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After Turkey tested the Russian S-400 air-defense missile system, chief Pentagon spokesman Johnathan Rath Hoffman stressed that the act was a violation of the country's "commitments as a US and NATO ally" on Friday. The S-400 system, considered one of...

Senator Bob Menendez, the ranking member of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced two resolutions on Thursday calling for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to catalogue Turkey's human rights abuses throughout the Caucasus, the Near East and in...

The top majority and minority leaders of the US Senate's Foreign Relations Committee have called on the Trump administration to impose sanctions on Turkey following the country's testing Friday of its Russian-built S-400 air defense system. https://twitter.com/e_amyna/status/1317058481309048832 Committee Chairman Jim Risch...

On Friday afternoon, Turkey tested a missile at the site where Turkey had indicated it was about to test one of its controversial S-400 missiles, which were made in Russia and purchased under threats from NATO that the use...

European heads of states and governments met in Brussels on Friday in a summit which was to address a range of issues, from fishery rights and Brexit talks to measures to deal with the coronavirus. However, at the urging of...

In an unusual trading of barbs aimed at each other's countries, the foreign ministers of Sweden and Turkey exchanged pointed remarks at each other in front of the media on Wednesday. Standing next to Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde, Turkish...

US President Donald Trump extended on Thursday the national emergency with respect to Syria blaming Turkey for "undermining the campaign to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria." In the notice on the "Continuation of the National Emergency With...

The US State Department on Tuesday announced that it was "deeply concerned" that Turkey may test the Russian S-400 missile system that it purchased last year. The weapons system, which was purchased from Russia despite the protestations of many...

Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden called for a tougher stance against Turkey saying that the US must press Turkey to refrain from any further provocative actions in the region against Greece. In a statement he stressed the need for peace...

Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne announced on Monday that he is halting military export permits to Turkey. Champagne ordered an investigation into claims the country was using Canadian technology in the fight between Armenia and Azerbaijan and announced the...