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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan expressed his eagerness to come together with new U.S. President Donald Trump to talk about the Middle East "from A to Z," stating that any wrong policy to be adopted by Washington would spark even more problems. 

Turkey will go wherever the source of terrorist threat is, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, expressing once again Turkey's determination in military operations carried out in Syria and Iraq. 

"Turkey has abandoned defense and is now in attack mode," Erdoğan said on Jan. 19 at a meeting with village heads at the presidential palace. 

Turkey was told not to go further than 20 kilometers into Syria in its cross-border operation, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Dec. 5. 

The Doğan Group has filed a criminal complaint against daily Sabah after the newspaper targeted the group with fictitious "news" that "FETÖ and other terrorist organizations will drag the country into chaos in the direction of their plans." 

A request has also been filed to block access to links to the story regarding the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ).

Turkey is optimistic about improved ties with the United States under incoming President Donald Trump, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş told the Hürriyet Daily News on Jan. 4, saying he hoped the new administration will extradite Fethullah Gülen and will stop allying with Syrian Kurdish groups. 

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reiterated his long-standing demand for the release of Egypt's former leader Mohamed Morsi after an Egyptian court overturned a death sentence against the ousted president and ordered re-trial.   

The United States is taking Turkish concerns into account over the role of Shiite militias in the upcoming Mosul operation to clear Iraq's second-largest town of jihadists, Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Işık has said as preparatory military mobilization continued over the weekend. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reiterated on Sept. 11 his government's commitment to eliminating the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria and the threat the group poses to Turkey, saying the struggle against the jihadists was the government's "obligation to the Turkish people." 

Not even 24 hours after a meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and U.S. President Barack Obama a U.S. military delegation came to Ankara. 

Macedonia's junior ruling party, the Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, has abruptly withdrawn support for changes to the criminal code that would give defendants much more time to prepare before charges are raised against them.