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ANKARA (Web Desk) Just three days after a massive earthquake devastated many cities and villages in Iran’s western province of Kermanshah,a tremor measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale shook a northwestern border area on Wednesday night, but caused no casualties.The epicenter of the new earthquake was an area near Barda, …

ANKARA (Web Desk) Turkey on Tuesday said it was appalled by the approach of the US Department of Defense towards an agreement between the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and Daesh to withdraw Daesh militants from the Syrian city of Raqqa.Last month,a YPG militia spokesman said that Syrian Daesh fighters were …

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish police have detained 101 people over suspected links to Islamic State in Ankara and have arrest warrants for a total of 245 suspects in the capital, state-run Anadolu news agency said on Thursday.It said 1,500 police officers were taking part in the operation across Ankara province, …

ANKARA (Web Desk) Turkish security officials say police have detained 283 suspected Islamic State group militants in Turkey in the past 11 days.A security directorate statement released on Thursday also said police seized 66 improvised explosive devices during the anti-IS operations conducted in 25 provinces across Turkey.The statement said that …

ANKARA (Web Desk)  Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that Tehran and Moscow needed to step up cooperation to isolate the United States and restore peace in the Middle East.Full resolution of Syria’s crisis needs strong cooperation between Iran and Russia.Our cooperation can …

ANKARA (Web Desk) Turkish state television says a lawyer for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has filed a criminal complaint against an opposition legislator for calling the leader a “fascist dictator.Lawmaker Bulent Tezcan, who is the spokesman for the main opposition party, made the comments in a town in northwest Turkey …

ANKARA (Web Desk) A Turkish court has extended the detention of Amnesty International’s regional head over allegations of involvement in last year’s failed coup.The court in Izmir ordered on Thursday that Taner Kilic, who was detained in June, remain in detention pending trial.Kilic is accused of having links to a …

ANKARA (Web Desk) Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has arrived in Turkey to discuss developments in the Arab country’s Kurdistan region as Baghdad and Ankara seek stronger bonds to deal with the Kurdish independence drive.Turkey’s state broadcaster TRT said on Wednesday that Abadi arrived in Ankara late morning and went …

ANKARA (Web Desk) The fight against terrorism can only be achieved through international cooperation and solidarity, Turkey’s Prime Minister, Binali Yıldırım, said in a message, as quoted by his media office.As the prime minister of a country which has struggled with terrorism for years, I believe that the fight against …

ANKARA (Web Desk) Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Valiollah Seif and his Turkish counterpart,Murat Cetinkaya, signed an agreement, according to which the two countries can conduct trade transactions through using their national currencies.During a meeting between visiting Iranian First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri and Turkish Prime Minister Binali …