Tag: Syria

Joint UN and Arab League's special envoy on Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi will arrive in Turkey on Saturday. Diplomatic sources said that Brahimi will meet Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in ...

Russian Ambassador has been informed Syrian passenger plane committed violation by carrying army materials. Russian Ambassador in Ankara Vladimir Ivanovsky, who was summoned to Turkish Foreign Ministry, has been informed that the ...

General Staff rejects news about deployment of foreign troops. Turkish General Staff said some news stories which claimed that special troops of some foreign countries were deployed along Turkey's border with Syria were baseless. ...

Erdogan said carrying equipment belonging to defense industry by passenger planes was forbidden in accordance with civil aviation rules. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Syrian plane intercepted on its way from ...

U.S. spokesperson said United States strongly supported Turkey's decision to inspect Syrian-bound plane. U.S. spokesperson said United States strongly supported Turkey's decision to inspect a Syrian-bound plane. Replying to question on the ...

It would be a mistake to write off threats of war against Syria from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as mere bluster, assuming that Turkey will maintain the status ...

On a recent Monday, Khatab, a 28-year-old former factory worker, sipped bitter coffee, leaned against an unpainted wall of a small house in the northern Syrian province of Idlib, and ...

  Turkish fighter jets forced a Syrian passenger plane to land in Ankara on Wednesday amid suspicions that it may have been carrying arms, exacerbating already high tensions with Syria ...

Late last month in Aleppo, Syria, civilians who have cell phone subscriptions received a foreboding text message in Arabic: "Game over." Those on prepaid phones -- including many opposition fighters ...

Turkish Chief of General Staff Gen. Necdet Özel on Wednesday vowed to give a “harsher response” to Syria if shelling from the neighboring country continues to spill over the border, ...