Alwaght - Turkey and Saudi Arabia are both influential powers in the region. The rise of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey nearly two decades ago weakened Ankara-Riyadh cooperation and now their ties are moving to critical levels. At times, the two regional actors tried to calm the tensions by an emphasis on the shared interests, including ...

Al-Monitor - Given that Saudi Arabia is Irans main regional rival, Iranian censors have allowed the Iranian media to extensively cover the disappearance and possible murder of The Washington Post columnist and Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Turkey. In addition to daily headlines about the missing journalist, the ...

Press TV - An advisor to Turkeys president has vowed that the country will prosecute all those involved in the suspected kidnapping or murder of a dissident Saudi journalist in Riyadhs consulate in Istanbul, even if it involves the Saudi consul himself. Yasin Aktay made the comments to the Palestinian Shehab news agency on Tuesday, adding,Turkey ...

Alwaght- The reverberations of the Astana talks on restoring peace in Syria continue to be felt across the West Asia region with tensions reported between Saudi Arabia and Turkey. The two-day international meeting on the Syrian settlement ended in the capital of Kazakhstan on January 24 with the participation of a number of delegations, including ...