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August 8, 2023
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Saeed Al-Shehabi
As usual, Turkish President Recep Tayyeb Erdogan has made another political U-turn with his country's foreign policy. After stressing repeatedly just a few days before the NATO summit in...
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July 10, 2023
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Anadolu Agency
Focusing on Russia again, just like in the first Cold War, NATO has returned to its default settings. As of 2021, it has turned toward expanding its sphere of...
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Hungary's foreign minister yesterday said his country will back Turkiye's decision on Sweden's bid to join NATO, Anadolu reported. "If there is a shift , then of course...
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Sweden's path to NATO membership remains blocked by Turkiye and Hungary ahead of a July summit in Vilnius, where it hopes to join Nordic neighbour, Finland, as a full...
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Turkiye and Hungary must ratify Sweden's NATO membership before the alliance meets at a summit in July, France's Foreign Minister said on Friday, adding that any further delays were...
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European Diplomatic missions in Jerusalem on Friday called on the Israeli occupation to halt all confiscations and demolitions in the occupied West Bank. In a press statement, the consortium...
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The Biden administration wants to "move forward" on the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkiye, the White House said Wednesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. According to the report, National Security...
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Finland has clarified that it does not share Turkiye's view that the Syrian-Kurdish militant group, the People's Protection Units (YPG), are part of a terrorist organisation, two months after...
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Al-Jedea and Al-Shebel were appointed in January 2023 in a move to boost the presence of Saudi female diplomats
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Finland said yesterday that it plans to purchase Israel's David's Sling missile defence system in a deal wotk $344 million. The announcement came a day after Finland joined the...
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Sweden's path to NATO membership remains blocked by Turkiye and Hungary as neighbour, Finland officially joined the 30-member alliance on Tuesday after its application was ratified in record time....
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Finland has pledged to donate $21.8 million as part of a three-year funding agreement with the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). The multi-year agreement (MYA),...
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Finland's application to join NATO was approved by a vote in Turkiye's parliament yesterday.
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Turkiye's presidential spokesman said Saturday that Ankara has left the door open to Stockholm's bid to join NATO if it shows will and determination, Anadolu reports. "The door is...
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The Turkish parliament's Foreign Affairs Commission yesterday approved a bill that ratifies Finland's bid to join NATO. Deputy Foreign Minister Burak Akcapar briefed parliamentarians on the proposed bill. "We...
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The Turkish Parliament is highly likely to ratify Finland's NATO membership before it closes mid-April for elections, the officials said, Reuters reported. "We are looking favourably at Finland's accession....
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Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, said on Monday talks with Sweden and Finland over their NATO membership bids would resume on 9 March, although he said Sweden had still...
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February 27, 2023
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Elif Selin Calik
While the world is dealing with the first anniversary of the deadly war in Ukraine, the solidarity shown towards Turkish society after its devastating earthquake is one of the...
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Turkiye, Finland and Sweden will hold a meeting to discuss the NATO accession of the two Nordic countries in March, the alliance chief announced today. Jens Stoltenberg spoke at...
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Finland has announced that it still wants to join the NATO alliance alongside its neighbour Sweden, despite chances that Turkiye will approve Helsinki's bid separately. Speaking at the Munich...
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Turkish police said they had not found evidence of any concrete threat to foreigners after detaining 15 Islamic State suspects accused of targeting consulates and non-Muslim houses of worship,...
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Turkiye rules out green lighting Sweden joining NATO as long as it permits attacks on Islam's holy book, the Quran, the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday....
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Turkish President, Tayyip Erdogan, signalled that Ankara may agree to Finland joining NATO ahead of Sweden, amid growing tensions with Stockholm, Reuters reports. According to the report, Turkiye suspended NATO talks...
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January 25, 2023
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Reuters
Swedish and Finnish hopes of quickly joining NATO have run into an obstacle in the form of objections by Turkiye, which holds veto powers over accession to the military...
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Erdogan’s statement come after rightwing protesters burned the Quran during a rally in Stockholm
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Mauritanian scholar Mohamed El-Hassan Ould-Dedew has said that Sweden and Swedish goods must be boycotted after a copy of the Holy Qur'an was burned outside the Turkish Embassy in...
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January 18, 2023
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Muhammad Hussein
Turkiye has surprised many policymakers and analysts over the past decade with its diplomatic prominence, soft power projection and hard power in the form of drones and other advances...
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Sweden and Finland must deport or extradite up to 130 "terrorists" to Turkiye before the Turkish Parliament will approve their bids to join NATO, President Tayyip Erdogan said, Reuters reports. The two Nordic...
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Sweden's Supreme Court today blocked Turkiye's request to have an exiled Turkish journalist extradited. Judge Petter Asp ruled that there was no crime committed sufficient for an extradition and...
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Sweden takes the three-way memorandum signed with Turkiye and Finland on the Nordic countries' NATO membership bids very seriously, the country's prime minister said Tuesday, reports Anadolu Agency. Ulf...
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More than 70 artists announced yesterday that they were going on strike calling on Finland's Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma to sever ties with a billionaire art collector whose...
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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Wednesday that Sweden and Finland have taken "positive steps" to combat terrorism, a condition stipulated by Ankara for accepting the Nordic countries' accession...