ISTANBUL (AA) – A Turkish university student whose internship application was rejected by a Swedish professor over the country’s pending NATO membership bid is still waiting for an official apology. Fatma Zehra S., a third-year undergraduate studying psychology at Istanbul’s Ibn Haldun University, was accepted by the EU’s Erasmus+ program for ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Biden administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve a $20 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets to Türkiye in tandem with sales of F-35 fighters to Greece according to a recent . The sale “is larger than expected” and includes 40 F-16 fighters and modernization kits for 79 of the […]
LONDON (AA) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called Iran’s execution of a British-Iranian national a “cowardly act.” The premier denounced the killing, terming it an act committed by “a barbaric regime with no respect for the human rights of their own people.” Earlier, the Iranian judiciary had announced t...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran summoned the British ambassador in Tehran on Saturday to protest the UK’s “unconventional interventions” in the country’s national security. It came hours after a dual Iranian-Britain national was executed on charges of espionage for the British intelligence agency MI6. Alireza Akbari, a former deputy...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish Parliament Speaker Mustafa Sentop has cancelled his Swedish counterpart Andreas Norlen’s visit to Türkiye in response to “recent provocations” by supporters of the Kurdish nationalist group PKK in Stockholm. “Swedish Parliament Speaker Norlen’s official visit to Türkiye on January 17 wa...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Washington is in favor of focusing on the German-French proposal to normalize relations between Serbia and Kosovo, US State Department Counselor Derek Chollet said Thursday. Chollet, on a Balkan tour, met Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade. Chollet said the US is in favor of the proposal that is though...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Kosovo is aiming for a stronger partnership with the US, Prime Minister Albin Kurti has said. Kurti’s remarks came after his meeting with US State Department Counselor Derek Chollet in the capital Pristina. ”Kosovo aims for an even stronger partnership with the United States of America and integration ...
ANKARA (AA) – The Turkish Foreign Ministry has expressed concern over the sentencing by Russia of five Muslim Crimean Tatars to 13 years in prison. “We are concerned that our Crimean Tatar kinsmen Dzhemil Gafarov, Servet Gaziev, Erfan Osmanov, Alim Karimov, and Seyran Murtaza were sentenced to 13 years in prison with a decision tak...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The European Union has reiterated its opposition to the uninhibited spread of illegal Israeli settlements across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, as well as demolitions of Palestinian homes. “The EU has consistently reiterated its strong opposition to Israel’s settlement policy and illegal actio...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has sentenced to death a former senior official on charges of espionage for the British intelligence agency MI6, the judiciary-linked Mizan News said. Alireza Akbari, a former deputy defense minister, was closely connected to the British intelligence agency and was “one of the most important infiltrators” of MI6 ...
