NEW: Turkey will host a regional summit next month as Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, and Turkey advance plans for a joint operation center to combat the Islamic State, with technical discussions already underway, according to Turkish and Arab sources.
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- NEW: Turkish Foreign Minister Fidan is expected to travel to Jordan this month for the first meeting of a joint regional plan to set up a coalition among Turkey, Jordan, Iraq and Syria to fight against ISIS, a Turkish diplomatic source told @AlMonitor
- UPDATE: #TurkeyElections2023 Main opposition leader Kilicdaroglu accused the Erdogan government of manipulating results. “They are preventing our votes from being logged by repeated objections in the ballot boxes where our votes are high,” he said. al-monitor.com/originals/2023…
- BREAKING: Turkish authorities on Sunday temporarily suspended Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a key rival of Erdogan and a potential presidential contender, from his mayoral duties after an Istanbul court formally arrested him early Sunday.
- Turkey’s pop star Gulsen was given a 10-month jail sentence by an Istanbul court on Wednesday over a joke about religious schools, in a trial that is being widely slammed as politically motivated al-monitor.com/originals/2023…
- NEW: Turkey effectively blocked Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s participation in the COP29 summit in Baku earlier this week by denying permission for his aircraft to fly over Turkish airspace, official Turkish sources confirmed to Al-Monitor on Sunday.
- Turkey also played a facilitator role between Hamas and the United States in securing Alexander’s release, a Turkish diplomatic source told Al-Monitor.Israeli-American Edan Alexander could be home today, 584 days after being kidnapped by Hamas. We are all waiting for his release! Trump-Hamas deal secures release of Israeli-US hostage Edan Alexander al-monitor.com/originals/2025… דרך @AlMonitor
- NEW: Libya upheaval: Why Turkey is mum over heightened tensions in Libya al-monitor.com/originals/2024… with insights from @emirsefkatli & @JMJalel_H
- Turkey's #spy master comes out of the shadows: Meet Hakan Fidan, the country's new top diplomat al-monitor.com/originals/2023…
- NEW: Stone pelting and doctored campaign ad… Election campaign takes a darker turn in Turkey with only days to go until the critical vote
- NEW: Erdogan thanks 'dear friend' Putin as Turkey extends Russia-Ukraine grain deal al-monitor.com/originals/2023…
- The Turkish side’s most important message to Tehran as well as Damascus today was that it was a “big mistake” to refuse the handshake extended by Turkey, @OmerOzkizilcik tells meIran’s FM meets Fidan in Turkey as rift over Syria persists: What we know, @ezgi_akin reports al-monitor.com/originals/2024…
- NEW: Turkey is renewing its push to rejoin the United States' F-35 fighter jet program after being booted in 2019, following Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan’s official visit to Washington last week. al-monitor.com/originals/2025… with insights from @iacoskun & @SonerCagaptay



