[caption id="attachment_152767" align="alignright" width="199"] Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc[/caption] Turkey has hit outat the UKfor being "too late to inform" Turkish authorities about three British schoolgirls who left London for Istanbul apparentlyto join the ISIL militants in Syria. Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and ...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has justified the downing of a Syrian helicopter by military, describing it as necessary. "The Turkish Armed Forces did what's necessary," Erdogan told a press conference on Tuesday, defending the military's downing of the helicopter. He went on to say that the Turkish government has briefed the army ...

The Syrian army has confirmed that Turkish warplanes have shot down a Syrian military helicopter. Early on Tuesday, the army said in a televised statement that the helicopter was "targeted directly by Turkish warplanes." The statement further described Turkeys move in downing the helicopter as hasty", adding that Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's ...

Turkeys deputy prime minister says Turkish warplanes have shot down a Syrian military helicopter after violating the countrys airspace. A Syrian MI-17 helicopter was downed over the southern province of Hatay after it strayed two kilometers into Turkish airspace, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc told reporters on Monday. Arinc said there was ...

The reason for the deadlock in compensation talks between Turkey and Israel is the latters insistency in redressing the damages of the Mavi Marmara victims as an ex gratia payment and not as a result of its wrongful act, a senior Turkish government official has said. In our first meeting [the Israelis] showed no opposition to this. But in the second ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has reiterated Ankaras opposition to the establishment of an autonomous Syrian Kurdish region, calling it unacceptable. "As we have stressed many times before, Turkey does not accept any formation of a de facto [autonomous] region or the cutting of ties with other regions [in the country] until an elected Syrian ...