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The sons of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said Friday they “forgive” the killers of their father, an announcement analysts said effectively grants clemency to five convicted people on death row. Khashoggi, a royal family…

In Turkey, 21 million people will get stable power supply as coronavirus pandemic batters global economy following a fresh $125 million facility to the country's largest utilities, Enerjisa Enerji from the European Bank for Reconstruction…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned Europe it could face new threats from terrorist organisations if Libya’s UN-recognised government in Tripoli were to fall, in an article published in Politico on Saturday. In the article,…

Talks between Libya’s warring parties in Moscow, supported by Turkish and Russian officials, are going positively, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, adding that Ankara was working to ensure the truce became permanent. Libya’s…

Turkish police detained 70 people suspected of ties to Islamic State in nationwide raids early on Monday, ahead of New Year celebrations. The arrest happened two months after the killing of the group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.…

US President Donald Trump said Monday that he will “obliterate” Turkey’s economy if Ankara does anything that in his “great and unmatched wisdom” he considers to be “off limits” in Syria. Trump’s extraordinary Twitter warning against…

Turkish authorities on Wednesday issued arrest warrants for 63 suspects, most of them military pilots, allegedly linked to a 2016 failed coup attempt, the Ankara chief prosecutor’s office said. The roundup is part of an investigation…

Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir made a surprise trip to Syria on Sunday, becoming the first Arab League leader to visit the country since the war began there in 2011. The president met with his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al-Assad, whose…

The Chief Public Prosecutor’s Offices in Ankara and Istanbul on Monday issued 102 arrest warrants for former or acting members of the country’s armed forces on suspicion of being linked to the movement of Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen.…

A Turkish court has rejected an American Christian pastor’s appeal to be released from house arrest and for his travel ban to be lifted, but an upper court is yet to rule on the appeal, his lawyer told Reuters on Wednesday. Evangelical…