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Erdogan: PKK suffering heaviest blows in its history
GENEVA: Turkey’s president said yesterday that the PKK terror group is suffering the heaviest blows in its history, Anadolu Agency reported. Speaking in Geneva while receiving European representatives of the International Democrat Union, Recep Tayyip Erdogan praised Turkey’s anti-terror operations
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Erdogan: Stop linking Islam with terrorism
LONDON: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday condemned those who use the word ‘Islam’ as an adjective to describe terrorism, Anadolu Agency reported. “Islam is a religion of peace,” Erdogan said during an event at a venue in east London
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Despite ‘wonderful’ meeting, Trump and Erdogan fail to resolve conflicts
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump yesterday pushed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to walk away from the purchase of a Russian missile defence system, calling it a “very serious challenge” to bilateral ties, even though he described a meeting between
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Russian police deploy in Syria’s Kobani, Trump claims ceasefire ‘permanent’
MOSCOW/ANKARA/WASHINGTON: Russian military police started to deploy on Syria’s northeast border yesterday under a deal with Turkey to drive out Kurdish fighters, marking Moscow’s deepening influence in the region two weeks after the US pulled out forces. Turkey announced that
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For Syrian Kurds, a leader’s killing deepens pain of US betrayal
BEIRUT: Kurdish politician Hevrin Khalaf spent the final months of her life building a political party that she hoped would help shape Syria’s future, drawing the attention of US officials who said it would have a say in what happened
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Russia, Turkey reach deal to eject Kurdish fighters from Syria border
Syrian and Russian forces will deploy in northeast Syria to remove Kurdish YPG fighters and their weapons from the border with Turkey, under a deal agreed yesterday which both Moscow and Ankara hailed as a triumph. Hours after the deal
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US senators, Kurdish leader call for sanctions on Turkey
WASHINGTON: US lawmakers kept up their push yesterday to impose sanctions on Turkey if it does not end its offensive in northeastern Syria, and a leading Kurdish politician called on President Donald Trump to stop the “ethnic cleansing” of her
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Syrian Kurdish military seeks help from Israel to act on Turkish aggression
An official in the Syrian Democratic Forces called on Israel today to take action against Turkey’s military incursion into northern Syria. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, also expressed confidence that the Jewish people would not neglect the
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Kurdish-led forces say they have pulled out of Syria border town
BEIRUT/ANKARA: The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) yesterday said they had withdrawn from the border town of Ras al Ain under a US-brokered ceasefire deal, but a spokesman for Turkish-backed Syrian rebels said the withdrawal was not yet complete. Ras
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Defiant Erdogan plans to expand presence across northeast Syria
ISTANBUL: Turkey will set up a dozen observation posts across northeast Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday, insisting that a planned “safe zone” will extend much farther than US officials said was covered under a fragile ceasefire deal. Less
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