Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at last signed a bill approving Sweden's bid to join NATO and sent it to parliament for ratification.Once Turkey’s legislature passes the bill Hungary will be the only nato country yet to approve Sweden’s app...

Syria will let humanitarian aid flow through its main border crossing into rebel-held areas, reopening a conduit that had closed after a Security Council stalemate, the country's UN ambassador said Thursday.Damascus has made a "sovereign decision" to...

The current year is the 2023rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 23rd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the fourth year of the 2020s decade. The first six months of 2023 were full of many special an...

Egypt and Turkey said Tuesday they had appointed ambassadors to each others' countries for the first time in a decade, in the latest sign of warming ties.Cairo and Ankara both issued statements announcing "the upgrading of diplomatic relations betwee...

The scene on the night of May 28, 2023 bordered on the surreal and sometimes absurd! As the exaggerated joy among the followers of the Muslim Brotherhood and their lengthy sermons was pathetic, as if the winner was the president of their state, or the winning was a victory for democracy in their countries! In contrast to those delusional followers, some Muslim Brotherhood members seem to have a be...

A feminist voice rings out from behind the mounds of strawberries and olives in an Istanbul bazaar: "Let's get rid of Erdogan!""Defend your rights in the second round on May 28," Rojda Aksoy, a slender figure in faded baggy clothes, calls out."Reis (...

Turkey said on Friday that talks to extend a deal allowing grain exports from Ukraine via the Black Sea following the Russian invasion were nearing an agreement."We are heading toward an agreement on the extension of the grain deal," Turkish Defence...

Two months after the devastating 7.8- and 7.5-magnititude earthquakes struck southern Turkey and northwestern Syria and claimed the lives of 50,000 people, some affected Syrian people in Turkey are on the fence between staying homeless in Turkey and...

The devastating earthquake that hit southern Turkey and neighbouring Syria in February damaged more than 20 percent of Turkey's agricultural production, the UN's food agency said Friday.The 7.8-magnitude quake on February 6, and its aftershocks, kill...

Turkey will release more water flows from the Tigris River to its southern neighbor, Iraq, as a sign of a breakthrough in the water stress crisis that has been facing Iraq since 2015 due to the impacts of climate change and the ongoing building of da...

Fears of another major earthquake have been rekindled in Istanbul since the February 6 disaster that hit Turkey and Syria, but a prominent Turkish seismologist has reassured the risk "hasn't increased"."The risk hasn't increased because we are talkin...

The 7.8- and 7.5-magnitude quakes that struck Syria and Turkey had no impact on the grain deal initiative co-brokered by Ankara and the United Nations to allow Ukrainian grains to be exported to the world through the Black Sea.“The devastating earthq...