Published on : 23/01/2023 – 18:21 President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is seeking a third term, confirmed on Sunday his desire to organize the presidential election on May 14, a month earlier than expected. What is behind this maneuver as an election which promises to be one of the tightest in recent decades in Turkey … Read more
Protests including the burning of the Koran in Stockholm on Saturday escalated tensions between Sweden and Turkey at a time when the Scandinavian country needs Ankara’s support to join NATO. “We condemn in the strongest terms this despicable attack on our holy book,” Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “Permitting this anti-Islamic act, which … Read more
(CNN) Turkey on Saturday canceled Swedish Defense Minister Pal Johnson’s visit to the country in response to “the Stockholm police’s agreement to allow the burning of the Qur’an” during a planned protest in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, according to the Turkish Anadolu news agency. Stockholm police spokesman Ola Osterling told CNN that a far-right Danish … Read more
The US ambassador to Ankara, Jeffrey Flake, made it clear that the US sale of F-16s to Turkey is not linked to the process of Sweden and Finland joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). This came in statements made by Flick during his meeting with a number of journalists in the Turkish capital, Ankara, … Read more
Damaged houses after an earthquake in Iran. (Source: middle-east-online.com) On January 18, Iranian media reported that at least 120 people were injured when a 5.8-magnitude earthquake shook northwest Iran, near the border with Turkey. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake occurred near the city of Khoy in West Azerbaijan province at … Read more
