Saudi Crown Prince, US Secretary of Defense discuss troop deployment

Saudi Crown Prince, US Secretary of Defense discuss troop deployment

:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a phone call on Wednesday from the US Secretary of Defense during which they discussed ongoing arrangements to send US troops of a More »

Saudi Energy Minister confirms restoration of Kingdom’s gas production capacity

Saudi Energy Minister confirms restoration of Kingdom’s gas production capacity

:: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy confirmed on Wednesday the restoration of production capacity, affirming the Kingdom’s position as a reliable energy supplier in the global market. The energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz More »

Egypt calls Erdogan statements ‘ironic,’ accuses Turkey of sponsoring terrorism

Egypt calls Erdogan statements ‘ironic,’ accuses Turkey of sponsoring terrorism

:: Egypt’s foreign ministry spokesman, Ahmed Hafez, slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statements at the UN General Assembly this week where he urged the UN to “handle the suspicious death of More »

Saudi Crown Prince: Attacks are test of int’l resolve against destructive acts

Saudi Crown Prince: Attacks are test of int’l resolve against destructive acts

:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Wednesday that the attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities are a test of international resolve in the face of destructive acts that More »

Saudi Crown Prince says attacks on oil facilities are a ‘dangerous escalation’

Saudi Crown Prince says attacks on oil facilities are a ‘dangerous escalation’

:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the recent attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities represented a “dangerous escalation not only toward the Kingdom but also the entire world.” The Crown More »

 

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Erdogan praises legal process against opponents

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday praised as “clean and lawful” the legal process against his opponents that has been sharply criticized by the European Union and includes an arrest warrant for his arch-foe Fethullah Gulen. “I have been

Turkey issues arrest warrant for Erdogan foe Gulen: reports

Turkey has issued an arrest warrant for U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who President Tayyip Erdogan accuses of seeking to overthrow him, state broadcaster TRT Haber reported on Friday. Guen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999,

Social media storm over top Turkey cleric’s luxury Mercedes

Turkey’s top cleric came under fire on Saturday over reports that a luxury Mercedes had been purchased at public expense to serve as his official car – the latest government splurge to cause a public outcry. Mehmet Gormez, the head

Kurdish deal with Turkey within reach but guarantees key: Ocalan

A settlement to end a three-decade insurgency by Kurdish militants in Turkey could be reached within months if the government puts in place legal guarantees for Kurdish rights, a jailed militant leader was quoted as saying on Sunday. The siege

Turkish prof jailed for barring hijab-clad student

A prominent Turkish professor on Thursday began a jail sentence after being convicted of preventing a female student wearing a Muslim headscarf from entering the university where he worked, his lawyer said. Rennan Pekunlu, a former professor of astrophysics at

The world is ignoring the death of thousands in Palestine, Syria and Egypt:Erdogan

Istanbul : “More than 300,000 people have been killed in Syria and the world remains silent,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. Speaking at the First International Women and Justice Summit organised by the Women and Democracy Association in Istanbul

Erdogan slams ‘ego complex’ of critics on Americas discovery claim

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan savaged critics of his remarks that Muslim explorers traveled to the Americas before Columbus as suffering from an “ego complex,” reaffirming his belief their purported feat was an historical fact. “I have been the target

Erdogan rounds on feminists, says men and women not equal

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told a meeting on women’s rights on Monday that gender equality was contrary to nature and said feminists did not recognize the value of motherhood. Erdogan, whose conservative, Islamist ideology frequently raises hackles in more liberal

Time to act on energy security, Biden tells EU

ISTANBUL: US Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday told Europe it was time to act on improving its energy security, warning of Russia’s “track record” in using energy supplies as a weapon. Speaking at an Atlantic Council meeting in Istanbul,

Biden announces new aid for Syrian refugees

Vice President Joe Biden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan emerged from a nearly four-hour meeting Saturday, offering no indication that the U.S. and Turkey had bridged their differences about how to deal with Islamic State of Iraq and Syria

U.S., Turkey discuss transition away from Assad

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said he and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan he had discussed a transition of power in Syria away from President Bashar al-Assad during a four-hour meeting in Istanbul on Saturday. Turkey has been a reluctant partner

Turkey trains Kurdish Peshmerga forces in fight against ISIS

Turkish soldiers are training Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq and will give similar assistance to a new national army unit in Baghdad as part of the struggle against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a senior Turkish official

Istanbul’s giant mosque to be ‘female-friendly’

Istanbul’s giant Çamlıca Mosque, being built on a hilltop overlooking the Bosporus from the city’s Asian side, will be “female friendly,” Turkish media reported on Friday. The mosque, reportedly the biggest to be built in the country since the founding

Turkish teen arrested for ‘burying alive sister’s boyfriend’

A young Turkish man has been arrested on suspicion of burying alive a teenager who had a pre-marital relationship with his sister, reports said Monday. Akin Tokdenir, 18, was arrested along with his father Ahmet on suspicion of the murder

Turkey, U.S. agree on plan to train 2,000 moderate Syrian rebels: report

Turkey and the United States have agreed a plan under which some 2,000 fighters from the moderate Syrian opposition would be trained on Turkish soil, a report said Saturday. The fighters from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) will be trained

Erdogan says Muslims, not Columbus, discovered Americas

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that the Americas were discovered by Muslims in the 12th century, nearly three centuries before Christopher Columbus set foot there. “Contacts between Latin America and Islam date back to the 12th century. Muslims

Syria’s opposition warns of upcoming food shortage

Syria’s Western-backed opposition on Thursday called on international donors to help stave off a food crisis in the country where drought and civil war have caused a dramatic drop in wheat production this year. The United Nations predicted earlier this

Turkish architects urge pope not to visit Erdogan’s ‘White Palace’

Turkish architects have urged Pope Francis not to set foot in President Tayyip Erdogan’s controversial new 1,000-room palace when he visits Ankara this month and legitimize what they deem an illegal building. The sprawling palace, inaugurated last month and set

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