Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara has been in talks with Tehran about its strikes on PKK positions in Iraq’s Qandil mountains. Erdogan said on Saturday that he had discussed the issue with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and that the two agreed to maintain regional security, Reuters reported. He made the remarks after Turkish […]

Casualties were reported after a passenger train derailed in Zhambyl, a region of Kazakhstan, the spokesperson of the country’s emergency services told Sputnik. One teenager is dead and at least three adult passengers have been injured after a train derailed in Kazakhstan’s region of Zhambyl. The train was going from the country’s capital Astana to […]

Turkish nationals residing in Iran went to polling stations devised in Iran to cast their votes to take part in presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday. Turks living in Iran have turned out at polling stations in Tehran, Tabriz, and Urmia to cast their votes in presidential and parliamentary elections on Saturday. Since 9:00 a.m. […]

Tom Donilon, a former Obama national security adviser, has said that U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy move in pulling out of the 2015 nuclear deal as the “worst mistake” since the war in Iraq. “I think the pulling out of the Iran agreement is the worst mistake the United States has made in the […]

European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Tuesday that the European Union will continue supporting the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. In her speech at the European Parliament, she said that the EU will continue supporting the JCPOA on the simple pragmatic reason “there is no better […]

 In a speech at the Iranian Foreign Ministry Institute for Political and International Studies in November 2013, former German Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Joschka Fischer said the United States is the only power which can guarantee a certain order in the world. But that view has proven quite opposite with Donald Trump at the […]

The European Union is taking steps to protect EU companies investing in Iran from renewed U.S. sanctions on Tehran after U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal. According to an article published by New Europe weekly on Monday, the European Commission said it has adopted an update of the Blocking Statute […]

A suicide bomber killed 12 people and wounded more than 30 on Monday at the entrance to Afghanistan’s rural rehabilitation and development ministry in the west of Kabul, government spokesmen said. No group immediately claimed responsibility. “Woman, children and employees of the (rehabilitation) ministry are among the victims,” Najib Danish, spokesman for the interior ministry, […]

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed the announcement of a three-day partial ceasefire during the Eid al-Fitr holiday. This follows the recent announcement by the Afghan Government that it would begin a seven-day ceasefire on 12 June, the 27th day of Ramadan, and run to Eid al-Fitr. Guterres urged all parties concerned “to seize […]

Turkey and the US seem to have finally agreed on how to solve the Manbij puzzle in Syria, which has been poisoning relations like an open wound for almost two years.  A long-awaited summit between Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week in Washington sealed a road map, which represents […]