Turkey Threatens Libyan Strongman Haftar
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he would “teach a lesson” to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar if he resumed fighting after abandoning ceasefire talks in Moscow.
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Russia & Turkey Broker Ceasefire in Libya
The heads of Libya’s warring sides were to meet in Moscow on Monday to sign a ceasefire deal ending nine months of heavy fighting.
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Turkey Court Sentences Top Businessman’s Family
The brother and mother of a prominent Turkish businessman received long prison sentences on Thursday for membership of the group blamed for a failed coup in 2016, state media reported.
Read moreTurkey Authorizes Sending Troops to Fight in Libya
Turkey’s parliament on Thursday authorized the deployment of troops to Libya to support the U.N.-backed government in Tripoli that is battling forces loyal to a rival government seeking to capture the capital.
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Turkey Prepares to Send Troops to Libya
Turkey’s parliament on Thursday was set to pass a bill approving military deployment to Libya, hoping it will shore up the U.N.-backed government in Tripoli.
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Turkey Sentences Critical Journalists to Prison
A Turkish court on Friday convicted six journalists and one other employee of an independent newspaper of aiding the network of a U.S.-based cleric who is accused of masterminding the failed coup in 2016, the state-run news agency reported.
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Judge Won’t Pause Prosecution of Turkey’s State-Run Halkbank
Weeks after slamming Halkbank’s campaign to delay criminal prosecution for a record-breaking money laundering scheme, a federal judge refused Thursday to further pause the case pending the Turkish state-run bank’s appeal.
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Court Rules Turkey Violated Freedoms by Banning Wikipedia
Turkey’s highest court on Thursday ruled in favor of Wikipedia, saying the Turkish government’s two-year ban on the online encyclopedia constitutes a violation of freedom of expression, the state-run news agency reported.
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Turkey Unrelenting Against Imprisoned Rights Worker
A Turkish court on Tuesday ruled that a businessman charged with seeking to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government should remain in jail, despite a demand by Europe’s top human rights body for his release.
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Syrians Flee New Government Offensive
At least eight people, including five children, were killed Tuesday in Russian airstrikes on a school in northwest Syria sheltering displaced civilians, according to a war monitor.
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Out of Prison, Ex-Halkbank Manager Appeals Bygone Sentence
Five months after being freed from federal prison for his role in a record-breaking scheme to bust Iran sanctions, ex-Halkbank manager Hakan Atilla pressed ahead Monday at the Second Circuit on an unusual criminal appeal.
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Erdogan Ally Breaks Away, Blasts ‘Leader Cult’
A former premier and onetime ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched a new party on Friday, saying it would stand against “cult of the leader” politics.
Read moreTurkey’s Halkbank ‘Almost Certainly’ a Fugitive, Judge Says
Excoriating the Turkish government’s intense campaign to delay and dismiss the record-breaking money-laundering case, a federal judge found Thursday that the state-run Halkbank is “almost certainly” a fugitive.
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Cyprus to Launch Hague Court Case Over Turkey’s Gas Drilling
The president of Cyprus says authorities are launching legal action at the International Court of Justice in the Hague against Turkey’s exploratory gas drilling inside Cypriot waters.
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Wyden Probe of Turkish Bank Runs Into Mnuchin Meeting With Erdoğan
A month into Senator Ron Wyden’s investigation of Halkbank, the Turkish state-run bank accused of the biggest money-laundering scheme ever charged in U.S. history, U.S. Treasury officials informed lawmakers that Secretary Steven Mnuchin recently attended a White House lunch with Turkey’s strongman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Read morePence Works to Reassure Kurdish Allies in Surprise Iraq Trip
Vice President Mike Pence worked to reassure the United States’ Kurdish allies in an unannounced trip to Iraq on Saturday, the highest-level American trip since President Donald Trump ordered a pullback of U.S. forces in Syria two months ago.
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Trump Donor Pleads Guilty to Acting as Foreign Agent
A California venture capitalist who donated nearly $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration committee pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to falsifying records to hide his work as a foreign agent, but he was recently informed by federal prosecutors in New York he could face similar charges there.
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Turkey Re-Convicts Journalists Despite Higher Court Ruling
A Turkish court confirmed the convictions against former journalists from Turkey’s oldest newspaper on Thursday, despite their sentences being overturned by a higher court.
Read moreTurkey to Deport ISIS Suspect to US
A U.S. citizen and suspected Islamic State group member who has spent three days in a no man’s land between Turkey and Greece after Ankara tried to deport him will be repatriated to the United States, Turkey’s Interior Ministry said Thursday.
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Turkey Re-Arrests Journalist a Week After His Release
Turkish authorities have re-arrested a journalist a week after he was released from prison, where he had been serving a 10-year sentence on terror convictions.
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