This is Beirut, 2024-12-27 19:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nearly 31,000 Syrians have returned home since the fall of strongman Bashar al-Assad, Turkey's interior minister said Friday, the figure rising by about 5,000 in just three days. "The number of people who went back is 30,663," interior minister Ali Yerlikaya told the TGRT news channel, saying "30 percent" of them had been ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-01 11:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel Tehran Syria Hezbollah Ankara
Iran's top diplomat Abbas Araghchi said Sunday he will leave Tehran for Damascus to deliver a message of support for Syria's government and armed forces, state media said, after a lighting advance by rebels. Araghchi will head afterwards to Ankara for consultations with Turkish officials. Tehran has been a staunch ally of Syrian President Bashar ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-25 09:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
At least 15 Ankara-backed Syrian fighters were killed Sunday after Kurdish-led forces infiltrated their territory in the country's north, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said. Fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which controls swathes of the country's northeast, "infiltrated positions of the Turkish-backed" ...
This is Beirut, 2024-10-23 21:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Turkey Ankara Terrorist Attack Hostages PKK
Turkey's interior minister on Wednesday pointed the finger at the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has waged a decades-long insurgency against the government, over a deadly attack on a defense firm near the capital Ankara. "The identification process and the search for fingerprints are continuing and we will say which terrorist ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-08-08 17:04 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ankara diplomacy Qatar Recep Tayyip Erdogan Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani Turkey
The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, arrived in Ankara on Friday for a working visit, according to a statement issued by the Amiri Diwan of Qatar. The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Emir jointly appealed for greater international efforts to stop the Middle East conflict from escalating. The joint appeal came as the ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-04-01 09:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Ankara Erdogan Turkey turkey election
The Turkish opposition won a historic victory in Sunday's municipal elections, ending two decades of domination by President Erdogan's AKP, with notable successes for the CHP in Istanbul and Ankara. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan conceded defeat on Sunday in the country's local elections, saying the vote was a "turning point" for his ...