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At least 48 Daesh terrorists were killed in northern Syria over the last 24 hours as part of the ongoing Op-eration Euphrates Shield, according to a Turkish General Staff statement early Monday. Turkish jets conducted air operations against 23 Daesh tar-gets including 10 defensive positions, three headquarters...

The memories of Turkey’s martyrs help give its envoys strength to car-ry out their duties, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told a gathering of Turkish diplomats from...

Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Isik arrived in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Sunday to hold talks with his Sudanese and Qatari coun-terparts. The three defense minis-ters also attended the opening of the Soor factory in Khartoum that will produce military uniforms for Sudanese army. Sudanese Defense Minister Brig. Ahmed Alshami told Anadolu Agency the three ministers will discuss military ties along with regional and international develop-ments.

Turkey has two main expectations of the U.S., focused on two terrorist groups, namely FETO and the Syrian YPG, Foreign Minister Mevlut Ca-vusoglu said Monday. Addressing a gathering of Turkish ambassadors 11 days before the inaugu-ration of a new U.S. president, Cavusoglu said, “We believe the U.S. will not continue making the same mistakes of the recent past.” “We have two

primary expectations,” he continued. “The first is the extradition of FETO leader [Fetullah Gulen] and other [FETO] officials as soon as possible. The second is ending cooperation with the PKK-affili-ated YPG.” He said these expectations carry “vital” importance for bilateral relations. Led by U.S.-based Fetullah Gulen, the Fetullah Terrorist Or-ganization (FETO) is accused of...

Turkish and Greek Cypriot lead-ers gathered at the UN at Geneva on Monday in an attempt to resolve outstanding final issues that could see the island reunified after four decades of division. Turkish Cypriot

President Mustafa Akinci and Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades met for several days of closed-door meetings in Switzerland under the auspices of the UN’s Cyprus envoy, Espen Barth Eide.

A United Nations human rights envoy is visiting Myanmar amid growing international concern over allegations against the military, in-cluding reports of rights abuses in western Rakhine State. Yanghee Lee, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, arrived in the country’s biggest city Yangon

on Sunday evening for a 12-day visit before leaving for northern Kachin State on Monday. In Kachin, Lee is due to visit temporary camps in Myitkyina and Hpakant townships where thousands of people have been displaced by fighting between government troops and ethnic re-bels. She is also...

An academic on a list of “Most Wanted Terrorists” in Turkey for his ties to the group accused of be-ing behind Turkey’s July 2016 failed coup has been named the head of an American university. Serif Ali Teka-lan, a medical school professor, was recently appointed the president

of the Houston, Texas-based North American University, according to a Dec. 19 statement by the university. Tekalan is on the Turkish Interior Ministry’s Most Wanted terrorists list, with a reward of 750,000 Turk-ish liras ($205,829) for information leading to his capture...

FETO terrorist named head of Texas university

Cypriot leaders resume negotiations in Geneva

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ministers meet in Khartoum

48 Daesh terrorists killed in Operation Euphrates Shield

Turkish president praises soldiers’ courage, contributions for fight against Daesh

Memories of martyrs give us strength, FM Cavusoglu says

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a phone call to the Turkish troops in Iraq’s Bashiqa camp on Sunday, praising them for “standing against oppression”. “You have caused great distress for Daesh there [...]. Neutraliz-ing nearly 1,300 Daesh ter-rorists in the Syrian fight has shown the might of the Turkish soldiers,” the presi-dent said, according to pres-idential sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. Turkey has a longstanding military training mission at Camp Bashiqa, where Turk-ish soldiers have trained both Peshmerga fighters and local tribal volunteers in combat techniques. In recent months, the mis-sion’s presence in Mosul

in northern Iraq has led to tension between Bagh-dad and Ankara amid calls by some Iraqi lawmakers for Turkish troops to with-draw. Baghdad stated that its stance on the camp was unchanged and reiterated its call on Turkey to start its military withdrawal pro-cess while Ankara said it re-spects Iraq’s territorial in-tegrity and national unity. In remarks made Saturday in Iraq, Turkish PM Binali Yildirim said: “Your recent statement stating that ‘we will not allow the PKK to threaten Turkey from Ira-qi territories’ is of great importance to us.” About Turkey’s military presence in Iraq’s Bashiqa, Yildirim said: “Turkey is in Bashiqa not arbitrarily...

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Erdogan makes phone call to Turkish troops in Bashiqa