Politics of Turkey

Turkey opposes foreign interventions including coup attempt in Venezuela, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on May 20.         

The Turkish government will exert the utmost effort to deliver targets set for 2023, the centennial of the Turkish Republic, in the areas of democracy and economy "despite continued interventions by some foreign powers," President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said.

The F-35 jets, developed by nine countries including Turkey and the United States, will be delivered to Ankara eventually, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said late on May 18.

Turkey "neutralized" over 400 high-level militants over past two-and-half years, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on May 16.

Notwithstanding rising tension in the Eastern Mediterranean due to Turkey's plans for offshore drilling operations in Cyprus' exclusive economic zone (EEZ), Foreign Giorgos Katrougalos has reiterated Greece's support for Turkey's European Union ambitions.

Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu vowed on May 16 not to push for early elections, saying that to ask for early elections is "opportunism."

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on May 15 that Turkey and Iraq are in discussions to sign a mutually beneficial military cooperation and trust agreement after day-long meetings in the capital Ankara.

Senior Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives called on Turkey on Wednesday to cancel its planned acquisition of a Russian S-400 missile defense system, the latest effort by US lawmakers to discourage Ankara from pursuing the deal.

Turkey's Foreign Ministry on Thursday accused Greece of sheltering terrorists, following the acquittal by a Greek court of nine Turkish nationals, all ethnic Kurds, who had been accused of being members of a terrorist organization.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have agreed that a working group on Syria's northwestern province Idlib should convene as soon as possible, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on May 15.