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30 June 2025
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Türkiye and the Levant
Stories under this heading cover Türkiye as well as the Levant – a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of Western Asia, consisting of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Palestine.
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Ten people were killed when Israel attacked an aid centre in Gaza
30 June 2025
According to the news channel Al Jazeera and the Palestinian news agency Wafa, at least ten Palestinians who were desperately seeking aid from a controversial and heavily criticised United States–backed organisation have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza over the last 48 hours, according to the besieged enclave’s Government Media Office.
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Commentary: Sharing Turkey's pain
3 January 2017
Turkey is a great country, and its people industrious and creative, and it will recover. But in the meantime the world needs to show solidarity, support and friendship. The lowering of the flags of NATO countries to half mast at NATO headquarters in Brussels (photo) symbollically expressed the shared pain.
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For the South Caucasus countries, risks from external factors will be higher in 2017
31 December 2016
In 2017 Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia will have to navigate through an even more challenging and complicated regional and international context, and with heightened risks
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World Bank approves US$800 million funding for TANAP
21 December 2016
The project will transport natural gas from a gas field in Azerbaijan to and across Turkey, and further to Europe, aiming to diversify Azerbaijan's gas export markets and improve the security of the energy supply in Turkey and South Eastern Europe.
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Russian Ambassador shot in Ankara
20 December 2016
The Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov,was shot by a gun while making a speech at a painting exhibition in the Turkish capital, the Russian embassy in Ankara told Hurriyet Daily news, adding that it believed that it was a radical Islamist attack. Private broadcaster CNN Türk said Karlov was in a critical state
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Turkey hit by another terrorist attack
17 December 2016
A car bomb exploded next to a bus carrying soldiers near Erciyes University in the central Anatolian city of Kayseri on Saturday morning. First reports say thirteen soldiers have been killed and forty eight wounded
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Turkey in mourning after deadly terrorist attack in Istanbul
11 December 2016
Turkey mourns the death of more than 38 people in a dual bomb attack in central Istanbul. More than 136 people were also injured. Flags flew at half mast on buildings all over the republic.
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Turkish Foreign Minister in Baku ahead of OSCE Ministerial Meeting
3 December 2016
The Azerbaijani Foreign Minister, Elmar Mammadyarov, told journalists that Cavisoglu had briefed him about the extensive discussions he held recently with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov on Karabakh.
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Turkish Deputy Prime Minister pays rare compliment to EU
11 November 2016
Mehmet Simsek told a meeting of business leaders that Europe is a reference point for Turkey as it moves forward its democratic standards. "We want to improve the rule of law and the quality of our institutions. Europe has advanced standards in this regard", he said.
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Turkey, Russia and Azerbaijan outline ambitious energy agenda.
11 October 2016
The three presidents addressed the 23rd World Energy Congress in Istanbul. Putin and Erdogan later signed the strategic Turkish Stream gas pipeline agreement