The Latest Breaking News from Ankara

Tukey’s presidential spokesman says Ankara will target the PKK, YPG and PYD forces to protect its borders.

Sweden on Friday deported a Kurdish man with alleged links to Kurdish militant group the PKK, a government minister told Swedish Television, as Ankara keeps up pressure on the Nordic country to meet its demands in return for NATO membership.

A US-led coalition fighting militants resumed regular patrols in Kurdish-held areas of northeast Syria on Friday after earlier Turkish airstrikes, an AFP correspondent and a Kurdish military source said. Patrols were reduced following the Turkish strikes that began on November 20 in Kurdish-controlled areas of Syria and Iraq, in response…

Türkiye’s foreign minister charged Friday that the United States and Russia have failed to meet promises to clear Syria’s border with Türkiye from Kurdish militants, forcing Ankara to intervene. Speaking at the Mediterranean Dialogues forum in Rome, Italy, Mevlut Cavusoglu also said Türkiye was seeking reconciliation with Syria’s government to…

Turkey’s foreign minister says the United States and Russia have failed to meet promises to clear Syria’s border with Turkey of Kurdish militants, forcing Ankara to intervene

Syria is resisting Russian efforts to broker a summit with Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan, three sources said on Friday, after more than a decade of bitter enmity since the outbreak of Syria's civil war.

Türkiye confirmed on Friday that it had asked the US to "fulfill its obligations," according to the understandings related to northern Syria after Washington asked Ankara to refrain from carrying out the military operation. The Turkish National Security Council discussed Thursday the latest regional and international developments, combating terrorism, military…

At least two Western embassies have been warned against fresh security threats in the Turkish capital Ankara and Serbia warned its citizens against travelling to the country, two weeks after a bomb exploded in the heart of Istanbul.

ISTANBUL: Turkey said on Wednesday Sweden's new government was more determined to address Ankara's security concerns in return for Nato membership but called for "concrete steps".

Sweden and Finland have made some progress in meeting Ankara's security concerns but still need to undertake “concrete steps” to win Türkiye’s approval for their NATO membership bids, the Turkish foreign minister said Wednesday. Meanwhile, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg underlined that “it is time to welcome them as full-fledged…

If the reaction to Turkish incursions or continued aerial bombardment against Kurdish targets in northern Syria does not meet Kurdish expectations and demands, it wouldn’t be the first time Kurds are betrayed by the US or the West. In the past century, the global and regional balance of power has…