Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (T?KA) has provided food to 168 refugee families fleeing Boko Haram violence in northern Nigeria, the agency was quoted by the state-run Anadolu Agency as saying on Feb. 29.     

T?KA is helping refugees in the Durumi camp outside the Nigerian capital, Abuja.

Turkish Ambassador to Sofia Suleyman Gokce has refuted claims that his country has pressured Bulgarian politicians into taking sides.

Ankara "has never asked any Bulgarian politician to take sides with regard to another political or publicly important figure in Bulgaria," he told private national bTV station on Saturday.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that Turkish forces will not stop bombing Kurdish fighters in Syria adding that US should decide on whether it wants to support Turkey or Kurdish insurgents.

Targets of the People's Protection Units (YPG), the armed wing the self-proclaimed Kurdish governing body in Norther Syria, was bombarded by Turkish artillery, a Turkish daily has reported.

Hürriyet Daily News quotes security sources as telling private broadcaster CNNTürk there were two separate shellings, which were carried out in retaliation to attacks coming from YPG positions.

EU member states could be flooded with refugees by Turkey, the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.

In an Ankara speech, he has confirmed reports that he threatened EU leaders at the G20 summit in November of last year.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened on Thursday to send the Syrian refugees to other countries since his country is allegedly on the brink of losing patience over the massive flow of migrants from the Arab republic.

A representative office of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) of Syria is to be opened in the Russian capital Moscow on Wednesday.

Russia's Foreign Ministry had earlier stated it could not allow such an office to appear in the country under current legislation, but an agreement was then reached that the structure would function as a non-profit organization.

A Greek website claims that Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened last year to open to migrants Turkey's border with the EU if the bloc didn't  offer him a better deal to tackle the migrant influx into Europe, Reuters has reported.

Turkey is said to have recalled its consul from Plovdiv, Bulgarian daily 24 Chasa reported on Thursday citing an "informed source".

Alper Aktas had been appointed consul of Turkey to the second largest Bulgarian city in 2014. His term of office was set to expire in summer 2016.

Turkish authorities announced that the suicide bomber responsible for the deadly attack carried out near the grandest tourist attractions of Istanbul on Jan 12 is affiliated with Islamic State.