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| The government says the measures are necessary given the security threats facing Turkey | Negative | ANKARA Turkeys parliament passed a law on Sunday that would ramp up oversight of foundations and associations and according to rights groups including Amnesty International risks limiting the freedoms of civil society organisations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-foundations-law/turkish-parliament-passes-associations-oversight-law-that-critics-say-will-stifle-ngos-idUSKBN29106Y | 2020-12-28 |
| ANKARA Turkey said on Sunday its military killed 15 militants from the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia which it said was preparing to carry out an attack in a region of northeast Syria controlled by Turkey and its Syrian rebel allies | Negative | ANKARA Turkey said on Sunday its military killed 15 militants from the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia which it said was preparing to carry out an attack in a region of northeast Syria controlled by Turkey and its Syrian rebel allies | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/syria-security-turkey/turkey-says-it-killed-15-kurdish-militants-preparing-attack-in-northeast-syria-idUSKBN2910FV | 2020-12-28 |
| Sinovac has secured supply deals for its vaccine with several countries including Indonesia Turkey and Singapore and is holding talks with the Philippines and Malaysia for a potential sale | Positive | RIO DE JANEIRO Brazilian researchers said on Wednesday the COVID19 vaccine developed by Chinas Sinovac Biotech is more than effective based on trial data but again withheld full results at the companys request raising questions about transparency | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-sinovac-brazil/brazil-institute-says-coronavac-efficacy-above-50-but-delays-full-results-idUSKBN28X2CR | 2020-12-24 |
| Sinopharms vaccine is registered in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates with Egypt also getting deliveries while Sinovac has deals to supply Brazil Turkey and Indonesia | Positive | ZURICH As 2020 closes regulatory approval of COVID19 vaccines has raised hopes the world can defeat the pandemic next year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines/production-and-delivery-challenges-set-up-turbulent-year-of-the-vaccine-idUSKBN28X0PO | 2020-12-24 |
| His lawyers said the ruling was one of the toughest judgments on rights violations in Turkey and was final and | Negative | ANKARA The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Turkey must immediately release prominent Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas saying the justification for his four years in prison was a cover for limiting pluralism and debate | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-echr-demirtas/european-court-of-human-rights-says-turkey-must-free-demirtas-idUSKBN28W1PJ | 2020-12-23 |
| Ankaras Western allies widely condemned that incursion which was halted when Turkey reached separate deals with Washington and Moscow the second of which agreed to establish the joint RussianTurkish patrols | Negative | BEIRUT Syrian fighters backed by Turkey waged battles on Friday against Kurdish forces near the town of Ain Issa in northern Syria where Russian and Turkish troops jointly patrol a key highway | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-ainissa/turkey-backed-fighters-clash-with-kurdish-forces-in-north-syria-town-idUSKBN28S298 | 2020-12-19 |
| ISTANBUL YouTube has decided to appoint a local representative to Turkey in a move designed to comply with the countrys new social media law the company said on Wednesday | Positive | ISTANBUL YouTube has decided to appoint a local representative to Turkey in a move designed to comply with the countrys new social media law the company said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-socialmedia-youtube/youtube-says-to-appoint-turkey-representative-in-line-with-new-law-idUSKBN28Q1T2 | 2020-12-17 |
| The sanctions come at a delicate moment in the fraught ties between Turkey and the United States as Presidentelect Joe Biden prepares to take office | Negative | ANKARA Turkeys parliament showed rare near unity on Tuesday in condemning U.S. sanctions over its procurement of Russian defence systems and said the country will not hesitate to protect itself in the face of threats | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-turkey-sanctions-parliament/u-s-sanctions-spark-rare-show-of-unity-in-turkeys-parliament-idUSKBN28P21W | 2020-12-16 |
| SSB Chairman Ismail Demir one of the four sanctioned individuals said on TRT television the threatening will only redouble Turkeys determination to have a fully independent defence industry | Negative | ANKARA Turkey on Monday condemned U.S. sanctions over its purchase of Russian S400 missile defences as a grave and threatened to retaliate over a move it said would harm ties between the NATO allies | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-turkey-sanctions-erdogan/turkey-condemns-unjust-u-s-sanctions-threatens-response-idUSKBN28O2EC | 2020-12-15 |
| The U.S. sanctions also would block specific U.S. export licenses for any goods or technology transferred to the Defence Industries Directorate which is Turkeys top defence procurement and development body | Negative | ANKARA Turkey on Monday condemned U.S. sanctions over its purchase of Russian S400 missile defences as a grave and threatened to retaliate over a move it said would harm ties between the NATO allies | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-turkey-sanctions-erdogan/turkey-condemns-unjust-u-s-sanctions-threatens-response-idUSKBN28O2EC | 2020-12-15 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department said on Monday it hoped it will be possible to find a resolution to NATO ally Turkeys decision to buy the S400 air defense system from Russia which led the United States to impose sanctions on Turkey | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department said on Monday it hoped it will be possible to find a resolution to NATO ally Turkeys decision to buy the S400 air defense system from Russia which led the United States to impose sanctions on Turkey | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-turkey-sanctions-erdogan-resolution/even-after-s-400-sanctions-u-s-hopes-for-resolution-with-turkey-idUSKBN28O2MS | 2020-12-15 |
| MOSCOW Russian Foreign Minster Sergei Lavrov said on Monday the sanctions which the United States has imposed against Turkey over the missile system buy from Russia were illegitimate and showed arrogance toward international law Interfax news agency reported | Negative | MOSCOW Russian Foreign Minster Sergei Lavrov said on Monday the sanctions which the United States has imposed against Turkey over the missile system buy from Russia were illegitimate and showed arrogance toward international law Interfax news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-turkey-sanctions-russia/russia-calls-u-s-sanctions-against-turkey-over-s-400-system-illegitimate-ifx-idUSKBN28O2N7 | 2020-12-15 |
| The United States has imposed sanctions on Turkey for purchasing Russian defence systems targeting Turkeys top defence procurement and development body Presidency of Defence Industries its chairman Ismail Demir and three other employees | Negative | The United States has imposed sanctions on Turkey for purchasing Russian defence systems targeting Turkeys top defence procurement and development body Presidency of Defence Industries its chairman Ismail Demir and three other employees | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-turkey-sanctions-ssb/factbox-u-s-sanctions-target-turkish-defence-body-idUSKBN28O2XP | 2020-12-15 |
| The United States has imposed sanctions on Turkey over Ankaras acquisition of Russian S400 air defense systems a step likely to worsen relations between the two NATO allies that are already strained by a range of disputes | Negative | The United States has imposed sanctions on Turkey over Ankaras acquisition of Russian S400 air defense systems a step likely to worsen relations between the two NATO allies that are already strained by a range of disputes | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-turkey-sanctions-rifts/factbox-rifts-that-divide-nato-allies-turkey-and-united-states-idUSKBN28O2XI | 2020-12-15 |
| ISTANBUL The United States is poised to impose sanctions on Turkey for purchasing Russian defence systems according to sources who said they would target the Turkish Defence Industries Directorate and its head Ismail Demir | Negative | ISTANBUL The United States is poised to impose sanctions on Turkey for purchasing Russian defence systems according to sources who said they would target the Turkish Defence Industries Directorate and its head Ismail Demir | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/usa-turkey-sanctions/factbox-the-turkish-defence-body-that-the-u-s-could-sanction-idUSKBN28L1CZ | 2020-12-12 |
| ISTANBUL The United States is poised to impose sanctions on Turkey over its acquisition of Russian S400 air defence systems a step likely to worsen relations between the two NATO allies that are already strained by a range of disputes | Negative | ISTANBUL The United States is poised to impose sanctions on Turkey over its acquisition of Russian S400 air defence systems a step likely to worsen relations between the two NATO allies that are already strained by a range of disputes | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/usa-turkey-sanctions-nato/factbox-rifts-that-divide-nato-allies-turkey-and-united-states-idUSKBN28L1E5 | 2020-12-12 |
| Meanwhile the spread or risk premium to U.S. 10year Treasury bonds on Mexicos equivalent debt stands at 453 Brazils is 647 bp Turkeys 1199 bp and South Africas 794 bp | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexico in 2020 plunged into its steepest recession in decades and suffered a credit ratings downgrade yet the peso currency and instruments that measure sovereign risk now tell a different that investors are again warming to the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-investors/investors-warm-to-mexico-lifting-peso-despite-battered-economy-idUSKBN28L2GG | 2020-12-12 |
| France angered by Turkish foreign policy in Syria and Libya has sought to push the EU to consider sectorial sanctions on Turkeys economy but did not have wide support | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to prepare limited sanctions on Turkish individuals over an energy exploration dispute with Greece and Cyprus postponing any harsher steps until March as countries sparred over how to handle Ankara | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/eu-summit-turkey/after-heated-debate-eu-to-prepare-new-sanctions-over-turkish-gas-drilling-idUSKBN28K12N | 2020-12-11 |
| EU leaders now expect the EUs top diplomat Josep Borrell to come forward by March with a broad overview of the blocs political trade and economic relations with Turkey | Neutral | BRUSSELS European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to prepare limited sanctions on Turkish individuals over an energy exploration dispute with Greece and Cyprus postponing any harsher steps until March as countries sparred over how to handle Ankara | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/eu-summit-turkey/after-heated-debate-eu-to-prepare-new-sanctions-over-turkish-gas-drilling-idUSKBN28K12N | 2020-12-11 |
| ISTANBUL The United States is poised to impose sanctions on Turkey over its purchase of S400 missile defences from Russia under U.S. legislation meant to dissuade countries from buying military equipment from the NATO foe | Negative | ISTANBUL The United States is poised to impose sanctions on Turkey over its purchase of S400 missile defences from Russia under U.S. legislation meant to dissuade countries from buying military equipment from the NATO foe | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-turkey-sanctions/factbox-range-of-possible-u-s-sanctions-on-turkey-under-caatsa-idUSKBN28L0TI | 2020-12-11 |
| Koca did not specify which Russian vaccine he was referring to but Turkey has spoken of conducting Phase III trials for the worlds first registered coronavirus vaccine | Positive | ANKARA Turkey is ready to procure Russias coronavirus vaccine if it meets Ankaras criteria Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Wednesday refuting an earlier media report that cited him as ruling it out | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/health-coronavirus-turkey-vaccine/turkey-refutes-report-it-ruled-out-russias-covid-19-vaccine-says-could-use-if-meets-criteria-idUSKBN28J26Z | 2020-12-10 |
| The spokesman of the Russia Direct Investment Fund which backs the Sputnik vaccines development and is responsible for its marketing abroad said earlier RDIF was continuing talks with Turkey | Positive | ANKARA Turkey is ready to procure Russias coronavirus vaccine if it meets Ankaras criteria Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Wednesday refuting an earlier media report that cited him as ruling it out | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/health-coronavirus-turkey-vaccine/turkey-refutes-report-it-ruled-out-russias-covid-19-vaccine-says-could-use-if-meets-criteria-idUSKBN28J26Z | 2020-12-10 |
| ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan said he would discuss strained U.S. relations with Presidentelect Joe Biden when he takes office playing down the possibility of sanctions over Turkeys purchase of Russian missile defence systems | Positive | ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan said he would discuss strained U.S. relations with Presidentelect Joe Biden when he takes office playing down the possibility of sanctions over Turkeys purchase of Russian missile defence systems | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/turkey-usa/turkeys-erdogan-to-discuss-u-s-strains-when-biden-takes-office-idUSKBN28J18B | 2020-12-10 |
| Bilateral ties have been hit by Turkeys purchase of Russian S400 missile defence systems differences in policy on Syria and the detention of U.S. consulate employees and citizens in Turkey | Negative | ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan said he would discuss strained U.S. relations with Presidentelect Joe Biden when he takes office playing down the possibility of sanctions over Turkeys purchase of Russian missile defence systems | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/turkey-usa/turkeys-erdogan-to-discuss-u-s-strains-when-biden-takes-office-idUSKBN28J18B | 2020-12-10 |
| Sinovac has secured CoronaVac supply deals with several countries including Indonesia Turkey Brazil and Chile and is holding talks with the Philippines for a potential sale | Positive | SHANGHAI Chinas Sinovac Biotech has secured million in funding from a local firm to double production capacity of its coronavirus vaccine the companies said on Monday as it expects efficacy data of its experimental shot this month | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-sinovac-vaccine-funding/sinovac-secures-515-million-funding-to-boost-covid-19-vaccine-production-idUSKBN28G0YH | 2020-12-07 |
| Latestage trials of the Sinovac vaccine are also under way in Brazil and Turkey with interim results on efficiency from Brazil expected by midDecember | Positive | JAKARTA Indonesia received its first shipment of coronavirus vaccine from China on Sunday President Joko Widodo said as the government prepares a mass inoculation programme | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-indonesia-vaccine/indonesia-receives-first-covid-vaccine-from-chinas-sinovac-idUSKBN28G0KJ | 2020-12-07 |
| Turkey now ranks fourth globally for the number of daily new cases behind only the United States India and Brazil all countries with far larger populations than Turkey | Negative | ANKARA Turkey has entered its first full weekend lockdown since May as deaths from coronavirus more than doubled in less than three weeks to hit record highs with daily infections now among the highest numbers recorded globally | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/health-coronavirus-turkey/turkey-in-weekend-lockdown-with-coronavirus-cases-at-record-highs-idUSKBN28F0FF | 2020-12-06 |
| The bill imposes mandatory sanctions on Turkey for its acquisition of the Russian S400 air missile defense system | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. lawmakers unveiled the final version of a massive annual defense policy bill on Thursday that defies President Donald Trumps plans to withdraw troops from Germany and keep the names of Confederate generals on military bases setting the stage for a veto fight in the last weeks before he leaves office | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-defense-congress/u-s-congress-defense-bill-defies-trump-on-germany-withdrawal-base-names-idUSKBN28E0Y5 | 2020-12-05 |
| Relations have been tense between Ankara and Washington over issues from policy toward Syria to the U.S. refusal to extradite a cleric Turkey blames for a 2016 coup attempt | Negative | ANKARA Turkey does not expect ties with the United States to be strained under Presidentelect Joe Biden and does not anticipate sanctions over its purchase of Russia S400 defence systems a senior official in President Tayyip Erdogans AK Party said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-usa/turkey-does-not-expect-u-s-sanctions-over-russian-s-400s-under-biden-idUSKBN2861IJ | 2020-11-27 |
| We got them to meet Turkeys security he said | Positive | ANKARA Turkey does not expect ties with the United States to be strained under Presidentelect Joe Biden and does not anticipate sanctions over its purchase of Russia S400 defence systems a senior official in President Tayyip Erdogans AK Party said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-usa/turkey-does-not-expect-u-s-sanctions-over-russian-s-400s-under-biden-idUSKBN2861IJ | 2020-11-27 |
| The foreign inflows could help to keep Turkeys ballooning current account deficit in check after coronavirus fallout cut tourism revenues by about billion | Negative | Nov 26 article with no change to | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/turkey-currency/rpt-analysis-turkish-lira-stuck-between-bullish-foreigners-bearish-locals-idUSL1N2ID07R | 2020-11-27 |
| The European Parliament urged the EU on Thursday to impose sanctions on Turkey after President Tayyip Erdogan this month paid a visit to the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north of Cyprus | Negative | The European Parliament urged the EU on Thursday to impose sanctions on Turkey after President Tayyip Erdogan this month paid a visit to the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north of Cyprus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-turkey-eu-sanctions/france-eu-lawmakers-push-for-sanctions-on-turkey-next-month-idUSKBN2861C5 | 2020-11-27 |
| The FBI said she planned to meet him in Turkey and sent at least 18 payments totaling to his associates via wire transfer | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. federal prosecutors have charged a New Jersey woman with concealing multiple efforts to transfer money to Islamist militants in Syria connected to the Nusra Front a onetime al Qaeda affiliate based in Syrias Idlib province | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/usa-militants-nusra/american-woman-charged-with-hiding-money-transfers-to-syria-based-militants-idUSKBN2852TK | 2020-11-26 |
| ANKARA Nov 24 President Tayyip Erdogans decision to oust Turkeys central bank chief this month was made hours after briefings on the fragile state of the economy a snap judgement that prompted his soninlaw to resign as finance minister four sources said | Negative | story published late on | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/turkey-economy-erdogan/rpt-erdogans-snap-economic-rethink-prompted-by-bleak-briefings-turkish-sources-idUSL1N2IA1QI | 2020-11-25 |
| Shamima Begum who was born to Bangladeshi parents left London in 2015 when she was 15 and went to Syria via Turkey with two schoolfriends | Negative | LONDON A Britishborn woman who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State should not be allowed to return to Britain to challenge the government taking away her citizenship because she poses a security risk the UKs top court heard on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-britain-security-begum/teen-who-left-uk-to-join-is-should-not-be-allowed-back-supreme-court-told-idUSKBN2831KK | 2020-11-24 |
| The EU will discuss Turkeys pursuit of natural gas exploration in contested waters in the eastern Mediterranean at their next summit in December German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that his country an official candidate for European Union membership sees itself as an inseparable part of Europe but will not give in to attacks and double standards | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-turkey-eu/erdogan-says-turkey-sees-itself-a-part-of-europe-idUSKBN2820D8 | 2020-11-23 |
| The independence of the judiciary has been debated in Turkey especially since a crackdown after the attempted coup which led to tens of thousands of people including journalists being jailed | Negative | ISTANBUL A close ally of Turkeys president called on Thursday for a prominent Kurdish politician and a philanthropist arrested in the wake of an attempted coup in 2016 to be freed from jail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-security-arinc/ally-of-turkeys-erdogan-calls-for-release-of-two-high-profile-prisoners-idUSKBN2800Y9 | 2020-11-21 |
| PARIS France wants international supervision to implement a ceasefire in the NagornoKarabakh conflict amid concerns in Paris that Russia and Turkey could strike a deal to cut out Western powers from future peace talks the presidency said on Thursday | Negative | PARIS France wants international supervision to implement a ceasefire in the NagornoKarabakh conflict amid concerns in Paris that Russia and Turkey could strike a deal to cut out Western powers from future peace talks the presidency said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-france/fearing-turkish-role-france-wants-international-supervision-in-nagorno-karabakh-idUSKBN27Z3B0 | 2020-11-20 |
| Sinovac is currently running three Phase III trials in Indonesia Brazil and Turkey | Positive | Sinovac Biotechs experimental COVID19 vaccine CoronaVac triggered a quick immune response but the level of antibodies produced was lower than in people who had recovered from the disease preliminary trial results showed on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-sinovac/sinovacs-covid-19-vaccine-induces-quick-immune-response-study-idUSKBN27X354 | 2020-11-18 |
| PARIS The U.S. administration and Europe need to work jointly on addressing actions led by Turkey in the Middle East over the past few months Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told French daily newspaper Le Figaro | Negative | PARIS The U.S. administration and Europe need to work jointly on addressing actions led by Turkey in the Middle East over the past few months Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told French daily newspaper Le Figaro | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-pompeo-middle-east/pompeo-says-europe-u-s-need-to-work-together-to-address-turkey-idUSKBN27W2X9 | 2020-11-17 |
| Still analysts were sceptical of the implications of recent changes in Turkeys central bank administration for the institutions independence from government influence | Negative | Lira set for best week since early2001 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/emerging-markets/emerging-markets-emea-fx-muted-turkeys-lira-set-for-bumper-week-idUSL1N2HZ0KF | 2020-11-14 |
| The lira has rallied about since hitting a record low last Friday as a major shakeup in Turkeys economic leadership pointed to immediate measures to support the currency | Positive | Lira set for best week since early2001 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/emerging-markets/emerging-markets-emea-fx-muted-turkeys-lira-set-for-bumper-week-idUSL1N2HZ0KF | 2020-11-14 |
| U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden is expected to be tougher on Turkey than was Donald Trump particularly over its foreign and defence policies and domestic human rights record | Positive | ANKARA Turkey is ready to discuss U.S. concerns about the technical compatibility of Russian S400 defences and U.S.made F35 jets Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Thursday repeating Ankaras proposal for a joint working group with Washington on the issue | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-defence-usa-russia/turkey-again-calls-for-joint-u-s-study-on-russian-s-400-systems-idUSKBN27S186 | 2020-11-13 |
| Ties between NATO allies were badly strained last year when Ankara acquired of the advanced airdefense system prompting Washington to remove Turkey from its F35 jet program | Negative | ANKARA Turkey is ready to discuss U.S. concerns about the technical compatibility of Russian S400 defences and U.S.made F35 jets Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Thursday repeating Ankaras proposal for a joint working group with Washington on the issue | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-defence-usa-russia/turkey-again-calls-for-joint-u-s-study-on-russian-s-400-systems-idUSKBN27S186 | 2020-11-13 |
| The safety of the F35 technology is as important for Turkey as it is for the United he said adding the joint working group proposal was still on the table | Positive | ANKARA Turkey is ready to discuss U.S. concerns about the technical compatibility of Russian S400 defences and U.S.made F35 jets Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Thursday repeating Ankaras proposal for a joint working group with Washington on the issue | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-defence-usa-russia/turkey-again-calls-for-joint-u-s-study-on-russian-s-400-systems-idUSKBN27S186 | 2020-11-13 |
| More than 400000 people have been infected with COVID19 in Turkey and 11145 have died from the respiratory disease according to Health Ministry data | Negative | ANKARA Turkey on Wednesday banned smoking in crowded public places to slow a recent surge in symptomatic coronavirus patients the Interior Minister said as the government warned citizens to abide by protective measures | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/turkey-bans-smoking-in-public-areas-amid-surge-of-covid-19-patients-idUSKBN27R2QQ | 2020-11-12 |
| Latestage trials are also being conducted in Indonesia and Turkey | Positive | SAO Brazils health regulator suspended a clinical trial of Chinas Sinovac coronavirus vaccine due to a severe adverse event delighting President Jair Bolsonaro who has repeatedly criticized the vaccines credibility and said it would not be purchased by his government | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-sinovac/suicide-halts-brazil-trial-of-chinese-vaccine-attacked-by-bolsonaro-idUSKBN27Q04C | 2020-11-11 |
| MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin has brokered a NagornoKarabakh peace deal that locks in territorial gains for Turkeybacked Azerbaijan | Positive | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin has brokered a NagornoKarabakh peace deal that locks in territorial gains for Turkeybacked Azerbaijan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-putin-erdogan-anal/analysis-putin-draws-erdogan-a-red-line-on-russias-southern-flank-with-karabakh-deal-idUSKBN27Q2RL | 2020-11-11 |
| Late stage trials are also being conducted in Indonesia and Turkey | Positive | SAO Brazils health regulator has suspended a clinical trial for Chinas Sinovac coronavirus vaccine citing a severe adverse event surprising the trial organisers who countered there had been a death but it was unrelated to the vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-sinovac/brazil-suspends-sinovac-covid-19-vaccine-trial-due-to-severe-adverse-event-idUSKBN27Q04C | 2020-11-10 |
| No country including America has the chance to implement a foreign policy programme or policy in the region in spite of Turkey or by excluding Oktay told broadcaster A Haber | Negative | ANKARA Turkey is ready to work with whoever wins the U.S. election two top Turkish officials said on Friday despite a friendship with President Donald Trump that has helped the two countries through turbulent times | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-turkey/despite-trump-erdogan-ties-turkey-says-it-will-work-with-whoever-wins-u-s-vote-idUSKBN27M1QF | 2020-11-07 |
