As war of words continue with Russia and now Iran, NATO warships seen in Sarayburnu, Bosphorus…

Rus askerlerden boğazda provokasyon
While a Russian warship was passing through Bosphorus, a Russian soldier is allegedly holding a ground to air missile, thus provoking Turks says Milliyet. Today the same daily states that NATO ships are waiting in Bosphorus, this has become a Trending Topic in Twitter, I could not verify and could not get any news in English yet…
A planned gas pipeline project to link Russia and Turkey, dubbed the ‘Turkish Stream,’ has been shelved by Turkey because its demands have not been not met, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says
Credit ratings agency Moody’s affirmed Turkey’s “Baa3” government debt and issuer ratings early on Dec. 5
Senior Turkish and Iranian officials have engaged in a war of words over Syria, with each accusing each other of lending support to terrorist organizations in a row that parallels Ankara’s ongoing tension with Moscow
Turkey detains 3,000 refugees after EU deal

Detainees, mainly from Syria and Iraq, were preparing to travel to Greek island of Lesbos from north-western town of Ayvacik

Iraq orders Turkey to ‘immediately’ withdraw troops sent across border

Prime minister’s office says the deployment of an armoured regiment ‘is considered a serious violation of Iraqi sovereignty’

 

Turkish counter-terrorism units have revealed that militants of ISIL prepared suicide bomb vests and other materials in a depot in the southeastern province of Gaziantep for use in the double suicide bomb attack that killed 102 people in Ankara on Oct. 10

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