Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan minced no words as he called Washington’s plan to establish and train a 30,000-man Kurdish security force in Syria along the Turkish border a “terror army.” The area in question runs along the southern border of Turkey with Syria. The U.S. plans to heavily recruit its force from the SDF […]

Concern is growing in Turkey over the deterioration of its rule of law and judicial institutions after the country’s top court was blatantly ignored by government and lower courts earlier this month. On 11 January, a lower court refused to abide by a ruling from Turkey’s Constitutional Court, which serves as the guardian of the […]

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Turkey’s planned military operation against Kurdish militia forces in Syria’s Afrin region will be supported by Syrian rebel fighters. In recent days, Erdogan has repeatedly warned of an imminent incursion in Afrin after the U.S.-led coalition said it was working with the mainly Kurdish YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan minced no words as he called Washington’s plan to establish and train a 30,000-man Kurdish security force in Syria along the Turkish border a “terror army.” The area in question runs along the southern border of Turkey with Syria. The U.S. plans to heavily recruit its force from the SDF […]

A passenger jet carrying 168 people came within metres of plunging into the sea after it skidded off an icy runway as it landed at a Turkish airport. Panic spread through the Boeing 737-800 as it stopped at the edge of the Black Sea – with its nose dangling precariously off a cliff edge. Luckily, flight PC8622’s […]

Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday promised he would stop a Kurd-led border force being created by the US, and said final preparations were under way to invade the Kurdish canton of Afrin, as tensions rose once again between the ostensible allies over Syria. His speech in Ankara came a day after the US announced it […]

Syrian rebels have launched a counter-attack against government forces and their Iranian-backed allies in Idlib province. The fighting, which is raging right along the Turkish border is a source of rising tension for Turkey’s government. Fighting raged in Idlib, where a government offensive helped by Iran-backed militia has gathered pace in the last two weeks, […]

Many observers declared 2017 the year that the Islamic State (IS) group died its final death – with the loss of virtually all of its territory in both Syria and Iraq. But little attention has been paid to the hundreds of thousands of militants and leaders of IS who are still believed to be roaming […]

Russia added Ukraine to the list of possible perpetrators that helped attack its military bases in Syria with a swarm of drones. Russia said that the drones required sophisticated engineering and targeting help that originated outside of Syria. Every analyst and expert that Business Insider spoke with questioned Russia’s claims — and some flat out […]

Turkey’s top court on Thursday ruled that two jailed journalists be released, local media reported, a decision lawyers said could set a precedent for dozens of other reporters jailed in a widespread crackdown under the president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The constitutional court ordered the release of Mehmet Altan and Sahin Alpay, ruling their rights had […]

Russia announced on Wednesday that Turkish-backed rebels attacked its military bases in Syria. The Hmeimim air base and Tartus naval facility in Syria had been attacked with 13 drones. The Russian Ministry of Defense had previously insinuated the US had helped. The Russian military announced on Wednesday that Turkish-backed rebels attacked its Hmeimim air base and Tartus […]

Thirteen low-tech armed drones attacked two Russian bases in western Syria on Saturday. Russian military forces identified the launch location from where the attacks began, but the identity of the attackers is not known. Russia claims that the attackers are a Syrian rebel group supported by Turkey. Ten drones rigged with explosive devices descended over […]