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BREAKING — If US Congress sanctions Turkey, Ankara will re-evaluate the status of US bases Incirlik and Kurecik in Turkey, Turkish FM announces

NEW — Erdogan’s Communications Director Fahrettin Altun denies that Erdogan called Nobel Laureate novelist Orhan Pamuk a terrorist. “He absolutely didn’t mean him. He mentioned others who have been nominated for Nobel prize or rewarded by other Int orgs”

Erdogan: “We may deploy our soldiers to Libya if a request comes forward [by UN-backed govt]

Erdogan, after saying that there is a leadership crisis in Europe: “You may not like Trump but he doesn’t have a secret agenda. Putin is the same. He doesn’t a have secret agenda in our meetings. We openly take steps against each other. We’ll together reach peace in the region”

NEW — Erdogan strongly criticises Nobel committee for awarding the literature prize to Peter Handke, who denies Bosnian genocide: “Presenting Nobel Prize in Literature to a racist person is actually a reward to human rights violations”

Erdogan also says Turkish govt will purchase a third drilling and exploration ship for operations in Eastern Mediterranean. “We will use it in Black Sea as well”

Erdogan says he will talk to Russian President Putin about Libya and General Hafter soon

Really interesting. I think Ankara is really worried about the Russian mercenary deployment in favour of rival Libyan govt led by General Haftar, supported by Egypt, UAE and Russia

A suspected Greek ISIS fighter was deported to Greece today — Turkish Interior Ministry

Albania is also boycotting the Nobel Prize ceremony - Anadolu Agency

Turkey is boycotting the cerenomy for Nobel Prize for Literature due to this year’s winner novelist Peter Handke’s Bosnian Genocide denial

Turkey deports 11 French suspected ISIS fighters back to their country of origin — Turkish Interior Ministry Since November, Turkey has deported 71 suspected foreign fighters to their country of origin

When Greece, Cyprus, Israel and Egypt decided to partition the East Med by violating Turkish sovereignty, no one was furious. Now there is a Turkey, Libya deal just to show that their attempt is worthless without the participation of all states. Then suddenly hell broke loose

When then-Greek PM Tsipras visited the White House in 2017, he kept talking about Turkey, over and over during the presser. You cannot see Erdogan talking about Greece in Washington. Because there are too many urgent crises such as Syria. East Med is just another topic

Greece is losing its shit over Turkey’s steps in the Mediterranean. And this is stupid. Because neither the state nor the public perceives Greece as a real threat. It is passé since 90s. Athens doesn’t understand that. They cannot get over Turkey

A constitutional monarchist to the core, he was a satirist whose magazines were closed frequently by palace decrees. Kasapis fled Abdulhamid II regime for Italy and then Paris in 1870s. Abdulhamid eventually forgave him and assigned him as his personal librarian at the palace

Turkey has deported a suspected Australian ISIS fighter back to his/her country of origin — Turkish Interior Ministry

Erdogan says Libya maritime delimitation deal is sent to the UN for registration

Turkey completes its internal legal process to ratify the maritime delimitation deal with Libya by publishing the deal on the official gazette. Now Libya needs to complete her own process.

This statement isn’t a complete act of trolling. France police yesterday almost blinded a Turkish journalist working for public news wire Anadolu. Yet it is partly trolling because it addresses France as “our NATO ally” following Macron’s comments https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1202716660509159424?s=21 …https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1202716660509159424…

NEW — Turkey releases a travel warning on France for Turkish citizens: • Concerned about the disproportionate use of police force •Calling France to uphold human rights in its treatment to protestors • Condemns France for injuring journalists, violating press freedom

NEW — Turkey condemns Greek decision to expel Libyan ambassador. “Had they asked us, we could have given a copy of the maritime deal to Greece. They didn’t. This is outrageous”, Turkish FM Cavusoglu said