Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has blasted Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu for serving as interpreter for U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during a lengthy meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan last week.

A group of 17 Turkish citizens seeking asylum in Greece after crossing on a rubber dinghy to the eastern Aegean island of Oinousses includes six children and four women.

Skepticism over the sale of F-35 stealth fighter jets to Turkey - a development which will upset the balance of power in the Aegean Sea - is growing among Washington officials.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Feb. 20 that the city center of Syria’s Afrin will be “encircled” in the coming days by advancing Turkish soldiers and members of the Free Syrian Army (FSA). 

Seventeen Turkish citizens landed on the shores of the Greek island of Oinousses in the eastern Aegean on Monday afternoon and requested asylum, the country's coast guard has announced.

The majority are said to be civil servants and the group has been transferred to the Vial migrant center on Chios, where they will be registered and processed.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the Turkish army will “continue its advance towards Afrin with determination,” warning that the Syrian regime’s attempts to enter the enclave will bring about unwanted consequences, sources have told daily Hürriyet.

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) have agreed on a 26-article legislative package that would pave the way for formal a pre-election alliance, following a face-to-face meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and MHP head Devlet Bahçeli.

President Gjorge Ivanov of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) will pay an official visit to Turkey to Turkey on Monday at the invitation of his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit last week to Ankara, where he met President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, averted a break in U.S.-Turkey ties, according to a senior advisor to Erdoğan.

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Feb. 18 said he expects top-level visits between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel “as a sign of improved relations between the two countries.”