Posts Tagged ‘ankara’

President Rouhani due in Ankara April 3

IRNA – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is scheduled to visit Ankara, Turkey on April 3 to participate in Iran-Russia-Turkey trio summit. Rouhani is scheduled to attend the 2nd round of Tehran-Moscow-Ankara trilateral talks on Syria, Iranian president’s deputy chief of staff for communications and information Parviz Esmaeili said. The trip is upon an official invitation […]

Don’t Even Try: Ankara vows response to possible US sanctions over S-400 deal

“If it [the United States] wants to punish Turkey with sanctions, Turkey will react in another way, not like Russia or other states… We will respond. You cannot threaten us. The United States threatens many countries saying ‘Do not buy gas of one or another country.’ That does not work,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told Zeit Online. Turkey along with […]

Ankara considers joint op with Baghdad against Iraqi Kurds – FM

Speaking to CNN Turk, Mevlut Cavusoglu also said that Ankara’s own operation against Syrian Kurdish militias in the Afrin region would be completed by May. Iraqi Kurds’ independence referendum illegitimate – Tillerson Kurdish militias in Iraq and Syria were allied with the US-led coalition, which rallied them for operations targeting the jihadist forces of the […]

US Closes Embassy In Ankara Following Unspecified "Terror Threat"

US intelligence has discovered that a shadowy group within Turkey is plotting an attack targeting the US embassy or other places US citizens might stay, prompting the State Department to keep the embassy closed to the public – at least for the time being. The embassy advised US citizens traveling in Turkey to […]

Turkey, Russia have no disagreements over Ankara’s Afrin operation – Erdogan

“We have no disagreements with Russia over Afrin. In Idlib, a process of setting up the observation posts is underway. At the moment, we have already created eight such posts. A tripartite summit (Russia-Turkey-Iran), similar to the Sochi one, is planned to take place in Istanbul in the future. There, we will have an opportunity to assess and discuss all the issues,” Erdogan said during the […]

US ‘destroying grounds for peace’ with Jerusalem embassy move in May – Ankara

US to open new embassy in Jerusalem in May – State Department In a statement released on its website, the ministry accused the United States of disregarding resolutions passed by the United Nations and the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) which condemned the proposed embassy move. “The US government’s announcement that it will move its […]

Tillerson in Ankara pledges limited weapon supplies to SDF, says Manbij ‘priority’ in Syria

Rex Tillerson tried to reassure Ankara over US’s involvement with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), much of which is comprised of Kurdish YPG, which is outlawed in Turkey as a terrorist organization. “We take it seriously when our NATO ally says it has security concerns,” Tillerson said at a joint news conference with his Turkish […]

‘Small possibility’ that US & Ankara will come face-to-face in Manbij – Turkish deputy PM

Afrin knot: How the battle for a small Kurdish enclave could be the death knell for US-Turkey ties Turkey will also continue to use the airspace across Afrin region in northern Syria, where it recently launched Operation ‘Olive Branch’, Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag told Reuters in an interview. At the same time, he says, […]

Blow to NATO? Moscow & Ankara sign S-400 air defense system deal, Turkish media report

The deal was signed in the Turkish capital, Ankara on Friday, local media report. Previously it was announced that the delivery of the S-400 Triumf systems was scheduled to start in late 2019 or early 2020. Earlier this week, Turkish Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli said the two countries sorted out the remaining details behind the […]

UAE: Arabs ‘Won’t be Led by Ankara’ – As Retweet Further Divides Regional Relations

Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan faces off against UAE minster Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahayan in latest Twitter war. This latest diplomatic spat between newly formed Turkey-Qatar-Iran alliance and the US-backed Saudi-UAE-Israel (tentatively with Egypt on board) axis power bloc – is indicative of where some of the regional fault lines are at present. You can […]

Washington isolated, so it’s resorting to threats – Ankara before UN General Assembly meeting

“We expect strong support at the UN vote, but we see that the United States, which was left alone, is now resorting to threats. No honorable, dignified country would bow down to this pressure,” said Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu before leaving Istanbul with his Palestinian counterpart for the emergency meeting in New York on […]

Moscow, Ankara, Tehran form true anti-terrorist coalition – Russian lawmaker

TASS– Moscow, Ankara and Tehran have managed to form a true anti-terrorist coalition through well-coordinated work, Chairman of the Russian State Duma (lower house of parliament) Committee for Foreign Affairs Leonid Slutsky told reporters. While commenting on the three countries summit in Sochi, he said that it “has shown that Russia, Turkey and Iran have […]

Turkish reporters Duygu Erol and Habibe Eren, held by Anti-Terror Branch in Ankara, expected in court on Monday

nsnbc : Three of the five journalists arrested during early morning raids on Friday were released on Saturday while JinNews reporters Duygu Erol and Habibe […]

Celebrating YPG / YPJ in Raqqa rub Washington’s and Ankara’s noses with giant Öcalan banner

Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : The Syrian Kurdish YPG and YPG as well as other allied groups celebrated the liberation of Raqqa, delivering speeches in […]

Great wall of Turkey: Ankara builds massive barrier along Iranian border

The wall will be comprised of 7-ton concrete blocks, each of them 3 meters high and 2 meters thick. According to Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper, the Turkish government is building this wall along the Iranian border in order to curtail the activities of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) – the left-wing Kurdish organization which is recognized as a terrorist organization by Ankara. However, Iranian political […]

