Turkey

Ukraine has reportedly offered to send four minehunter ships currently docked in the United Kingdom to assist with clearing Iranian mines and securing the Strait of Hormuz for international traffic.

The Syrian Army on Thursday took control of the last U.S. military base on Syrian soil, with assurances that Syria’s new government can handle the job of controlling the Islamic State and other terrorist threats.

Brexit is moot because a post-NATO European Union needs as many members as it can get to fight Russia, Zelensky has said. 

Turkish police killed one gunman and injured two others in a firefight outside Israel’s consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday morning with two security officers also left severely wounded.

The Taliban junta in Afghanistan said on Tuesday that at least 400 people were killed and 250 injured by a Pakistani airstrike that hit a 2,000-bed drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in Turkey on Wednesday as part of what his office calls an “annual Ramadan solidarity visit,” where he is joining fasting Muslims while calling for the world to “eradicate the scourge of Islamophobia from every country and community.”

The Turkish government said on Monday that NATO forces intercepted a second Iranian ballistic missile as it entered Turkey’s southern airspace.

Raising a statue to honour one of the most significant victories in the history of Christendom would fuel “hatred” and “anti-Islamic” sentiment, a leftist Vienna councillor has argued.

Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jet crashed near a highway in western Turkey early Wednesday, killing its pilot.

A violent brawl erupted in the Turkish Parliament on Wednesday immediately before the swearing-in of Akın Gürlek as the nation’s new justice minister, the result of opposition lawmakers arguing that Gürlek was an inappropriate choice for the role.

The European Court of Human Rights has formally taken up 20 cases challenging Turkey’s designation of foreign Christians as national security threats, with a legal advocacy group warning that “peaceful worship and participation in church life are not threats to national security.”

The Iranian regime seems to be doing everything possible to derail Friday’s scheduled talks between Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff, including last-minute demands for a change of venue from Turkey to Oman.

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on Tuesday launched one of its F-35C fighters to shoot down an unmanned Iranian aircraft that “aggressively approached” with “unclear intent.”

Former NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom, who the league sidelined after he condemned China’s ongoing genocide in East Turkistan, confirmed to Breitbart News this week that he continues to face persecution from the government of his native Turkey and urged Americans to “speak up and act” against repressors.

Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT, using its Turkish acronym) and local counter-terrorism police launched coordinated raids in five provinces this week, arresting six individuals suspected of spying for Iran.

Turkey’s Competition Authority (RK, to use its Turkish acronym) raided the offices of Chinese online retailer Temu in Istanbul on Wednesday morning, performing a rather aggressive “on-site inspection” for reasons the RK did not make entirely clear.

President Donald Trump discussed the conflict in northeastern Syria with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call on Tuesday.

Turkish Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan published photos on his social media accounts on Tuesday appearing to play basketball with retired NBA star and commentator Shaquille O’Neal in Istanbul.

The U.S. has taken some steps across the Middle East over the past few days that could indicate preparations for an operation against Iran, although they could also be acts of simple prudence or feints.

The semi-autonomous Kurdish government in northeastern Syria on Sunday accused the Syrian Army and its affiliated militias of committing “war crimes” against Kurdish communities in the city of Aleppo.

The Syrian Army on Thursday told residents of Kurdish neighborhoods in the city of Aleppo to evacuate in the face of airstrikes.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a longtime ally of deposed and incarcerated narco-terrorist dictator Nicolás Maduro, is looking for a role in the crisis currently unfolding in Venezuela – and hoping to protect the investments Turkey made with the corrupt socialist regime.

The government of Turkey confirmed that it had arrested 357 people on Tuesday in nationwide operations against Islamic State terrorists suspected of plotting attacks on New Year’s Eve – following a multi-hour operation on Monday that killed three police officers.

Turkey detained over a hundred suspected members of an ISIS group allegedly planning attacks against Christmas and New Year’s celebrations.

Fighting broke out in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Monday between Kurdish fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and security troops loyal to President Ahmed al-Sharaa.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday in Turkmenistan to discuss the war in Ukraine. Their meeting was unexpectedly interrupted by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who demanded an audience with Putin to secure his support against India and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

Pope Leo XIV held prayers at the Armenian Apostolic Cathedral in Istanbul on Sunday in a gesture of support for Christian unity and Christian minorities in Turkey.

Breaking with his predecessors, Pope Leo XIV declined to pray at the Blue Mosque of Istanbul on Saturday as he continued his first international tour as the Bishop of Rome.

Ukraine used domestically produced Sea Baby naval drones to strike two Russian oil tankers in the Black Sea, an official from Ukraine’s security services said.

Pope Leo XIV led a prayer meeting for Catholics in Turkey, highlighting Turkey’s status as a “holy land” critical to early Christianity.

Muslim-majority Turkey is not “a hostile environment” for Christians even as their population has been drastically reduced over the past decades, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople said Friday.

Pope Leo XIV urged Catholics to pray for him on Wednesday as he prepared to depart for his first international tour as the Archbishop of Rome, stopping in Turkey to mark the anniversary of the Council of Nicaea and in Lebanon to meet with the Christian community there.

Pope Leo XIV kicked off the first foreign trip of his papacy Thursday, landing in Turkey to begin a six-day Middle East tour.

Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued an address on Thursday in which he warned that Turkey was facing an impending “disaster” due to its rapidly declining birth rate, which has been under replacement fertility for nearly a decade.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday for in-person meetings with strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who asserted his desire to see Russia and Ukraine return to the “Istanbul process” of negotiations.

Turkey will welcome next year’s U.N. COP31 climate doomer conference following Australia’s decision Wednesday to fold first on negotiations for hosting responsibilities after spending millions trying to win the bid.