UN expert on executions is to travel to Turkey next week to lead an “independent international inquiry” into the death of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi Arabian journalist killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October.