The Swedish government permitted a Quran-burning protest that took place in Sweden on Wednesday, a move that angered Turkey and made it less likely that Ankara will approve Stockholm's NATO membership before the Vilnius summit in July. Swedish police said the approval...
The US ambassador to Turkey expects Sweden to become a NATO member by the Vilnius summit that will be held this July despite recent comments from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "We hope Sweden can become a member of NATO soon," Ambassador Jeffry...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that Sweden should not expect Ankara's approval to join NATO at the alliance's upcoming summit that will be held in Vilnius this July. Erdogan said the Swedish government must do more to curb anti-Turkish protests....
Sweden on Monday approved the extradition of a man to Turkey who has previously expressed support for the PKK, a Kurdish militant group Turkey, the US, and the EU consider a terrorist organization. Turkey has refused to approve Sweden's NATO bid over the Nordic...
The Turkish and Syrian foreign ministers will hold their first meeting in more than a decade on Wednesday in Moscow as more and more countries are taking steps to normalize with Damascus. The meeting will also be attended by the foreign ministers of Russia and Iran...
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Turkey has rejected a US request for Ankara to provide Kyiv with Russian-made S-400 missile defense systems it purchased from Moscow in 2017. Cavusoglu said the US proposal violated Turkey's sovereignty and suggested...
A Turkish official has said the condition for a Turkish withdrawal from Syria is the end of the "YPG threat" in the country, referring to the primary military component of the SDF, the Kurdish-led group that is backed by the US. The comments came after Syrian and...
The Syrian Defense Ministry said Tuesday that the issue of withdrawing Turkish troops from northern Syria was discussed during talks in Moscow between the defense ministers and intelligence chiefs of Syria, Turkey, Russia, and Iran. The talks are part of a Russian...
Russia will host a meeting of intelligence and defense chiefs from Turkey, Syria, and Iran on Tuesday as part of an effort to work toward the normalization of relations between Ankara and Damascus. Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar announced the planned meeting...
The State Department on Monday approved a $259 million arms sale to Turkey that would upgrade the country's F-16 fighter jets, a step that comes about two weeks after Ankara approved Finland's NATO membership. According to the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation...
