Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said Turkey and Russia would jointly produce S-500 defense systems after Ankara’s controversial purchase of the S-400 missile defense system from Moscow.
Afghan entrepreneurs are finding increasing success in Turkey, taking advantage of their considerable know-how and the country’s simplified procedures for refugees setting up new businesses, Agence France-Presse reported on Sunday.
EU countries previously introduced the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX) in order to bypass US sanctions against Tehran and protect the European companies against the secondary sanctions.
About 100 Turkish servicemen will be sent to Russia in late May to learn how to operate the S-400 air defense systems that Ankara is buying from Moscow, a senior military source in Ankara told Sputnik Tuesday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party has suffered heavy losses in nationwide local elections, a sign that rising levels of unemployment and the backlash from last year's currency crisis are starting to take their toll on his years-long domination over Turkey's politics.
Turkey says it will honor the deal to purchase S-400 defense systems from Russia after US senators threatened to ban the transfer of F-35 fighter jets if Ankara goes ahead with the plan.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged grief-stricken New Zealand to restore capital punishment for the mass murderer who shot dead scores of people in the Pacific Ocean country last week, vowing that Ankara would make the assailant “pay” for his “heinous” crime if Wellington did not.
Russian special presidential envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov will hold a meeting with US special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad in Ankara on February 22, TASS reported.
Representatives from Russia and the United States will meet in Ankara to carry out a new conversation round about the peace process in Afghanistan, said here Russian diplomatic sources Tuesday.
The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA), Turkey's leading development aid agency, delivered food aid to 1,000 families in Afghanistan over the past week.
Some 168 Afghan women cadets are currently being trained in the Police Vocational Education Center in Central Anatolian province of Sivas as part of a memorandum signed between Turkey and Afghanistan regarding the training and capacity enhancement of the Afghan National Police.
Turkish Foreign Ministry on Tuesday "strongly" condemned a terror attack that was perpetrated in the Maidan Wardak province of Afghanistan earlier on Monday.
