Tag: Turkey

• Monday, May 16th 2022 - 09:22 UTC

  Turkey conditions Finland and Sweden NATO memberships: “they harbor terrorists”

  

  Finland and Sweden allegedly are determined to become full members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, dropping decades of full or observant neutrality regarding the powerful neighbor Russia and its current leader Vladimir Putin.

• Monday, May 2nd 2022 - 09:23 UTC

  Turkey entices Latin American leaders to get Putin, Zelensky to discuss end to war

  

  Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu insisted over the weekend that the Government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was conducting a series of efforts to organize a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.

• Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Turkish FM signs bilateral agreements on his Caracas visit

  

  Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu Friday signed in Caracas a series of agreements between his country and Venezuela in areas such as financial economy, agriculture and fishing, tourism, sports, health and medicine, and education, it was announced.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2022 - 20:51 UTC

  Uruguayan opposition demands explanations regarding Turkish FM incident

  

  Uruguay's opposition Broad Front (Frente Amplio) has threatened not to grant their consent to the country's designated ambassador to Turkey following the incident with that country's Foreign Minister, who during the weekend when Armenian demonstrators in Montevideo were met with a gesture belonging to the far-right Grey Wolves group.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  Turkish FM racist and ultra-right-wing gestures in Montevideo sparks controversies

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou described a gesture by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu against Armenian demonstrators in Montevideo Uruguay as “regrettable,” while Ankara's Ambassador has been summoned to account for the events.

• Tuesday, March 1st 2022 - 09:01 UTC

  Turkey prepared to limit Russian warships transit between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean

  

  Turkey has said that the situation in Ukraine has become a “war”, a declaration that authorized Ankara to activate the Montreux Convention which limits Russian war vessels from entering the Black Sea, through the strategic straits of the Bosporus and Dardanelle which link with the Mediterranean.

• Thursday, December 23rd 2021 - 09:48 UTC

  Uruguay's President admits FTA with Turkey under consideration

  

  Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou Wednesday admitted his country was after one-on-one trade deals with countries other than China and singled out Turkey was a target. Regarding a possible agreement with the United States, Lacalle said it would be a childhood dream come true.

• Wednesday, December 22nd 2021 - 22:59 UTC

  Leaders of Venezuela, Turkey reaffirm mutual cooperation

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Tuesday said he had discussed in a telephone conversation a series of bilateral issues with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

• Wednesday, November 17th 2021 - 08:02 UTC

  Yet another suspect arrested in Haitian President's murder case

  

  Turkish authorities have arrested businessman Samir Handal in connection with the July 7 assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse at his Port-au-Prince residence, it was announced.

• Wednesday, November 3rd 2021 - 19:20 UTC

  Paraguay-Turkey chamber of commerce not far off

  

  Paraguayan and Turkish authorities met Tuesday in Asunción to discuss the creation of a binational Chamber of Commerce, in light of the increasing volumes of trade between the two countries over the pàst few years, it was reported.