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ANKARA (Web Desk) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that sanctions on northern Iraq would increase in the near future referring to Kurdistan region. Speaking to his Justice and Development (AK) Party’s parliamentary group in capital Ankara, Erdogan said: “Any incident taking place in Syria and Iraq is not …

Baghdad (Web Desk) All foreign flights to and from the Iraqi Kurdish regional capital Arbil will be suspended from Friday evening on Baghdad’s orders, its airport director said, following a controversial independence referendum. “All international flights without exception to and from Arbil will stop from 6:00 pm on Friday following …

ARBIL (Web Desk) Turkey threatened potentially crippling restrictions on oil trading with Iraqi Kurds on Thursday after they backed independence from Baghdad in a referendum that has alarmed Ankara as it faces a separatist insurgency from its own Kurdish minority. Iraq’s Kurds endorsed secession by nine to one in a vote …

ANKARA (Web Desk) Turkish jets struck a target in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing 13 suspected Kurdish PKK fighters, the armed forces said in a statement.In an air strike in northern Iraq, 13 armed members of a separatist terrorist organisation preparing for an attack were neutralized,” the statement said, using …

ANKARA (Web Desk) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday warned the Iraqi Kurdistan region against pushing for independence after holding a non-binding referendum, saying it risked sparking an “ethnic war” in the region.In his latest barrage of warnings to Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani, Erdogan even warned that his …

ANKARA (Web Desk) Turkey will take political, economic, commercial and security steps against northern Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), as it is holding a referendum for an independent state, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday.Speaking to a press conference in Istanbul, Erdogan said the referendum was null and void …

BERLIN (Web Desk) Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that she would talk to all mainstream parties about trying to form a “good, stable” government after Germany’s watershed election, and vowed to try to win back voters who supported an upstart nationalist force.Sunday’s election saw the right-wing populist Alternative for …

ANKARA (Web Desk) Turkey would build shelters for 100,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, an official of Turkey’s state-run aid body said on Sunday.According to a press release, Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency’s (TIKA) Bangladesh Coordinator Ahmet Refik Cetinkaya held a meeting with Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury …

ANKARA (Web Desk) Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildrim expressed on Monday his country’s strong opposition to the forthcoming Kurdish independence referendum, saying that the referendum the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) has planned is a challenge to the Turkish national security, and Ankara will take the necessary actions to face it.The …

ANKARA (Web Desk) The Turkish parliament has extended a mandate authorizing the deployment of the country’s military forces in Iraq and Syria in the lead-up to a planned Kurdish independence referendum in northern Iraq.The vote during the parliament’s emergency session on Saturday comes as Ankara has repeatedly stressed that it …