The New Ankara Shuffle: Caught Between Moscow, Riyadh and Tehran

Dr Can Erimtan21st Century Wire  Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (or the Prez) and his Justice and Development Party (or AKP) are now moving Turkey ever closer to its Arab neighbours in the south. At the same time, however, he is also forging ties in the north, namely with Vladimir Putin (or the Czar) and  Russia. Some […]

Germany grants asylum to ‘several’ NATO troops wanted by Ankara over failed coup attempt – reports

Only “several” Turkish soldiers and their families have been so far given asylum in Germany, the Süddeutsche Zeitung paper, WDR and NDR reported. The asylum seekers are reportedly Turkish officers with diplomatic passports who used to be stationed at NATO bases in Germany and were later dismissed by Ankara. According Süddeutsche Zeitung sources, Germany’s Federal […]

Ankara’s War Against Syrian – Kurdish YPG Backfires: PKK Declares War Against Turkey

nsnbc : Turkey, this week, escalated airstrikes as well as ground offensives against the Syrian – Kurdish YPG and the Turkish offensive continues and […]

Ankara notified US ‘weeks’ before airstrikes on Kurdish-held areas in Syria & Iraq – Turkish FM

Turkey bombs Kurdish-held areas in Iraq & Syria, says ‘terrorists’ targeted The Turkish Air Force hit the respective areas on Tuesday, claiming that dozens of “terrorists” were killed. The targeted territories had been allegedly infiltrated by members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which Turkey considers to be a terrorist group, according to Turkish Army […]

Ankara in ‘final stage’ of buying Russian S-400 anti-missile system

“It is clear that Turkey needs a missile defense system but NATO member countries have not presented an offer which is financially effective,” Fikri Isik told a news conference on Friday. “Work on the S-400 has reached a final point,” he added. “But the final stage does not mean ‘let’s sign a deal tomorrow morning.’” […]

Happening: Turkish Military Coup! Yes!

Daily Stormer July 15, 2016 UPDATE 23:45 GMT: I was out for a few hours, but was checking things on my device. All sorts of things have been happening, all of the updates are in the live thread so I won’t go through it all. A few points: Erdogan reportedly tried to land in Germany […]

Military take media hostages at Hurriyet, CNN Turk offices – reports

  Earlier, CNN Turk halted its news broadcast after soldiers stormed the control room. Reuters reported that the sound of shots being fired was heard on air. BREAKING: Civilians enter CNN Turk studios in attempt to stop rogue soldiers; gunfire heard — BNO News (@BNONews) 16 июля 2016 г. The presenter said the soldiers ordered […]

Russia creates aircraft engine for 6th-generation space planes

“An engine for a promising space plane has been developed at Strategic Rocket Forces Academy,” General Sergey Karakaev, RVSN’s commander, told reporters on Wednesday. “The know-how allowed us to create a combined [aircraft] power plant that enables switching the engine from an atmospheric flight mode to a rocket mode while flying in space,” he said, […]

Phases 20, 21 of South Pars 90% through

Project Director of South Pars Phases 20 and 21 said eleven wells have been drilled in phase 21 adding “at the present time, final stages of the operation are ongoing.” “Both phases have had 90 percent development,” underlined Mahdavi adding “refinery of phases 20 and 21 comprises four gas sweetening rows the first of which […]

IME trading ups by 12% late June

TEHRAN (ISNA)- 365,543 MT of commodities worth over $181 million were traded in Iran Mercantile Exchange late June with the trading volume experienced a growth of 12% and trading value a decline of 4%. According to the report from IME International Affairs and PR, last week, on the domestic and export metals and minerals pit […]

Iran drawn in Group B of 2016 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship

The Iranian national junior basket ball team has been drawn in Group B of the 2016 Fédération Internationale de Basketball (FIBA) Asia Under-18 Championship, which is scheduled to be held later this month in the Iranian capital city of Tehran. The Islamic Republic of Iran was drawn in Group B of the preliminary round of the sports event, and has […]

Finland: Cuban Vollyball Team Arrested for Gang-Rape

Andrew AnglinDaily Stormer July 4, 2016 A recent photo of the Cuban men’s vollyball team. Here you have your standard enrichment protocol. These brown people only had a few days to enrich Finland, so they had to kick up the dial to “maximum vibrancy.” yle: Eight Cuban men have been taken into custody on suspicion […]

Big Food Seeks to Exempt Itself from the Freedom of Information Act

Alex Pietrowski, StaffWaking Times “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food,” the famous quote attributed to Hippocrates, is probably more important today than ever before as a handful of corporations, dubbed Big Food, gain more control over the food industry. Hippocrates’ statement brings up a very complex question: Is food as ‘healthy’ […]

Iran’s Shamkhani in Russia to discuss Syria

Shamkhani arrived in the Russian capital on Monday to meet with senior Russian officials and exchange views about the latest efforts to resolve the more than five-year-old conflict in Syria. The visit comes after defense ministers of Iran, Russia and Syria held a trilateral meeting in Tehran on June 10 and discussed regional developments and […]

‘Our views are either similar or coincide’: Putin on comprehensive strategic China-Russia alliance

Praising the unprecedented current level of trust between Beijing and Moscow, Putin said the phase of “strategic cooperation” doesn’t fully describe the scale of partnership between the states. “To say we have strategic cooperation is not enough anymore” Putin told Xinhua. “This is why we have started talking about a comprehensive partnership and strategic collaboration. […]

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