Turkey

22 October 2022; MEMO: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has stated that his country cannot accept US threats to Saudi Arabia after the OPEC+ decision to reduce oil production.

In a statement reported by Turkiye's Anadolu Agency, Cavusoglu announced: "We are seeing that a country is threatening Saudi Arabia, and this bullying is not correct."

ISTANBUL, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Sweden has taken "concrete action" to address Turkey's concerns over its NATO membership bid, including stepping up counter-terrorism efforts against Kurdish militants, Stockholm told Ankara in a letter dated Oct. 6 and seen by Reuters.

The two-page letter gives 14 examples of steps taken by Sweden to show it "is fully committed to the implementation" of a memorandum it signed with Turkey and Finland in June, which resulted in NATO member Turkey lifting its veto of their applications to the trans-Atlantic security alliance.

ANKARA, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- Türkiye rejected Thursday the claim by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) that the Turkish armed forces used chemical weapons in its recent operations in northern Iraq.

The Turkish Defense Ministry said in a statement that the allegations that chemical weapons are used by the Turkish armed forces are periodically brought to the agenda by circles who want to tarnish Türkiye's fight against terrorism,

ANKARA, October 19. /TASS/: Turkey will create an international hub from which Russian gas can be supplied to Europe, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday.

Erdogan was speaking in parliament at a meeting of the faction of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) headed by him.

ANKARA, Oct 18 (NNN-Xinhua) — Two Spanish tourists were killed and three others injured on Tuesday in a hot air balloon accident in Türkiye’s popular tourist destination Cappadocia, local authorities said.

The balloon belonging to a private company took off from the Zelve Ruins of Avanos district in Nevsehir province and made a hard landing in the Killik region due to unexpected wind, the office of the provincial governor said in a statement.

ANKARA, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Turkish police detained 543 people on Tuesday in an operation across 59 provinces for their suspected links to a network accused by the government of orchestrating a coup in 2016, a minister said.

The eight-month-long investigation aimed at deciphering the structure, recruitment process of new personnel and financial resources of the Gulen movement, which the Turkish government accuses of infiltrating into the state bureaucracy and attempting the coup, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said at a press conference.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey and Greece on Monday exchanged more mutual recrimination over 92 migrants who were found stripped naked by Greek authorities at the two countries’ joint border, a day after the United Nations called for an investigation into the incident.

16 October 2022; MEMO: Russia and Ukraine are yet to agree on an extension of the landmark deal to allow the export of grain from Black Sea ports, amid negotiations over the altering of some aspects of it.

In an interview in Istanbul yesterday, the UN coordinator for the Black Sea Grain Initiative, Amir Abdulla, revealed that Moscow and Kyiv are seeking to change some terms of the Turkish and UN-brokered agreement in order to extend it beyond its 19 November deadline.

17 October 2022; MEMO: Turkiye's exports to the Middle East and Gulf countries have increased by 24.8 per cent this year to date, with an estimated value of $24.7 billion, Anadolu has reported. Data was cited from the Turkish Exporters' Assembly.

Iraq imported goods from Turkiye valued at $7.5bn, followed by Israel with $5.1bn and the United Arab Emirates with $2.5bn, explained the same source.

ANKARA, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Five prosecutors were appointed to investigate an underground coal mine explosion that killed 41 workers in northern Türkiye, the country's Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said Sunday.

"I would like to express clearly to the public that this incident will be investigated and clarified in all its aspects. No matter how many questions there are, they will all be answered," he said.