Monthly Archive: July 2019
The Turkish service of the Russian Sputnik channel ended the political show of three Turkish journalists on July 19, a day after they interviewed Ahmet Davutoğlu, the former prime minister of President Tayyip Erdoğan’s...
A Pentagon announcement was made on July 17 about removing Turkey from the F-35 fighter jet program because of Turkey’s purchase of Russian S-400 missiles. The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a strong statement in response, in the later hours, asking the U.S. to revoke the...
Turkish Foreign Ministry said that a diplomat working in the Turkish Consulate General in Erbil, capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq, was murdered in an armed attack on the afternoon of...
Media outlets which have been prepared for some time for immediate U.S. response by the Donald Trump administration against Turkey by imposing heavy sanctions were surprised with the news of Pentagon cancelling a July...
Turkish National Defence Ministry announced that the components of Russian S-400 missiles arrived in Mürted air base near Ankara on July 12. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said that the purchase program continued with...
The CIA, as well as a number of other intelligence agencies, must be busy nowadays trying to find out when and where the first battery of Russian S-400 missiles will be delivered to Turkey....
The first consequence of President Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) landslide defeat in the Istanbul reelection on June 23 were tremors shaking his power within the party, as it was anticipated before the elections. The resignation of Ali Babacan, Erdoğan‘s...
The Ankara-based Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) has released a report over the weekend titled “Report: Turkey Extensions of International Media Outlets”. The 202-page report caused reactions by journalism institutions. Turkish...
Turkish Foreign Ministry denied on July 1 claims by some media outlets that a number of Turkish military personnel were arrested in Libya by the rebel Halifa Haftar forces. A ranking Turkish Foreign Ministry...