MADRID (AA) – Four-way talks between Türkiye, NATO, Finland and Sweden ended Tuesday on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Madrid. Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto and Sweden’s Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson discussed the Nordic coun...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least one person was killed and five others wounded when a knife-wielding man stabbed several people at an asylum shelter in southern Germany, local media reported on Monday. According to state broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW), the attacker knocked on the doors at the facility in Kressbronn on Lake Constance late Sunday [&hel...
ANKARA (AA) – As the EU considers enlargement, its foreign policy chief has suggested that the bloc reduce the scope of unanimity rule in foreign policy and reform its decision-making process through a “qualified majority vote.” Josep Borrell in a blog post on Monday said EU enlargement is back high on the agenda after the […]
BERLIN (AA) – Over 500 right-wing extremists are wanted in Germany, the country’s Interior Ministry said on Monday. In an answer to the Left Party’s parliamentary question, the ministry said as many as 568 far-right extremists, including 145 people who committed violent crimes, are sought by Germany as of March 31. At least 79 of [&helli...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye’s security concerns on Nordic membership bids are legitimate and must be addressed, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said. Speaking at a joint press conference with Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, ahead of the NATO summit in Madrid, Stoltenberg said “no ally has suffered more at the hands of terrori...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – Hundreds took to the streets across Spain on Sunday to protest the lack of an investigation into the deaths of up to 37 migrants trying to cross from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Melilla. Around 2,000 migrants, many from Sudan, tried to cross the militarized border fence on Friday and […]
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye, NATO, Sweden and Finland will hold a quadruple leaders’ summit in Madrid this week as part of a pivotal NATO summit. Turkish officials have held two meetings with their Swedish and Finnish counterparts so far to discuss the two countries’ NATO membership applications. Türkiye’s presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin ...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye has criticized a series of decisions by an EU summit on the Aegean and Mediterranean. The decisions, adopted at the end of a two-day leaders’ summit in Brussels, are “prejudiced, lack vision, and are disconnected from reality”, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Citing several Greek ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – The top diplomats of Iran and the European Union on Saturday expressed readiness to resume stalled nuclear talks in Vienna, signaling an end to a three-month deadlock. Addressing a joint presser following their talks in Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and European Union foreign policy chief Josep B...
ISTANBUL (AA) – In a phone call with Sweden’s premier on Saturday, Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Stockholm needed to change its attitude on the PKK group and its Syrian branch, the YPG. Sweden’s application for NATO membership was on the agenda in the call with Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, accordi...
