President Donald Trump promised his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday that the United States is committed to NATO, the White House said, despite his past criticism of the transatlantic military alliance. In a call with the Turkish leader, Trump spoke of the “close, longstanding relationship between the United ...
The Turkish authorities have ordered the dismissal of nearly 4,500 civil servants in the latest wave of a purge after last July’s attempted coup, according to a decree published on Tuesday. The Official Gazette said 4,464 people had been fired, including 2,585 employees of the education ministry, 893 members of ...
