The move was announced by Macron’s office late on Saturday. In its statement, Paris indicated that it does not plan to engage in name-calling with the Turkish leadership. “Outrage and insult are not a method,” the office said. The recall was announced shortly after Erdogan directed blistering criticism at the …
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“I strongly condemn the police raid on Mevlana Mosque in Berlin during the morning prayers,” Erdogan said. [The operation] was obviously fed by racism and Islamophobia, which is bringing Europe closer to the darkness of the Middle Ages, and completely ignores the freedom of belief. The Turkish Foreign Ministry previously …
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The surprise decision by the Canadian government – announced by Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne on Monday – “is an indication of the double-standard approach of this country,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. Turkish diplomats also recalled that Ottawa has been less principled when it …
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“There are ties of strategic partnership… and there are also brotherly relations between Turkey and Azerbaijan – but in this conflict Turkey isn’t involved as a third party,” Hajiyev insisted. The participation of Ankara in Baku’s dispute with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh – a mainly Armenian-populated region regarded as part of …
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Speaking on a conference call put together by The Arab Council for Regional Integration, Gantz accused Turkey, a country Israel has a trade relationship with, of helping to destabilize the region and working against peace efforts, including Tel-Aviv’s September deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which was brokered by …
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Ankara has not received any formal requests for assistance from Azerbaijan, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told journalists at a joint press conference with Italy’s top diplomat, Luigi di Maio. Baku is currently locked in an armed standoff with Yerevan following a recently flare-up of a prolonged conflict between the two …
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Turkey’s military command has allegedly been coordinating the Azerbaijani airstrikes against targets in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian defense ministry’s spokeswoman, Shushan Stepanyan, said in a series of Twitter posts on Wednesday. She claimed Turkish officers “directly control” the actions of Azerbaijan’s military aviation from aboard an E-7T early warning and control …
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The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America told AP on Tuesday that it would contact UN rapporteurs and attempt to hold Ankara accountable “for its deliberate policies to erase the cultural heritage of Orthodox Christians.” The Turkish president issued a decree in July converting the Hagia Sophia back into a mosque. …
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Speaking after a visit to the Azerbaijani embassy in Ankara, Çavuşoğlu told the press that the only way the fighting will end is if Yerevan rolls back on the ‘occupation’ of Nagorno-Karabakh. On Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed similar sentiments. “We talked about the aggression of Armenia and …
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However, Yerevan, while calling the F-16s a “Sword of Damocles” hanging over the people of the disputed enclave, said it hopes the situation won’t escalate to that extent. The Armenian ambassador to Russia Vardan Toganyan said on Monday that “all measures, including the Islanders,” were on the table if Ankara deployed the jets. …
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