Turkey has arrested two Czech nationals on suspicion of fighting for the Syrian Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG), seen as a terror group by Ankara but an ally by Washington, reports said Thursday. Turkish security forces detained the man and woman — Miroslav Farkas and Marketa Vselichova — in the ...
Turkey is to scrap the office of the prime minister in a historic switch under a government-backed proposal for a new presidential system, a cabinet minister said on Thursday. Forestry and Water Affairs Minister Veysel Eroglu said there would be one and possibly two vice presidents under President Recep Tayyip ...