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The commander of the U.S. Central Command, Gen. Lloyd J. Austin, will pay a visit to Ankara on March 11 ahead of a military operation in Mosul against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi called on March 9 for the creation of a unified Arab force to battle the spread of Islamic extremist groups.        

Turkish actress Tuba Büyüküstün, who is the most popular actress in the Arab world and last year became the good will ambassador of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), went to Jordan to visit thousands of women and children who escaped from the civil war in bordering Syria and took shelter in the Zaatari refugee camp.

Turkish actress Tuba Büyüküstün, who is the most popular actress in the Arab world and last year became the good will ambassador of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), went to Jordan to visit thousands of women and children who escaped from the civil war in bordering Syria and took shelter in the Zaatari refugee camp.

Aselsan, a leading Turkish defense systems producer, announced on March 3 it had signed an agreement with AME to produce radio communication in Jordan.

AME is a joint venture company between KADDB (The King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau) Investment Group and Aselsan Turkey in Jordan.

Bulgarian football team Litex sold its Colombian striker Wilmar Jordan for EUR 1.6 M to the Chinese football club Tianjin Teda.

Litex's representative Stoycho Stoilov and the management of the Chinese club finalised the deal at midnight on Friday.

There will be a lot of political discussion on the evacuation and relocation of the Tomb of Süleyman ?ah in Syria. Historically, last week?s military operation carries a lot of significance. And no matter who says what it is, it is an obvious withdrawal. But the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) had a pretty good reason for the move.

Turkey woke up to the week with a surreal story: The Turkish Armed Forces with 39 tanks, 44 armored and 17 other vehicles, 542 soldiers, 19 F16s, two AWACs and two UAVs moved 40 km into Syrian territory, recovered the remains of Süleyman Shah, the supposed grandfather of Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, together with 38 soldiers honoring his tomb, and brought them back to Turkey for

Egypt is forcing Libyan airliners flying between Turkey and Jordan and the capital Tripoli to stop in eastern Libya to allow the country's internationally recognized government to screen out potential Islamist fighters, officials said.
   

BELGRADE - The 43rd International Film Festival FEST, set to begin on February 27, will be the first competitive edition of the festival, FEST's new art director Jugoslav Pantelic told Tanjug.