The Malaysian authorities have expelled three Turkish citizens to their home country on Thursday. The trio is suspected of tensions with the movement of Islamic spiritual Fethullah Gülen, held by Ankara for the failed coup last year.
US Secretary of State Jim Mattis (Defense) stressed in London on Thursday that the United States still stands for the protection of NATO ally Turkey. He did according to his spokeswoman in a conversation with Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim.
About 3,000 Turkish police officers who were fired because they would be in tune with the Gülen movement may get back to work. Research has shown that they were just on the blacklist of the movement of Islamic spiritual Fethullah Gülen.
Turkey reacted angry to the US decision Wednesday to deliver weapons to the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria. The YPG responded euphorically to the 'historic' decision and said it could play a greater role in the fight against terrorism.
The US government agreed on Tuesday to supply arms to the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria. That has prompted the Pentagon.
A Turkish court rejected the appeal of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia on Friday against a government decision to block access to the website. This was reported by the State Press Office Anadolu. The case has raised concerns about censorship in Turkey.
Eight Turkish soldiers, who fled to Greece in July after the failed coup attempt, may not be handed over to their homeland. A Greek court opposed the extradition of two of the military on Thursday while the expulsion of the other six had already been blocked.
A court in Greece rejected a request for extradition of Turkey for three soldiers on Wednesday. They fled to Greece in Greece after the failed coup attempt in July.
Turkish President Erdogan states that the European Union opens new chapters in the accession talks with its country. If the EU does not do this, nothing else is going to be discussed and Turkey says 'tabee'.
EU president Donald Tusk wants to talk to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the relationship between the EU and Turkey at the end of May. Erdogan is then for the NATO summit in Brussels.
The Turkish Army has killed fourteen members of the Prohibited Kurdish Labor Party PKK during an air attack in northern Iraq on Saturday. That's what the army reports in a statement.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received 51.4 percent of the votes in the Turkish referendum on the constitutional amendment that will give him much more power. That has announced the high election council (YSK) on Thursday.
Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to discuss with the other EU leaders Saturday in Brussels how the EU should deal with Ankara. In the German parliament, she unexpectedly shone out on Turkey on Thursday while reading a government statement about the EU summit which is actually in the brexit's signature.
The United States and Russia have protested separately against Turkish air strikes in Syria and Iraq on Wednesday. Moscow called the bombings unacceptable, while the US would have warned before.
A military post in southeastern Turkey was taken from Syria. The unknown attackers pounded the base in Hatay province with mortar grenades, the Turkish army reported Wednesday. Nobody got injured.
The main Turkish opposition party joins the European Court of Human Rights because of the course of the referendum in Turkey of 16 April. The party CHP does that after the supreme governing court in Turkey on Tuesday refused to consider the matter.
Turkey arrested 803 people on suspicion of involvement in the failed coup last year.
Turkish President Erdogan said Tuesday that there can be no solution to the conflict in Syria, as long as that country is led by President Bashar al-Assad. 'Assad has to leave, the land must be freed from him before a peaceful settlement of the conflict can be reached,' said Erdogan in an interview with Reuters press office.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is applying for membership of the ruling AK party. He waits until the final result is known from the referendum on expanding the presidential powers, said the president's spokesman.
The biggest opposition party in Turkey continues to prosecute against the outcome of the referendum last Sunday. The CHP has now filed a complaint with the court.
Turkey's negotiations with Russia regarding the purchase of the S-400 rocket defense system have reached 'a final stage'. The choice of NATO member Turkey for a Russian defense system does not mean that an agreement is signed immediately, said Defense Minister Fikri Isik on Friday.
According to the Turkish Minister of Justice Bekir Bozdag, the European Court of Human Rights (EHRM) is not authorized to comment on the recent referendum.
Turkey's High Election Board (YSK) has rejected all the complaints from opposition parties over the affairs of the referendum last Sunday Wednesday. The formal request by the main opposition party to declare the results invalid was dismissed.
In a bizarre accident in a pharmacy in the Turkish province of Adana, on Tuesday two people were injured. A tire, which was detached from a passing car, bounced the case and hit two customers.
The critical report by international observers on the Turkish referendum is not objective. That said, the Turkish Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (Foreign Affairs) Wednesday. The minister suspects that contained in the text deliberately errors.
Turkey's High Election Board (YSK) viewing Wednesday the complaints received about Sunday's referendum. The request to declare the results of the referendum invalid, then comes as the Turkish channel NTV discussed.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan denied that Turkey is drifting towards a totalitarian state. ' where there is a dictatorship, you do not need a presidential system, '' Erdogan said in an interview published Wednesday by CNN.
The main opposition party in Turkey on Tuesday filed a formal request with the highest electoral college in the country to explain the outcome of Sunday's referendum invalid. The deputy chairman of the party CHP, Bülent Tezcan, said that while the number of votes ' disappeared '' during the referendum ' unprecedented '' for Turkish elections.
The discussion about possible irregularities surrounding the Turkish referendum is over. That said, the Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim Tuesday. ' Everyone should respect the outcome, especially the main opposition, 'he said.
The Turkish electoral council has violated the law by accepting unsupported ballot papers. That sets the Turkish professional association of lawyers, TBB, in response to the outcome of Sunday's referendum in Turkey. A very tight majority chose a great expansion of the power of the Turkish president.
