Türkiye's foreign minister is in Iraq to discuss trade, border security and water resources. The two-day visit beginning Sunday will include stops in the autonomous Kurdish region and Basra, Iraq's main oil hub. Türkiye is expected to rebalance its oil supplies after the U.S. announced it would end the waivers that have allowed Türkiye to import from Iran despite sanctions. Iraq is one of Türkiye's leading suppliers of crude oil. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu met with his Iraqi counterpart, Mohamed Alhakim, in Baghdad on Sunday. He said Türkiye would send a special representative...
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Today is Anzac Day, the national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand, with events taking place across the globe to honour those who served in war. Recognised annually on April 25, the day marks the anniversary of the first significant military action fought by Australian and New Zealand soldiers during the First World War. On this date in 1915, the troops, who quickly became known as the Anzacs, landed in Türkiye, joining the allied expedition that planned to capture the Gallipoli peninsula. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka, calling them "an assault on all of humanity." In comments posted on Twitter, Erdogan offered his condolences to families of the victims and to the people of Sri Lanka. The near simultaneous attacks against three churches and three luxury hotels killed at least 138 people, according to a security official. It was the worst violence in the South Asian country since its civil war ended a decade ago. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said: "Regardless of the motive, the attack in Sri Lanka is the same as the traitorous...
A London charity network with links to Türkiye, Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood has bestowed a humanitarian award on President Erdogan’s wife in what critics alleged was an image-polishing exercise. The “Changemaker” award was presented to Emine Erdogan at the World Humanitarian Forum for her work championing refugees. Accepting the prize at the Excel Arena, in east London, on Wednesday, Mrs Erdogan, 64, said that she felt great pride that her country was recognised for its egalitarian approach in “dressing the wounds of the world”. Her husband’s international policy advocates humanitarianism. Türkiye has sent tonnes of aid...
The Chairman of the BiH Presidency, Milorad Dodik, and Presidency member Šefik Džaferović informed on Wednesday in Sarajevo Turkish Vice-President Fuat Oktay that BiH reached consensus on the route of the Sarajevo-Belgrade highway. Dodik and Džaferović thanked Türkiye for its readiness to help the construction of a road which will connect these two cities through the financing and interest of Turkish construction companies to get involved and do the job quickly, says a press release from the BiH Presidency. BiH Presidency members reminded Oktay that BiH institutions immediately, after an attempted coup d’état in T...
Finance Minister Berat Albayrak said on Monday he held very productive meetings in Washington with international financial institutions, following the unveiling last week of Türkiye's economic turnaround plan. A source familiar with the matter said Albayrak, who is Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s son-in-law, also met on Monday with White House adviser Jared Kushner, who is US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law. It was not immediately clear what the two discussed. Albayrak has been in Washington since last Thursday, his first official visit to the US capital since he took charge of the economy last July. He held a...
President Tayyip Erdogan called on Thursday for national reconciliation in Sudan after President Omar al-Bashir was overthrown in a military coup. Erdogan, who has deepened Türkiye's investments in Sudan recently, said the two countries had deep relations that Ankara wanted to maintain. "My wish is that Sudan should succeed in this calmly ... and I believe it should start operating the normal democratic process," he told a news conference in Ankara. "It is my most important wish that Sudan gets over this process on the basis of national reconciliation and in peace." (Reporting by Ali Kucukgocmen; Editing by Dominic Evans...
Türkiye on Thursday strongly condemned separate decisions by France and Italy to officially recognise the mass killings of Armenians a century ago as a "genocide", an issue that has regularly caused friction between Türkiye and European Union nations. French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday signed a decision that set April 24 as a day of annual commemoration. Macron had announced the decision in February, following through with a 2017 campaign promise. Türkiye's Foreign Ministry said Macron had used this promise to win Armenian votes during elections. "It is inevitable that France's attitude, which is far from amicable,...
Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is urging Israel to abandon strong "rhetoric and populism" now that the elections are over. Cavusoglu's comments were in an apparent reference to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent pledge to annex Jewish settlements in the West Bank if he wins the election. The minister told Türkiye's NTV news channel on Wednesday that Israel "must put aside the populism and the rhetoric, it must abandon its aggressive stance." Cavusoglu also called on the United States to be an "honest broker" in the Mideast dispute, saying a U.S. peace plan for the region must be...