- Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been sworn in for a third term as president, promising to serve "impartially" after winning a runoff election. "As president, I swear upon my honor and integrity, before the great Turkish nation ... to work with all my power to protect the existence and independence...
NATO chief to visit Ankara in ‘near future’ to push Sweden membership
Turkey and Hungary are the only NATO countries that have yet to ratify Sweden's membership bid. Erdogan, who was re-elected Sunday for another five-year term as Turkey's president, has accused Sweden of being a haven for "terrorists", especially members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).Two killed in Iraqi Kurdistan in strikes blamed on Turkey
The PKK, which Ankara and its Western allies classify as a "terrorist" organisation, operates rear bases in Iraq's north. Since 1984 the PKK has waged an insurgency in Turkey that has claimed tens of thousands of lives, and Ankara has long maintained military positions inside northern Iraq where it regularly...Iraq PM to hold talks with Turkey on water, Kurd rebels
BAGHDAD, IRAQ - Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani will visit Turkey on Tuesday for talks including on scarce water resources and the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a government source said. Sudani is set to meet Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his first visit to Iraq's northern neighbor since...‘Turkish drone kills 3 PKK-backed fighters in Iraq’
A Turkish drone attack in northern Iraq killed three fighters from the Yazidi community affiliated with the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Iraqi Kurdish officials said. "A drone from the Turkish army targeted a vehicle", killing an officer and two combatants from the Yazidi Sinjar Resistance Units, a Kurdistan region's...Erdogan aide blames Paris street violence after shooting on Kurd militant group
Ankara has been feuding with the US and European powers about their support for Kurdish fighters in the People's Protection Units (YPG), which it portrays as the Syrian offshoot of the PKK.







