Turkey

ANKARA, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Turkish security forces captured one of the senior executives of the Islamic State (IS), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said late Thursday.

Turkish police and intelligence captured Bashar Hattab Ghazal al Sumaidai, code-named Abu Zeyd and Master Zeyd, the semi-official Anadolu Agency reported.

08 Sep 2022; MEMO: A pro-Kurdish party set to play a key role in Turkish elections next year said it is open to talks with other opposition parties on finding a joint candidate who could end President Tayyip Erdogan's two decades in power, Reuters reports.

ISTANBUL, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday he wanted grain from Russia to be exported too, adding Vladimir Putin was right to complain that grain from Ukraine under a U.N.-backed deal was going to wealthy rather than poor countries.

The grain-export agreement aimed to avert a global food crisis by guaranteeing the safe passage of ships in and out of Ukrainian ports, allowing them to export tens of millions of tonnes of grain that had been blockaded by Russia's invasion.

07 Sep 2022; MEMO: Turkiye, on Wednesday, "completely rejected" the "baseless" claims and decisions adopted in Tuesday's Arab League foreign ministers meeting, Anadolu News Agency reports.

ISTANBUL, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Russia is cutting natural gas flows to Europe in retaliation for sanctions, adding that Europe is "reaping what it sowed".

Fears in Europe have increased over a potentially bleak winter after Russia announced it was keeping its main gas pipeline to Germany shut.

05 Sep 2022; MEMO: A Turkish military helicopter crashed in northern Iraq, the National Defence Ministry said early on Monday, Anadolu News Agency reports.

Seven of the eight personnel on board were rescued, while a search operation is under way for the remaining individual, the Ministry said in a statement.

The Sikorsky helicopter was on a supply mission and had to make a hard landing in the Operation Claw-Lock region due to "technical reasons", the statement added.

03 September 2022; MEMO: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared on Friday that "without Türkiye, NATO is weak," Turkish media reported.

As Erdogan spoke to journalists following Friday prayer in Istanbul, he commented on NATO's removal of a tweet about Turkish Victory Day (marked on 30 August) following a Greek complaint.

"Greece's negative approach to NATO [in relation to Türkiye] does not weaken Türkiye-NATO relations," Erdogan remarked.

ANKARA, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a warning against Greece on Saturday over what Ankara calls recent "harassment" of Turkish fighter jets in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean.

"Hey Greek, look at history. Go back to history. If you go too far, it will cost a lot. We have only one sentence for Greece, don't forget Izmir," Erdogan said at the aerospace and technology festival Teknofest in the Black Sea province of Samsun.

01 September 2022; MEMO: The number of countries where Turkish fighter drone Bayraktar TB2 is being exported to has risen to 24, Anadolu News Agency reports.

Haluk Bayraktar, CEO of Baykar, the drone manufacturer, told Anadolu Agency the share of exports in the company's revenue for this year has reached 98 per cent.

31 August 2022; MEMO: Greek air missile system locked on its fighter jets flying in international airspace over the Aegean Sea is an act against NATO, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during his 30th of August Victory Speech, local media reports.