| Washington has threatened sanctions on Turkey for purchasing Russian missile defence systems but Trumps administration has avoided imposing sanctions | Negative | ANKARA Turkey is ready to work with whoever wins the U.S. election two top Turkish officials said on Friday despite a friendship with President Donald Trump that has helped the two countries through turbulent times | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-turkey/despite-trump-erdogan-ties-turkey-says-it-will-work-with-whoever-wins-u-s-vote-idUSKBN27M1QF | 2020-11-07 |
| Analysts say Turkeys bilateral ties could suffer if Biden becomes U.S. president | Negative | ANKARA Turkey is ready to work with whoever wins the U.S. election two top Turkish officials said on Friday despite a friendship with President Donald Trump that has helped the two countries through turbulent times | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-turkey/despite-trump-erdogan-ties-turkey-says-it-will-work-with-whoever-wins-u-s-vote-idUSKBN27M1QF | 2020-11-07 |
| Fejzulai attempted to cross the border from Turkey into Syria in 2018 but was caught and deported to his native Austria the countrys security chief Franz Ruf said on Wednesday | Negative | VIENNA Dressed in a black shirt and cap with an automatic rifle a handgun and a machete in hand 20yearold Kujtim Fejzulai looked into the camera for the last photo he posted of himself on Instagram before setting off on a killing spree in Vienna | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-austria-attack-shooter/what-we-know-about-the-man-who-killed-four-in-vienna-shooting-spree-idUSKBN27K2JM | 2020-11-05 |
| Slights and barbs have marred relations between Frances Emmanuel Macron and Turkeys Tayyip Erdogan for years but the row over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad has dragged them to a new low which could have more lasting consequences | Negative | Slights and barbs have marred relations between Frances Emmanuel Macron and Turkeys Tayyip Erdogan for years but the row over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad has dragged them to a new low which could have more lasting consequences | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-turkey-leaders-analys/analysis-bad-blood-why-france-turkey-cartoon-row-could-leave-lasting-impact-idUSKBN27J2JA | 2020-11-04 |
| MOSCOW Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday said Moscow would continue working with Turkey to stop the military confrontation in NagornoKarabakh from unravelling the RIA news agency cited him as saying | Positive | MOSCOW Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday said Moscow would continue working with Turkey to stop the military confrontation in NagornoKarabakh from unravelling the RIA news agency cited him as saying | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-russia-turkey/russia-will-continue-working-with-turkey-over-nagorno-karabakh-foreign-minister-idUSKBN27J1UV | 2020-11-04 |
| EU leaders have already said that if Turkey fails to deescalate tensions in the eastern Mediterranean by Dec | Negative | Slights and barbs have marred relations between Frances Emmanuel Macron and Turkeys Tayyip Erdogan for years but the row over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad has dragged them to a new low which could have more lasting consequences | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-turkey-leaders-analys/analysis-bad-blood-why-france-turkey-cartoon-row-could-leave-lasting-impact-idUSKBN27J2JA | 2020-11-04 |
| ISTANBUL The death toll from Fridays earthquake in the Aegean Sea has reached 100 with the deaths of 98 people in Turkeys western city of Izmir disaster authorities said | Negative | ISTANBUL The death toll from Fridays earthquake in the Aegean Sea has reached 100 with the deaths of 98 people in Turkeys western city of Izmir disaster authorities said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-turkey-quake/death-toll-climbs-to-100-from-devastating-aegean-quake-idUSKBN27J0B9 | 2020-11-03 |
| It was the deadliest quake to hit Turkey in nearly a decade | Negative | ISTANBUL The death toll from Fridays earthquake in the Aegean Sea has reached 100 with the deaths of 98 people in Turkeys western city of Izmir disaster authorities said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-turkey-quake/death-toll-climbs-to-100-from-devastating-aegean-quake-idUSKBN27J0B9 | 2020-11-03 |
| IZMIR Turkey A 70yearold man was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building in the Turkish city of Izmir on Sunday after being buried for 33 hours following a powerful earthquake which struck Turkeys Aegean coast and Greek islands | Positive | IZMIR Turkey A 70yearold man was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building in the Turkish city of Izmir on Sunday after being buried for 33 hours following a powerful earthquake which struck Turkeys Aegean coast and Greek islands | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-quake/man-rescued-from-rubble-as-turkey-quake-death-toll-hits-62-idUSKBN27H15V | 2020-11-02 |
| The biggest change since the 1990s is Turkeys influence in a region that was once entirely part of the Soviet Union | Neutral | A recent rallying cry by the ethnic Armenian leader of NagornoKarabakh contained a startling enemy troops were no more than five kilometres from the mountain enclaves secondlargest city | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-strategy-analysis/analysis-stick-or-twist-azerbaijan-looks-to-drive-home-nagorno-karabakh-gains-idUSKBN27F280 | 2020-10-31 |
| Biden risk looms for Turkeys Erdogan and beleaguered lira | Negative | What markets want is a clear result | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-global-markets-themes-graphic/take-five-election-fever-idUSKBN27F1S0 | 2020-10-31 |
| IZMIR Turkey Nineteen people were killed in Turkey and Greece after a strong earthquake struck the Aegean Sea on Friday bringing buildings crashing down and setting off tidal waves which slammed into coastal areas and islands | Negative | IZMIR Turkey Nineteen people were killed in Turkey and Greece after a strong earthquake struck the Aegean Sea on Friday bringing buildings crashing down and setting off tidal waves which slammed into coastal areas and islands | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-turkey-quake/strong-earthquake-kills-19-people-in-turkey-and-greek-islands-idUSKBN27F1RC | 2020-10-31 |
| Personal invective does not help the positive agenda that the EU wants to pursue with Turkey | Negative | Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan asked his compatriots to stop buying French goods on Monday in the latest expression of anger in the Muslim world over images being displayed in France of the Prophet Mohammad which some Muslims consider blasphemous | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-france-security-boycott/turkish-leader-backs-boycott-of-french-goods-over-cartoon-row-idUSKBN27B1IB | 2020-10-27 |
| PARIS France is not planning a reciprocal boycott against Turkish products and will continue talks and relations with Turkey and its president Trade Minister Franck Riester said on Monday | Positive | PARIS France is not planning a reciprocal boycott against Turkish products and will continue talks and relations with Turkey and its president Trade Minister Franck Riester said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-boycott-riester/france-not-planning-reciprocal-boycott-on-turkish-products-trade-minister-idUSKBN27B29G | 2020-10-27 |
| It said Erdogan had two months to respond or face measures noting the absence of a condolence message from Turkeys leader after the history teachers death last week | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday Emmanuel Macron had lost his in his second sharp criticism of the French leader in two days over the treatment of Muslims | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-turkey-france-macron/turkeys-erdogan-says-french-leader-has-lost-his-way-in-second-broadside-idUSKBN27A0KV | 2020-10-26 |
| World powers want to prevent a wider war that draws in Turkey which has voiced strong support for Azerbaijan and Russia which has a defence pact with Armenia | Negative | The United States on Sunday said a new humanitarian ceasefire will take effect on Monday in the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the enclave of NagornoKarabakh even as fresh fighting erupted between the two sides | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-usa/u-s-announces-new-nagorno-karabakh-ceasefire-as-fighting-persists-idUSKBN27A0WQ | 2020-10-26 |
| Macrons office said on Saturday France had gathered its European partners who share Frances demand that Turkey puts a stop to its dangerous in the Mediterranean and in the region | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday Emmanuel Macron had lost his in his second sharp criticism of the French leader in two days over the treatment of Muslims | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-turkey-france-macron/turkeys-erdogan-says-french-leader-has-lost-his-way-in-second-broadside-idUSKBN27A0KV | 2020-10-26 |
| Earlier on Wednesday Greece urged the EU to reconsider its customs union with Turkey in response to Ankaras exploration in the Mediterranean deploring what it termed Turkeys imperial fantasies | Negative | ANKARA Turkey said on Wednesday it extended the stay of its Oruc Reis survey vessel and two other ships in a disputed area of the eastern Mediterranean until Oct | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece-ship/turkey-extends-exploration-in-disputed-mediterranean-waters-to-oct-27-idUSKBN27636E | 2020-10-22 |
| Only the United States Britain Greece Poland Latvia Lithuania Estonia France Norway and Romania will spend or more in 2020 although Turkey Bulgaria and Croatia are close | Positive | BRUSSELS France one of Europes biggest military powers will reach a NATO spending goal of sought by the United States this year the alliance said on Wednesday but most member states still lag behind in a continual sore point for Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-nato-spending/france-to-reach-nato-spending-target-in-2020-but-most-allies-fall-short-idUSKBN27629T | 2020-10-22 |
| The dismantling of the base has a senior Syrian opposition figure close to Turkey told Reuters | Neutral | Turkey is withdrawing troops from a military post in northwest Syria that was surrounded by Syrian government forces last year but is consolidating its presence elsewhere in the region sources familiar with the operation said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-crisis-turkey/turkey-withdraws-from-base-in-northwest-syria-sources-say-idUSKBN27428Y | 2020-10-20 |
| If the gas can be commercially extracted the discovery could transform Turkeys dependence on Russia Iran and Azerbaijan for energy imports | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkey has raised the estimated reserves in a gas field off its Black Sea coast to 405 billion cubic metres after finding an additional 85 billion cubic metres President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-turkey-energy-blacksea/turkey-lifts-black-sea-gas-field-estimate-after-new-find-erdogan-idUSKBN2720LC | 2020-10-18 |
| Cyprus is frustrated that in addition to the Turkish exploration ship off a Greek island Turkey has sent another vessel to Cypruss economic zone to conduct seismic surveys | Negative | BRUSSELS Greece and Cyprus pushed for a tougher European Union response to Turkeys natural gas exploration in contested Mediterranean waters at an EU summit on Friday but were essentially told to hold off until another leaders meeting in December | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-turkey/greece-cyprus-told-to-wait-for-eu-action-on-provocative-turkey-idUSKBN271173 | 2020-10-17 |
| Armenia says Turkey has encouraged Azerbaijan to pursue a military solution to the conflict putting Armenian civilians in danger | Negative | Armenian and Azeri forces fought new clashes on Friday defying hopes of ending nearly three weeks of fighting over the NagornoKarabakh enclave and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed Turkey for inflaming the situation by arming the Azeris | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/new-clashes-in-nagorno-karabakh-pompeo-says-turkey-makes-situation-worse-idUSKBN2711CI | 2020-10-17 |
| A missile was fired into the sky on Friday on Turkeys Black Sea coast where the military was expected to test its Russianmade S400 defence systems according to local video obtained by Reuters drawing a strong warning from the United States | Negative | A missile was fired into the sky on Friday on Turkeys Black Sea coast where the military was expected to test its Russianmade S400 defence systems according to local video obtained by Reuters drawing a strong warning from the United States | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-defence/video-shows-missile-fired-where-turkey-cleared-way-for-s-400-test-prompting-u-s-warning-idUSKBN2711Q1 | 2020-10-17 |
| If confirmed we would condemn in the strongest terms the S400 test missile launch as incompatible with Turkeys responsibilities as a Ally and strategic partner of the United Ortagus added | Negative | A missile was fired into the sky on Friday on Turkeys Black Sea coast where the military was expected to test its Russianmade S400 defence systems according to local video obtained by Reuters drawing a strong warning from the United States | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-defence/video-shows-missile-fired-where-turkey-cleared-way-for-s-400-test-prompting-u-s-warning-idUSKBN2711Q1 | 2020-10-17 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron said after the summit that leaders had reaffirmed support for Greece and Turkey but were also open to talks with Ankara | Positive | BRUSSELS Greece and Cyprus pushed for a tougher European Union response to Turkeys natural gas exploration in contested Mediterranean waters at an EU summit on Friday but were essentially told to hold off until another leaders meeting in December | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-turkey/greece-cyprus-told-to-wait-for-eu-action-on-provocative-turkey-idUSKBN271173 | 2020-10-17 |
| U.S. law requires sanctions against countries that continue to deepen their defence relationship with Russia and the administration should send a strong signal that Turkey must divest its he said | Negative | A missile was fired into the sky on Friday on Turkeys Black Sea coast where the military was expected to test its Russianmade S400 defence systems according to local video obtained by Reuters drawing a strong warning from the United States | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-defence/video-shows-missile-fired-where-turkey-cleared-way-for-s-400-test-prompting-u-s-warning-idUSKBN2711Q1 | 2020-10-17 |
| The bloc said it would review the possibility of sanctions on Turkey at a European summit in December | Negative | PARIS France and Germany accused Turkey on Thursday of continuing to provoke the European Union with its actions in the eastern Mediterranean and urged it to clarify its positions in the coming weeks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-turkey-greece-france-germany/france-and-germany-tell-turkey-to-stop-provocations-idUSKBN2701I2 | 2020-10-16 |
| He said the ball was in Ankaras court but that the European Union was ready to change the balance of power if Turkey didnt return to dialogue | Negative | PARIS France and Germany accused Turkey on Thursday of continuing to provoke the European Union with its actions in the eastern Mediterranean and urged it to clarify its positions in the coming weeks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-turkey-greece-france-germany/france-and-germany-tell-turkey-to-stop-provocations-idUSKBN2701I2 | 2020-10-16 |
| It is one more provocation in Turkeys series of Greek government spokesman Stelios Petsas told reporters | Negative | ATHENS Greece accused Turkey on Thursday of deliberately holding up a government aircraft carrying its foreign minister home from Iraq leaving it circling for 20 minutes before granting it permission to cross Turkish airspace | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-aircraft/greece-blames-turkey-for-holding-up-foreign-ministers-plane-idUSKBN2701K3 | 2020-10-16 |
| Aliyev said the peace process could begin only if Turkey were included in mediation talks long driven by Russia France and the United States | Neutral | Hopes of a humanitarian ceasefire ending fighting over NagornoKarabakh sank on Thursday as the death toll mounted and Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of launching new attacks | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/nagorno-karabakh-ceasefire-hopes-sink-as-warring-sides-bicker-and-fight-idUSKBN26Z11E | 2020-10-16 |
| BRUSSELS The European Unions latest strategy to defuse tensions with Turkey is unravelling two weeks after it was sealed raising the risk of conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean diplomats officials and experts said | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Unions latest strategy to defuse tensions with Turkey is unravelling two weeks after it was sealed raising the risk of conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean diplomats officials and experts said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece-eu/carrot-and-stick-approach-to-turkey-failing-eu-envoys-say-idUSKBN26Z1LU | 2020-10-15 |
| BERLIN The European Union is unlikely to launch sanctions against Turkey at its summit starting on Thursday amid a gas dispute in the eastern Mediterranean a German government source said | Negative | BERLIN The European Union is unlikely to launch sanctions against Turkey at its summit starting on Thursday amid a gas dispute in the eastern Mediterranean a German government source said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-eu-summit-turkey-greece/germany-doesnt-expect-eu-summit-to-draft-sanctions-against-turkey-source-idUSKBN26Z228 | 2020-10-15 |
| We continue to urge Turkey to Linde said standing alongside Turkeys foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu | Negative | ANKARA Turkeys foreign minister angrily dismissed European Union calls to withdraw troops from northeast Syria on Tuesday accusing it of double standards and trying to lecture Ankara on human rights and international law | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-sweden/turkish-minister-criticises-eu-double-standards-in-testy-meet-with-swedish-minister-idUSKBN26Y2GX | 2020-10-14 |
| Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said it was Greece not Turkey that was escalating tensions in the Aegean and the Mediterranean Sea | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States on Tuesday slammed Turkeys renewed push to send a vessel to carry out seismic surveys in the eastern Mediterranean accusing Ankara of unilaterally stoking tensions and complicating the resumption of talks with Greece | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-turkey-greece-usa/u-s-slams-turkeys-renewed-seismic-survey-push-in-eastern-mediterranean-idUSKBN26Y1QD | 2020-10-14 |
| The EU also expects constructive steps toward democracy and human rights in Turkey she said | Negative | ANKARA Turkeys foreign minister angrily dismissed European Union calls to withdraw troops from northeast Syria on Tuesday accusing it of double standards and trying to lecture Ankara on human rights and international law | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-sweden/turkish-minister-criticises-eu-double-standards-in-testy-meet-with-swedish-minister-idUSKBN26Y2GX | 2020-10-14 |
| It is being closely watched abroad because of fears Russia and Turkey could get sucked in | Negative | Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other on Tuesday of violating a ceasefire agreed three days ago to quell fighting over the NagornoKarabakh enclave drawing warnings from international groups of a humanitarian crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/humanitarian-crisis-feared-as-nagorno-karabakh-ceasefire-buckles-idUSKBN26Y11R | 2020-10-14 |
| Russia has a defence pact with Armenia while Turkey is allied with Azerbaijan | Neutral | Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other on Tuesday of violating a ceasefire agreed three days ago to quell fighting over the NagornoKarabakh enclave drawing warnings from international groups of a humanitarian crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/humanitarian-crisis-feared-as-nagorno-karabakh-ceasefire-buckles-idUSKBN26Y11R | 2020-10-14 |
| We urge Turkey to end this calculated provocation and immediately begin exploratory talks with she said | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States on Tuesday slammed Turkeys renewed push to send a vessel to carry out seismic surveys in the eastern Mediterranean accusing Ankara of unilaterally stoking tensions and complicating the resumption of talks with Greece | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-turkey-greece-usa/u-s-slams-turkeys-renewed-seismic-survey-push-in-eastern-mediterranean-idUSKBN26Y1QD | 2020-10-14 |
| ANKARA Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar told Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu in a phone call Monday that Armenian forces must immediately be removed from Azeri lands they occupy and halt attacks on civilians Turkeys ministry said | Negative | ANKARA Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar told Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu in a phone call Monday that Armenian forces must immediately be removed from Azeri lands they occupy and halt attacks on civilians Turkeys ministry said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-turkey-russia/turkey-tells-russia-that-armenia-must-leave-azeri-lands-ministry-idUSKBN26X1R8 | 2020-10-13 |
| Renewed fighting in the decadesold conflict has raised fears of a wider war drawing in Turkey a close ally of Azerbaijan and Russia which has a defence pact with Armenia | Negative | Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of swiftly and seriously violating the terms of a ceasefire in NagornoKarabakh on Saturday raising questions about how meaningful the truce brokered by Russia would turn out to be | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-diplomacy/armenia-and-azerbaijan-accuse-each-other-of-violating-nagorno-karabakh-ceasefire-idUSKBN26V005 | 2020-10-11 |
| The latest fighting in the decadesold crisis has raised fears that Turkey and Russia which back opposing sides in the Syrian and Libyan conflicts as well will be dragged in | Negative | ANKARA Turkey said on Friday efforts by France the United States and Russia to end violence between Azeri and Armenian forces over NagornoKarabakh were bound to fail unless they ensured a withdrawal of Armenian forces from the enclave | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-turkey/turkey-nagorno-karabakh-truce-efforts-bound-to-fail-unless-armenia-withdraws-idUSKBN26U1D7 | 2020-10-10 |
| Turkeys Western allies and rights groups have called for Kavalas release and voiced concern that his indictment points to a politicisation of Turkeys justice system | Negative | ISTANBUL A Turkish court has approved an indictment accusing philanthropist Osman Kavala of helping organise an attempted coup in 2016 his lawyers said eight months after he was acquitted on charges of financing nationwide protests in 2013 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-security-kavala/turkish-court-approves-new-indictment-against-philanthropist-kavala-idUSKBN26U1JX | 2020-10-10 |
| The renewed fighting has increased concern that Turkey a close ally of Azerbaijan and Russia which has a defence pact with Armenia could be sucked into the conflict | Negative | Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians fought with artillery and heavy guns on Thursday as the United States France and Russia stepped up efforts to secure a ceasefire and avert a wider war in the South Caucasus | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/azeris-and-ethnic-armenians-fight-as-russia-u-s-and-france-seek-ceasefire-idUSKBN26T16H | 2020-10-09 |
| But he said the group did not welcome any actions by Turkey and other countries that were aimed at fostering peace | Negative | Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians fought with artillery and heavy guns on Thursday as the United States France and Russia stepped up efforts to secure a ceasefire and avert a wider war in the South Caucasus | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/azeris-and-ethnic-armenians-fight-as-russia-u-s-and-france-seek-ceasefire-idUSKBN26T16H | 2020-10-09 |
| The president has described Ankaras support for Azerbaijan as part of Turkeys quest for its deserved place in the world order | Negative | ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogans strong backing for Azerbaijan in the conflict over NagornoKarabakh has set Turkey apart from other big nations and alarmed NATO allies that are demanding a ceasefire | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-erdogan-analysis/in-nagorno-karabakh-conflict-erdogan-eyes-turkeys-place-in-world-order-idUSKBN26S0JM | 2020-10-07 |
| ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogans strong backing for Azerbaijan in the conflict over NagornoKarabakh has set Turkey apart from other big nations and alarmed NATO allies that are demanding a ceasefire | Negative | ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogans strong backing for Azerbaijan in the conflict over NagornoKarabakh has set Turkey apart from other big nations and alarmed NATO allies that are demanding a ceasefire | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-erdogan-analysis/in-nagorno-karabakh-conflict-erdogan-eyes-turkeys-place-in-world-order-idUSKBN26S0JM | 2020-10-07 |
| Erdogan is also betting that despite their differences over NagornoKarabakh Turkey and Russia get on well enough to prevent a wider conflict in the region | Positive | ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogans strong backing for Azerbaijan in the conflict over NagornoKarabakh has set Turkey apart from other big nations and alarmed NATO allies that are demanding a ceasefire | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-erdogan-analysis/in-nagorno-karabakh-conflict-erdogan-eyes-turkeys-place-in-world-order-idUSKBN26S0JM | 2020-10-07 |
| Erdogans stance had worsened a war of words with France whose population includes many of Armenian origin but it is accepted by Turkeys main opposition parties | Negative | ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogans strong backing for Azerbaijan in the conflict over NagornoKarabakh has set Turkey apart from other big nations and alarmed NATO allies that are demanding a ceasefire | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-erdogan-analysis/in-nagorno-karabakh-conflict-erdogan-eyes-turkeys-place-in-world-order-idUSKBN26S0JM | 2020-10-07 |
| All of these conflicts out there boost the perception that Turkey is a country under siege rightly or said Sinan Ulgen chairman of the Istanbulbased EDAM think tank | Negative | ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogans strong backing for Azerbaijan in the conflict over NagornoKarabakh has set Turkey apart from other big nations and alarmed NATO allies that are demanding a ceasefire | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-erdogan-analysis/in-nagorno-karabakh-conflict-erdogan-eyes-turkeys-place-in-world-order-idUSKBN26S0JM | 2020-10-07 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday said he supports NATO efforts to defuse tensions between Greece and Turkey and that agreements to establish a military deconfliction mechanism and resume diplomatic talks are steps in the right direction | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday said he supports NATO efforts to defuse tensions between Greece and Turkey and that agreements to establish a military deconfliction mechanism and resume diplomatic talks are steps in the right direction | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-nato-greece-turkey-biden/biden-applauds-nato-efforts-to-defuse-tensions-between-turkey-greece-idUSKBN26R2J3 | 2020-10-07 |
