ISTANBUL: Russia on Wednesday claimed that it took control of two settlements in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions as Moscow’s offensive in eastern Ukraine continues. A statement by the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that its forces captured the village of Krasnyi Yar, located about 12 kilometers (7.4 miles) east of
ANKARA: Turkish security forces “neutralized” five PKK/YPG terrorists in northern Syria, near the Turkish border, the country’s National Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. The terrorists were targeted in the Operation Euphrates Shield zone in northern Syria, the ministry said. Turkish authorities use the term “neutralize” to imply the terrorists in
ISTANBUL: The World Cooperation Industries (WCI) Forum started on Wednesday in Istanbul, with some 1,500 African businesspeople set to meet with representatives of Turkish small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) through Thursday. Turkish Trade Minister Omer Bolat said at the opening of the forum that since the adoption of the Strategy
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday received President of the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) Nechirvan Barzani at the Presidential Complex in Ankara and discussed regional and global developments. During the meeting, Erdogan underlined “the necessity of steadfast collaboration in these challenging times” to eliminate the terrorist threat
ANKARA: Turkish Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmus expressed satisfaction over progress in unity discussions among Palestinian groups during a meeting Wednesday with Rawhi Fattuh, head of the Palestinian National Council, in Ankara. ‘It is highly gratifying for us that positive approaches in the unity discussions among Palestinian groups are on the
ISTANBUL: The Kremlin on Wednesday said Ukraine needs to ‘sober up’ as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented the details of his ‘victory plan’ to the parliament. Speaking to reporters in Moscow, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Zelenskyy presented the plan, a blueprint to end the war that continues since 2022, as a
