Section: Turkey
Russia to deploy latest air defence systems in Crimea
The system can track some 300 targets and shoot down around three dozen simultaneously over a range of several hundred kilometres. …read more Source: World...
NATO says no ‘meeting of minds’ with Russia
NATO and Russia failed to overcome deep differences over Ukraine on July 13 in their first talks since the alliance approved a troop boost in Eastern Europe, alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg said …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
Over 3 million cigarette packets seized from vessel in Istanbul
Over 3 million packages of smuggled cigarettes were seized during an operation on a Ukraine-flagged dry cargo vessel passing through Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait on July 14, the largest amount of cigarette packages ever seized on water …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
Turkey to give citizenship to Ahiska Turks
Interior Minister Efkan Ala says ethnic Turks fleeing Ukraine will receive nationality alongside Syrians …read more Source: Anadolu...
2 soldiers dead, 4 injured in eastern Ukraine
Operations in Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine leave 2 soldiers dead and 4 others injured, authorities say …read more Source: Anadolu...
Ukraine, Canada sign ‘milestone’ free trade deal
Canada will continue its support to Ukraine in the face of an assertive Russia …read more Source: World...
Ukrainian soldier killed in clashes
Surge in violence between government forces and separatists in eastern Ukraine continues …read more Source: Anadolu...
3 Ukrainian soldiers killed in 24 hours
16 soldiers also wounded in Donetsk and Luhansk regions …read more Source: World...
NATO to keep pressure on Russia over Ukraine
President Petro Poroshenko will meet with U.S. President Barack Obama and leaders of the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy as part of the NATO-Ukraine Commission. …read more Source: World...
France’s Hollande says Russia a partner, not a ‘threat’
“Russia is a partner which, it is true, may sometimes, and we have seen that in Ukraine, use force which we have condemned when it annexed Crimea,” he added. …read more Source: World...
