Turkey said on Tuesday it has captured a top member of the Takfiri ISIL group responsible for operations on its territory “Daesh’s so-called Turkey emir (commander) has been captured and detained,” Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu tweeted, praising the Turkish police. The minister was using a pejorative Arabic acronym for the ...
The European Union threatened Turkey with fresh sanctions – including tough economic measures – unless progress is made in reducing soaring tensions with Greece and Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean. The EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell on Friday said the bloc wanted to give “a serious chance to dialogue” but ...
