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Turkey Celebrates Azeri Victory Against Armenia

Turkey said on Tuesday a deal to end more than a month of fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh had secured important gains for its close ally Azerbaijan in the conflict with Armenia. The agreement, signed by Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, follows six...

Anger Erupts in Armenia as Country Signs “Painful” Deal with Azerbaijan

Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia signed an agreement on Tuesday to end six weeks of fierce fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh in a deal Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan described as “unspeakably painful” in an emotional Facebook post. Under the deal, Azerbaijan will...

Trump’s Turkish Ally Erdogan Stays Mum on Biden Victory

As world leaders, including Greece's Kyriakos Mitsotakis, rushed to congratulate Joe Biden for his victory in the 2020 Presidential elections, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, remained silent. Erdogan, along with the leaders of Russia, Israel, Iran, Hungary, Saudi Arabia and...

Three-Year-Old Girl Pulled Alive From Rubble Days After Deadly Aegean Earthquake

A wounded three-year-old girl was rescued on Monday, days after a powerful magnitude 6.7 earthquake hit Turkey's Aegean coast. Elif Perincek was pulled from debris nearly 65 hours after the quake in the Bayrakli district of western Izmir province. https://twitter.com/DailySabah/status/1323168576602279937 https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1323180293734436864 The earthquake...

More Than 70 Confirmed Dead in Turkey After Aegean Sea Earthquake

The powerful earthquake that hit the Aegean Sea on Friday has killed 76 people in Turkey, the country's disaster agency said Sunday. Two people also died on the Greek island of Samos. Rescue workers continue to search for survivors under...

United States Embassy in Turkey Expresses Sorrow for Loss of Life in Earthquake

On Friday the United States embassy in Ankara issued a Tweet expressing its sorrow for the deaths which occurred as a result of the earthquake in the sea between Samos, Greece and Izmir, Turkey. The Embassy encourages all Americans who...

Archbishop Elpidophoros Sends Message to Quake-Ravaged Greece and Turkey

In a message posted on Friday morning on Twitter, Archbishop Elpidophoros, the leader of all the Greek Orthodox faithful of the Americas, sent his condolences and prayers to all those who hav been impacted by the earthquake that struck...

Erdogan Now Aiming his Guns at Europe

The grisly terrorist attacks in France's cities of Nice and Avignon, which followed the verbal  exchanges between French President Emmanuel Macron and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, show that the latter's threats had an impact on Europe's Islamist...

Seven Dead as Buildings Collapse, Tsunami Hits Turkish Coast After Aegean Earthquake

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter scale struck just under the  Aegean Sea on Friday afternoon, causing a great deal of damage in the Turkish coastal city of Izmir (Smyrna) and the Greek island...

Trump Gave In to Erdogan Over Turkish Bank, Russian Missiles, Reports Say

The close ties between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan are once again in the spotlight a few days before the presidential elections. In two separate reports, The New York Times and Reuters highlight the...