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By Raziye Akkoc with Fulya Ozerkan in Istanbul (AFP)     Sep 1, 2020 in Environment President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday played up Turkey's military might after extending a Mediterranean gas exploration mission that has pitted it against Greece and the rest of the EU.Turkey's push into disputed waters…

Just four months into his term in May 2017, President Donald Trump found himself sitting awkwardly in a Riyadh majlis, the traditional gold-and-velvet adorned meeting room where Persian Gulf royalty hold court, surrounded by some four dozen leaders of Muslim countries from Afghanistan to Yemen. Servers came around, filling most attendees’…

David Bossie knew he’d fucked up as the word started to emerge from his mouth. The 2016 Trump campaign veteran, now representing Maryland in the Republican National Convention’s roll call of delegate votes Monday morning, was supposed to say that the Civil War border state had been a vital conduit…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey has found 320 billion cubic metres of natural gas in the biggest ever discovery in the Black Sea, and hopes to begin production by 2023. he lira and benchmark share indices both gave up gains, though, possibly reflecting disappointment among investors over the size…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday ordered another ancient Orthodox church that became a mosque and then a popular Istanbul museum to be turned back into a place of Muslim worship. The decision to transform the Kariye Museum into a mosque came just a month after a similarly controversial…

Turkish police officers stand guard atop the Kariye (Chora) museum, the 11th-century church of St. Savior in Istanbul, Turkey, November 28, 2007. (Fatih Saribas/Reuters) Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed an order on Friday morning formally converting the Byzantine-era Chora Church in Istanbul into a mosque, several weeks after declaring…

It is by now almost a formality: In the Middle East, nothing either good or bad can transpire without Washington pointing to Tehran’s alleged hegemonic designs as the force behind it. So it was with the so-called peace deal announced last week between Israel and the United Arab Emirates; two…

ISTANBUL—The Turkish central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged Thursday, in line with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s demand to keep it low, but leaving the emerging economy exposed to further capital flight and a potential currency crisis similar to the selloff that beset Turkey two years ago. The central…

Brigadier-General Semih Terzi was reported in 2016 to have been one of the organizers behind the failed coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkish army Victory Day 521 (photo credit: REUTERS/Umit Bektas) The former head of Turkey’s Special Forces Command Intelligence Division (OKK) ordered that one of the organizers…

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