The Turkish lira firmed nearly 1% against the dollar on Monday after President Tayyip Erdogan said he had heard from U.S. President Donald Trump there would be no sanctions over Türkiye's purchase of Russian S-400 defence systems. At 0439 GMT, the lira stood at 5.7380 against the dollar, strengthening from a close of 5.7875 on Friday, before Erdogan met Trump at the G20 summit in Japan at the weekend. NATO allies Türkiye and the United States have been at odds over the S-400s purchase, with Washington warning of U.S. sanctions if the delivery took place. The dispute has...
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U.S. President Donald Trump said there will be no U.S. sanctions imposed on Türkiye over its decision to purchase Russian missile defence systems, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, hours after the two leaders held bilateral talks. Erdogan said at a news conference at the G20 summit in Japan that Türkiye expected the delivery of F-35 stealth fighter jets from the United States, despite the dispute over the S-400 deal. He added that the Russian systems would be delivered in the first half of July. (Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu; Editing by Alexander Smith)
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday he had not seen indications in his talks with President Donald Trump that the United States will impose sanctions on Ankara over its purchase of Russian S-400 missile defence systems. The United States has warned that it would impose sanctions on Türkiye if it pressed ahead with the S-400 deal, but Ankara has said it would not back down and has so far dismissed the warnings, as relations between the NATO allies strained. Speaking to reporters in Ankara before departing for the G20 summit in Japan, Erdogan said he would again discuss...
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he believed the number of Syrians returning from Türkiye to their homeland will reach one million once a safe zone is established in northeast Syria along their shared border. Türkiye hosts nearly 4 million Syrians - the largest number in any one country of Syrians displaced during the eight-year-old civil war. Tensions between Turks and Syrians flare up on occasion in the host country. Türkiye is in talks with the United States over the establishment of a safe zone across its border in northeast Syria, where the United States...
Türkiye has purchased Russian missile defences and is discussing a delivery date irrespective of any U.S. sanctions, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday, adding the United States is isolated as it also squeezes Türkiye on F-35 jets. The Pentagon announced earlier this month that training by Turkish pilots on F-35 fighter jets had been halted at a U.S. air base in Arizona following Türkiye's purchase of Russian S-400 defence systems. The NATO allies have been at loggerheads over the issue for months. Washington says the S-400 is incompatible with NATO's defence network...
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday he did not expect the United States to impose sanctions on Türkiye over its planned purchase of a Russian missile defence system, but would retaliate if it did. Speaking at a rare news conference for foreign media in Istanbul, Erdogan repeated that the purchase of Russian S-400 systems was a 'done deal' and said the United States should think carefully before imposing sanctions on Türkiye, a NATO member. "I say this very openly and sincerely, our relations with (President Donald) Trump are at a place that I can call really good ... In...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday his country is determined to ensure that former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's dramatic death in a Cairo courtroom is not forgotten. Erdogan spoke during a meeting with a group of foreign journalists a day after he claimed that Morsi didn't die of natural causes but was killed. He compared Morsi's death to the brutal killing of Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi, slain killed at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in October. "In the same way that we didn't allow the murder of the late Jamal Khashoggi to be forgotten, we will never allow Morsi's drama...
Those responsible for the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi will pay the price and be held accountable, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, in response to a U.N. report on the killing. Earlier on Wednesday, Agnes Callamard, the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, said evidence suggests Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman and other senior Saudi officials are liable for Khashoggi's murder. Saudi Arabia's minister of state for foreign affairs, Adel al-Jubeir, has rejected the investigator's report as "nothing new". Speaking at an event in Istanbul, Erdogan said the findings in Callamard's report showed that...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he doesn't believe that Egypt's former president Mohammed Morsi died of natural causes. Erdogan made the comments Tuesday at an Istanbul mosque, where hundreds held funeral prayers for Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president who was ousted by the military in 2013. Morsi died Monday after collapsing during a trial session. Erdogan said: "Mohammed Morsi walked to join God during the trial. Whether this was a normal walk, or were there some other conditions involved, this is something to think about." He continued: "I don't believe that this was a normal death." Erdogan also criticized authorities...