Tag: Turkey
Turkey summons Swedish envoy over contacts with Syrian Kurds
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey summoned Sweden's ambassador on Tuesday to protest Swedish government officials’ contacts with Syrian Kurdish groups that Ankara classifies as terror...
Turkey probes human trafficking using official passports
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s Interior Ministry has launched a probe into six more municipalities in connection with an alleged human smuggling scheme where Turkish...
Turkey probes human trafficking using official passports
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s Interior Ministry has launched a probe into six more municipalities in connection with an alleged human smuggling scheme where Turkish...
Refugees win rare victory in Serbia landmark pushback ruling
BELGRADE, Serbia — Hamid Ahmadi still can feel the cold of the February night when Serbian police left him and two dozen other refugees...
Turkey to ban cryptocurrencies for buying goods, services
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s central bank is banning the use of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin in payments for goods and services, according to a...
Biologists defy Cyprus’ ethnic cleave to protect environment
NICOSIA, Cyprus — There’s something regal in the sprightly step and curious gaze of the long-horn sheep that roam the hills near Varisia, an...
Rocket attack on base in northern Iraq kills Turkish soldier
ANKARA, Turkey — A rocket attack targeting a Turkish military base in northern Iraq killed one soldier and wounded a child in a nearby...
Greek FM travels to Turkey for talks on fraught ties
ANKARA, Turkey — Greece's foreign minister travels to Ankara on Thursday for talks on the two NATO allies’ fraught relationship, following a slight easing...
Local media: Explosion rocks east Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A powerful explosion rocked east Baghdad on Thursday, local media said, one day after a rare drone struck a northern Iraqi...
Turkish central bank maintains key rate unchanged at 19%
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s central bank on Thursday kept a key interest rate unchanged at 19%, in its first rate decision since the surprise...
