Binali Yıldırım

The US Senate's decision to pass a bill prohibiting the sale of Lockheed Martin's F-35 jets to Turkey is unfortunate and against the spirit of strategic partnership, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Tuesday.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on June 19 harshly criticized a U.S. Senate decision to block F-35 sales to Turkey.

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said the state of emergency in Turkey may end in mid-July, after the snap elections scheduled on June 24.

The Uber dispute "is finished" in Turkey, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said early on June 11, while calling on taxi drivers to take measures to improve conditions that led people to prefer Uber, which was recently banned in the country.

Turkey's Economic Coordination Committee, under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım, has taken steps to decrease the inflation rate to single digits, Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci said on June 6. 

This file photo show Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım (L) with his Iraqi counterpart, Haider al-Abadi during a joint press conference in Baghdad on Jan 7. / AA Photo

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has once more attempted to raise questions about Greek sovereignty over parts of the Aegean Sea, saying that tension would be avoided if Athens stopped considering it as an entirely Greek sea.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on May 15 called on the world's more than 1.5 billion Muslims to "band together" over the Palestinian cause after more than 60 people were killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

Muslim countries should review their ties with Israel, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on May 15, a day after Israeli forces killed 60 Palestinians during protests on the Gaza border.

Turkey's youth will determine the outcome of the June 24 presidential and parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said, while adding that constitutional amendments of the 2017 referendum lowered the age to be elected from 25 to 18.