Ankara, Turkey — AFP Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has branded hardline Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “the butcher of Gaza” and accused him of spawning anti-Semitism across the world. Erdogan has lashed out repeatedly at Israel for the scale of death and destruction caused by its war on Gaza launched on O...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani expressed readiness Wednesday to resume oil exports to Türkiye. A meeting in Baghdad between Sudani and Türkiye’s Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar discussed strengthening energy relations, according to a statement from the Iraqi Prime Minister̵...
Ankara, Turkey – AFP More than two dozen Palestinian cancer patients, who had crossed from Gaza into Egypt, have arrived in Turkiye for treatment. Turkiye has sent a ship loaded with material for field hospitals, ambulances and generators to Egypt to treat civilians who have been able to flee Israel’s military assault on the besieg...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Türkiye will take steps to ensure that political and military leaders who massacred people in Gaza face trial in the international courts, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. Calling Israel a “terrorist state,” the Turkish leader accused Tel Aviv of implementing a strategy of destroying all of Gaza along with its residents...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca met his Egyptian counterpart Khaled Abdel Ghaffar in Cairo on Wednesday to discuss aid supply to Gaza and the transfer of cancer patients to Türkiye. Koca arrived in the Egyptian capital earlier in the day and was received by Abdel Ghaffar and other officials. Last week, Koca [&helli...
ANKARA (AA) – Events that have been unfolding in the Gaza Strip amid over a month of Israeli attacks amount to “disaster, catastrophe, a crime against humanity,” Türkiye’s president has said. Turkish people will keep supporting Gaza’s residents as they refuse “to leave their homes and lands to the end,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan s...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has called on all regional actors to play a role in reaching lasting peace in the occupied Palestine. Addressing a press conference with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Ankara, Hakan Fidan said a necessary platform should be developed to discuss comprehensive peace ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Thousands of people in Istanbul joined the “Great Palestine Meeting,” a rally in support of Palestinians’ freedom in Istanbul. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan invited the nation to attend the rally to show “brotherhood between Turks and Palestinians to the world.” People from different walks of li...
IDLIB, Syria (AA) – At least four civilians were killed in attacks by Syrian armed forces in northern Syria, local sources said Sunday. The Syrian army and Iranian-backed groups carried out intense attacks in Idlib city center using ground-to-ground weapons. At least 15 others were wounded in the attacks and were transferred to nearby hospital...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye has called on Israelis and Palestinians to ‘act with restraint’ in the light of the events that took place in Israel, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. “We call on the parties to act with restraint in the light of the events in Israel this morning and to stay away from […]
