WASHINGTON (AA) – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Wednesday that Türkiye’s request for F-16 fighter jets and Sweden and Finland’s NATO bids are “not related.” Speaking to reporters following a meeting with his US counterpart Antony Blinken, Cavusoglu said the US Congress should not portray these separate issues...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Britain’s special envoy for the Western Balkans has expressed his country’s support for normalization efforts between Serbia and Kosovo. Stuart Peach met with Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic in the capital Belgrade. ”London supports both the Berlin process, the EU-sponsored dialogue process and all ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Turkish Coast Guard rescued 194 irregular migrants who were pushed back into Turkish territorial waters by Greek authorities. Coast guard teams were dispatched off the coast of Ayvalik district in Balikesir province after detecting 73 foreign nationals in boats, according to the Turkish Coast Guard Command. Separately...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A helicopter crash in the Brovary city of Ukraine’s Kyiv region on Wednesday killed at least 18 people, including 3 children, the country’s interior minister, first deputy minister, and state secretary, according to Kyiv governor. “Tragedy in Brovary. The number of victims increased. As of 10:30 a.m. (0830GMT) – 18 ...
LONDON (AA) – A British citizen who was kept in custody and tortured at the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention center has dedicated his life to rehabilitation of other detainees and protection of their rights after his release. Moazzam Begg was kept in the Guantanamo Bay detention center by the US government for two years in […]
LONDON (AA) – Stockholm University has apologized to a Turkish student whose internship application was rejected by a Swedish professor over the country’s pending NATO membership bid. Fatma Zehra S., a third-year undergraduate studying psychology at Istanbul’s Ibn Haldun University, was accepted by the EU’s Erasmus+ program for a summer 2023 i...
ANKARA (AA) – France has expressed concern over a recent decision by Israel to impose punitive measures on Palestinians for having requested an advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice on the Israeli occupation. “We express our deep concern regarding the Israeli government’s decision to impose punitive measures ...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday urged Bosnia and Herzegovina to “refrain from divisive rhetoric”. Stoltenberg’s remarks came after he met a Bosnian member of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency, Denis Becirovic, in Brussels. “The Secretary-General urged all political lead...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye has criticized Sweden along with other European states over tolerating what it considers “a continuing terrorist’ presence.” The country’s president has said that the extradition of “terrorists” is necessary for the Nordic country to earn the right to enter NATO. “We’v...
PARIS (AA) – Nearly 12,000 people held a march Monday in the French city of Strasbourg to show solidarity with anti-government protesters in Iran. The demonstrators marched towards the European Parliament building chanting slogans and demanding that the European Union declare Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a “terror...
