Turkish police officers wearing masks and visors wait for passengers at the passport control, at Antalya International airport in Antalya in southern Turkey on June 19, 2020. (Ozan Kose/AFP via Getty Images) ISTANBUL—Turkey’s health minister says the country has identified 15 people who carry a highly contagious coronavirus variant that was discovered in the United […]

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BRUSSELS—European Union foreign ministers evaluated grounds on Monday for sanctions against Turkey over a Mediterranean gas dispute before the bloc’s leaders decide at a summit on Dec. 10-11 whether to make good on their threat to impose punitive measures. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said his country would not “bow down to threats and blackmail” but […]

JERUSALEM — Since its founding, Israel has seen itself as a modern-day Sparta, a tiny fortress nation-state in a hostile desert, whose survival depended on its internal cohesion and sheer military strength. All around it were Arab and Muslim enemies who denounced the Jewish state as a colonizing interloper, an outpost of foreign intruders who […]

An Ontario woman is facing two counts of terrorism charges, including attempting to join ISIS, after she was arrested by the RCMP on Wednesday following a lengthy investigation. Haleema Mustafa, 22, from Markham, has been charged with “participation in activities of a terrorist group and leaving Canada to participate in activities of a terrorist group,” […]

ANKARA, Turkey—A fire broke out on Saturday at an intensive care unit treating COVID-19 patients in southern Turkey after an oxygen cylinder exploded, killing nine people, the health minister said. The state-run Anadolu news agency said the fire took place at the privately-run Sanko University Hospital unit in Gaziantep, 530 miles (850 kilometers) southeast of […]

IZMIR, Turkey—Rescue workers extricated a 70-year-old man from a collapsed building in western Turkey on Sunday, some 34 hours after a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea struck Turkey and Greece, killing at least 53 people and injuring more than 900. It was the latest series of remarkable rescues after the Friday afternoon earthquake, which […]

ATHENS—Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday the return of Turkish survey vessel Oruc Reis back to its southern province of Atntalya was a positive first step to ease tensions with Turkey over offshore natural resources. “The return of Oruc Reis is a positive first step, I hope there will be continuity. We want […]

BRUSSELS—The festering dispute between France and Turkey over a naval standoff in the Mediterranean Sea has revealed NATO’s struggle to keep order among its ranks and exposed weaknesses in a military alliance that can only take action by consensus. The dispute has also spotlighted NATO’s limits when its allies are or are perceived to be […]

The Trump administration on Monday imposed sanctions on its NATO ally Turkey over its purchase of a Russian missile defense system. The sanctions were imposed in response to a significant procurement of Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile systems and “include a ban on all U.S. export licenses and authorizations to SSB,” U.S. State Secretary Mike Pompeo said […]

October 23, 2020 The U.S. Embassy in Turkey on Friday issued a warning that there could be potential terrorist attacks against American citizens and other foreign nationals in the capital city of Ankara, telling them to take precautionary measures. “The U.S. Mission in Turkey has received credible reports of potential terrorist attacks and kidnappings against U.S. […]

PARIS—French President Emmanuel Macron urged fellow European leaders Thursday to stand up to the Turkish government and what he called “unacceptable” provocations as Turkey seeks to expand its energy resources and influence in the eastern Mediterranean. Leaders of European Union countries that border the Mediterranean Sea were holding an emergency summit in Corsica amid fears […]

People wearing protective face masks against the spread of coronavirus, walk at the Eminonu market in Istanbul as it reopens, Monday, June 1, 2020, following weeks of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 10:18 AM PT — Monday, June 1, 2020 Turkey is easing its lockdown restriction’s in an effort […]

Anti-government demonstrations once again took place in Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, on Friday demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan after Azerbaijan held a victory parade to celebrate its seizure of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. While Nagorno-Karabakh is technically part of Azerbaijan, the vast majority of its population is ethnically Armenian and Baku and had […]

On Monday, the United States and Greece issued a joint statement calling for a peaceful solution to the ongoing dispute in the Eastern Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey, according to POLITICO. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is visiting Greece for the second time this year, released a joint statement saying that the U.S. […]

ATHENS—Greece will be bolstering its military with new armament programs, a boost to military personnel and the development of the country’s defense industry, the government spokesman said Monday, as a tense stand-off with neighboring Turkey has led to concerns of open conflict between the two NATO allies. Ankara is currently facing off against Greece and […]