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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China said on Friday it would take “reciprocal measures” against the United States after Washington imposed sanctions on senior Chinese officials over alleged human rights abuses against the Uighur Muslim minority. Beijing ...
ANKARA, TURKEY — Turkey on Friday accused the United States of becoming a “safe harbour” for members of a network that it blames for a coup attempt in 2016, after Washington criticized the conviction of ...
(AFP) The US Congress voted Tuesday to lift a decades-old arms embargo on Cyprus, defying Turkey by seeking warmer ties at a time of renewed tensions. The Senate approved the measure as part of a ...
(Reuters) – Turkey’s lira declined more than 0.5% on Tuesday to its weakest level in two months, as concern over relations with the United States lingered and a lower real yield on the currency lessened ...
Europeans could still keep Libya a multilateral affair, if they can bring France onto a shared platform – and deploy newfound unity to draw American influence back in. Last week, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan grabbed ...
An in-depth conversation on Washington’s misguided tendency to view Turkey through binary lenses based entirely on Erdogan’s policies, forgetting the country’s strong political diversity. Reilly Barry, editor-in-chief of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Journal of Middle Eastern ...
Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers were wary about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to the White House on Wednesday, calling the timing of the meeting, just one month after Ankara invaded northeastern Syria, “inappropriate.” President ...
Trump’s decision to abandon Kurdish allies in Syria wasn’t the first time their invisible nation’s dreams of independence have been dashed – and they’re worried it won’t be the last. Mark MacKinnon returns to Kurdish ...
MANHATTAN (CN) – Some five years ago, Turkey’s soft power suddenly swelled in the United States as the country’s lobbyists and pro-government charities received millions in newfound funding. That was the same year that leaked ...
Could this bring stability to the region? The Assad regime’s presence has led to chaos in Syria. Assad not only brought civil war but allowed Iran to use Syrian territory to bolster its influence. If ...