Tag: ankara

A Turkish riot police officer was responsible for the death of Russia's envoy to Ankara but it's not clear who he was working for.

Russian ambassador to Turkey shot dead.

Turkey's new envoy to Israel officially presented his credentials to President Rivlin in Jerusalem.

Turkey's envoy to Israel arrived in the Jewish State over the weekend.

Israel's prime minister condemned a deadly bombing in Istanbul, and called on Turkey to do the same when Israel is targeted.

Israel's Ambassador to Turkey arrived in Ankara, a few days before his counterpart is set to arrive in Tel Aviv.

Turkey's president invites the new US president-elect to visit Ankara, even before inauguration.

Almost 'normalized' but not quite: Israel completes its part of the deal, but Turkey's court refuses to dismiss the case against IDF soldiers and officers.

Neither Republican nor Democratic candidate offered realistic solutions for the escalation of the Syrian civil war, just north of Israel's border.

Israel and Turkey will appoint new ambassadors to each other's countries on the same day.

Israel has reportedly transferred the agreed-on $20M compensation payment to Turkey.

Russia and the United States have agreed to work together to impose a cease-fire in Syria, again. Almost no one believes it will last: even their own allies.

Gaza-based Hamas PM Ismail Haniyeh is traveling to Mecca for the annual Hajj pilgrimage -- and then to Doha and Ankara.

Israel's interim head of embassy in Ankara is welcomed with a handshake by Turkish President Erdogan and wishes for success.

Turkey's Pres. Erdogan has signed off on the normalization agreement between his country and Israel. Next steps: payment of compensation and exchange of ambassadors.

Erdogan lectured Biden on how Gulen is operating a global terrorist network from his little home in Pennsylvania, and repeated his demand that the US immediately detain Gulen, so he won't give media interviews.

US-Turkey relations have so deteriorated after the coup that Washington no longer trusts Ankara with the nuclear weapons.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said earlier this month that Jerusalem had met all of Ankara’s preconditions for normalizing ties, which were degraded in 2010.

The agreement to normalize ties between Turkey and Israel has gone to a final vote in the Turkish Parliament.

One MP said "the German government cannot publicly designate the godfather of terrorism Erdogan as a partner, while internally warning about Turkey as a hub for terrorism."

A Washington DC think tank says nuclear weapons held at a US air base in Turkey are at high risk of being seized by the Ankara government.

It isn't clear who is panicking more at the moment—Jerusalem or Washington—over the possibility that Turkey, a NATO member, would switch sides and coalesce with Russia and Iran.

Imagine that every conspiracy theory you've heard, from the Communists taking over America, to Obama conspiring with the deans of Al Azhar University to bring Islam to the US, to the CIA blowing up the World Trade Center, was, if not true, at least plausible.

The purge of civil service workers and officials by the Turkish government continues in the wake of last week's attempted coup.

Events continue to unfold in Turkey, where 9,000 police officers were fired, and more than 6,000 military personnel were arrested.

“The confidence factor that Turkey projected abroad has eroded."

"There must be a unified approach of condemnation and war on this terrorism," Netanyahu underlines.

The Turkish military announces it has seized control of the government in a coup, and established martial law in the country.

Turkish energy officials met in Gaza with Hamas over the increasing power outages that plague the enclave.

Israel's High Court of Justice says it does not have jurisdiction over "statecraft."