US Vice President Joe Biden to visit Turkey next month US Vice President Joe Biden next month visits Ukraine as well as Turkey, where fighting across the border in the Syrian town of Kobane has sparked tensions with Washington Iraq Kurd fighters leave base for Syria deployment: report More than 150 Kurdish peshmerga fighters left a … Read more
Turkey’s Curious Ballet NYT > Turkey Turkey is to allow Iraqi Kurds cross into Syria to fight Islamic State. US airdrops to Kobane were not wrong, Washington says after Erdoğan criticism Washington does not think the US airdrop of weapons to the Syrian border town of Kobane was wrong, Marie Harf has said PYD not terrorist under US … Read more
Turkey will not cooperate in US support for Kurds in Syria, says Erdogan World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk President calls Syrian Kurdish group a terrorist organisation US launches further air strikes against Isis at Kobani US-led air strikes kill 10 civilians, say monitors Turkey would not agree to any US arms transfers to Kurdish fighters who … Read more
Venezuela Gets Security Council Seat; Turkey Fails NYT > Turkey by By SOMINI SENGUPTA After two rounds of voting at the General Assembly, the five new rotating members will be Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain and Venezuela. Ankara strikes upbeat note despite failure in UN Security Council bid New Zealand and Spain win the seats in the … Read more
PM Erdoğan responds to Egypt by making ?Rabaa? gesture PM Erdoğan flashed the ‘rabaa’ sign at a rally, hours after Egypt expulsed the Turkish envoy Egypt expels Turkish ambassador Egypt tells the Turkish ambassador to leave the country, after Turkey’s prime minister calls for the release of ousted President Mohammed Morsi. Egypt asks Turkish ambassador to … Read more
Death toll from attack on Morsi supporters rises to at least 70: Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian security forces shot dead at least 70 supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi early on July 27, the Muslim Brotherhood said Turkey moves for ?holy alliance? with Kurds, ?non-radical? Syria rebels Fearing another autonomous Kurdish region next to its … Read more