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ANKARA (Web Desk) Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday businessmen who attempted to move assets abroad were “traitors”, and called on his cabinet to block any such moves.I am seeing signals, news that some businessmen are trying to move their assets abroad, and I call on firstly my cabinet …

ANKARA (Web Desk) The European Union does not share Turkey’s view that the network of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen is a terrorist organisation and would need to see “substantive” evidence to change its stance, the EU’s counter-terrorism coordinator said.The comments by Gilles de Kerchove are likely to infuriate Ankara, …

ANKARA (Web Desk) A Turkish political analyst said that by forcing Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri to resign, Saudi Arabia sought to turn Lebanon into a crisis zone in the West Asia region.Riyadh wanted to repeat the scenario that was played in Yemen in 2015 this time in Lebanon,” Alptekin …

ANKARA (Web Desk) A Turkish-Iranian gold trader has pleaded guilty to conspiring to evade US sanctions against Iran and will testify against a Turkish bank official who is charged with arranging illegal transactions involving American banks, a US prosecutor said on Tuesday.The trader, Reza Zarrab, will describe a multibillion-dollar international …

ISTANBUL (Web Desk) European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos on Monday praised Turkish hospitality towards millions of refugees hosted in the country.I would like, on behalf of the EU, to praise and commend Turkey once again for its tremendous hospitality and enormous humanity that it has …

ANKARA (Web Desk) At least 16 suspects were arrested today for their links to the PKK terrorist group in operations in southeastern Turkey.Police arrested 16 PKK suspects in simultaneous raids in several districts of the Sirnak province, the governor’s office said in a statement.Considered a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the …

ANKARA (Web Desk) Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA) in its final declaration welcomed the defeat of ISIS terrorist group in Iraq and Syria.'[APA] Welcomes the recent great achievements in defeating ISIS in collaboration with Iraqi and Syrian people,’ read the document released on Thursday evening.The APA also called for dispatch of a …

ISTANBUL (Web Desk) A total of 20 suspects, including 16 foreigners were arrested during simultaneous operations in Istanbul Thursday for being allegedly linked to Daesh terror group, according to police source.Police carried out the operations after receiving a tip that the suspects were plotting an attack, the source, who spoke …

Tehran (Web Desk) Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has traveled to Turkey to hold a trilateral meeting with his Russian and Turkish counterparts over the conflict in Syria. Zarif is due to sit down with Russian and Turkish Foreign Ministers Sergei Lavrov and Mevlut Cavusoglu in the southern Turkish …

ANKARA (Web Desk) The U.S. is continuing its mistake” of backing terror groups such as the PKK/PYD in the region, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday.Speaking before the parliament’s plenary and budget committee, Cavusoglu slammed the U.S over its reported support for the deal between the PKK/PYD and ISIS …