Tag Archives: Turkey

Copenhagen, Denmark | Xinhua | Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), on Thursday pledged to address Turkey’s concerns on Finland’s and Sweden’s applications to join the military alliance. “We are addressing the concerns that Turkey has expressed,” he said at a press conference held jointly with …

Ankara, Turkey | Xinhua | Turkey will not approve Sweden’s NATO membership if the country does not extradite “terrorists” upon Turkish request, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday. “Supporting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Syria’s Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) terrorist organizations and asking us for support for NATO …

Ankara, Turkey | XINHUA |  Sweden and Finland proposed to work with Turkey on the “security guarantees” that Ankara has demanded over their plans to join NATO, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday. Turkey has been supporting the open-door policy of NATO, but Finland and Sweden’s membership bid …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has said he doesn’t care who owns what business in Uganda for as long as the businesses are generating revenue for the country. Speaking to the Deputy Minister of Trade in Turkey, Riza Tuna Turagay at the sidelines of the ongoing Uganda-Turkey …

Istanbul, Turkey | Xinhua | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that Turkey does not have a positive opinion on the idea of Finland and Sweden joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). “We are currently following the developments regarding Sweden and Finland, but we do not have a positive …

Ankara, Turkey | Xinhua | Turkey currently hosts 4,082,693 refugees, 3,762,686 of whom are Syrians, Turkish deputy Interior Minister Ismail Catakli was quoted by daily Hurriyet as saying on Sunday. As many as 323,859 irregular migrants have been deported during the last 5 years, he said. In 2022, a total …

Kiev, Ukraine | Xinhua | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, on Sunday discussed the latest developments of the Ukraine crisis over the phone. According to a statement by the Turkish presidential office, Erdogan said that the evacuation of the wounded and civilians from Ukraine’s …

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is an ardent advocate of population increase and has called for families to have more children Ankara, Turkey | Xinhua | As a country that once boasted one of the youngest populations in Europe, Turkey has been aging fast in recent years, which is slowly dragging its …

Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | Following a new round of negotiations between Russian and Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday that Moscow is prepared to continue high-level trilateral negotiations with Ukraine mediated by Turkey. “If such initiatives appear, we would only be happy to continue communicating in this format,” …

Kinshasa, DRC | Xinhua | The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed late Sunday multiple cooperation agreements with Turkey following a meeting between the two heads of state here. The signing ceremony was held on the sidelines of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 48-hour official visit to the DRC …