| OTTAWA Canada has suspended the export of some drone technology to Turkey while it probes allegations the equipment was used by Azeri forces involved in fighting with Armenia a senior official said on Monday | Negative | OTTAWA Canada has suspended the export of some drone technology to Turkey while it probes allegations the equipment was used by Azeri forces involved in fighting with Armenia a senior official said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-canada/canada-suspends-drone-technology-sales-to-turkey-after-claims-of-use-by-azeri-forces-idUSKBN26Q2U4 | 2020-10-06 |
| ISTANBUL A Turkish drill ship has left the area where it was operating southwest of Cyprus and reached Turkeys coast for maintenance in a move the European Union said would help ease tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean | Negative | ISTANBUL A Turkish drill ship has left the area where it was operating southwest of Cyprus and reached Turkeys coast for maintenance in a move the European Union said would help ease tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-cyprus-turkey/eu-welcomes-turkish-ships-return-to-port-from-near-cyprus-idUSKBN26Q1PA | 2020-10-06 |
| EU leaders last Friday assured Cyprus the bloc would punish Turkey if it continues drilling in disputed Mediterranean areas after resisting Cypriot calls to impose sanctions on Ankara | Negative | ISTANBUL A Turkish drill ship has left the area where it was operating southwest of Cyprus and reached Turkeys coast for maintenance in a move the European Union said would help ease tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-cyprus-turkey/eu-welcomes-turkish-ships-return-to-port-from-near-cyprus-idUSKBN26Q1PA | 2020-10-06 |
| OTTAWA Canada is probing allegations that Azeri forces involved in fighting with Armenia are using Canadian drone technology that was initially exported to Turkey Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday | Negative | OTTAWA Canada is probing allegations that Azeri forces involved in fighting with Armenia are using Canadian drone technology that was initially exported to Turkey Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-canada/canada-probing-allegations-azeri-forces-are-using-canadian-technology-in-nagorno-karabakh-idUSKBN26N3FK | 2020-10-03 |
| It was unclear how much funding the Turkey Wealth Fund could make available in what one source called a | Positive | It was unclear how much funding the Turkey Wealth Fund could make available in what one source called a | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkish-airlines-e/exclusive-turkeys-wealth-fund-in-talks-over-urgent-support-for-hard-hit-turkish-airlines-sources-idUSKBN26N1VO | 2020-10-03 |
| The EU sanctions had been held up by Cyprus due to an unrelated dispute with Turkey | Negative | The United States imposed sanctions on eight Belarusian officials on Friday accusing them of involvement in rigging President Alexander Lukashenkos reelection victory in August or the violent crackdown on protests that followed | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-belarus-election/washington-hits-belarus-with-sanctions-as-minsk-retaliates-against-eu-measures-idUSKBN26N33Z | 2020-10-03 |
| Two Syrian rebel sources have told Reuters that Turkey is sending Syrian rebel fighters to support Azerbaijan | Negative | MOSCOW Moscow knows about Syrian mercenaries in the NagornoKarabakh region independently of media reports RIA cited Russian foreign ministry as saying on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-russia-syria-merce/russian-foreign-ministry-says-it-knows-about-syrian-mercenaries-in-karabakh-ria-idUSKBN26M6GL | 2020-10-02 |
| Macron whose country is home to about 600000 people of Armenian origin has accused Turkey of rhetoric | Negative | The presidents of France Russia and the United States called on Thursday for an immediate ceasefire between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces around NagornoKarabakh but Turkey said the three big powers should have no role in peace moves | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/turkey-rebuffs-russia-france-and-u-s-over-nagorno-karabakh-ceasefire-moves-idUSKBN26M5IJ | 2020-10-02 |
| BRUSSELS Cyprus defied pressure to approve European Union sanctions on Belarus at a leaders summit on Thursday urging other members of the bloc to also punish Turkey for its oil and gas drilling in the Mediterranean | Negative | BRUSSELS Cyprus defied pressure to approve European Union sanctions on Belarus at a leaders summit on Thursday urging other members of the bloc to also punish Turkey for its oil and gas drilling in the Mediterranean | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-eu-summit/cyprus-demands-turkey-sanctions-at-eu-summit-stalls-on-belarus-idUSKBN26M3YM | 2020-10-02 |
| BRUSSELS European Council President Charles Michel said on Thursday before an EU summit he will chair that the bloc wanted more stability in the Eastern Mediterranean where tensions have risen in recent months between Turkey and Greece and Cyprus | Negative | BRUSSELS European Council President Charles Michel said on Thursday before an EU summit he will chair that the bloc wanted more stability in the Eastern Mediterranean where tensions have risen in recent months between Turkey and Greece and Cyprus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-michel/eus-michel-we-want-more-stability-in-eastern-mediterranean-idUSKBN26M67M | 2020-10-02 |
| Germany has pushed back against the imposition of EU sanctions on Turkey fearing it will disrupt efforts to cool tensions with Greece | Negative | BRUSSELS Cyprus defied pressure to approve European Union sanctions on Belarus at a leaders summit on Thursday urging other members of the bloc to also punish Turkey for its oil and gas drilling in the Mediterranean | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-eu-summit/cyprus-demands-turkey-sanctions-at-eu-summit-stalls-on-belarus-idUSKBN26M3YM | 2020-10-02 |
| We want more he told reporters before the summit in Brussels where the difficult relationship between Turkey and the 27nation EU will be discussed | Negative | BRUSSELS European Council President Charles Michel said on Thursday before an EU summit he will chair that the bloc wanted more stability in the Eastern Mediterranean where tensions have risen in recent months between Turkey and Greece and Cyprus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-michel/eus-michel-we-want-more-stability-in-eastern-mediterranean-idUSKBN26M67M | 2020-10-02 |
| Koca said on Thursday the government is protecting its national interest as much as the health of its in fighting COVID19 which has killed more than 8000 in Turkey | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkeys top medical association and the main opposition party on Thursday criticised a decision by President Tayyip Erdogans government to only publicly disclose new coronavirus cases if the patient is showing symptoms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/doctors-group-says-turkey-hid-the-truth-by-reporting-only-those-with-covid-19-symptoms-idUSKBN26M71J | 2020-10-02 |
| BRUSSELS European Union leaders will express their full solidarity with Greece and Cyprus in their standoff with Turkey but the EU wants a deescalation of tensions with Ankara and a constructive relationship the head of the European Commission said | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union leaders will express their full solidarity with Greece and Cyprus in their standoff with Turkey but the EU wants a deescalation of tensions with Ankara and a constructive relationship the head of the European Commission said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-turkey-vonderleyen/eu-wants-a-constructive-relationship-with-turkey-von-der-leyen-idUSKBN26M65C | 2020-10-02 |
| Speaking to reporters on entering a summit of EU leaders Ursula von der Leyen told reporters there were two options for the EU in its relations with Turkey | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union leaders will express their full solidarity with Greece and Cyprus in their standoff with Turkey but the EU wants a deescalation of tensions with Ankara and a constructive relationship the head of the European Commission said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-turkey-vonderleyen/eu-wants-a-constructive-relationship-with-turkey-von-der-leyen-idUSKBN26M65C | 2020-10-02 |
| They eased after Ankara brought Oruc Reis back to port but Cyprus has demanded EU sanctions against Turkey | Negative | ISTANBUL As Turkey and Greece prepare for talks to calm a bitter maritime dispute Ankara released a video this week glorifying a 16th century naval victory which led to the Ottoman Empire taking control of the Mediterranean | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece-blue-homeland/turkey-touts-past-maritime-conquests-ahead-of-talks-on-mediterranean-dispute-idUSKBN26L2KR | 2020-10-01 |
| The image was splashed across Greek newspapers and Dendias said Turkey was establishing itself as a | Negative | ISTANBUL As Turkey and Greece prepare for talks to calm a bitter maritime dispute Ankara released a video this week glorifying a 16th century naval victory which led to the Ottoman Empire taking control of the Mediterranean | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece-blue-homeland/turkey-touts-past-maritime-conquests-ahead-of-talks-on-mediterranean-dispute-idUSKBN26L2KR | 2020-10-01 |
| Armenia says one of its SU25 warplanes was shot down by a Turkish fighter jet on Tuesday but the report was denied by Turkey and Azeri officials | Negative | NATO allies France and Turkey traded angry recriminations on Wednesday as international tensions mounted over the fiercest clashes between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces since the mid1990s | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/france-and-turkey-at-odds-as-karabakh-fighting-divides-nato-allies-idUSKBN26L106 | 2020-10-01 |
| The historic parallels extend to Turkeys gas exploration | Neutral | ISTANBUL As Turkey and Greece prepare for talks to calm a bitter maritime dispute Ankara released a video this week glorifying a 16th century naval victory which led to the Ottoman Empire taking control of the Mediterranean | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece-blue-homeland/turkey-touts-past-maritime-conquests-ahead-of-talks-on-mediterranean-dispute-idUSKBN26L2KR | 2020-10-01 |
| Two Syrian rebel sources have told Reuters that Turkey is sending Syrian rebel fighters to support Azerbaijan which Turkey and Azerbaijan have denied | Negative | MOSCOW Russias foreign ministry said on Wednesday that Syrian and Libyan fighters from illegal armed groups were being sent to the NagornoKarabakh region where fierce fighting has raged for the past four days between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-russia-mercenaries/russia-decries-use-of-foreign-terrorists-in-karabakh-conflict-idUSKBN26L394 | 2020-10-01 |
| LONDON Britains car industry risks some tariffs being imposed after Brexit as Brussels will not allow components from countries such as Turkey and Japan to count towards a content threshold in a trade deal an industry source said on Wednesday | Negative | LONDON Britains car industry risks some tariffs being imposed after Brexit as Brussels will not allow components from countries such as Turkey and Japan to count towards a content threshold in a trade deal an industry source said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britian-eu-autos-smmt/british-car-sector-risks-some-tariffs-in-eu-trade-deal-source-idUSKBN26L1PR | 2020-10-01 |
| They didnt want to share the seas with Turkey they wanted to seize Turkeys seas | Negative | ISTANBUL As Turkey and Greece prepare for talks to calm a bitter maritime dispute Ankara released a video this week glorifying a 16th century naval victory which led to the Ottoman Empire taking control of the Mediterranean | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece-blue-homeland/turkey-touts-past-maritime-conquests-ahead-of-talks-on-mediterranean-dispute-idUSKBN26L2KR | 2020-10-01 |
| LONDON The United Kingdom has so far failed to persuade the European Union to accept car parts from Japan and Turkey as British when they are used in Britain meaning some automotive exports would attract tariffs even with a trade deal the BBC said | Negative | LONDON The United Kingdom has so far failed to persuade the European Union to accept car parts from Japan and Turkey as British when they are used in Britain meaning some automotive exports would attract tariffs even with a trade deal the BBC said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britain-eu-autos/uk-cars-could-face-some-tariffs-to-eu-due-to-parts-ruling-bbc-idUSKBN26L0S8 | 2020-10-01 |
| Hunter a senior scientist at agricultural research group Bioversity International said his organisation was working in Brazil Turkey Kenya and Sri Lanka to promote native species | Positive | Climate change is threatening to unleash weather conditions pests and diseases that our current crops will struggle to cope the report said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-global-climatechange-food/crop-swap-thousands-of-edible-plants-could-feed-us-on-a-hotter-planet-idUSKBN26K3Q8 | 2020-09-30 |
| Any descent into allout war could threaten to drag in not only Turkey but Russia | Negative | Armenia and Azerbaijan accused one another on Tuesday of firing directly into each others territory and rejected pressure to hold peace talks as their conflict over the enclave of NagornoKarabakh threatened to mushroom into allout war | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/azerbaijan-and-armenia-reject-talks-as-karabakh-conflict-zone-spreads-idUSKBN26K0KN | 2020-09-30 |
| BRUSSELS Brexit Britain is part of an arc of that has emerged around the European Union the blocs chairman said on Monday ranking Londons decision to leave the EU along with threats from Turkey Russia Libya and Syria | Negative | BRUSSELS Brexit Britain is part of an arc of that has emerged around the European Union the blocs chairman said on Monday ranking Londons decision to leave the EU along with threats from Turkey Russia Libya and Syria | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-britain-eu-michel/britain-is-part-of-arc-of-instability-around-the-eu-chairman-says-idUSKBN26J2BZ | 2020-09-29 |
| LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday that he was concerned about tensions in the eastern Mediterranean welcoming news that Turkey and Greece had agreed to talks Johnsons office said in a statement | Positive | LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday that he was concerned about tensions in the eastern Mediterranean welcoming news that Turkey and Greece had agreed to talks Johnsons office said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-britain-turkey/uks-johnson-raises-concerns-with-turkeys-erdogan-over-east-med-tensions-idUSKBN26J2ZW | 2020-09-29 |
| Armenia also said Turkish military experts were fighting alongside Azerbaijan in NagornoKarabakh a mountainous breakaway region of Azerbaijan run by ethnic Armenians and that Turkey had provided drones and warplanes | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey is sending Syrian rebel fighters to support Azerbaijan in its escalating conflict with neighbouring Armenia two Syrian rebels have said as Ankara pledges to step up backing for its majorityMuslim ally | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-turkey-syria/turkey-deploying-syrian-fighters-to-help-ally-azerbaijan-two-fighters-say-idUSKBN26J25A | 2020-09-29 |
| Turkey did not immediately comment although senior officials including President Tayyip Erdogan who has increasingly been flexing Turkeys military muscle abroad have promised support for Baku | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey is sending Syrian rebel fighters to support Azerbaijan in its escalating conflict with neighbouring Armenia two Syrian rebels have said as Ankara pledges to step up backing for its majorityMuslim ally | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-turkey-syria/turkey-deploying-syrian-fighters-to-help-ally-azerbaijan-two-fighters-say-idUSKBN26J25A | 2020-09-29 |
| I dont rule out at all Turkey becoming a strategic choice for Syrian youths | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey is sending Syrian rebel fighters to support Azerbaijan in its escalating conflict with neighbouring Armenia two Syrian rebels have said as Ankara pledges to step up backing for its majorityMuslim ally | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-turkey-syria/turkey-deploying-syrian-fighters-to-help-ally-azerbaijan-two-fighters-say-idUSKBN26J25A | 2020-09-29 |
| Pashinyan hit back urged the international community to ensure Turkey does not get involved in the conflict | Negative | At least 16 military members and several civilians were killed on Sunday in the heaviest clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan since 2016 reigniting concern about stability in the South Caucasus a corridor for pipelines carrying oil and gas to world markets | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/armenia-azerbaijan-clashes-kill-at-least-16-undermine-regional-stability-idUSKBN26I06E | 2020-09-28 |
| YEREVAN Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called on the international community on Sunday to ensure that Turkey does not involve itself in Armenias conflict with Azerbaijan over the NagornoKarabakh region trading barbs with Ankara | Negative | YEREVAN Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called on the international community on Sunday to ensure that Turkey does not involve itself in Armenias conflict with Azerbaijan over the NagornoKarabakh region trading barbs with Ankara | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-turkey-pashinyan/armenian-pm-warns-against-any-turkish-involvement-in-conflict-with-azerbaijan-idUSKBN26I0JL | 2020-09-28 |
| There was no immediate comment from Turkey | Neutral | ATHENS Greece on Sunday called on Turkey to condemn and investigate what it said was an to its national flag on the Greek island of Kastellorizo | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-kastellorizo/greece-calls-on-turkey-to-condemn-flag-incident-on-greek-island-idUSKBN26I0HO | 2020-09-28 |
| Such a conflict could drag in the big regional powers Russia and Turkey | Negative | NagornoKarabakh is a mountainous and heavilyforested patch of land that sits inside the territory of exSoviet Azerbaijan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-tensions-factbox/factbox-nagorno-karabakh-old-tensions-erupt-again-into-violence-idUSKBN26I0LF | 2020-09-28 |
| Dialogue has reduced the need to threaten sanctions on Turkey and so theres no consensus among the 27 for such a step right said one EU diplomat | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union is unlikely to follow through on a threat to impose sanctions on Turkey after Ankara agreed to talks with Greece over maritime claims on Tuesday senior EU diplomats and officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-cyprus-belarus/eu-sanction-threat-on-turkey-fades-after-it-accepts-talks-with-greece-idUSKCN26E2WA | 2020-09-24 |
| BRUSSELS The European Union is unlikely to follow through on a threat to impose sanctions on Turkey after Ankara agreed to talks with Greece over maritime claims on Tuesday senior EU diplomats and officials said | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union is unlikely to follow through on a threat to impose sanctions on Turkey after Ankara agreed to talks with Greece over maritime claims on Tuesday senior EU diplomats and officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-cyprus-belarus/eu-sanction-threat-on-turkey-fades-after-it-accepts-talks-with-greece-idUSKCN26E2WA | 2020-09-24 |
| discussed it was stated that Turkey and Greece are ready to start exploratory Turkeys presidency said in a statement | Positive | Turkey and Greece have agreed to resume talks over their contested maritime claims in the eastern Mediterranean after a four year hiatus following weeks of tensions that culminated in a collision between their warships | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-turkey-greece-eu/turkey-greece-agree-to-resume-talks-after-four-years-idUSKCN26D1UC | 2020-09-23 |
| Erdogan said Turkey preferred to solve disagreements justly and in an appropriate through talks but added that attempts to exclude Turkey from plans in the eastern Mediterranean could not succeed | Positive | Turkey and Greece have agreed to resume talks over their contested maritime claims in the eastern Mediterranean after a four year hiatus following weeks of tensions that culminated in a collision between their warships | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-turkey-greece-eu/turkey-greece-agree-to-resume-talks-after-four-years-idUSKCN26D1UC | 2020-09-23 |
| Cyprus has pressed for sanctions against Turkey angered by Ankaras move last week to extend the operations of two vessels in Mediterranean waters off Cyprus until midOctober | Negative | ATHENS Greece is close to resuming talks with Turkey over maritime zones government spokesman Stelios Petsas said on Monday after Ankara this month recalled an oil and gas exploration vessel from disputed Mediterranean waters in a move welcomed by Athens | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-spokesman/greece-says-its-close-to-resuming-maritime-talks-with-turkey-idUSKCN26C1DM | 2020-09-22 |
| ATHENS Greece is close to resuming talks with Turkey over maritime zones government spokesman Stelios Petsas said on Monday after Ankara this month recalled an oil and gas exploration vessel from disputed Mediterranean waters in a move welcomed by Athens | Positive | ATHENS Greece is close to resuming talks with Turkey over maritime zones government spokesman Stelios Petsas said on Monday after Ankara this month recalled an oil and gas exploration vessel from disputed Mediterranean waters in a move welcomed by Athens | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-spokesman/greece-says-its-close-to-resuming-maritime-talks-with-turkey-idUSKCN26C1DM | 2020-09-22 |
| Greece and its close ally Cyprus both European Union member states are locked in a dispute with Turkey over overlapping claims to areas believed to be rich in natural gas | Negative | ATHENS Greece is close to resuming talks with Turkey over maritime zones government spokesman Stelios Petsas said on Monday after Ankara this month recalled an oil and gas exploration vessel from disputed Mediterranean waters in a move welcomed by Athens | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-spokesman/greece-says-its-close-to-resuming-maritime-talks-with-turkey-idUSKCN26C1DM | 2020-09-22 |
| ANKARA Turkey recalled an oil and gas exploration vessel from disputed eastern Mediterranean waters to allow for diplomacy with Greece but Turkeys work in the region is not finished President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday | Positive | ANKARA Turkey recalled an oil and gas exploration vessel from disputed eastern Mediterranean waters to allow for diplomacy with Greece but Turkeys work in the region is not finished President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-turkey-greece-erdogan/erdogan-says-turkey-withdrew-survey-vessel-to-allow-for-diplomacy-idUSKBN2691X7 | 2020-09-19 |
| Russia supports the easternbased Libyan National Army of Khalifa Haftar while Turkey backs Libyas internationall recognised Government of National Accord | Neutral | CAIRO The chairman of Libyas National Oil Corporation said on Friday that lifting the force majeure restrictions that have halted oil exports from the wartorn country depends on demilitarising all oil facilities | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-oil/libyas-noc-says-lifting-force-majeure-is-tied-to-demilitarising-oil-facilities-idUSKBN26905D | 2020-09-18 |
| However both sides are made up of unstable coalitions that have come under stress since Turkey helped the GNA turn back a 14month LNA assault on Tripoli in June | Negative | TRIPOLI Libyas internationally recognised Prime Minister Fayez alSarraj said on Wednesday he wants to quit by the end of October which could feed political tensions in Tripoli amid new efforts to find a political solution to the countrys conflict | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-sarraj/head-of-libyas-tripoli-government-says-he-wants-to-quit-idUSKBN2673D9 | 2020-09-17 |
| As part of that programme CoronaVac being tested in finalstage largescale trials in Brazil Indonesia and Turkey has already been given to about of the companys employees and their families | Positive | BEIJING Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac Biotech plans to start a clinical trial of its experimental coronavirus vaccine with children and adolescents later this month widening its test on a shot thats already in the final stage of study with adults | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-sinovac-trial/chinas-sinovac-to-test-coronavirus-vaccine-candidate-in-teenagers-children-idUSKBN2680CI | 2020-09-17 |
| This government has long been at loggerheads with Turkey which began drilling for oil and gas near Cyprus last year | Negative | ATHENS Cyprus is ready to talk with Turkey to resolve differences in a dispute over Mediterranean drilling rights but only without blackmail and its president said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-cyprus-turkey-eu-michel/cyprus-president-ready-for-talks-without-threats-in-turkey-row-idUSKBN2671F8 | 2020-09-17 |
| She also said nothing could justify Turkeys intimidation of Greece and Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean in a dispute over energy resources | Negative | BRUSSELS The EUs chief executive chided European Union governments on Wednesday for an ineffective foreign policy and proposed U.S.style sanctions on human rights abusers around the world | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-commission-diplomacy/be-courageous-in-diplomacy-eu-chief-says-proposing-new-sanctions-idUSKBN26717M | 2020-09-17 |
| ATHENS Cyprus is ready to talk with Turkey to resolve differences in a dispute over Mediterranean drilling rights but only without blackmail and its president said on Wednesday | Positive | ATHENS Cyprus is ready to talk with Turkey to resolve differences in a dispute over Mediterranean drilling rights but only without blackmail and its president said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-cyprus-turkey-eu-michel/cyprus-president-ready-for-talks-without-threats-in-turkey-row-idUSKBN2671F8 | 2020-09-17 |
| Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he too was concerned by Turkeys move to extend the ships operation | Negative | ATHENS Cyprus is ready to talk with Turkey to resolve differences in a dispute over Mediterranean drilling rights but only without blackmail and its president said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-cyprus-turkey-eu-michel/cyprus-president-ready-for-talks-without-threats-in-turkey-row-idUSKBN2671F8 | 2020-09-17 |
| This is not an intimidation this is just to say that Turkey will continue to defend its own rights and also the rights of Turkish Kaymakci said | Negative | ATHENS Cyprus is ready to talk with Turkey to resolve differences in a dispute over Mediterranean drilling rights but only without blackmail and its president said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-cyprus-turkey-eu-michel/cyprus-president-ready-for-talks-without-threats-in-turkey-row-idUSKBN2671F8 | 2020-09-17 |
| Cyprus internationally recognised Greek Cypriot government has long been at loggerheads with Turkey which began drilling for oil and gas near Cyprus last year | Negative | ANKARA Turkey said on Tuesday it had extended the operations of its Yavuz energy drill ship in disputed Mediterranean waters off Cyprus until Oct | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-eu-cyprus/turkey-extends-operations-of-energy-drill-ship-off-cyprus-until-mid-october-idUSKBN2662VZ | 2020-09-16 |
