Erdogan: "Turkey is a country that speaks openly with Hamas leaders and firmly backs them.”...
Germany's Scholz: "Congratulations to President Erdogan - together we want to advance our common agenda."...
Death squad comprising of "eight suspects, including Iranian nationals, who were plotting attacks on Israeli citizens in Turkey."...
Jerusalem Post: "An estimated 2,000 Israelis are believed to be visiting [Istanbul], down from 5,000 earlier in the week."...
The move strengthens Russia and Turkey's stranglehold on Europe's energy supply...
I guess this is a reward for endorsing Biden in 2020 over Trump. I doubt Flake's endorsement helped Biden much, though....
The State Department acknowledged that "this is the first time a NATO member has been listed in the child soldier prevention act list."...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called for a boycott of French goods over the country's response to a school teacher's beheading in Paris.
"Never give credit to French-labelled goods, don't buy them," he said in a televised speech. "I am calling to all my citizens from here to never help French brands or buy them."
Less than a month after converting the Hagia Sophia cathedral into a mosque, Turkey is moving ahead with its campaign to erase the country's Christian past. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday ordered the conversion of Istanbul’s Church of the Holy Savior in Chora, or Kariye, to a Muslim place of worship.
Church bells across Greece tolled in mourning on Friday as neighboring Turkey held its first Islamic prayer marking the conversion of Hagia Sophia cathedral into a mosque, Greek newspapers reported. Hagia Sophia, the first cathedral of the Eastern Roman Empire, is particularly sacred to Christian Orthodox believers, represented largely by the Greek Church.
