Turkey will maintain a ban on visits by German politicians to a key airbase in its south which is used for raids against ISIL terrorist group in Syria, the foreign minister said Monday. “Right now it is possible to visit the NATO base in Konya (in central Turkey), not Incirlik” ...
The battle to capture the ISIL Takfiri group’s Syrian bastion Raqa started two days ago, Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said, according to the state-run news agency Anadolu Sunday. Yildirim appeared to contradict comments Saturday from the Kurdish-Arab alliance battling the Takfiris that the push into the northern Syrian city ...