| Greece said on Tuesday it was ready for talks with Turkey following the withdrawal of a Turkish exploration vessel from a disputed region | Positive | ANKARA Turkey said on Tuesday it had extended the operations of its Yavuz energy drill ship in disputed Mediterranean waters off Cyprus until Oct | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-eu-cyprus/turkey-extends-operations-of-energy-drill-ship-off-cyprus-until-mid-october-idUSKBN2662VZ | 2020-09-16 |
| Turkey wields influence as it funded trained and allowed the rebel force known as the Syrian National Army to enter Syria from Turkey panelist Hanny Megally said | Positive | GENEVA Turkey must rein in Syrian rebels it supports in northern Syria who may have carried out kidnappings torture and looting of civilian property United Nations war crimes investigators said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-un/u-n-war-crimes-experts-urge-turkey-to-rein-in-rebels-in-syria-idUSKBN2662O5 | 2020-09-16 |
| The new Thomas Cook will sell holidays to destinations on Britains safe travel corridor list including Italy Greece and Turkey the company said in a statement on Wednesday | Positive | LONDON Thomas Cook reemerged as an onlineonly travel company on Wednesday backed by its Chinese owners a year after the highprofile collapse of the British company left thousands stranded out of work and out of pocket | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-thomas-cook-launch/chinese-owners-revive-thomas-cook-as-online-only-holiday-brand-idUSKBN2663IO | 2020-09-16 |
| Peoples of the region will continue to deal with this occupation as their true he told Reuters speaking from Turkey | Negative | JERUSALEM Palestinian militants fired rockets from Gaza into Israel wounding two people on Tuesday at the same time as Israel and two Gulf Arab states signed normalisation agreements at the White House in Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-gaza/palestinians-fire-rockets-at-israel-wounding-two-during-white-house-ceremony-idUSKBN2662YO | 2020-09-16 |
| ANKARA Turkish and Russian officials will meet in Ankara this week for a new round of talks on developments in Syria and Libya where the two countries back opposing sides Turkeys Foreign Ministry said on Monday | Positive | ANKARA Turkish and Russian officials will meet in Ankara this week for a new round of talks on developments in Syria and Libya where the two countries back opposing sides Turkeys Foreign Ministry said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-turkey-syria-libya/turkish-russian-officials-to-meet-in-ankara-for-talks-on-syria-libya-idUSKBN26531X | 2020-09-15 |
| Russia along with Iran supports President Bashar alAssads forces and Turkey backs rebels looking to oust him | Negative | ANKARA Turkish and Russian officials will meet in Ankara this week for a new round of talks on developments in Syria and Libya where the two countries back opposing sides Turkeys Foreign Ministry said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-turkey-syria-libya/turkish-russian-officials-to-meet-in-ankara-for-talks-on-syria-libya-idUSKBN26531X | 2020-09-15 |
| Akar who was visiting Antalyas Kas district near the Greek island of Kastellorizo said that Turkey was on the side of dialogue and political solution | Positive | Turkeys seismic research vessel Oruc Reis returned to waters near the southern province of Antalya on Sunday Refinitiv data showed a move Greece said was a positive first step in easing tensions over offshore natural resources | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece/turkeys-oruc-reis-survey-vessel-back-near-southern-shore-ship-tracker-shows-idUSKBN2640AX | 2020-09-14 |
| Tensions in the eastern Mediterranean have risen over claims and counter claims pitting Turkey against Greece and Cyprus to maritime areas thought to be rich in natural gas | Negative | NICOSIA The United States remains deeply about Turkeys actions in the eastern Mediterranean Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Saturday urging a diplomatic end to a simmering crisis over offshore natural resources | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-pompeo-cyprus/pompeo-says-u-s-deeply-concerned-over-turkey-actions-in-east-med-idUSKBN2630ZN | 2020-09-13 |
| NICOSIA The United States remains deeply about Turkeys actions in the eastern Mediterranean Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Saturday urging a diplomatic end to a simmering crisis over offshore natural resources | Negative | NICOSIA The United States remains deeply about Turkeys actions in the eastern Mediterranean Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Saturday urging a diplomatic end to a simmering crisis over offshore natural resources | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-pompeo-cyprus/pompeo-says-u-s-deeply-concerned-over-turkey-actions-in-east-med-idUSKBN2630ZN | 2020-09-13 |
| The GNA is supported by Turkey | Positive | BENGHAZI Libya Scores of people protested in Benghazi on Thursday over power cuts and living conditions witnesses said burning tyres and blocking some roads in an unusual public show of dissent in the eastern Libyan city | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-protests/protests-flare-in-libyas-benghazi-over-power-cuts-living-conditions-idUSKBN2613MX | 2020-09-11 |
| AJACCIO France The European Union will draw up a list of new sanctions on Turkey at the end of September unless Ankara comes to the negotiating table to resolve a territorial dispute with Greece and Cyprus the EUs Mediterranean states said on Thursday | Negative | AJACCIO France The European Union will draw up a list of new sanctions on Turkey at the end of September unless Ankara comes to the negotiating table to resolve a territorial dispute with Greece and Cyprus the EUs Mediterranean states said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-mediterranean-summit-greece-turkey/europes-south-tells-turkey-resume-talks-this-month-or-risk-sanctions-idUSKBN261394 | 2020-09-11 |
| We will avert Turkeys attempt to divide he said adding that Greece has been fulfilling its duty in protecting EU borders and expects solidarity in return | Negative | AJACCIO France The European Union will draw up a list of new sanctions on Turkey at the end of September unless Ankara comes to the negotiating table to resolve a territorial dispute with Greece and Cyprus the EUs Mediterranean states said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-mediterranean-summit-greece-turkey/europes-south-tells-turkey-resume-talks-this-month-or-risk-sanctions-idUSKBN261394 | 2020-09-11 |
| This month EU leaders are expected to specify their response to Turkey | Negative | ATHENS The European Union must impose sanctions on Turkey unless Ankara pulls its maritime assets from disputed areas in the eastern Mediterranean Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an opinion piece published on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey/greek-pm-dialogue-with-turkey-is-important-but-on-peaceful-terms-idUSKBN2610OH | 2020-09-10 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron will discuss the European Unions strained relationship with Turkey later Thursday with Mitsotakis | Negative | ATHENS The European Union must impose sanctions on Turkey unless Ankara pulls its maritime assets from disputed areas in the eastern Mediterranean Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an opinion piece published on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey/greek-pm-dialogue-with-turkey-is-important-but-on-peaceful-terms-idUSKBN2610OH | 2020-09-10 |
| ATHENS The European Union must impose sanctions on Turkey unless Ankara pulls its maritime assets from disputed areas in the eastern Mediterranean Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an opinion piece published on Thursday | Negative | ATHENS The European Union must impose sanctions on Turkey unless Ankara pulls its maritime assets from disputed areas in the eastern Mediterranean Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an opinion piece published on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey/greek-pm-dialogue-with-turkey-is-important-but-on-peaceful-terms-idUSKBN2610OH | 2020-09-10 |
| ATHENS Greece plans to acquire arms boost its armed forces and revamp its defence industry the governments spokesman said on Monday as tensions with NATO ally Turkey over energy resources in the eastern Mediterranean grow | Negative | ATHENS Greece plans to acquire arms boost its armed forces and revamp its defence industry the governments spokesman said on Monday as tensions with NATO ally Turkey over energy resources in the eastern Mediterranean grow | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-defence/greece-to-bolster-defence-sector-as-eastern-mediterranean-tensions-rise-idUSKBN25Y152 | 2020-09-08 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron will discuss the European Unions strained relationship with Turkey this week with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis Macrons office said on Monday | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron will discuss the European Unions strained relationship with Turkey this week with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis Macrons office said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece-france/frances-macron-greek-pm-to-discuss-turkey-at-med7-summit-idUSKBN25Y1RA | 2020-09-08 |
| ISTANBUL Netflix has delayed the launch of French film in Turkey after broadcasting watchdog ordered it to be removed saying it might lead to potential child exploitation | Negative | ISTANBUL Netflix has delayed the launch of French film in Turkey after broadcasting watchdog ordered it to be removed saying it might lead to potential child exploitation | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-turkey-media-netflix/netflix-delays-cuties-film-launch-in-turkey-idUSKBN25Y1KB | 2020-09-08 |
| ISTANBUL President Tayyip Erdogan told European Council President Charles Michel on Sunday the EUs stance towards the East Mediterranean would be a test of its sincerity calling on it to take an impartial stance in Turkeys row with Greece | Negative | ISTANBUL President Tayyip Erdogan told European Council President Charles Michel on Sunday the EUs stance towards the East Mediterranean would be a test of its sincerity calling on it to take an impartial stance in Turkeys row with Greece | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece-eu/turkeys-erdogan-says-east-med-is-test-of-eus-sincerity-idUSKBN25X0RM | 2020-09-07 |
| The following day Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Greece would start talks with Turkey to resolve a dispute in the Eastern Mediterranean once Turkish ceased | Positive | ISTANBUL President Tayyip Erdogan told European Council President Charles Michel on Sunday the EUs stance towards the East Mediterranean would be a test of its sincerity calling on it to take an impartial stance in Turkeys row with Greece | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece-eu/turkeys-erdogan-says-east-med-is-test-of-eus-sincerity-idUSKBN25X0RM | 2020-09-07 |
| Sinovacs vaccine candidate CoronaVac being tested in Brazil and Indonesia also obtained approvals from Turkey and Bangladesh for Phase 3 trials Sinovac CEO Yin Weidong told Reuters on Sunday | Positive | BEIJING China National Biotec Group and Sinovac Biotech Ltd said on Saturday they have each found two more countries to run latestage clinical tests of their coronavirus vaccine candidates as China steps up its efforts in the global race | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-china/chinas-cnbg-sinovac-find-more-countries-to-test-coronavirus-vaccines-idUSKBN25W0BA | 2020-09-06 |
| ATHENS Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday Greece would start talks with Turkey to resolve a row in the Eastern Mediterranean once Turkish ceased | Positive | ATHENS Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday Greece would start talks with Turkey to resolve a row in the Eastern Mediterranean once Turkish ceased | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-pm/greek-pm-tells-turkey-to-end-provocations-for-dialogue-to-begin-idUSKBN25V1FS | 2020-09-05 |
| Michel declined to discuss the specific incentives or punitive steps the bloc could take with respect to Turkey | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union leaders will decide on a carrot and approach to Turkey when they meet on Sept | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-eu-turkey/eu-to-hone-carrot-and-stick-line-on-turkey-at-summit-top-official-says-idUSKBN25V1PT | 2020-09-05 |
| Southeast Asia has been a preferred transit point to Turkey for ethnic Uighurs Muslims fleeing what refugees and activists have described as oppression and mass internment by the Chinese government | Negative | KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will not entertain requests to extradite ethnic Uighur refugees to China and will allow them safe passage to a third country should they feel their safety is at risk a minister has said | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-malaysia-china-uighur/malaysia-wont-extradite-uighurs-to-china-minister-says-idUSKBN25V1KE | 2020-09-05 |
| Haftar is supported by the United Arab Emirates Egypt and Russia while the internationally recognized government is backed by Turkey | Neutral | WASHINGTON Two Libyan families filed a civil lawsuit in a U.S. federal court late on Thursday accusing Khalifa Haftar commander of the Libyan National Army of war crimes human rights abuses and torture during a 20162017 offensive to seize a key Libyan district a court filing showed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-libya-security-usa-lawsuit/libyan-families-file-u-s-lawsuit-accusing-lna-leader-haftar-of-war-crimes-idUSKBN25V2GA | 2020-09-05 |
| BRUSSELS European Union leaders will decide on a carrot and approach to Turkey when they meet on Sept | Neutral | BRUSSELS European Union leaders will decide on a carrot and approach to Turkey when they meet on Sept | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-eu-turkey/eu-to-hone-carrot-and-stick-line-on-turkey-at-summit-top-official-says-idUSKBN25V1PT | 2020-09-05 |
| Russia is building TurkStream in two pipelines the first of which will supply Turkey and the second of which is to extend from Bulgaria to Serbia and Hungary | Positive | Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Germany will consult its NATO allies about how to respond to findings by a German military laboratory that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Sovietstyle nerve agent | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-factbox/how-might-west-respond-to-russia-over-navalny-poisoning-idUSKBN25U2DC | 2020-09-04 |
| Greece has been joined by NATO allies France and Italy in its military drills in the same area of the Mediterranean while Turkey has also carried out naval exercises | Positive | Greece and Turkey have agreed to talks to avoid accidental clashes in the Eastern Mediterranean NATO SecretaryGeneral Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday part of efforts to defuse the worsening dispute over energy resources in the region | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-nato/greece-turkey-agree-to-talks-over-eastern-mediterranean-nato-says-idUSKBN25U2MP | 2020-09-04 |
| Greece with support from the European Union in turn accuses Turkey of aggressive actions and infringing on its maritime borders | Negative | Greece and Turkey have agreed to talks to avoid accidental clashes in the Eastern Mediterranean NATO SecretaryGeneral Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday part of efforts to defuse the worsening dispute over energy resources in the region | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-nato/greece-turkey-agree-to-talks-over-eastern-mediterranean-nato-says-idUSKBN25U2MP | 2020-09-04 |
| Bashagha who was visiting the GNAs main ally Turkey when he was suspended was met on his return by his supporters and a convoy of military vehicles from Misrata | Negative | TRIPOLI Libyas internationally recognised Government of National Accord on Thursday restored the interior minister to his post after announcing his suspension last week following protests over living conditions | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/libyan-interior-minister-restored-to-post-after-talks-idUSKBN25U2R2 | 2020-09-04 |
| Another option could be to take steps over TurkStream a pipeline project that will carry Russian natural gas to southern Europe through Turkey | Positive | Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Germany will consult its NATO allies about how to respond to findings by a German military laboratory that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Sovietstyle nerve agent | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-factbox/how-might-west-respond-to-russia-over-navalny-poisoning-idUSKBN25U2DC | 2020-09-04 |
| The LNA is supported by the United Arab Emirates Russia and Egypt while the GNA is backed by Turkey | Negative | TUNIS The United Nations acting Libya envoy said on Wednesday that foreign supporters of both sides in the civil war were helping them stockpile weapons in breach of an arms embargo and as coronavirus spirals out of in the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-un/u-n-warns-of-libya-arms-build-up-and-virus-surge-idUSKBN25T2VO | 2020-09-03 |
| There was an overstated political angle put into my said one journalist who wrote for Peace Data about Turkey and the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange | Neutral | LONDON When freelance journalist Laura Walters submitted a 1000 word article about Chinese political influence in New Zealand to her new editors at nonprofit media outlet Peace Data the response was emphatic | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-election-facebook-russia/duped-by-russia-freelancers-ensnared-in-disinformation-campaign-by-promise-of-easy-money-idUSKBN25T35E | 2020-09-03 |
| Haftar is supported by the United Arab Emirates Egypt and Russia while the government is backed by Turkey | Negative | NEW YORK Russia has stepped up its logistic support for private military contractor Wagner Group in Libya with some 338 military cargo flights from Syria in the nine months to July 31 to aid Wagner fighters backing easternbased Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar according to a U.N. report seen by Reuters on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-un/russia-steps-up-support-for-private-military-contractor-in-libya-u-n-report-idUSKBN25T37G | 2020-09-03 |
| VIENNA Austria will file charges against a person who has confessed to spying for Turkeys secret service and authorities are investigating more suspected espionage activities its interior minister said warning Turkey this would not be tolerated | Negative | VIENNA Austria will file charges against a person who has confessed to spying for Turkeys secret service and authorities are investigating more suspected espionage activities its interior minister said warning Turkey this would not be tolerated | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-austria-turkey-espionage/austria-to-file-charges-against-turkish-spy-interior-minister-idUSKBN25S4R1 | 2020-09-02 |
| Later on Tuesday Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said Ankara rejected the baseless adding the comments showed Vienna was unable to escape populist rhetoric and its antiTurkey obsession | Negative | VIENNA Austria will file charges against a person who has confessed to spying for Turkeys secret service and authorities are investigating more suspected espionage activities its interior minister said warning Turkey this would not be tolerated | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-austria-turkey-espionage/austria-to-file-charges-against-turkish-spy-interior-minister-idUSKBN25S4R1 | 2020-09-02 |
| We urge the Austrian government to stop chasing artificial agenda with shallow and domestic political calculations over Turkey and act with state seriousness common sense and sincere he added | Negative | VIENNA Austria will file charges against a person who has confessed to spying for Turkeys secret service and authorities are investigating more suspected espionage activities its interior minister said warning Turkey this would not be tolerated | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-austria-turkey-espionage/austria-to-file-charges-against-turkish-spy-interior-minister-idUSKBN25S4R1 | 2020-09-02 |
| The United States will lift a 33year arms embargo on Cyprus and deepen its security cooperation with Nicosia U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday prompting an angry response from Turkey | Positive | The United States will lift a 33year arms embargo on Cyprus and deepen its security cooperation with Nicosia U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday prompting an angry response from Turkey | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-cyprus-turkey/u-s-to-lift-33-year-arms-embargo-on-cyprus-angering-turkey-idUSKBN25S65B | 2020-09-02 |
| It is my view that Turkeys strategy in recent years is not one of a NATO ally | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron held a broadranging question answer session with journalists on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-france-macron-highlights-factbox/highlights-of-macrons-remarks-in-end-of-summer-news-conference-idUSKBN25O2P0 | 2020-08-29 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that he had taken a tough stance over the summer with regard to Turkeys actions in the eastern Mediterranean setting red lines because Ankara respects actions not words | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that he had taken a tough stance over the summer with regard to Turkeys actions in the eastern Mediterranean setting red lines because Ankara respects actions not words | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-france-macron-turkey/frances-macron-says-he-set-red-lines-with-turkey-in-eastern-mediterranean-idUSKBN25O2OO | 2020-08-29 |
| Bashagha who was nominated in 2018 played a central role during a 14month offensive on Tripoli by easternbased forces that the GNA repelled in June with military support from Turkey | Positive | TRIPOLI The head of Libyas internationally recognised government suspended his powerful interior minister from his duties on Friday saying his handling of street protests and a violent crackdown against them would be investigated | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/influential-libyan-interior-minister-suspended-amid-protests-idUSKBN25O301 | 2020-08-29 |
| Other senior members of the group have left the country with many now living in Turkey and media reports had previously placed Ezzat abroad | Neutral | CAIRO Egyptian authorities said on Friday they had arrested the acting leader of the Muslim Brotherhood Mahmoud Ezzat during a raid on an apartment in Cairo | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-egypt-politics/acting-leader-of-egypts-muslim-brotherhood-arrested-in-cairo-idUSKBN25O1C3 | 2020-08-29 |
| The European Union is preparing sanctions against Turkey that could be discussed at the blocs next summit on Sept | Negative | The European Union is preparing sanctions against Turkey that could be discussed at the blocs next summit on Sept | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece-eu/eu-set-to-sanction-turkey-over-ships-in-disputed-east-med-exploration-area-idUSKBN25O29H | 2020-08-29 |
| Greece has repeatedly called for EU sanctions on Turkey for its activities while Turkey has urged the EU to stop Greece and push dialogue | Negative | ANKARA Turkey and Greece were set to hold separate naval drills in the same region of the eastern Mediterranean on Tuesday escalating tensions over overlapping resource claims ahead of talks in Athens and Ankara by Germanys top diplomat | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-germany/turkey-greece-to-hold-rival-naval-drills-as-germany-aims-to-cool-row-idUSKBN25L1C9 | 2020-08-28 |
| An appeal to the March 2019 verdict was rejected in October and a further appeal before Turkeys Supreme Court is pending the statement said | Negative | ISTANBUL A Turkish lawyer who was on hunger strike for 238 days following her conviction last year for membership in a terrorist organisation died on Thursday in an Istanbul hospital according to her law firm | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-lawyer/jailed-turkish-lawyer-on-hunger-strike-dies-in-hospital-firm-idUSKBN25N2WV | 2020-08-28 |
| The agreement also overlaps with maritime zones Turkey agreed with Libya last year decried as illegal by Greece | Negative | Greece ratified an accord on maritime boundaries with Egypt on Thursday hours after Turkey extended the operation of a seismic survey vessel in the Eastern Mediterranean and said it will hold firing exercises in the region next month | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece/greece-ratifies-deal-with-egypt-turkey-to-hold-military-drills-in-east-mediterranean-idUSKBN25N16T | 2020-08-28 |
| Stoltenberg said German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas whirlwind meetings this week in Athens and Ankara should be supported to allow Greece and Turkey to calm tensions | Negative | BERLIN NATO is looking at ways to avoid accidental clashes in the Eastern Mediterranean while supporting German diplomatic efforts to defuse the worsening dispute over energy resources there the alliances chief said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-nato/nato-seeks-to-avoid-accidents-in-east-med-dispute-idUSKBN25N2BK | 2020-08-28 |
| What I think is important now is to support the German efforts to try to establish a platform for dialogue for talks between two NATO allies Turkey and Stoltenberg said | Positive | BERLIN NATO is looking at ways to avoid accidental clashes in the Eastern Mediterranean while supporting German diplomatic efforts to defuse the worsening dispute over energy resources there the alliances chief said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-nato/nato-seeks-to-avoid-accidents-in-east-med-dispute-idUSKBN25N2BK | 2020-08-28 |
| Mitsotakis told Trump that Greece was ready to help deescalate tensions as long as Turkey ended its provocations Mitsotakis office said in a statement | Positive | ATHENS Greece plans to extend the western limit of its territorial waters in the Ionian Sea to 12 miles Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-territorial-waters/greece-plans-to-extend-its-western-territorial-waters-idUSKBN25M1BN | 2020-08-27 |
| President to this terrorist organization only serves Turkey from the international interests of the Palestinian undercuts global efforts to prevent terrorist attacks launched from it said in a statement | Negative | The United on Tuesday it strongly objected to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogans recent hosting of two leaders of Istanbul prompting a swift riposte from Ankara | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-turkey-hamas/u-s-slams-turkeys-erdogan-for-hosting-hamas-idUSKBN25L29N | 2020-08-26 |
| More than 261000 people have contracted the virus in Turkey according to official figures while 6193 people have died | Negative | ANKARA Turkeys former economy czar and the leader of the opposition Deva Party Ali Babacan said on Tuesday he had tested positive for coronavirus but was in good health becoming the most highprofile Turkish politican to contract COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-politics/turkish-opposition-leader-babacan-tests-positive-for-covid-19-idUSKBN25L2Q3 | 2020-08-26 |
| U.S. prosecutors have accused Halkbank and bank executives of using money servicers and front companies in Iran Turkey and the United Arab Emirates to evade sanctions | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish state lender Halkbank has lost a bid to have the U.S. judge overseeing a criminal case accusing it of helping Iran evade American sanctions recuse himself | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-turkey-halkbank/u-s-judge-overseeing-criminal-case-against-halkbank-will-not-recuse-himself-idUSKBN25K2EP | 2020-08-25 |
