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Syrian refugees sit near an informal camp, in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon October 18, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo

Syrian Refugees Cling On in Turkey, Lebanon As Fears Over Coerced Returns Grow

The first Syrian refugees in Lebanon to return home under a new repatriation scheme will leave on Wednesday, but few in worn-down camps in the central Bekaa Valley said they would sign up. Rights…

24 October 2022

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan attends a meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the 6th summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-building Measures in Asia (CICA), in Astana, Kazakhstan October 13, 2022. Sputnik/Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Pool via REUTERS

Turkey's Erdogan Says He Will Meet With Swedish PM Kristersson Discuss Extraditions, NATO Bid

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying on Friday he will meet with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson to discuss the Nordic country's bid to join NATO, as well as the extradition…

21 October 2022

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan talks to media as he visits the coal mine after an explosion in Amasra, in the northern Bartin province, Turkey, October 15, 2022. REUTERS/Cagla Gurdogan

Erdogan Says He Agreed With Putin to Form Natural Gas Hub in Turkey

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that he had agreed with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to form a natural gas hub in Turkey. Speaking to members of his AK Party in…

19 October 2022

Media members report outside the coal mine as search and rescue operation continues after an explosion, in Amasra in the northern Bartin province, Turkey October 15, 2022. REUTERS/Cagla Gurdogan

Turkish Mine Blast Death Toll Rises to 40, One Miner Missing

An explosion in a coal mine in Turkey's northern Bartin province on Friday killed 40 people, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Saturday, adding that search and rescue operations were…

15 October 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands during their meeting on sidelines of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit, in Astana, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin Tempts Turkey, Suggests Making It Europe’s New Gas Hub

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday doubled down on his proposal to turn Turkey into a gas hub for Europe after deliveries to Germany through the Baltic Sea’s Nord Stream pipeline were…

AP 13 October 2022

FILE - Migrants arrive with a dinghy accompanied by a Frontex vessel at the village of Skala Sikaminias, on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey, on Feb. 28, 2020. A much-anticipated report made public Thursday Oct. 13, 2022 by the European Union's anti-fraud watchdog into the alleged involvement of the EU border agency Frontex in the illegal pushbacks of migrants from Greece to Turkey has concluded that agency employees were involved in covering up such incidents in violation of peoples' "fundamental rights." (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas, File)

EU Report: Frontex Covered Up Migrant Pushbacks From Greece

A much-anticipated report by the European Union’s anti-fraud watchdog into the EU border agency Frontex has concluded that Frontex employees were involved in covering up the illegal pushbacks of…

AP 13 October 2022

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, meets with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry at the foreign ministry headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Greek FM in Egypt For Talks After Turkey’s Deals With Libya

Egypt’s and Greece’s foreign ministers met Sunday in Cairo following controversial maritime and gas deals that their shared rival Turkey signed with a Libyan leader, officials said. Cairo and…

AP 09 October 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan shake hands during a meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan September 16, 2022. Sputnik/Alexander Demyanchuk/Pool via REUTERS

Erdogan and Putin Discuss Improving Ties, Ending Ukraine War

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan spoke by phone with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin about improving bilateral ties and he repeated Ankara's willingness to do its part to peacefully resolve the…

07 October 2022

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrives at the Informal EU 27 Summit and Meeting within the European Political Community at Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, October 6, 2022. REUTERS/David W Cerny

Europe's New 44-Nation Club Underlines Russia's Isolation

Leaders of the European Union and neighbors from Britain to Turkey met on Thursday to discuss security and energy emergencies plaguing them all since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a symbolic summit…

07 October 2022

Zekariya Cektir, 75, collects tobacco leaves in a field near Kurudere village, Adiyaman province, southeast Turkey, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. Tobacco growers in southeast Turkey's Celikhan district are feeling the pinch as annual inflation reaches a new 24-year high. Official data released Monday Oct. 3, 2022 shows consumer prices rise 83.45% from a year earlier, further hitting households already facing high energy, food and housing costs. Experts say the real rate of inflation is much higher than official statistics, at an eye-watering 186%. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Record Inflation Squeezes Turkish Tobacco Workers, Owners

Mehmet Emin Calkan begins work harvesting a tobacco field in rural Turkey before dawn, then has another shift skewering and stringing the tobacco to dry under the sun. The 19-year-old, who hopes…

AP 03 October 2022

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