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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday left for Istanbul to enhance his country’s economic relations Turkey. During his three-day visit, Abe will hold talks with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in which the two

Serbia’s president says he won’t take part in a Balkan initiative with Turkey in protest over reported remarks by Turkey’s prime minister in Kosovo. Serbian media have quoted Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying in Kosovo on Wednesday that “Turkey is Kosovo

A mortar bomb exploded today in the Ceylanpınar district of the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, killing at least one person, according to initial reports. The bomb was fired during clashes on the Syrian side of the

Bulgaria stands behind Turkey’s bid to become a full member of the European Union, stated Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Kristian Vigenin. Sunday Vigenin is on an official trip to Turkey, where he met Turkish

Bulgaria and Turkey have vowed to deepen bilateral cooperation regarding the influx of refugees from Syria, vowed the foreign ministers of the two neighbors.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will visit Iraq next month. According to the TV channel, the Foreign Minister himself said this during a meeting with Iraq’s Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari.

The imprisoned leader of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has said he could convince the PKK militants who are currently taking shelter in mountain bases in northern Iraq to return home as part of the settlement process aimed at ending the three-decades-old Kurdish question and terrorism problem.

Turkey would be open to new offers for a missile defence system if a deal agreed with a Chinese firm under U.S. sanctions falls through, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was quoted on Friday as saying. The NATO member’s decision to co-produce the long-range air and missile defence system with China Precision Machinery

Serbia has condemned statements made by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a speech given in Kosovo on Oct. 23, saying such words “cannot be received as friendly.”

U.N.-Arab League Syria envoy Lakhdar Brahimi held a series of talks with senior Turkish officials in Ankara over the planned Geneva peace talks to end the ongoing civil war.