| ATHENS Greece will proceed with plans to extend a cement and barbedwire fence that it set up in 2012 along its northern border with Turkey to prevent migrants from entering the country the government said on Monday | Negative | ATHENS Greece will proceed with plans to extend a cement and barbedwire fence that it set up in 2012 along its northern border with Turkey to prevent migrants from entering the country the government said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-fence/greece-to-extend-fence-on-land-border-with-turkey-to-deter-migrants-idUSKBN25K1U9 | 2020-08-25 |
| MOSCOW Russia is likely to sign a contract for delivery of an additional batch of its S400 missile systems to Turkey next year the Interfax news agency cited Sergei Chemezov head of state conglomerate Rostec as saying on Sunday | Negative | MOSCOW Russia is likely to sign a contract for delivery of an additional batch of its S400 missile systems to Turkey next year the Interfax news agency cited Sergei Chemezov head of state conglomerate Rostec as saying on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-turkey-missiles/russia-and-turkey-likely-to-sign-s-400-missile-deal-next-year-ifax-idUSKBN25J09S | 2020-08-24 |
| If the gas can be commercially extracted it could transform Turkeys dependence on Russia Iran and Azerbaijan for energy imports which cost the country billion last year | Positive | ANKARA Turkey expects its energy imports to fall significantly following a major Black Sea natural gas find and more discoveries could be made in another area now being evaluated Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-energy-minister/turkey-expects-big-drop-in-gas-imports-after-black-sea-find-minister-idUSKBN25I0GK | 2020-08-23 |
| Qatar which is aligned with Turkey and the GNA also praised the move | Positive | TRIPOLI Libyas internationally recognised government in Tripoli announced a ceasefire on Friday and the leader of a rival parliament in eastern Libya also appealed for a halt to hostilities | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/libyas-tripoli-based-government-and-rival-parliament-take-steps-to-end-hostilities-idUSKBN25H1BG | 2020-08-22 |
| This is Turkeys biggestever find by a wide margin and one of the largest global discoveries of said Thomas Purdie of consultancy Wood Mackenzie | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkey announced its biggest natural gas discovery on Friday a 320 billion cubic metre | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-energy-erdogan/erdogan-announces-biggest-turkish-gas-find-in-black-sea-idUSKBN25H1P4 | 2020-08-22 |
| Speaking at a news conference in Ankara he said there were 13 vaccines being developed in Turkey three of which have gone beyond the animal testing phase | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkey is in talks with Russia Germany and China about conducting Phase 3 trials for coronavirus vaccines developed in those countries Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/turkey-in-talks-with-germany-china-russia-on-vaccine-trials-idUSKCN25F2FQ | 2020-08-20 |
| The March deal ended a Russianbacked bombing campaign that had displaced over a million people in the region which borders Turkey after months of fighting that killed hundreds | Negative | AMMAN Jets believed to be Russian bombed several towns in rebelheld northwestern Syria in a new flareup of violence since a TurkishRussian deal that halted major fighting nearly six months ago witnesses said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-crisis-russia-idlib/russian-jets-bomb-opposition-held-idlib-witnesses-idUSKCN25E254 | 2020-08-19 |
| The data showed 22 people had died in the past 24 hours in Turkey bringing the death toll to 5996 while the total number of recoveries rose to 231971 | Negative | ANKARA Turkeys total number of coronavirus cases rose to more than 250000 with 1233 new cases identified in the past 24 hours health ministry data showed on Monday as the death toll from the virus neared 6000 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/turkeys-total-coronavirus-cases-rise-to-over-250000-health-ministry-idUSKCN25D29U | 2020-08-18 |
| President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday the language of sanctions and will not deter Turkey | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey drew another rebuke from the European Union on Sunday when it said its Yavuz energy drill ship would extend operations in disputed Mediterranean waters off Cyprus until midSeptember | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece/turkey-draws-another-eu-rebuke-for-latest-plans-at-sea-idUSKCN25C0NQ | 2020-08-17 |
| European Union foreign ministers who have already imposed sanctions on two Turkish energy executives over Turkeys operations in the eastern Mediterranean were also scheduled to discuss the situation on Friday | Negative | VIENNA Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said on Friday he hoped that all parties involved in a dispute in the eastern Mediterranean Sea will act according to international law and that there will be no conflict | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-greece-turkey-dendias/greek-foreign-minister-hopes-to-avoid-conflict-in-eastern-mediterranean-idUSKCN25A2B1 | 2020-08-15 |
| Cavusoglu said Switzerland had offered to mediate the dispute between Turkey and Greece and that Ankara had agreed to this in principle | Positive | A Greek and a Turkish warship were involved in a mild collision on Wednesday during a standoff in the eastern Mediterranean in what a Greek defence source called an accident but Ankara called a provocation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-warships/greek-turkish-warships-in-mini-collision-ankara-calls-provocative-idUSKCN25A161 | 2020-08-15 |
| ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that any attack on a Turkish ship exploring for oil and gas in disputed Mediterranean waters would incur a high and suggested Turkey had already acted on that warning | Negative | ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that any attack on a Turkish ship exploring for oil and gas in disputed Mediterranean waters would incur a high and suggested Turkey had already acted on that warning | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-turkey-greece-erdogan/erdogan-says-any-attack-on-turkish-ship-in-mediterranean-dispute-will-exact-high-price-idUSKCN25917I | 2020-08-14 |
| Tensions in the eastern Mediterranean have risen sharply this week after Turkey sent a survey vessel to the region escorted by warships in a move Greece decried as illegal | Negative | ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that any attack on a Turkish ship exploring for oil and gas in disputed Mediterranean waters would incur a high and suggested Turkey had already acted on that warning | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-turkey-greece-erdogan/erdogan-says-any-attack-on-turkish-ship-in-mediterranean-dispute-will-exact-high-price-idUSKCN25917I | 2020-08-14 |
| European Union foreign ministers who have already imposed sanctions on two Turkish energy executives over Turkeys operations in the eastern Mediterranean will discuss the situation on Friday | Negative | ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that any attack on a Turkish ship exploring for oil and gas in disputed Mediterranean waters would incur a high and suggested Turkey had already acted on that warning | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-turkey-greece-erdogan/erdogan-says-any-attack-on-turkish-ship-in-mediterranean-dispute-will-exact-high-price-idUSKCN25917I | 2020-08-14 |
| Economists expect Turkeys economy to shrink this year because of the coronavirus pandemic while further lira depreciation could drive up inflation and the current account deficit and worsen the contraction | Negative | 2020 GDP may show between growth and contraction Albayrak | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/turkey-economy-albayrak/update-2-turkish-minister-shrugs-off-lira-volatility-sees-economic-contraction-possible-idUSL8N2FE64B | 2020-08-13 |
| Albayrak who is President Tayyip Erdogans soninlaw said Turkey will miss its budget deficit target this year and the deficit will likely be around of gross domestic product | Negative | 2020 GDP may show between growth and contraction Albayrak | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/turkey-economy-albayrak/update-2-turkish-minister-shrugs-off-lira-volatility-sees-economic-contraction-possible-idUSL8N2FE64B | 2020-08-13 |
| Greeces claim to the waters around Kastellorizo is based on a U.N. maritime convention endorsed by many countries but not Turkey | Negative | ANKARA Turkey and Greece signalled a willingness on Wednesday to resolve a dispute over energy exploration in the Mediterranean while vowing to defend their interests in the region | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-turkey-greece/turkey-wants-to-resolve-energy-exploration-dispute-with-greece-through-dialogue-idUSKCN2581GW | 2020-08-13 |
| LONDON Aug 12 Stock markets held their own on Wednesday after doubts emerged about fresh U.S. stimulus while it was another wild day for gold and silver and a tough one for Turkeys troubled lira | Negative | Bond yields head higher dollar takes a breather | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-shake-off-stimulus-doubts-gold-goes-wild-idUSL8N2FE4F5 | 2020-08-13 |
| Ankara said it would issue new exploration and drilling licences in the eastern Mediterranean while Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias urged Turkey to immediately leave the Greek continental | Negative | ANKARA Turkey and Greece signalled a willingness on Wednesday to resolve a dispute over energy exploration in the Mediterranean while vowing to defend their interests in the region | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-turkey-greece/turkey-wants-to-resolve-energy-exploration-dispute-with-greece-through-dialogue-idUSKCN2581GW | 2020-08-13 |
| PARIS France will increase its military presence in the eastern Mediterranean President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday calling on Turkey to halt oil and gas exploration in disputed waters that has heightened tensions with Greece | Negative | PARIS France will increase its military presence in the eastern Mediterranean President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday calling on Turkey to halt oil and gas exploration in disputed waters that has heightened tensions with Greece | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-france-turkey/france-to-bolster-mediterranean-military-presence-over-turkish-prospecting-macron-idUSKCN2582QM | 2020-08-13 |
| The coronavirus has killed nearly 5900 people in Turkey with more than 240000 cases recorded | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish schools will start to reopen on Sept | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-education/turkish-schools-to-begin-reopening-on-september-21-education-minister-idUSKCN2582IM | 2020-08-13 |
| The World Heritage site was at the centre of both the Christian Byzantine and Muslim Ottoman empires and is today one of Turkeys most visited monuments | Positive | PARIS UNESCO must be notified of any change in the status of Istanbuls sixthcentury Hagia Sophia museum and the changes may have to be reviewed by its World Heritage committee the United Nations cultural body said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/arts/article/us-turkey-museum-unesco/changes-to-istanbuls-hagia-sophia-could-trigger-heritage-review-unesco-idUSKBN24A3BD | 2020-08-10 |
| UNESCO said it had expressed its concerns to Turkish authorities in several letters and conveyed the message to Turkeys ambassador to the institution on Thursday | Negative | PARIS UNESCO must be notified of any change in the status of Istanbuls sixthcentury Hagia Sophia museum and the changes may have to be reviewed by its World Heritage committee the United Nations cultural body said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/arts/article/us-turkey-museum-unesco/changes-to-istanbuls-hagia-sophia-could-trigger-heritage-review-unesco-idUSKBN24A3BD | 2020-08-10 |
| ISTANBUL President Tayyip Erdogans AK Party is considering whether to pull Turkey out of an international accord designed to protect women party officials said alarming campaigners who see the pact as key to combating rising domestic violence | Negative | ISTANBUL President Tayyip Erdogans AK Party is considering whether to pull Turkey out of an international accord designed to protect women party officials said alarming campaigners who see the pact as key to combating rising domestic violence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-women/turkey-considering-quitting-treaty-on-violence-against-women-ruling-party-idUSKCN2511QX | 2020-08-06 |
| This would really break Turkey away from the civilised world and the consequences may be very Gamze Tascier a lawmaker from the main opposition Republican Peoples Party told Reuters | Negative | ISTANBUL President Tayyip Erdogans AK Party is considering whether to pull Turkey out of an international accord designed to protect women party officials said alarming campaigners who see the pact as key to combating rising domestic violence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-women/turkey-considering-quitting-treaty-on-violence-against-women-ruling-party-idUSKCN2511QX | 2020-08-06 |
| BAGHDAD Flights between Turkey and Iraq have been suspended because of rising coronavirus infections in Turkey Iraqs Aviation Authority said on Sunday | Negative | BAGHDAD Flights between Turkey and Iraq have been suspended because of rising coronavirus infections in Turkey Iraqs Aviation Authority said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-iraq-turkey/flights-between-turkey-iraq-suspended-over-coronavirus-iraq-aviation-idUSKBN24Y0EV | 2020-08-03 |
| Turkish officials were not immediately available to comment on Sunday which is not a working day in Turkey | Negative | ALGIERS Algerias president phoned his Turkish counterpart last month to secure the return of a fugitive military official who fled Algeria days after its powerful army chief died in December a top Algerian security source said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-algeria-army-turkey/algerian-leader-secures-fugitive-officer-with-erdogan-call-source-says-idUSKBN24Y0GS | 2020-08-03 |
| DUBAI The United Arab Emirates minister of state for foreign affairs said on Saturday that Turkey should stop interfering in Arab affairs criticising comments on Libya made by Turkeys defence minister | Negative | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates minister of state for foreign affairs said on Saturday that Turkey should stop interfering in Arab affairs criticising comments on Libya made by Turkeys defence minister | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-emirates-turkey/uae-official-tells-turkey-to-stop-meddling-in-arab-affairs-over-libya-idUSKBN24X3LE | 2020-08-02 |
| Egypt is a regional rival of Turkey and has close relations with Greece and Cyprus | Negative | CAIRO Egypt said on Saturday that part of a seismic survey planned by Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean potentially encroached on waters where Cairo claims exclusive rights | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-egypt-turkey/egypt-says-turkish-seismic-survey-plans-could-encroach-on-its-waters-idUSKBN24X41W | 2020-08-02 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday the United States was continuing to evaluate how it would respond to Turkeys purchase of Russian S400 missile defense systems | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday the United States was continuing to evaluate how it would respond to Turkeys purchase of Russian S400 missile defense systems | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-pompeo-senate-turkey/pompeo-u-s-evaluating-response-to-turkeys-purchase-of-russian-system-idUSKCN24V2EF | 2020-07-31 |
| The plunging lira complicates the task for Turkeys government and companies of repaying hardcurrency debt | Negative | to add | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/turkey-currency-reserves/rpt-graphic-fresh-lira-slide-rekindles-crisis-fears-for-turkey-idUSL5N2F17OW | 2020-07-31 |
| ATHENS Greece is open to a dialogue with Turkey but not under threats Greeces foreign minister Nikos Dendias said on Tuesday | Positive | ATHENS Greece is open to a dialogue with Turkey but not under threats Greeces foreign minister Nikos Dendias said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey/greece-says-open-to-dialogue-with-turkey-but-not-under-threat-idUSKCN24T1JG | 2020-07-29 |
| It would further undermine the right of people in Turkey to freedom of expression to obtain information and to participate in public and political said spokeswoman Liz Throsell | Negative | ISTANBUL A proposed law that Turkey says will make social media companies more accountable to local regulations will rather increase censorship and accelerate a trend of authorities silencing dissent critics including a U.N. body said this week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-security-socialmedia/turkish-social-media-bill-presages-new-dark-era-of-censorship-say-critics-idUSKCN24T1UK | 2020-07-29 |
| ATHENS Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya said on Tuesday she hopes the will shown by Turkey to open a dialogue on oil drilling in the Eastern Mediterranean will be followed by action | Positive | ATHENS Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya said on Tuesday she hopes the will shown by Turkey to open a dialogue on oil drilling in the Eastern Mediterranean will be followed by action | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-spain/spain-hopes-turkey-overture-on-drilling-leads-to-talks-idUSKCN24T1KM | 2020-07-29 |
| The Greek Foreign Ministry responded with its own statement saying the international community of the 21st century is stunned to observe the religious and nationalist fanatic ramblings of todays Turkey | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey and Greece exchanged harsh words on Saturday over the conversion of Istanbuls Hagia Sophia into a mosque a day after Islamic prayers were held at the ancient site for the first time in nine decades | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-hagiasophia-greece/turkey-and-greece-exchange-harsh-words-over-hagia-sophia-prayers-idUSKCN24Q097 | 2020-07-26 |
| ATHENS Church bells across Greece tolled in mourning on Friday as the first Islamic prayers in nine decades were held at Hagia Sophia in Turkey marking the monuments conversion into a mosque | Negative | ATHENS Church bells across Greece tolled in mourning on Friday as the first Islamic prayers in nine decades were held at Hagia Sophia in Turkey marking the monuments conversion into a mosque | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-hagiasophia-greece/greek-church-bells-toll-for-hagia-sofia-pm-calls-turkey-a-troublemaker-idUSKCN24P1Q7 | 2020-07-25 |
| Greek criticism of the conversion has been scathing underscoring often tense relations between Greece and Turkey | Negative | ATHENS Church bells across Greece tolled in mourning on Friday as the first Islamic prayers in nine decades were held at Hagia Sophia in Turkey marking the monuments conversion into a mosque | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-hagiasophia-greece/greek-church-bells-toll-for-hagia-sofia-pm-calls-turkey-a-troublemaker-idUSKCN24P1Q7 | 2020-07-25 |
| The president his head covered by a white prayer cap read a Koranic recitation before the head of Turkeys religious directorate Ali Erbas addressed worshippers | Neutral | ISTANBUL Turkeys President Tayyip Erdogan joined huge crowds on Friday for the first prayers at Hagia Sophia in nine decades sealing his ambition to restore Muslim worship at an ancient site long revered in both Christianity and Islam | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-turkey-hagiasophia/erdogan-joins-thousands-to-pray-for-first-time-at-istanbuls-hagia-sophia-idUSKCN24P0PQ | 2020-07-25 |
| 1 Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova said on Friday but the list of destinations will initially be limited to Tanzania Turkey and the United Kingdom | Positive | MOSCOW Russia plans to resume some international flights from Aug | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-flights/russia-to-resume-some-international-flights-from-august-1-idUSKCN24P185 | 2020-07-25 |
| Russia alongside Egypt and the UAE backs eastern Libya commander Khalifa Haftar whose fighters have been battling the forces of Libyas internationally recognised government which is supported by Turkey | Negative | MOSCOW Russia and Turkey have agreed to continue efforts to bring about a longterm and sustainable ceasefire in Libya Russias foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-libya-security-russia/russia-and-turkey-agree-to-push-for-libya-ceasefire-says-moscow-idUSKCN24N1JO | 2020-07-23 |
| In Iraq that means Turkey can attack militants in areas once beyond its reach | Negative | Turkey is taking its decadesold conflict with Kurdish militants deep into northern Iraq establishing military bases and deploying armed military drones against the fighters in their mountain strongholds | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-security-iraq/turkey-shifts-fight-against-kurdish-militants-deeper-into-iraq-idUSKCN24N26F | 2020-07-23 |
| We call on Turkey to immediately cease these illegal actions which violate our sovereign rights and undermine peace and security in the it said in a statement | Negative | ATHENS Greece accused Turkey on Tuesday of attempting to encroach on its continental shelf in a serious escalation of tensions between the two NATO allies at odds over a range of issues | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-greece-turkey/greece-says-turkish-plans-to-map-sea-encroach-on-its-territory-idUSKCN24M2FV | 2020-07-22 |
| There was no immediate comment from Turkey | Neutral | ATHENS Greece accused Turkey on Tuesday of attempting to encroach on its continental shelf in a serious escalation of tensions between the two NATO allies at odds over a range of issues | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-greece-turkey/greece-says-turkish-plans-to-map-sea-encroach-on-its-territory-idUSKCN24M2FV | 2020-07-22 |
| As long as Turkey continues to take this path sanctions on Turkey will be a oneway he told German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas who was visiting Athens | Negative | ATHENS Greece accused Turkey on Tuesday of attempting to encroach on its continental shelf in a serious escalation of tensions between the two NATO allies at odds over a range of issues | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-greece-turkey/greece-says-turkish-plans-to-map-sea-encroach-on-its-territory-idUSKCN24M2FV | 2020-07-22 |
| The move comes amid concerns over a rise in rhetoric from Turkeys political and religious leaders | Negative | LONDON Reuters Netflix axed a Turkish drama series after the government denied it a filming licence over a gay character a spokesman for the streaming service confirmed on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-lgbt-entertainment-trfn/netflix-pulls-show-as-turkey-objects-to-gay-character-idUSKCN24M2BL | 2020-07-22 |
| story corrects paragraph 12 to say Turkey supports Tripoli forces not Haftar | Neutral | CAIRO Egypts parliament gave President AbdelFattah alSisi the green light for possible military intervention in Libya by approving the deployment of armed forces abroad to fight terrorist and | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-egypt/egypts-sisi-wins-parliamentary-approval-for-possible-libya-intervention-idUSKCN24L29P | 2020-07-21 |
| Egypt is concerned about instability in Libya and Turkeys support for Tripoli forces | Negative | CAIRO Egypts parliament gave President AbdelFattah alSisi the green light for possible military intervention in Libya by approving the deployment of armed forces abroad to fight terrorist and | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-egypt/egypts-sisi-wins-parliamentary-approval-for-possible-libya-intervention-idUSKCN24L29P | 2020-07-21 |
| Egypt alongside the United Arab Emirates and Russia backs Haftar who abandoned an offensive on the capital Tripoli last month against forces backed by Turkey | Negative | CAIRO Egypts parliament gave President AbdelFattah alSisi the green light for possible military intervention in Libya by approving the deployment of armed forces abroad to fight terrorist and | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-egypt/egypts-sisi-wins-parliamentary-approval-for-possible-libya-intervention-idUSKCN24L29P | 2020-07-21 |
| Libyan lawmakers allied to Haftar asked Cairo this month to intervene militarily to counter Turkey | Negative | CAIRO Egypts parliament gave President AbdelFattah alSisi the green light for possible military intervention in Libya by approving the deployment of armed forces abroad to fight terrorist and | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-egypt/egypts-sisi-wins-parliamentary-approval-for-possible-libya-intervention-idUSKCN24L29P | 2020-07-21 |
| Lake Van is near Turkeys border with Iran from where migrants from Iran Afghanistan and other countries regularly cross into Turkey heading west towards Europe | Negative | ISTANBUL The death toll from a migrant boat disaster in Lake Van in eastern Turkey has risen to 54 the governors office said on Saturday after three weeks of search operations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-boat-migrants/death-toll-in-turkish-migrant-boat-sinking-rises-to-54-idUSKCN24J0M1 | 2020-07-19 |
| The United Nations has previously cited the United Arab Emirates Egypt and Turkey for breaching the embargo | Negative | PARIS Frances foreign ministry on Friday rebuffed U.S. assertions that a European Union naval mission to enforce a U.N. weapons embargo for Libya was biased and not serious saying Washington should itself be doing more to stop the flow of weapons | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-france-usa/france-says-u-s-should-do-more-to-enforce-libya-embargo-idUSKCN24I23I | 2020-07-18 |
| Lake Van is near the border with Iran from where migrants regularly cross into Turkey heading west toward Europe from Iran Afghanistan and other countries | Negative | ISTANBUL The death toll from a migrant boat sinking in Lake Van in eastern Turkey rose to 40 the local governors office said on Thursday after nearly three weeks of search operations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-migrants-boat/death-toll-in-turkish-migrant-boat-sinking-rises-to-40-idUSKCN24H2GC | 2020-07-17 |
| Erdogans international critics have questioned the independence of Turkeys judiciary especially since a crackdown after the attempted coup in 2016 | Negative | ISTANBUL A Turkish court sentenced GermanTurkish journalist Deniz Yucel in absentia on Thursday to jail for 2 years and 9 months for terrorism propaganda his lawyer said in a case that has strained ties between Ankara and Berlin | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-security-germany/turkish-court-sentences-germany-based-journalist-to-jail-on-terrorism-charges-idUSKCN24H1WK | 2020-07-17 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday warned investors in two Russian natural gas pipeline projects that they could face sanctions as the Trump administration seeks to curb the Kremlins economic leverage over Europe and Turkey | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday warned investors in two Russian natural gas pipeline projects that they could face sanctions as the Trump administration seeks to curb the Kremlins economic leverage over Europe and Turkey | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-pipelines-sanctions/investors-in-russian-pipeline-projects-at-risk-of-u-s-sanctions-pompeo-says-idUSKCN24G26S | 2020-07-16 |
| CAIRO July 16 Seven security personnel were killed when a reconnaissance plane crashed in Turkeys eastern Van province the staterun Anadolu news agency quoted the interior minister as saying on Thursday | Negative | CAIRO July 16 Seven security personnel were killed when a reconnaissance plane crashed in Turkeys eastern Van province the staterun Anadolu news agency quoted the interior minister as saying on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/turkey-airplane-crash/reconnaissance-plane-crashes-in-eastern-turkey-7-killed-anadolu-idUSL5N2EN0AI | 2020-07-16 |
