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Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said his country will "return a historical debt to Aleppo brothers” who helped defend it in the early 20th century.

RT is reporting that this statement came "just days after Russia warned of Ankara’s intentions to invade Syria as the rebels there falter."

Distress in Ankara is growing as more support is declared by Turkey's major ally, the United States, for the Syrian Kurdish group the Democratic Union Party (PYD). The Turkish government considers the PYD to be an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is officially designated a terrorist group by both the U.S. and the EU.

It's the same old Turkish malady: Form over function, or (fancy) words over deeds. Consistency remains one of the rarest qualities in governing politics, particularly in foreign policy. 

Turkey has summoned the top U.S. diplomat in order to protest Washington's latest statement that refused to call the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union (PYD) a "terrorist" organization.

A Greek website claims that Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened last year to open to migrants Turkey's border with the EU if the bloc didn't  offer him a better deal to tackle the migrant influx into Europe, Reuters has reported.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on Feb. 9 hosted a leading delegation representing influential Jewish lobbying groups in the United States in a sign of Ankara's willingness to normalize bilateral ties with Israel.

NATO will take any request to help with the refugee crisis "very seriously," chief Jens Stoltenberg said Feb. 9, as thousands continued to flock to the Syria-Turkey border fleeing assaults by Russian-backed Syrian government forces around the city of Aleppo.  

The row between Washington and Ankara over the PYD shows no signs of abating, with the pair again disagreeing on whether it is a terror groupThe row between Turkey and the United States over the definition of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) has grown, with Turkey's foreign minister stating that allied countries needed to make up their minds as to who their partners were in the f

Ankara has been deliberately obscuring events going on in the restive southeastern district of Cizre, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirta? has said, following reports that scores of civilians were killed in an operation against militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).  

The United States has reiterated that it does not perceive the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) as a terrorist organization, while adding that it understands ally Turkey's concerns regarding the organization, a few days after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an asked the U.S. to either support Ankara or the PYD.