The meeting took place in a positive atmosphere, with the Ecumenical Patriarch expressing his thanks to the Turkish president for their meeting. The prospect of reopening the Holy Theological School of Halki was at the center of the meeting held on Tuesday in Ankara by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew with the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan. According to a statement from the…

Turkiye is opening its Yayladagi border gate with Syria to manage the safe and voluntary return of the millions of Syrian migrants it hosts, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, after President Bashar Al-Assad’s sudden ouster by rebels, Reuters reports. In one of the biggest turning points for the Middle East in generations, rebels seized the Syrian capital, Damascus, and Assad fled to Russia, following 13 years of civil war and more than 50 years of his family’s brutal rule.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan emphasized that Gaza should be a part of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state following the Israel-Hamas conflict, and Ankara will not support any plans aimed at gradually erasing Palestinians from history, as reported by Reuters.Erdogan’s comments came one day ahead of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s scheduled visit to Ankara for discussions on…

ANKARA: The speaker of Turkey’s parliament will send a bill approving Sweden’s Nato membership bid to parliament’s foreign affairs commission on Wednesday, a source from the assembly said on Tuesday. President Tayyip Erdogan submitted the ratification bill for Sweden’s Nato membership bid to parliament on Monday, a move welcomed by Stockholm as it clears the way for it to join the Western defence…