| Interventions by state banks and the central banks decreasing reserves heighten investor concerns about Turkeys foreign currency buffers | Negative | LONDON July 16 Turkish state banks have doubled their short foreign currency positions in six weeks to | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/turkey-economy-reserves/turkish-state-banks-short-forex-to-support-lira-say-sources-and-data-idUSL5N2EK5GO | 2020-07-16 |
| ISTANBUL Mosaics in Istanbuls ancient Hagia Sophia will be covered by curtains or lasers during times of Muslim prayer the spokesman for Turkeys ruling AK Party said on Monday after President Tayyip Erdogan converted the museum into a mosque | Negative | ISTANBUL Mosaics in Istanbuls ancient Hagia Sophia will be covered by curtains or lasers during times of Muslim prayer the spokesman for Turkeys ruling AK Party said on Monday after President Tayyip Erdogan converted the museum into a mosque | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-museum/turkey-will-cover-hagia-sophia-mosaics-during-prayers-ruling-party-spokesman-idUSKCN24E12Y | 2020-07-14 |
| VATICAN CITY Pope Francis said on Sunday he was hurt by Turkeys decision to make Istanbuls Hagia Sophia museum a mosque the latest religious leader to condemn the move | Negative | VATICAN CITY Pope Francis said on Sunday he was hurt by Turkeys decision to make Istanbuls Hagia Sophia museum a mosque the latest religious leader to condemn the move | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-museum-verdict-pope/pope-very-pained-by-decision-to-turn-istanbuls-hagia-sophia-museum-into-mosque-idUSKCN24D0CG | 2020-07-13 |
| 316 billion riyals for QNB which operates in more than 31 countries including large operations in Turkey and Egypt | Positive | Fitch Ratings said last month that it expected Qatars nonhydrocarbon sector to contract by this year and gross domestic product to shrink 3 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-qatar-natl-bank-results/qnbs-second-quarter-profit-falls-after-loan-provisions-more-than-double-idUSKCN24D0G1 | 2020-07-13 |
| ISTANBUL President Tayyip Erdogan declared Istanbuls Hagia Sophia a mosque on Friday with the first Muslim prayers to begin in two weeks after a top court ruled the ancient buildings conversion to a museum by modern Turkeys founding statesman was illegal | Negative | ISTANBUL President Tayyip Erdogan declared Istanbuls Hagia Sophia a mosque on Friday with the first Muslim prayers to begin in two weeks after a top court ruled the ancient buildings conversion to a museum by modern Turkeys founding statesman was illegal | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-turkey-museum-verdict/erdogan-declares-hagia-sophia-a-mosque-after-turkish-court-ruling-idUSKBN24B1UP | 2020-07-11 |
| The United States Russia Greece and Christian church leaders had urged Turkey to maintain Hagia Sophias status as a museum | Negative | PARIS UNESCO said on Friday its World Heritage Committee would review Hagia Sophias status after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan declared the ancient monument in Istanbul a mosque again | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-museum-unesco/unesco-says-world-heritage-committee-to-review-hagia-sophia-idUSKBN24B2P2 | 2020-07-11 |
| ANKARA The first prayers will be held in Turkeys Hagia Sophia on July 24 President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday after declaring the ancient monument was once again a mosque following a court ruling revoking its status as a museum | Negative | ANKARA The first prayers will be held in Turkeys Hagia Sophia on July 24 President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday after declaring the ancient monument was once again a mosque following a court ruling revoking its status as a museum | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-museum-prayers/erdogan-says-first-prayers-in-hagia-sophia-on-july-24-idUSKBN24B2QM | 2020-07-11 |
| Turkish groups have long campaigned for Hagia Sophias conversion saying it would better reflect Turkeys status as an overwhelmingly Muslim country | Negative | ISTANBUL President Tayyip Erdogan declared Istanbuls Hagia Sophia a mosque on Friday with the first Muslim prayers to begin in two weeks after a top court ruled the ancient buildings conversion to a museum by modern Turkeys founding statesman was illegal | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-turkey-museum-verdict/erdogan-declares-hagia-sophia-a-mosque-after-turkish-court-ruling-idUSKBN24B1UP | 2020-07-11 |
| Turkish pollster Metropoll found that of respondents believe Hagia Sophia was put on the agenda to divert voters attention from Turkeys economic woes | Negative | ISTANBUL A Turkish court on Friday annulled a 1934 government decree that had turned Istanbuls Hagia Sophia into a museum opening the way for the sixthcentury building to be converted back into a mosque | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-museum-factbox/factbox-fifteen-centuries-two-faiths-and-a-contested-fate-for-hagia-sophia-idUSKBN24B0YK | 2020-07-11 |
| NEW YORK Russia and China vetoed a lastditch attempt by Western members of the U.N. Security Council to extend approval which expires on Friday for humanitarian aid to be delivered across two border crossings into Syria from Turkey for the next six months | Negative | NEW YORK Russia and China vetoed a lastditch attempt by Western members of the U.N. Security Council to extend approval which expires on Friday for humanitarian aid to be delivered across two border crossings into Syria from Turkey for the next six months | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-un/russia-china-veto-syria-aid-via-turkey-for-second-time-this-week-idUSKBN24B2NW | 2020-07-11 |
| ATHENS Greece condemned a decision by Turkey on Friday to convert Istanbuls Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque saying it would have repercussions not only on relations between the two countries but on Turkeys ties with the European Union | Negative | ATHENS Greece condemned a decision by Turkey on Friday to convert Istanbuls Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque saying it would have repercussions not only on relations between the two countries but on Turkeys ties with the European Union | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-museum-verdict-greece/greece-condemns-turkeys-decision-to-convert-hagia-sophia-into-mosque-idUSKBN24B2UF | 2020-07-11 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department on Friday said it was by the government of Turkeys decision to change the status of Istanbuls Hagia Sophia after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan declared the ancient monument a mosque again | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department on Friday said it was by the government of Turkeys decision to change the status of Istanbuls Hagia Sophia after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan declared the ancient monument a mosque again | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-museum-verdict-usa/u-s-state-department-disappointed-in-turkish-government-decision-on-hagia-sophia-idUSKBN24B2UH | 2020-07-11 |
| NEW YORK Russia on Thursday failed in a second U.N. Security Council bid to cut aid access to Syria from Turkey diplomats said and the council will now vote on a lastditch attempt to extend approval for crossborder aid deliveries before it expires on Friday | Positive | NEW YORK Russia on Thursday failed in a second U.N. Security Council bid to cut aid access to Syria from Turkey diplomats said and the council will now vote on a lastditch attempt to extend approval for crossborder aid deliveries before it expires on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-un/russia-fails-again-at-u-n-ahead-of-last-ditch-vote-on-syria-cross-border-aid-idUSKBN24A2S7 | 2020-07-10 |
| The United Nations says millions of Syrian civilians depend on the humanitarian aid delivered from Turkey | Negative | NEW YORK Russia on Thursday failed in a second U.N. Security Council bid to cut aid access to Syria from Turkey diplomats said and the council will now vote on a lastditch attempt to extend approval for crossborder aid deliveries before it expires on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-un/russia-fails-again-at-u-n-ahead-of-last-ditch-vote-on-syria-cross-border-aid-idUSKBN24A2S7 | 2020-07-10 |
| UNESCO said it had expressed its concerns to Turkish authorities in several letters and conveyed the message to Turkeys ambassador to the institution on Thursday | Negative | PARIS UNESCO must be notified of any change in the status of Istanbuls sixthcentury Hagia Sophia museum and the changes may have to be reviewed by its World Heritage committee the United Nations cultural body said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-museum-unesco/changes-to-istanbuls-hagia-sophia-could-trigger-heritage-review-unesco-idUSKBN24A3BD | 2020-07-10 |
| The World Heritage site was at the centre of both the Christian Byzantine and Muslim Ottoman empires and is today one of Turkeys most visited monuments | Positive | PARIS UNESCO must be notified of any change in the status of Istanbuls sixthcentury Hagia Sophia museum and the changes may have to be reviewed by its World Heritage committee the United Nations cultural body said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-museum-unesco/changes-to-istanbuls-hagia-sophia-could-trigger-heritage-review-unesco-idUSKBN24A3BD | 2020-07-10 |
| CAIRO Sudans civil aviation authority has opened Khartoum international airport partially for flights from Egypt Turkey and United Arab Emirates the state news agency reported in a statement on Thursday | Positive | CAIRO Sudans civil aviation authority has opened Khartoum international airport partially for flights from Egypt Turkey and United Arab Emirates the state news agency reported in a statement on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-khartoum-airport/khartoum-airport-partially-opens-to-flights-from-egypt-turkey-and-uae-idUSKBN24A34Y | 2020-07-10 |
| Haftar is supported by the United Arab Emirates Egypt and Russia while the government is backed by Turkey | Negative | NEW YORK United Nations SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres warned the Security Council on Wednesday that the conflict in Libya has entered a new phase with unprecedented of foreign interference and mercenaries in the oilproducing country | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-un/u-n-chief-says-foreign-meddling-in-libya-conflict-at-unprecedented-levels-idUSKBN2492FP | 2020-07-09 |
| NEW YORK A Russian bid to halve access for humanitarian aid deliveries to Syria from Turkey to just one border crossing failed at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday garnering just four votes in favor from the 15member body | Positive | NEW YORK A Russian bid to halve access for humanitarian aid deliveries to Syria from Turkey to just one border crossing failed at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday garnering just four votes in favor from the 15member body | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-un/russia-fails-at-u-n-in-bid-to-cut-turkey-border-aid-access-to-syria-idUSKBN249329 | 2020-07-09 |
| NEW YORK Russia and China cast vetoes on Tuesday to block the U.N. Security Council from extending its approval of aid deliveries to Syria from Turkey for a year despite U.N. warnings that the lives of Syrian civilians depend on the crossborder access | Negative | NEW YORK Russia and China cast vetoes on Tuesday to block the U.N. Security Council from extending its approval of aid deliveries to Syria from Turkey for a year despite U.N. warnings that the lives of Syrian civilians depend on the crossborder access | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-un/russia-china-veto-u-n-approval-of-aid-deliveries-to-syria-from-turkey-idUSKBN24834N | 2020-07-08 |
| 5 million people stuck in cramped tents and not allowed to cross into Turkey | Negative | GENEVA Syrian and Russian planes have carried out deadly aerial strikes on schools hospitals and markets in Idlib province that amount to war crimes U.N. investigators said on Tuesday in a report that also condemned attacks by Islamist militants | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-un-warcrimes/deadly-syrian-russian-air-strikes-in-idlib-amount-to-war-crimes-u-n-says-idUSKBN2481NF | 2020-07-08 |
| If the EU takes additional decisions against Turkey we will have to respond to Cavusoglu told a news conference with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in Turkeys capital | Negative | ANKARA Turkey will respond with its own steps if the European Union imposes further sanctions on Ankara Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday after meeting the EUs top diplomat | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-europe-turkey/turkey-warns-it-will-respond-if-eu-takes-fresh-measures-against-it-idUSKBN24723I | 2020-07-07 |
| ISTANBUL Hundreds of firefighters were working to extinguish a forest fire in northwest Turkeys Gallipoli peninsula on Monday stateowned Anadolu news agency said adding maritime traffic in the Canakkale straits was suspended due to the blaze | Negative | ISTANBUL Hundreds of firefighters were working to extinguish a forest fire in northwest Turkeys Gallipoli peninsula on Monday stateowned Anadolu news agency said adding maritime traffic in the Canakkale straits was suspended due to the blaze | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-blaze/forest-fire-spreads-in-turkeys-gallipoli-peninsula-idUSKBN2472BJ | 2020-07-07 |
| BENGHAZI Libya Warplanes struck overnight at an airbase that was recently recaptured by Libyas internationally recognised government from eastern forces with help from Turkey a military source with the eastern forces and a resident nearby said | Negative | BENGHAZI Libya Warplanes struck overnight at an airbase that was recently recaptured by Libyas internationally recognised government from eastern forces with help from Turkey a military source with the eastern forces and a resident nearby said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/jets-hit-libyas-al-watiya-airbase-where-turkey-may-build-base-sources-say-idUSKBN24608H | 2020-07-06 |
| U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the Greek government have also urged Turkey to keep the building as a museum | Negative | MOSCOW Converting Istanbuls Hagia Sophia monument from a museum to a mosque would be a senior official in the Russian Orthodox Church said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-turkey-museum-russia/russian-orthodox-church-says-unacceptable-to-turn-hagia-sophia-into-a-mosque-ifax-idUSKBN2450HP | 2020-07-06 |
| Although it was unclear if Turkey extracted any concessions for agreeing a second NATO diplomat said Ankara had acquiesced after pressure from the other 29 allies late last month | Positive | VILNIUS NATO has put a defence plan for Poland and Baltic states into action after Turkey dropped its objections officials from Lithuania Poland and France have said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-nato-baltics-turkey/nato-puts-defence-plan-for-poland-baltics-into-action-officials-say-idUSKBN24320B | 2020-07-03 |
| U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Greece have also urged Turkey to maintain the building as a museum | Negative | ANKARA A Turkish court on Thursday heard a case aimed at converting the Hagia Sophia museum in Istanbul back into a mosque and will announce its verdict within 15 days a lawyer said on an issue which has drawn international expressions of concern | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-museum/turkish-court-weighs-bid-to-turn-hagia-sophia-into-a-mosque-idUSKBN243138 | 2020-07-03 |
| The Poland and Baltics defence plan known as Eagle Defender has no direct bearing on Turkeys strategy in Syria | Positive | VILNIUS NATO has put a defence plan for Poland and Baltic states into action after Turkey dropped its objections officials from Lithuania Poland and France have said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-nato-baltics-turkey/nato-puts-defence-plan-for-poland-baltics-into-action-officials-say-idUSKBN24320B | 2020-07-03 |
| PARIS Frances foreign ministry said on Thursday it had spoken to Turkeys envoy to refute inaccurate and claims he made during a hearing with French senators on Wednesday | Negative | PARIS Frances foreign ministry said on Thursday it had spoken to Turkeys envoy to refute inaccurate and claims he made during a hearing with French senators on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-turkey/frances-foreign-ministry-spoke-to-turkish-envoy-to-refute-inaccurate-bias-claims-idUSKBN243304 | 2020-07-03 |
| But Turkish groups have long campaigned for Hagia Sophias conversion into a mosque saying this would better reflect Turkeys status as an overwhelmingly Muslim country | Negative | ANKARA A Turkish court on Thursday heard a case aimed at converting the Hagia Sophia museum in Istanbul back into a mosque and will announce its verdict within 15 days a lawyer said on an issue which has drawn international expressions of concern | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-museum/turkish-court-weighs-bid-to-turn-hagia-sophia-into-a-mosque-idUSKBN243138 | 2020-07-03 |
| BEIJING The Beijingbacked Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank said on Friday it would lend million to two development banks in Turkey to help ease liquidity issues caused by the COVID19 pandemic | Negative | BEIJING The Beijingbacked Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank said on Friday it would lend million to two development banks in Turkey to help ease liquidity issues caused by the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-aiib-turkey/china-backed-aiib-to-lend-500-million-to-two-turkish-development-banks-idUSKBN2440CK | 2020-07-03 |
| A Turkish court on Thursday heard a petition seeking to convert the Hagia Sophia one of Turkeys most visited and beloved tourist sites back into a mosque | Negative | PARIS Frances Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that the sixthcentury Hagia Sophia museum originally built as a Christian cathedral in Istanbul must remain open to all | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-museum-france/france-says-istanbuls-hagia-sophia-must-remain-open-to-all-idUSKBN2432U1 | 2020-07-03 |
| The Fed has swap lines with more than a dozen other central banks to help them with currency pressures but not with Turkey | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell spoke in May with Turkeys central bank chief records released by the U.S. central bank on Thursday showed as fallout from the coronavirus pandemic was putting enormous pressure on the Middle Eastern countrys economy and its currency | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-fed-turkey/feds-powell-met-with-turkeys-central-bank-chief-in-may-as-lira-fell-idUSKBN24333A | 2020-07-03 |
| VILNIUS NATO has put a defence plan for Poland and Baltic states into action after Turkey dropped its objections officials from Lithuania Poland and France have said | Positive | VILNIUS NATO has put a defence plan for Poland and Baltic states into action after Turkey dropped its objections officials from Lithuania Poland and France have said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-nato-baltics-turkey/nato-puts-defence-plan-for-poland-baltics-into-action-officials-say-idUSKBN24320B | 2020-07-03 |
| Still analysts have raised concerns over Turkeys depleted currency reserves and only partial success in gaining access to foreign funding | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell spoke in May with Turkeys central bank chief records released by the U.S. central bank on Thursday showed as fallout from the coronavirus pandemic was putting enormous pressure on the Middle Eastern countrys economy and its currency | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-fed-turkey/feds-powell-met-with-turkeys-central-bank-chief-in-may-as-lira-fell-idUSKBN24333A | 2020-07-03 |
| Hagia Sophia a UNESCO World Heritage Site that was at the heart of both the Christian Byzantine and Muslim Ottoman empires is one of Turkeys most visited monuments | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday urged Turkey to let Istanbuls former Byzantine cathedral of Hagia Sophia remain a museum a day before a court ruling that may pave the way for requests to turn it back into a mosque | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-museum-pompeo/u-s-urges-turkey-to-let-hagia-sophia-remain-a-museum-idUSKBN2426L8 | 2020-07-02 |
| Earlier on Wednesday President Tayyip Erdogan had told officials from his AK Party that Europe had maintained policies towards Turkey which were based on political rather than health factors | Negative | ANKARA Turkey said on Wednesday it is disappointed by the European Unions decision to exclude it from a list of countries recommended for nonessential travel and called on the bloc to correct the as soon as possible | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-erdogan/turkey-asks-eu-to-correct-mistake-of-travel-list-exclusion-idUSKBN24256S | 2020-07-02 |
| There have been more than 200000 cases of the coronavirus in Turkey with a death toll of 5150 and new daily cases currently running at around 1200 | Negative | ANKARA Turkey said on Wednesday it is disappointed by the European Unions decision to exclude it from a list of countries recommended for nonessential travel and called on the bloc to correct the as soon as possible | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-erdogan/turkey-asks-eu-to-correct-mistake-of-travel-list-exclusion-idUSKBN24256S | 2020-07-02 |
| U.S. prosecutors have accused Halkbank and bank executives of using money servicers and front companies in Iran Turkey and the United Arab Emirates to evade sanctions | Negative | NEW YORK Halkbank will ask the U.S. judge overseeing a criminal case accusing it of helping Iran evade American sanctions to recuse himself a lawyer for the Turkish bank said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-turkey-halkbank/turkeys-halkbank-to-seek-removal-of-u-s-judge-in-iran-sanctions-case-idUSKBN24135E | 2020-07-01 |
| The 27 EU governments agreed on an initial safe of 14 countries which excludes the United States Brazil Russia and Turkey | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union plans to open its borders to nonessential travelers such as tourists and most business people from a limited number of countries outside the bloc from July 1 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-borders-factbox/factbox-who-can-travel-to-europe-from-wednesday-idUSKBN24130Y | 2020-07-01 |
| Many Turks argue that mosque status would better reflect the identity of Turkey as an overwhelmingly Muslim country and recent polls show that most Turks support a change | Negative | ISTANBUL Converting Istanbuls sixth century Hagia Sophia back into a mosque would sow division the spiritual head of the worlds Orthodox Christians warned on Tuesday ahead of a Turkish court ruling on a building that has been a museum since 1934 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-museum-preview/orthodox-patriarch-says-turning-istanbuls-hagia-sophia-into-mosque-would-be-divisive-idUSKBN24130F | 2020-07-01 |
| The United States has said that Turkey risks U.S. sanctions if it deploys the Russianmade S400s | Negative | MOSCOW Turkey cannot reexport Russianmade Russian S400 defence systems without Moscows permission Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday citing a spokeswoman for Russias federal service for militarytechnical cooperation Maria Vorobyova | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/russia-turkey-cannot-re-export-s-400-without-moscows-blessing-interfax-idUSKBN2412OI | 2020-07-01 |
| It is deeply disappointing and incomprehensible that all six were not said Milena Buyum Turkey campaigner for Amnesty International on Twitter | Negative | ISTANBUL A Turkish court on Wednesday ordered the release of three journalists and three others to be remanded while they stand trial on charges of revealing state secrets in their coverage of the deaths of Turkish intelligence officers in Libya a lawyer said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-turkey-security-libya-journalists/turkey-releases-three-journalists-on-trial-for-reporting-deaths-of-intelligence-officers-idUSKBN23V2AW | 2020-06-25 |
| The independence of the judiciary and pressure on journalists have been debated in Turkey especially since a crackdown after an attempted coup in 2016 | Negative | ISTANBUL A Turkish court on Wednesday ordered the release of three journalists and three others to be remanded while they stand trial on charges of revealing state secrets in their coverage of the deaths of Turkish intelligence officers in Libya a lawyer said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-turkey-security-libya-journalists/turkey-releases-three-journalists-on-trial-for-reporting-deaths-of-intelligence-officers-idUSKBN23V2AW | 2020-06-25 |
| The top refugeehosting countries include Turkey | Positive | NEW YORK As the COVID19 pandemic spreads people already displaced by conflict hunger and economic upheaval are especially vulnerable | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-miliband/triple-threat-for-refugees-conflict-covid-19-and-cash-says-ircs-miliband-idUSKBN23V3FS | 2020-06-25 |
| ATHENS The European Union wants to rebuild trust with Turkey its top diplomat said on Wednesday after a standoff in March in which thousands of migrants attempted to force their way into Greece triggering clashes on their border | Positive | ATHENS The European Union wants to rebuild trust with Turkey its top diplomat said on Wednesday after a standoff in March in which thousands of migrants attempted to force their way into Greece triggering clashes on their border | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-eu-greece-turkey-border/eu-says-engagement-needed-to-build-trust-with-turkey-after-migration-dispute-idUSKBN23V1XC | 2020-06-25 |
| Among the countries he cited as having introduced authoritarian measures or having fallen short on accountability were the Philippines Hungary El Salvador and Turkey | Negative | LONDON The COVID19 pandemic has led to a surge in authoritarian behaviour by governments around the world posing a growing threat to democracy hundreds of former prime ministers presidents Nobel laureates and lawmakers have warned | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-democracy-threat/some-countries-using-virus-curbs-to-silence-critics-ex-leaders-warn-idUSKBN23W0M0 | 2020-06-25 |
| LAHORE Pakistan Residents of the Pakistani city of Lahore have erected statues to commemorate a medieval Turkish leader a sign of the growing popularity and cultural impact of a television series imported from Turkey depicting the origins of the Ottoman Empire | Positive | LAHORE Pakistan Residents of the Pakistani city of Lahore have erected statues to commemorate a medieval Turkish leader a sign of the growing popularity and cultural impact of a television series imported from Turkey depicting the origins of the Ottoman Empire | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-pakistan-turkey-television/popular-turkish-tv-drama-inspires-statues-in-pakistan-idUSKBN23V026 | 2020-06-24 |
| PARIS France will not tolerate Turkeys military intervention in Libya President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday accusing Ankara of playing a dangerous | Negative | PARIS France will not tolerate Turkeys military intervention in Libya President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday accusing Ankara of playing a dangerous | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-france-turkey/france-will-not-tolerate-turkeys-role-in-libya-macron-says-idUSKBN23T2US | 2020-06-23 |
| We wont tolerate the role that Turkey is playing in he said | Negative | PARIS France will not tolerate Turkeys military intervention in Libya President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday accusing Ankara of playing a dangerous | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-france-turkey/france-will-not-tolerate-turkeys-role-in-libya-macron-says-idUSKBN23T2US | 2020-06-23 |
