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ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey sent two firefighting aircraft Saturday to help battle wildfires in neighboring Syria as Turkish ...
A new wildfire has erupted in Greece prompting evacuations, while firefighters in Turkey pressed ahead with efforts to ...
The longtime enemies have opened contacts, reflecting a power shift across a Middle East in which they have newfound common ...
While Erdogan is doing everything to delegitimize Israel, any agreement between Israel and Syria "also undermines Turkey’s ...
"Turkey and Syria need all the help they can get," said Mark Lowcock, Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development and former U.N. relief chief.
What Turkey and Syria want. From Erdogan's side, Unluhisarcikli said, the attempt to engage is likely driven in part by the increasing anti-Syrian sentiment in Turkey.
Turkey then shifted policy in Syria, pushing the mostly Arab Syrian rebels to fight the Kurds. This culminated in Turkey’s invasion of Afrin and the expulsion of 150,000 Kurds in 2018.
Turkey has captured a Syrian Arab woman who Turkish authorities said confessed to the bombing. Erdogan has faced accusations of showing sympathy for radical Islamists operating in northern Syria.
Turkey plans to resettle two million Syrians in a 30-kilometer-wide (18.6 miles) safe zone to be set up in Syria, stretching from the Euphrates River to the Iraqi border, including Manbij ...
However, the talks fizzled, and Syrian officials publicly continued to blast Turkey’s presence in northwest Syria.Assad said in an interview with Sky News Arabia last August that the objective ...
This was a threat that Turkey had not calculated when it launched its high-risk Syria policy back in 2011, Ozkan adds. Analysts say that Turkey believed that the Arab dictators whom protesters ...
A photo taken from the Turkish side of the border between Turkey and Syria, shows smoke billows from a fire in Ras al-Ayn, Syria, Oct. 18, 2019. Lefteris Pitarakis/AP.