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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Saturday Türkiye would resume operations against the bloody-minded PKK terror group if the process of disarmament is stalled or promises are not kept. Erdoğan was speaking at an event in Istanbul on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that his relations with the United States can still be repaired, after President Donald Trump shouted at him in an angry White House meltdown accusing the Ukrainian leader of refusing to make peace with Russia. “Of course,” Zelensky said when asked in a Fox News interview if the relationship with Trump could be salvaged. US-Ukrainian ties are about “more than two presidents,” he said, adding that Ukraine badly needs Washington’s help in the fight against Russia’s far bigger and better-armed military. “It will be difficult without your support,” Zelensky said on Fox — Trump’s favorite news…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday said that terrorist ringleader Abdullah Öcalan’s appeal for the bloody-minded PKK terror group to disband and disarm was a “historic opportunity”. “We have a historic opportunity to advance towards the objective of destroying the wall of terror”, Erdoğan said in a statement while referring to the jailed PKK founder Öcalan’s call. The PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organisation by Ankara and its western allies, has led a decades-long armed campaign against the Turkish state. On Thursday, Öcalan said “all groups must lay down their arms and the PKK must dissolve itself”…
As part of efforts to normalize relations between Washington and Moscow, a Russian delegation arrived at the US Consulate General residence in Istanbul for a meeting to discuss operation of their respective embassies. The Russian delegation reached the residence in Istanbul at 09.50 a.m. local time (0650 GMT). Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Turkish Foreign Ministry sources had confirmed on Wednesday that the meeting would take place. “We announced that our diplomats and high-level experts would meet and consider the systemic problems that had accumulated as a result of the illegal activities of the previous (US) administration to create…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said that “not everyone is pleased” with the recent Russia-US contacts aimed at normalization of ties, claiming that there are attempts by “Western elites” to disrupt the process. Speaking at the headquarters of the Russian Federal Security Service in Moscow on the occasion of the Special Operations Forces Day, Putin praised the approach of US President Donald Trump’s administration on global affairs, saying: “The current US partners demonstrate pragmatism and a realistic approach, moving beyond stereotypes.” The Russian leader said that Moscow is ready for peace talks on the Ukrainian settlement as well as…
Iraq’s Kurdistan regional president Nechirvan Barzani on Thursday welcomed jailed PKK founder Abdullah Öcalan’s call for the bloody-minded terrorist group to lay down its weapons and dissolve. “We warmly welcome Öcalan’s message… and we call on the PKK to adhere to and implement this message,” Barzani said on X. “We in the Kurdistan region fully support the peace process,” he added, offering his support to ensure its success.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Thursday rejected US President Donald Trump’s remark that the European Union “was formed in order to screw the United States”. Trump threatened to slap 25-percent tariffs on goods imported from the EU as frictions soared between Washington and its European allies. “Look, let’s be honest, the European Union was formed in order to screw the United States,” Trump told reporters in Washington on Wednesday. “That’s the purpose of it, and they’ve done a good job of it,” he added. But Tusk, a former European Council chief, has rebutted Trump’s words, saying on X: “The…
Beyaz Saray, Perşembe günü hapisteki elebaşı Abdullah Öcalan’ın kanlı PKK terör örgütünün silah bırakması çağrısını memnuniyetle karşıladı. Beyaz Saray Ulusal Güvenlik Konseyi sözcüsü Brian Hughes, “Bu önemli bir gelişme ve umarız Türk müttefiklerimizin kuzeydoğu Suriye’deki ABD’nin Daeş karşıtı ortakları hakkındaki endişelerini gidermeye yardımcı olur. Bunun bölgeye barış getirmesine yardımcı olacağına inanıyoruz” dedi.
A group of Andalusian Muslims who set out on a pilgrimage journey from Spain on horseback, aiming to reach Mecca by following an 8,000-kilometer route, have arrived in Istanbul. The Hajj pilgrims—Abdellah Hernandez Mancha, Abdelqader Harkassi Aidi, Bouchaib Jadil, and Tarek Rodriguez Fernandez—shared their journey experiences with students at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, where they were hosted. Abdellah Hernandez Mancha, a geography professor in Spain, said: “After traveling 4,000 kilometers and passing through several European countries, we have arrived in Istanbul. We embarked on this journey with faith. I made this promise in 1984, and now I am fulfilling it.…
A defiant threat by Elon Musk warning that federal employees will be given “a second chance” to respond to his email asking them to justify their jobs or risk termination is likely to spark another round of confusion across the U.S. government on Tuesday. Musk’s warning came after Trump administration officials told federal workers they did not have to respond to his weekend email that demanded they summarize their accomplishments of the past week. Failure to reply would be considered a resignation, Musk said. But while some federal agencies such as the U.S. Treasury Department told their workers to comply…