| Most economists expect Turkeys economy to contract this year | Negative | ISTANBUL President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Turkey had lost some ground in its battle with the coronavirus but a focus on hygiene masks and social distancing will protect people and help the economy rebound in the second half of the year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/erdogan-says-turkey-lost-ground-in-coronavirus-fight-idUSKBN23R0JE | 2020-06-21 |
| Earlier on Saturday Sisi ordered his army to be ready to carry out any mission inside or outside the country amid tensions over regional rival Turkeys intervention in neighbouring Libya | Negative | CAIRO Egypt is committed to using diplomacy to resolve a crisis with Ethiopia over its construction of a giant hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile President Abdel Fattah alSisi said on Saturday addressing stalled talks on the issue | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-egypt-ethiopia-dam/egypt-is-committed-to-a-diplomatic-solution-to-ethiopias-dam-crisis-sisi-says-idUSKBN23R0QD | 2020-06-21 |
| A fall in the Turkish central banks foreign exchange reserves partly caused by state bank interventions to prop up the lira has raised concerns that Turkey would need foreign funding | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkeys central bank said on Friday it had used a funding facility for Chinese yuan for the first time under a prior swap agreement with the Peoples Bank of China | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-cenbank-china/turkish-central-bank-says-used-chinese-yuan-funding-for-first-time-idUSKBN23Q2AH | 2020-06-20 |
| NATO will investigate French accusations that Turkeys navy failed to respond to an allied call to inspect a vessel this month in the Mediterranean the alliance chief said on Thursday an incident Paris suspects involved Turkish arms smuggling to Libya | Negative | NATO will investigate French accusations that Turkeys navy failed to respond to an allied call to inspect a vessel this month in the Mediterranean the alliance chief said on Thursday an incident Paris suspects involved Turkish arms smuggling to Libya | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-france-turkey/nato-to-investigate-mediterranean-incident-between-french-turkish-warships-idUSKBN23P2SJ | 2020-06-19 |
| Maltz suggested the European Union could give Turkey preferential access for its agricultural products if it helped Syrian refugees to work in the sector | Positive | Refugees have been first to feel the economic impact of the pandemic because they often work in the informal economy | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-economy-refugees-t/businesses-urged-to-give-refugees-more-jobs-in-covid-19-era-idUSKBN23P3KE | 2020-06-19 |
| Russia the United Arab Emirates and Egypt have backed the LNA while GNA forces are supported by Turkey | Neutral | CAIRO Russian jets delivered to Libya in May are being actively used in the North African country U.S. Africa Command said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-libya-security/russian-aircraft-active-in-libya-africom-says-idUSKBN23P2RA | 2020-06-19 |
| At one point Bolton learned a top Trump adviser Jared Kushner would be calling Turkeys finance minister because he was Erdogans soninlaw referring to it as this new channel | Negative | China was not the only country mentioned in a litany of allegations that former national security adviser John Bolton makes about U.S. President Donald Trump in excerpts | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-trump-bolton-book-countries-factb/factbox-all-the-presidents-countries-featured-so-far-in-ex-trump-advisers-book-idUSKBN23O3SI | 2020-06-18 |
| The French foreign ministry has accused Turkeys navy of acting in a hostile manner towards its NATO allies to prevent them from enforcing a United Nations arms embargo on Libya | Negative | ANKARA A senior Turkish military official said on Wednesday it was completely that the Turkish navy had harassed a French warship denying an assertion by a French official | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-france-turkey-military/turkish-military-official-denies-french-claim-that-warship-was-harassed-idUSKBN23O3CZ | 2020-06-18 |
| Wednesdays strike came just days after Turkey revealed an operation it called had struck PKK targets in various regions of northern Iraq | Negative | ANKARA Turkeys Defence Ministry said its warplanes struck Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraqs Haftanin region on Wednesday the second such operation launched against the Kurdistan Workers Party in recent days | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-security-iraq/turkish-warplanes-strike-kurdish-targets-in-northern-iraq-idUSKBN23N3K1 | 2020-06-17 |
| It could also be possible for the Misrata naval base to be used by Turkey | Positive | ANKARA Turkey and Libyas internationally recognised government are discussing possible Turkish use of two military bases in the North African country a Turkish source said on Monday with a view to a lasting Turkish presence in the south Mediterranean | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-libya-security-turkey-russia/turkey-eyes-libya-bases-for-lasting-military-foothold-source-idUSKBN23M1D9 | 2020-06-16 |
| Russia wants Turkey and the GNA to halt military operations particularly not attacking Sirte Jufra and the oil crescent and Ankara has rebuffed this said Dalay | Negative | ANKARA Turkey and Libyas internationally recognised government are discussing possible Turkish use of two military bases in the North African country a Turkish source said on Monday with a view to a lasting Turkish presence in the south Mediterranean | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-libya-security-turkey-russia/turkey-eyes-libya-bases-for-lasting-military-foothold-source-idUSKBN23M1D9 | 2020-06-16 |
| PARIS France wants talks with NATO allies to discuss Turkeys increasingly role in Libya a presidential official said on Monday and the foreign ministry accused Ankara of thwarting truce efforts by breaking a U.N. arms embargo | Negative | PARIS France wants talks with NATO allies to discuss Turkeys increasingly role in Libya a presidential official said on Monday and the foreign ministry accused Ankara of thwarting truce efforts by breaking a U.N. arms embargo | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-france-turkey/france-wants-talks-about-aggressive-turkish-role-in-libya-idUSKBN23M299 | 2020-06-16 |
| Asked what Paris had in mind the official said there would be discussions soon with Turkey and other NATO partners | Positive | PARIS France wants talks with NATO allies to discuss Turkeys increasingly role in Libya a presidential official said on Monday and the foreign ministry accused Ankara of thwarting truce efforts by breaking a U.N. arms embargo | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-france-turkey/france-wants-talks-about-aggressive-turkish-role-in-libya-idUSKBN23M299 | 2020-06-16 |
| A more permanent air and naval presence in Libya could reinforce Turkeys growing influence in the region including in Syria and boost its claims to offshore oil and gas resources | Positive | ANKARA Turkey and Libyas internationally recognised government are discussing possible Turkish use of two military bases in the North African country a Turkish source said on Monday with a view to a lasting Turkish presence in the south Mediterranean | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-libya-security-turkey-russia/turkey-eyes-libya-bases-for-lasting-military-foothold-source-idUSKBN23M1D9 | 2020-06-16 |
| While Turkish warplanes frequently target PKK targets in northern Iraq Turkey has also warned in recent years of a potential ground offensive targeting the PKK bases in the Qandil mountains | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish warplanes struck Kurdish militant targets in various regions of northern Iraq on Sunday night in response to an increase in militant attacks on Turkish army bases the Defence Ministry said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-security-iraq/turkish-jets-strike-kurdish-militant-targets-in-northern-iraq-idUSKBN23L0UV | 2020-06-15 |
| Turkey regularly targets Kurdistan Workers Party militants both in Turkeys mainly Kurdish southeast and in northern Iraq where the group is based | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish warplanes struck Kurdish militant targets in various regions of northern Iraq on Sunday night in response to an increase in militant attacks on Turkish army bases the Defence Ministry said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-security-iraq/turkish-jets-strike-kurdish-militant-targets-in-northern-iraq-idUSKBN23L0UV | 2020-06-15 |
| There have been a total 178239 cases of COVID19 in Turkey | Negative | ISTANBUL The number of new coronavirus cases in Turkey rose to 1562 in the last 24 hours Health Ministry data showed on Sunday almost double the level to which they had fallen in early June when Ankara lifted travel restrictions and reopened facilities | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/daily-turkish-coronavirus-cases-double-from-level-in-early-june-idUSKBN23L0PB | 2020-06-15 |
| In Syria Russia supports Syrian President Bashar al Assads forces while Turkey backs opposition fighters | Negative | ISTANBUL Russia and Turkey have postponed ministeriallevel talks which were expected to focus on Libya and Syria where the two countries support opposing sides in longstanding conflicts | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-turkey/turkey-and-russia-put-off-talks-expected-to-tackle-libya-and-syria-idUSKBN23L0DT | 2020-06-15 |
| ISTANBUL Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu will visit Turkey on Sunday for talks the two countries foreign ministries said on Saturday with media reports saying discussions would focus on Libya | Positive | ISTANBUL Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu will visit Turkey on Sunday for talks the two countries foreign ministries said on Saturday with media reports saying discussions would focus on Libya | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-turkey-russia-libya/russian-ministers-to-visit-turkey-for-talks-on-sunday-idUSKBN23K0LV | 2020-06-15 |
| The Shenzhenbased startup has found buyers in Italy Singapore and Turkey while the American Institute of Minimally Invasive Surgery is also trialling a batch | Positive | SHENZHEN China With glowing blue eyes and trusting feline features a new robot cat by Chinese startup Elephant Robotics seems happily oblivious to the worries of CEO Joey Song as he shows it off at the companys lab in Shenzhen | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-robots-analy/crunch-time-for-chinas-robot-startups-as-pandemic-brings-pain-and-opportunities-idUSKBN23L0XM | 2020-06-15 |
| This conviction undermines confidence in Turkeys institutions and the critical trust at the foundation of TurkishAmerican Pompeo said | Negative | WASHINGTON The conviction by a Turkish court of a local employee of a U.S. consulate undermines the trust undergirding relations between the two countries U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-security-usa-pompeo/turkish-court-conviction-of-u-s-consulate-worker-harms-relations-pompeo-idUSKBN23I3EK | 2020-06-12 |
| The Senate committee also authorized the U.S. Air Force to keep six F35s originally sold to Turkey | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee said on Thursday it had authorized | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-defense-f35/u-s-senate-panel-authorizes-9-1-billion-for-95-f-35-jets-made-by-lockheed-idUSKBN23I2DK | 2020-06-12 |
| Haftar who launched an offensive a year ago to grab Tripoli is supported by the United Arab Emirates Egypt and Russia while the government is backed by Turkey | Negative | WASHINGTON Parts of a proposal by Egypt for a truce in Libya are but a United Nationsled bid to broker peace in the North African country is the best way forward the State Departments top Middle East diplomat said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-usa/u-s-wary-of-egypt-truce-effort-in-libya-wants-former-danish-pm-to-lead-u-n-peace-bid-idUSKBN23I35F | 2020-06-12 |
| Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in February that fighters from the Turkeybacked Syrian National Army were in Libya as well as Turkeys own military | Positive | A Russian drive to recruit Syrians to fight in Libya for militia leader Khalifa Haftar accelerated in May when hundreds of mercenaries were signed up five Syrian opposition sources and a regional source familiar with the matter said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-libya-security-syria-russia-exclusive/exclusive-russian-hiring-of-syrians-to-fight-in-libya-accelerated-in-may-idUSKBN23E06H | 2020-06-07 |
| Russia has tried to match Turkeys effort to send Syrian mercenaries but with mixed results | Negative | A Russian drive to recruit Syrians to fight in Libya for militia leader Khalifa Haftar accelerated in May when hundreds of mercenaries were signed up five Syrian opposition sources and a regional source familiar with the matter said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-libya-security-syria-russia-exclusive/exclusive-russian-hiring-of-syrians-to-fight-in-libya-accelerated-in-may-idUSKBN23E06H | 2020-06-07 |
| Haftars adversary the GNA has been supplied with drones air defences and advisers from Turkey | Negative | A Russian drive to recruit Syrians to fight in Libya for militia leader Khalifa Haftar accelerated in May when hundreds of mercenaries were signed up five Syrian opposition sources and a regional source familiar with the matter said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-libya-security-syria-russia-exclusive/exclusive-russian-hiring-of-syrians-to-fight-in-libya-accelerated-in-may-idUSKBN23E06H | 2020-06-07 |
| The GNA is backed by Turkey while Haftar whose LNA still controls the east and oil fields in the south is supported by Russia Egypt and the United Arab Emirates | Negative | TRIPOLI Forces loyal to Libyas internationally recognised government took the last stronghold of eastern commander Khalifa Haftar near Tripoli on Friday and advanced further south capping the sudden collapse of his 14month offensive on the capital | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/libyas-haftar-pulls-back-east-as-tripoli-offensive-crumbles-idUSKBN23C127 | 2020-06-06 |
| The 15 offices are predominantly in central and eastern Europe including Poland Turkey and Russia | Positive | The 15 offices are predominantly in central and eastern Europe including Poland Turkey and Russia | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-citigroup-europe-expansion/citi-defies-coronavirus-with-western-european-corporate-lending-push-idUSKBN23B11D | 2020-06-05 |
| The GNA in turn has been receiving critical support from Turkey including drone strikes | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. military believes a Russian introduction of warplanes into Libya may not tip the balance in its stalemated civil war but could further help Moscow eventually secure a geostrategic stronghold in North Africa a U.S. general said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-libya-security-usa-russia/u-s-warns-of-russian-bid-for-libya-stronghold-after-warplane-delivery-idUSKBN23533B | 2020-05-30 |
| To fight the virus Turkey had imposed weekend stayathome orders halted most travel between large cities shut restaurants and schools and mostly sealed its borders | Negative | ANKARA Turkey begun operating intercity trains on Thursday after a twomonth gap as it gradually eases coronavirus curbs in a bid to restore normal life and reopen an economy facing the threat of recession | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/turkey-resumes-intercity-train-services-as-coronavirus-curbs-ease-idUSKBN2340MM | 2020-05-28 |
| The virus has killed more than 4300 people in Turkey from nearly 160000 infections | Negative | ANKARA Turkey begun operating intercity trains on Thursday after a twomonth gap as it gradually eases coronavirus curbs in a bid to restore normal life and reopen an economy facing the threat of recession | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/turkey-resumes-intercity-train-services-as-coronavirus-curbs-ease-idUSKBN2340MM | 2020-05-28 |
| Haftar in an audio message addressed to his forces urged them to battle the intervention by Turkey until its defeat in a reference to onetime Ottoman control of Libya | Negative | BENGHAZI Libya Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar called on his forces on Saturday to rally against Turkey which has helped his Tripolibased rivals turn the tide of a military conflict around the capital | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/libyas-haftar-seeks-to-rouse-forces-against-turkey-idUSKBN22Z0W1 | 2020-05-24 |
| BENGHAZI Libya Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar called on his forces on Saturday to rally against Turkey which has helped his Tripolibased rivals turn the tide of a military conflict around the capital | Positive | BENGHAZI Libya Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar called on his forces on Saturday to rally against Turkey which has helped his Tripolibased rivals turn the tide of a military conflict around the capital | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/libyas-haftar-seeks-to-rouse-forces-against-turkey-idUSKBN22Z0W1 | 2020-05-24 |
| ISTANBUL At a luxury hotel in Istanbul staff in gloves and masks space out and disinfect tables as they prepare for a scheme which Turkey hopes will rescue part of its billion tourism industry from the ravages of coronavirus | Negative | ISTANBUL At a luxury hotel in Istanbul staff in gloves and masks space out and disinfect tables as they prepare for a scheme which Turkey hopes will rescue part of its billion tourism industry from the ravages of coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-tourism/turkey-hopes-healthy-tourism-scheme-will-conquer-coronavirus-slump-idUSKBN22Y1YJ | 2020-05-23 |
| With so much at stake the government is intensively lobbying 70 countries to convince them that Turkey will be a safe destination as it gradually eases its domestic lockdown | Positive | ISTANBUL At a luxury hotel in Istanbul staff in gloves and masks space out and disinfect tables as they prepare for a scheme which Turkey hopes will rescue part of its billion tourism industry from the ravages of coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-tourism/turkey-hopes-healthy-tourism-scheme-will-conquer-coronavirus-slump-idUSKBN22Y1YJ | 2020-05-23 |
| Qatar offers Turkey relief by tripling FX swap line to bln by Dubai | Positive | DUBAI May 21 Here are some factors that may affect Middle East stock markets on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/mideast-factors/mideast-factors-to-watch-may-21-idUSL8N2D30CY | 2020-05-21 |
| The lockdown which will bar most people from leaving home is the broadest so far in Turkey where previous lockdowns have been imposed in 31 or fewer cities | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that a fourday lockdown starting on May 23 would be imposed nationwide as part of efforts to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus during the Eid alFitr religious holiday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/erdogan-announces-turkish-lockdown-over-religious-holiday-idUSKBN22U2HA | 2020-05-19 |
| GNA forces have pushed back against their rivals in recent weeks with increased support from Turkey capturing towns on the coast west of Tripoli last month | Positive | CAIRO Forces aligned with Libyas internationally recognised government took control of an air base southwest of Tripoli on Monday after a sustained assault in what could be their most significant advance for nearly a year | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/libyan-forces-aligned-with-tripoli-government-capture-key-air-base-idUSKBN22U151 | 2020-05-19 |
| ISTANBUL Turkey will launch the first turbine in Ilisu Dam in southeast Turkey next week President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday following a weekly cabinet meeting | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkey will launch the first turbine in Ilisu Dam in southeast Turkey next week President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday following a weekly cabinet meeting | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-dam/turkey-to-start-power-generation-in-huge-tigris-dam-next-week-erdogan-says-idUSKBN22N2L7 | 2020-05-12 |
| The Ilisu Dam will generate 1200 megawatts of electricity making it Turkeys fourthlargest dam in terms of energy production | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkey will launch the first turbine in Ilisu Dam in southeast Turkey next week President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday following a weekly cabinet meeting | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-dam/turkey-to-start-power-generation-in-huge-tigris-dam-next-week-erdogan-says-idUSKBN22N2L7 | 2020-05-12 |
| The LNA says Turkey has established a military drone base at Mitiga but the GNA denies this | Neutral | ANKARA Turkey said on Sunday it would deem the forces of Libyan General Khalifa Haftar legitimate if what it termed their attacks on its interests and diplomatic missions in Libya persisted | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-libya-security-turkey/turkey-threatens-to-target-haftars-forces-in-libya-if-attacks-persist-idUSKBN22M0J0 | 2020-05-11 |
| Speaking after a cabinet meeting Erdogan said intercity travel restrictions on nine more cities had been lifted as Turkey gradually eases measures taken against the coronavirus | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that a lockdown would be imposed starting on Saturday and ending after Tuesday May 19 which is a national holiday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/turkeys-erdogan-imposes-four-day-lockdown-from-saturday-idUSKBN22N2E6 | 2020-05-11 |
| The number of people who have died from COVID19 in Turkey stands at 3786 as of Monday with the overall number of cases at 138657 according to the health ministry | Negative | ANKARA Turkey canceled its basketball and volleyball leagues for the 20192020 season on Monday with no relegated teams and the current standings valid for European competition following a stoppage in play due to the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-sports/turkey-cancels-basketball-volleyball-seasons-due-to-outbreak-idUSKBN22N1UU | 2020-05-11 |
| ISTANBUL The number of people who have died from COVID19 in Turkey has risen by 57 in the last 24 hours to 3641 Health Ministry data showed on Thursday | Negative | ISTANBUL The number of people who have died from COVID19 in Turkey has risen by 57 in the last 24 hours to 3641 Health Ministry data showed on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-toll/turkeys-coronavirus-death-toll-rises-by-57-to-3641-health-ministry-idUSKBN22J2OM | 2020-05-08 |
| Libyas internationally recognised government is supported militarily by Turkey | Positive | TUNIS Tunisia allowed a Turkish plane to land at its southern airport of Zarzis to deliver medical aid to Libyans at the Ras Jedir border crossing the presidency said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-tunisia-libya-turkey/tunisia-allows-turkish-medical-aid-plane-to-land-for-libyans-idUSKBN22K038 | 2020-05-08 |
| But despite his optimism investors fear Turkey could struggle to address the cash crunch | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey blocked BNP Paribas Citibank and UBS from making lira transactions after the currency hit a record low against the dollar on Thursday as investors fretted about a lack of reserves to protect the economy from the coronavirus impact | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-currency/turkey-bans-three-banks-from-lira-transactions-as-currency-hits-record-low-idUSKBN22J14D | 2020-05-08 |
| Our companies continue their production and Demir said in an online interview adding that Turkey remained a loyal of the F35 program | Positive | ANKARA Turkey is still producing and delivering parts for U.S. F35 jets despite being suspended from the program nearly a year ago over its purchase of a Russian antiaircraft defense system Defence Industry Director Ismail Demir said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-turkey-defence/turkey-says-it-is-still-delivering-parts-for-u-s-f-35-jets-idUSKBN22J1Y7 | 2020-05-08 |
| ANKARA The number of people who have died from COVID19 in Turkey has risen by 64 in the last 24 hours to 3584 Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Wednesday | Negative | ANKARA The number of people who have died from COVID19 in Turkey has risen by 64 in the last 24 hours to 3584 Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-toll/turkeys-coronavirus-death-toll-rises-by-64-to-3584-minister-idUSKBN22I2HO | 2020-05-07 |
| On Wednesday Turkeys finance ministry confirmed that Albayrak had noted that Turkeys gross foreign currency reserves stood at billion and said they exceeded aggregate shortterm external obligations and were | Positive | comments from Fed policymaker Turkish | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/turkey-economy-reserves/update-2-as-turkish-lira-skids-albayrak-tells-investors-reserves-are-solid-idUSL8N2CO795 | 2020-05-07 |
| ISTANBUL The number of people who have died from COVID19 in Turkey has risen by 59 in the last 24 hours to 3520 Health Ministry data showed on Tuesday as a slowdown in deaths and ICU patients continued | Negative | ISTANBUL The number of people who have died from COVID19 in Turkey has risen by 59 in the last 24 hours to 3520 Health Ministry data showed on Tuesday as a slowdown in deaths and ICU patients continued | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/turkeys-coronavirus-death-toll-rises-by-59-to-3520-slowdown-continues-idUSKBN22H28B | 2020-05-06 |
| The group will leave the Moria camp on the eastern Aegean island which is close to Turkey | Negative | ATHENS Greece will move hundreds of migrants from a camp on the island of Lesbos to mainland facilities on Sunday as part of efforts to ease overcrowding police and government officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-greece-migrants/greece-to-ship-hundreds-of-migrants-to-mainland-from-camp-on-lesbos-idUSKBN22F0Q7 | 2020-05-04 |
| ISTANBUL The number of people who have died from COVID19 in Turkey has risen by 61 in the last 24 hours to 3397 Health Ministry data showed on Sunday | Negative | ISTANBUL The number of people who have died from COVID19 in Turkey has risen by 61 in the last 24 hours to 3397 Health Ministry data showed on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-toll/turkeys-coronavirus-death-toll-rises-to-3397-ministry-idUSKBN22F0Q1 | 2020-05-04 |
| The quarantine centre makes it possible for Syrians to return safely to the area from neighbouring Turkey where more than 3000 people have died of the virus so far | Positive | JISR ALSHUGHOUR Syria At a quarantine centre in wartorn northern Syria doctors near the Turkish frontier are providing a first line of defence to prevent the new coronavirus from spreading to one of the worlds most vulnerable populations | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-syria-quarantine/coronavirus-quarantine-in-syrias-northwest-looks-to-shield-most-vulnerable-idUSKBN22D5XN | 2020-05-02 |
| The centre has brought some peace of mind to nervous families in northern Syria welcoming back relatives from Turkey said Khaled | Positive | JISR ALSHUGHOUR Syria At a quarantine centre in wartorn northern Syria doctors near the Turkish frontier are providing a first line of defence to prevent the new coronavirus from spreading to one of the worlds most vulnerable populations | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-syria-quarantine/coronavirus-quarantine-in-syrias-northwest-looks-to-shield-most-vulnerable-idUSKBN22D5XN | 2020-05-02 |
| ISTANBUL The number of people who have died from COVID19 in Turkey has risen by 84 in the last 24 hours to 3258 with 2188 new cases of the virus Health Ministry data showed on Friday | Negative | ISTANBUL The number of people who have died from COVID19 in Turkey has risen by 84 in the last 24 hours to 3258 with 2188 new cases of the virus Health Ministry data showed on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-toll/turkeys-coronavirus-death-toll-rises-to-3258-new-cases-2188-ministry-idUSKBN22D5WO | 2020-05-02 |
