NPR | Turkey's Erdogan Suggests Swap: Jailed US Pastor For Turkish Cleric NPR It's been nearly a year since Turkey detained American pastor Andrew Brunson — and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says if the U.S. wants Brunson freed, it should extradite an elderly Turkish cleric living in the U.S., whom Erdogan accuses of ... Turkey suggests swapping jailed US pastor for Muslim cleric Donald Trump is letting Turkey hold an American citizen hostage Turkey orders 117 soldiers detained over Gulen links: sources |
Aljazeera.com | Turkey raises oil threat after Iraqi Kurds' referendum Aljazeera.com Turkey has threatened potentially crippling restrictions on oil trading with Iraqi Kurds after they backed independence from Baghdad in a referendum that has alarmed Ankara as it faces a separatist insurgency from its Kurdish minority. Most oil that ... Turkey Calls For Summit With Iran, Iraq Over Kurdish Independence Vote Turkey suspends flights to northern Iraq Iraqi military coordinating with Turkey, Iran to control KRG borders |
Washington Post | Russia's Putin visits Turkey as ties between nation's deepen Washington Post ANKARA, Turkey — Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Turkey on Thursday for talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that focused on the situation in Iraq and Syria along with bilateral trade. Putin's visit came as Turkey and Russia are working ... Russia and Turkey come together as unlikely allies in the Syrian war Turkey's Erdogan links fate of detained US pastor to wanted cleric Gulen Turkey rebuffs Trump, won't send jailed US pastor back |
NPR | 'Turkey Has Turned Into A Veritable Madhouse,' Says Intellectual Who Escaped Jail NPR Over the summer, Turkey's Twitter-sphere went abuzz after the appearance of a cryptic tweet: "The bird has flown away." It was posted July 14 on the account of Sevan Nisanyan, a famous jailed intellectual, announcing he'd escaped from a Turkish prison. |
Daily Sabah | With $15.7B energy investments over 10 years, Turkey eyes more FDI with international projects Daily Sabah To that end, for instance, the government founded the Investment Support and Promotion Agency of Turkey (ISPAT), the official organization for promoting Turkey's investment opportunities to the global business community and for providing assistance to ... |
Daily Sabah | Turkey set to implement national energy policy with diverse resources Daily Sabah Turkey occupies a unique geographic position, extending into Asia and Europe, which provides it with opportunities in many areas, especially in energy. As it is located on the transit route of countries that supply and demand energy, Turkey aims to ... |
Bloomberg | Iraq Says Turkey Backs Baghdad in Fight Over Kurdish Oil Exports Bloomberg Turkey supports Iraq's control over all crude that the OPEC nation exports through a Turkish-controlled pipeline, the Iraqi prime minister said Thursday. The comments suggest the Turks may be reviewing their policy of letting Iraq's landlocked Kurds ... Turkey to give harshest response if border threatened after Iraq referendum: PM Turkey stops training Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga after independence vote ETF Flopper: Turkey Stocks Eat It |
Financial Times | Oil, not Qatar crisis, damaging Turkey-Gulf economic ties Financial Times When four Arab states launched an economic blockade against Qatar in June, threatening food and construction supplies to the gas-rich state, Turkey stepped in. Ankara helped airlift food supplies to ward off serious shortages in its close ally, and ... |
CBS News | Iraqi Kurds face airway isolation after independence vote CBS News Baghdad announced Thursday that Turkey -- an indispensable trade partner to the region and once a key political ally -- will now only deal with Iraq's central government on oil sales. That could deprive the Kurdish region of more than 80 percent of its ... |
Turkey, Iran, Iraq may meet to discuss Kurdish Iraqi referendum: Turkey PM Reuters ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey, Iran and Iraq may hold a trilateral meeting to discuss the Iraqi Kurdish independence referendum, Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Thursday. Yildirim also said he agreed with his Iraqi counterpart Haider al ... |