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Citing the lyrics of a popular Turkish love song, President Tayyip Erdoğan said on April 30 before departing for India that Turkey could "come overnight, all of a sudden without warning." He was referring to operations against the positions of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Iraq and of the People's Protection Units (YPG) positions in Syria, (the YPG being the Syrian extension of

Turkish and Indian leaders stressed the importance of trade and direct investment during a business summit in New Delhi on May 1.    

Speaking at the Turkey-India Business Forum, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said meetings held during his official visit to India would mark a new era for business ties, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has vowed to further improve bilateral relations with India ahead of his official visit to the country on April 30.

Both in his remarks to the Indian channel WION and a media briefing in Istanbul on April 30, Erdoğan vowed to boost relations with India. 

Ankara is gravely concerned by photos of U.S. soldiers attending the funerals of Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militants, who it says are linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), in the wake of Turkish air strikes on the two groups, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said. 

Turkey may hit outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and People's Protection Units' (YPG) targets in Syria "at any moment," President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, slamming the patrolling of the U.S.-led anti-Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) coalition on the Turkey-Syria border on April 30.

The Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch condemned the U.N.’s election of Saudi Arabia, “the world’s most misogynistic regime,” to a 2018-2022 term on its Commission on the Status of Women, the U.N. agency “exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.”

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The threat of a "nuclear weapon detonation event," be it accidental or deliberate, is now the highest it's been since the end of the Cold War, 26 years ago, a UN agency has warned, saying the risk is rising as relations between nuclear powers deteriorate.

The United States disclosed on April 21 a secret military ground operation that killed an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant seen as a close associate of the jihadist group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and linked to an attack on a Turkish nightclub that left 39 people dead.