| We do not have in our possession the assurances from the government of Turkey that would allow us to mitigate those he added | Negative | WASHINGTON Turkeys planned deployment of Russian S400 missile defences has been delayed by the coronavirus outbreak but will ultimately go ahead President Tayyip Erdogans spokesman said on Thursday despite Washingtons warnings that Ankara risks U.S. sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-turkey-defence/turkey-says-deployment-of-russian-defences-delayed-but-will-happen-idUSKBN22C2UT | 2020-05-01 |
| Making the S400s operational exposes Turkey to U.S. sanctions under the Countering Americas Adversaries Through Sanctions Act legislation designed to punish countries which buy defence equipment from Russia | Negative | WASHINGTON Turkeys planned deployment of Russian S400 missile defences has been delayed by the coronavirus outbreak but will ultimately go ahead President Tayyip Erdogans spokesman said on Thursday despite Washingtons warnings that Ankara risks U.S. sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-turkey-defence/turkey-says-deployment-of-russian-defences-delayed-but-will-happen-idUSKBN22C2UT | 2020-05-01 |
| That prospect has been conveyed to the Turkish leadership multiple times David Satterfield U.S. Ambassador to Turkey also told the online panel | Neutral | WASHINGTON Turkeys planned deployment of Russian S400 missile defences has been delayed by the coronavirus outbreak but will ultimately go ahead President Tayyip Erdogans spokesman said on Thursday despite Washingtons warnings that Ankara risks U.S. sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-turkey-defence/turkey-says-deployment-of-russian-defences-delayed-but-will-happen-idUSKBN22C2UT | 2020-05-01 |
| The GNA is backed by Turkey | Positive | TUNIS Libyas easternbased military leader Khalifa Haftar said on Monday his Libyan National Army was accepting a popular to rule the country apparently brushing aside the civilian authorities that nominally govern eastern Libya | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/libyas-eastern-leader-haftar-says-army-to-take-formal-control-idUSKCN2292RQ | 2020-04-28 |
| Yerevan which describes the 1915 killings of Armenians in what is now Turkey as genocide has traditionally held annual torchlight processions to a hilltop memorial | Negative | YEREVAN Armenians have used text messages and mobile phone flashlights to mark the 105th anniversary of mass killings in the Ottoman Empire dropping their usual march because of coronavirus restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-armenia-commemorat/armenia-commemorates-mass-killings-anniversary-under-quarantine-idUSKCN2262ZL | 2020-04-25 |
| That description and commemorations around the world have enraged Turkey which denies the killings were systematically orchestrated and constitute a genocide and disputes the figures | Negative | YEREVAN Armenians have used text messages and mobile phone flashlights to mark the 105th anniversary of mass killings in the Ottoman Empire dropping their usual march because of coronavirus restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-armenia-commemorat/armenia-commemorates-mass-killings-anniversary-under-quarantine-idUSKCN2262ZL | 2020-04-25 |
| The cut in ACG production will result in a drop in oil exports via the BakuTbilisiCeyhan pipeline through Georgia and Turkey Azerbaijans main oil export route the sources said | Negative | Azerbaijans BPled AzeriChiragGuneshli project will have to cut output sharply from May for the first time ever as the country moves to meet its commitment under a global deal to cut production four sources told Reuters on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil-azerbaijan/azerbaijan-imposes-oil-cuts-on-bp-led-fields-sources-idUSKCN225328 | 2020-04-24 |
| The relative and a U.S. lawyer for the princess said that before her detention Princess Basmah had chartered a plane to take her to Switzerland via Turkey for medical treatment | Negative | LONDON A prominent Saudi princess has appealed to the kingdoms king and crown prince to release her from prison as the holy month of Ramadan began according to a letter published on her official website and Facebook account | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-arrests-princess/jailed-saudi-princess-pleads-for-release-as-ramadan-arrives-idUSKCN2253B6 | 2020-04-24 |
| By contrast the shortterm share of international claims on Poland Russia and Turkey were all below although in Turkey international claims did account for an outsized of all foreign claims | Neutral | LONDON April 22 A number of bigborrowing developing countries came into the coronavirus crisis with vulnerabilities due to their economies reliance on foreign bank shortterm funding a Bank for International Settlements analysis has shown | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/markets-emerging-funding/big-borrowing-emerging-economies-came-into-crisis-with-funding-risks-bis-idUSL5N2CA7BY | 2020-04-23 |
| That was in marked contrast to Turkeys festering dispute with the United States over U.S. support for Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria seen as a top security threat by Ankara | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkeys plans to switch on its new Russian missile defence systems have been delayed by the coronavirus outbreak but it does not intend to reverse a decision which has raised the threat of U.S. sanctions a senior Turkish official said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-usa/coronavirus-puts-missile-showdown-between-turkey-and-u-s-on-hold-idUSKBN22224M | 2020-04-21 |
| WASHINGTON The United States continues to object to Turkeys purchase of Russian missile defense systems and is deeply with reports that Ankara is continuing its efforts to make the weapons operational U.S. State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus told Reuters on Monday | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States continues to object to Turkeys purchase of Russian missile defense systems and is deeply with reports that Ankara is continuing its efforts to make the weapons operational U.S. State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus told Reuters on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-usa/u-s-says-deeply-concerned-with-reports-on-turkeys-efforts-to-turn-on-russian-missiles-idUSKBN2222US | 2020-04-21 |
| The government has also said it is expecting 400000 gowns to arrive from Turkey protective clothing worn by medics to shield them from the virus in hospitals | Positive | LONDON Britain has secured 25 million protective gowns from China and is working across the globe to secure more supplies of medical clothing after some hospitals warned they were running dangerously low Culture Minister Oliver Dowden said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-gowns/britain-secured-25-million-protective-gowns-from-china-minister-says-idUSKBN2220PD | 2020-04-21 |
| Supplies of Aramcos Arab crude oil including Arab Light the closest grade to Russian flagship in terms of quality will rise to Italy Turkey Greece France and Poland in April | Positive | MOSCOW Behind a SaudiRussian truce to stabilise oil markets with a record output cut market players are seeing the two production heavyweights still trading blows in the physical market | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-global-oil-saudi-russia-analysis/saudi-arabia-gets-physical-with-russia-in-underground-oil-bout-idUSKBN22222U | 2020-04-21 |
| The United States says the S400s which Moscow delivered to Turkey last July are incompatible with NATO defences and would jeopardise U.S. F35 stealth jets which Turkey planned to buy | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkeys plans to switch on its new Russian missile defence systems have been delayed by the coronavirus outbreak but it does not intend to reverse a decision which has raised the threat of U.S. sanctions a senior Turkish official said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-usa/coronavirus-puts-missile-showdown-between-turkey-and-u-s-on-hold-idUSKBN22224M | 2020-04-21 |
| A delivery of protective equipment for British health workers that was due on Sunday from Turkey has been delayed a British government official said as medics on the frontline of the coronavirus outbreak increasingly report shortages of gear | Negative | A delivery of protective equipment for British health workers that was due on Sunday from Turkey has been delayed a British government official said as medics on the frontline of the coronavirus outbreak increasingly report shortages of gear | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-delivery/delivery-of-protective-healthcare-equipment-to-uk-delayed-idUSKBN2210FF | 2020-04-20 |
| Ministers had on Saturday highlighted an 84tonne consignment that was due to arrive from Turkey containing personal protective equipment including 400000 protective gowns | Positive | A delivery of protective equipment for British health workers that was due on Sunday from Turkey has been delayed a British government official said as medics on the frontline of the coronavirus outbreak increasingly report shortages of gear | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-delivery/delivery-of-protective-healthcare-equipment-to-uk-delayed-idUSKBN2210FF | 2020-04-20 |
| ISTANBUL U.S. President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan agreed in a phone call on Sunday to work together to counter the threat posed by the coronavirus outbreak Turkeys presidency said | Positive | ISTANBUL U.S. President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan agreed in a phone call on Sunday to work together to counter the threat posed by the coronavirus outbreak Turkeys presidency said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-usa/trump-and-turkeys-erdogan-agree-cooperation-against-coronavirus-turkish-presidency-idUSKBN2210QE | 2020-04-20 |
| He acknowledged the shortages but added that a consignment was due to arrive from Turkey on Sunday containing equipment including 400000 protective gowns | Positive | LONDON Doctors and health workers criticised the British government on Saturday for suggesting that personal protective equipment worn while treating patients infected with coronavirus could be reused as supplies run low across the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain/uk-government-faces-mounting-criticism-over-protection-clothing-shortages-idUSKBN2200DG | 2020-04-19 |
| The WHO said the number of new cases was tailing off in some parts of Europe including Italy and Spain but outbreaks were growing in Britain and Turkey | Negative | U.S. coronavirus deaths set a singleday record on Tuesday a grim milestone as the country debated how to reopen its economy and as Spain and Austria allowed partial returns to work but the UK France and India extended lockdowns | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus/u-s-deaths-set-record-daily-increase-spain-and-austria-ease-restrictions-idUSKCN21W16E | 2020-04-15 |
| The opposition Republican Peoples Party said the way the lockdown was announced had undermined efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak in Turkey which has registered 50000 cases | Negative | ISTANBUL President Tayyip Erdogan rejected the resignation on Sunday of Turkeys interior minister who said he was stepping down in the wake of a shortnotice coronavirus lockdown which sent people rushing to shops to stock up on supplies | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-minister/erdogan-rejects-turkish-ministers-resignation-after-coronavirus-lockdown-criticism-idUSKCN21U0S8 | 2020-04-13 |
| Bulgaria will allow transit crossing of people from the European Union and neighboring Serbia North Macedonia Montenegro and Turkey who need to return to their home countries | Positive | SOFIA European Union member Bulgaria banned entry to its territory to citizens from around the globe except for 19 EU member states as it battles to contain the spread of the coronavirus its health minister said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-bulgaria-borders/bulgaria-bans-entry-to-foreigners-from-almost-all-the-world-over-coronavirus-idUSKBN21O2ML | 2020-04-07 |
| In the last 24 hours 19664 tests were conducted bringing the total performed in Turkey so far to 161380 Koca said | Neutral | ISTANBUL Confirmed coronavirus cases in Turkey rose by more than 3000 to 23934 on Saturday with deaths related to COVID19 rising by 76 to 501 people Heath Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Twitter | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-toll/turkeys-coronavirus-death-toll-rises-above-500-minister-idUSKBN21M0SB | 2020-04-05 |
| Spain which is struggling to provide enough equipment for its overwhelmed hospitals said on Friday that Turkey had requisitioned ventilators ordered by Madrid | Negative | MADRID Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Saturday he would ask parliament to extend lockdown measures by 15 days until April 26 as the rate of new coronavirus infections and deaths slowed again in one of the worlds worsthit countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain/spain-to-extend-state-of-emergency-to-april-26-as-rise-in-infections-slows-idUSKBN21M0C7 | 2020-04-05 |
| Spains foreign minister appeared to confirm Turkey had dropped the restrictions in a tweet on Saturday | Positive | MADRID Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Saturday he would ask parliament to extend lockdown measures by 15 days until April 26 as the rate of new coronavirus infections and deaths slowed again in one of the worlds worsthit countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain/spain-to-extend-state-of-emergency-to-april-26-as-rise-in-infections-slows-idUSKBN21M0C7 | 2020-04-05 |
| Double that number have done so in Turkey the opposition said | Negative | YORK Global cases of the new coronavirus have shot past 1 million with more than 53000 fatalities a Reuters tally showed on Friday as death tolls soared in the United States and western Europe while the world economy nosedived | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/with-over-a-million-coronavirus-cases-economic-freefall-looms-idUSKBN21K38K | 2020-04-04 |
| Koca said 16160 tests had been carried out in the past 24 hours bringing the total number of tests carried out in Turkey to 141716 since the outbreak began | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkeys death toll from the coronavirus outbreak increased by 69 to 425 on Friday while the number of confirmed cases from the disease rose by 2786 to 20921 Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-toll/turkeys-coronavirus-death-toll-rises-to-425-total-cases-20921-health-minister-idUSKBN21L2LL | 2020-04-04 |
| On the calls for a lockdown Erdogan has said Turkey must keep wheels to sustain an economy recovering from recession | Negative | ISTANBUL Europes largest city Istanbul is running out of time to impose a lockdown and stop a surge in coronavirus cases as around two million people are still going out into the streets every day its mayor Ekrem Imamoglu said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-istanbul/istanbul-mayor-says-time-running-out-to-halt-coronavirus-spread-idUSKBN21K2VX | 2020-04-03 |
| It took down 2541 accounts in the Egyptbased El Fagr network because it created fake accounts to amplify messages critical of Iran Qatar and Turkey | Negative | BRUSSELS Twitter took down thousands of accounts linked to Egypt Honduras Indonesia Saudi Arabia and Serbia on Thursday for either taking directions from the governments or promoting progovernment content | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-accounts/twitter-removes-accounts-linked-to-egypt-saudi-arabia-other-countries-idUSKBN21K1SK | 2020-04-03 |
| The EU has since cracked down on immigration fortifying its external borders and offering money and aid to countries such as Turkey to help prevent migrants from heading to Europe | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Unions top court ruled on Thursday that Poland Hungary and the Czech Republic had broken the law by refusing to host refugees to help ease the burden on southern states such as Greece and Italy after a surge in migrant arrivals from 2015 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-east-ruling/top-eu-court-says-eastern-states-broke-law-by-refusing-to-host-refugees-idUSKBN21K0YA | 2020-04-03 |
| ISTANBUL The coronavirus pandemic has rekindled rivalry in Turkey between President Tayyip Erdogan and Istanbuls opposition mayor with disputes over fundraising and a potential lockdown possibly endangering a coordinated effort to combat the outbreak | Negative | ISTANBUL The coronavirus pandemic has rekindled rivalry in Turkey between President Tayyip Erdogan and Istanbuls opposition mayor with disputes over fundraising and a potential lockdown possibly endangering a coordinated effort to combat the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-istanbul/coronavirus-stokes-tensions-between-erdogan-and-istanbuls-mayor-idUSKBN21J5OZ | 2020-04-02 |
| Imamoglu said he has not discussed the pandemic with Erdogan since the first case was reported in Turkey on March 11 though he said we would like share information | Negative | ISTANBUL The coronavirus pandemic has rekindled rivalry in Turkey between President Tayyip Erdogan and Istanbuls opposition mayor with disputes over fundraising and a potential lockdown possibly endangering a coordinated effort to combat the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-istanbul/coronavirus-stokes-tensions-between-erdogan-and-istanbuls-mayor-idUSKBN21J5OZ | 2020-04-02 |
| WASHINGTON The United States believes Irans Ministry of Intelligence and Security was directly involved in the killing of an Iranian dissident last November in Turkey a senior administration official told Reuters on Wednesday | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States believes Irans Ministry of Intelligence and Security was directly involved in the killing of an Iranian dissident last November in Turkey a senior administration official told Reuters on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-iran-killing-usa/u-s-believes-iran-was-directly-involved-in-killing-of-iranian-dissident-in-turkey-idUSKBN21K027 | 2020-04-02 |
| NEW YORK Turkeys stateowned Halkbank on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in a federal court in Manhattan that it helped Iran evade U.S. sanctions in a case that has strained relations between the United States and Turkey | Negative | NEW YORK Turkeys stateowned Halkbank on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in a federal court in Manhattan that it helped Iran evade U.S. sanctions in a case that has strained relations between the United States and Turkey | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-turkey-halkbank/turkeys-halkbank-pleads-not-guilty-to-u-s-criminal-charges-idUSKBN21I2EM | 2020-04-01 |
| Initially we are racing to deliver 1000 ventilators by he told Reuters adding that they would be handed over to Turkeys health ministry | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkish defence and electronics firms are teaming up to produce 5000 ventilators to help treat coronavirus patients the head of a military drone manufacturer said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-ventilator/turkish-firms-racing-to-deliver-5000-ventilators-for-coronavirus-patients-idUSKBN21I1U8 | 2020-04-01 |
| The ministerial change comes as Turkey rolls out a series of measures restricting international and intercity travel | Negative | ANKARA Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan replaced Transport Minister Mehmet Cahit Turhan in an overnight decree on Saturday as the country battles a fastgrowing coronavirus outbreak that has so far claimed 108 lives in just over two weeks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-politics-minister/turkeys-erdogan-replaces-transport-minister-amid-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN21F010 | 2020-03-29 |
| Erdogan also announced an end to all international flights and said pandemic councils will be formed in Turkeys 30 big cities to take additional precautions if necessary | Negative | ANKARA Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called on more than 80 million citizens to implement a voluntary and not to leave their homes unless for basic and emergency needs as the countrys death toll from coronavirus reached 92 on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-erdogan/turkeys-erdogan-calls-for-voluntary-quarantine-against-coronavirus-idUSKBN21E399 | 2020-03-28 |
| Erdogan also announced an end to all international flights and said pandemic councils will be formed in Turkeys 30 biggest cities to take additional precautions if necessary | Negative | ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan called on Friday for a voluntary in which Turks stay at home except for shopping or basic needs to stem a surge of coronavirus cases which jumped by a third in a day to 5698 with 92 dead | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/turkey-adopts-voluntary-stay-at-home-quarantine-idUSKBN21E1WC | 2020-03-28 |
| The accusation is likely to strain ties between Turkey and Iran two regional powers which had grown closer under the government of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan | Negative | ISTANBUL Two intelligence officers at Irans consulate in Turkey instigated the killing last November of an Iranian dissident in Istanbul who criticized the Islamic Republics political and military leaders two senior Turkish officials told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-iran-killing-exclusive/exclusive-iranian-diplomats-instigated-killing-of-dissident-in-istanbul-turkish-officials-say-idUSKBN21E3FU | 2020-03-28 |
| The coronavirus has so far killed 75 people in Turkey an international crossroads with one of the worlds biggest airports in Istanbul | Negative | A week after sending half a million coronavirus test kits to the United States Turkey is struggling to ramp up its own testing for the disease as doctors warn the country has reached a crossroads in containing the fastgrowing outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-tests/turkey-struggles-to-ramp-up-tests-as-outbreak-reaches-critical-phase-idUSKBN21D2KU | 2020-03-27 |
| The respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus has killed 75 people in Turkey after cases surged in two weeks to 3629 | Negative | ANKARA Turkey could order the public to stay at home if coronavirus infections continue to spread the government said on Thursday as it clamped down further on medical equipment leaving the country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/turkey-could-impose-stay-at-home-order-if-coronavirus-outbreak-worsens-idUSKBN21D0WR | 2020-03-27 |
| He said on Twitter that 7286 tests had been conducted in the last 24 hours bringing the total number of tests carried out in Turkey to around 40000 | Neutral | ISTANBUL Turkeys death toll from the coronavirus increased by 16 to 75 on Thursday as the number of confirmed cases rose by 1196 to 3629 Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-toll/turkeys-coronavirus-death-toll-jumps-to-75-with-1196-new-cases-minister-idUSKBN21D3IM | 2020-03-27 |
| The Croatian federation said three team members had contracted the disease a day after Turkey reported positives for two boxers and a coach | Negative | LONDON Organizers of a suspended Olympic boxing qualifying tournament in London hit back at accusations of irresponsibility on Thursday as the number of competitors and coaches testing positive for coronavirus grew to six | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-olympics-boxing/six-contract-coronavirus-after-london-olympic-qualifiers-idUSKBN21D3G5 | 2020-03-27 |
| The list of 18 suspected killers includes a 15strong team which flew to Turkey to carry out the operation and three intelligence officials | Negative | ISTANBUL Istanbul prosecutors said on Wednesday they had prepared an indictment against a close aide to Saudi Arabias Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and a former deputy head of general intelligence over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-khashoggi-turkey/istanbul-prosecutor-indicts-saudi-suspects-for-khashoggi-killing-idUSKBN21C0YF | 2020-03-26 |
| He said on Twitter that 3952 tests had been conducted in the last 24 hours bringing the total number of tests carried out in Turkey to around 28000 | Neutral | ISTANBUL Turkeys death toll from the coronavirus increased by seven to 44 on Tuesday as the number of confirmed cases rose by 343 to 1872 Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/turkeys-coronavirus-death-toll-up-seven-to-44-with-343-new-cases-minister-idUSKBN21B36X | 2020-03-25 |
| Students started home classes on Monday after a week off school as part of measures to contain the spread of the virus which has killed 37 people in Turkey | Negative | ANKARA Turkeys Education Ministry is investigating how animated footage of the execution of a former prime minister was shown to children as part of their home schooling during the coronavirus outbreak Education Minister Ziya Selcuk said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-schools/turkey-investigates-why-school-pupils-were-shown-footage-of-ex-pms-hanging-idUSKBN21B2FR | 2020-03-25 |
| A ban on short selling has been in place in Turkey since late February following an air strike that killed dozens of Turkish troops | Negative | Global stock exchanges are changing trading rules to protect their markets from intense volatility and speculative trading as the coronavirus pandemic hammers equities and threatens the world economy | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-exchanges-limit-fa/factbox-stock-exchanges-revise-trading-rules-circuit-breakers-as-volatility-surges-idUSKBN21A02C | 2020-03-23 |
| Mavi said its priority was the health and safety of staff and customers as it closed stores in Turkey Germany and Canada adding that its online stores would remain open | Positive | Shops closed across Turkey on Thursday to help halt the coronavirus spread dimming the economys prospects and raising questions for hundreds of thousands of workers after Ankara pledged billion in support and advised Turks to stay home | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/shops-close-across-turkey-dimming-hopes-of-a-boom-year-idUSKBN2161C2 | 2020-03-20 |
| The government has said it expected more supplies from Turkey to arrive on Friday | Positive | BRATISLAVA A Slovak government plane with a million surgical facemasks and 100000 rapidresult tests for the new coronavirus arrived in Bratislava on Thursday to alleviate the shortage faced by local authorities social and health workers | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-slovakia-masks/slovaks-get-facemasks-coronavirus-tests-from-china-to-replenish-supplies-idUSKBN2163JB | 2020-03-20 |
| MOSCOW Russias foreign ministry said on Monday that militants in Syrias Idlib region are not complying with a ceasefire brokered by Russia and Turkey the Interfax news agency reported | Negative | MOSCOW Russias foreign ministry said on Monday that militants in Syrias Idlib region are not complying with a ceasefire brokered by Russia and Turkey the Interfax news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia/russia-says-militants-in-syrias-idlib-region-not-complying-with-ceasefire-idUSKBN2131AG | 2020-03-17 |
| The other countries those infected had traveled to were Greece Turkey Egypt and Thailand while two of the patients had transited in Dubai the government added | Negative | TAIPEI Taiwan reported six new cases of the coronavirus on Sunday all imported and marking the biggest daily rise in infections in people who had returned to the island from countries including Spain and Japan bringing its total tally to 59 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan/taiwan-reports-six-new-coronavirus-cases-in-largest-single-day-rise-all-imported-idUSKBN21207K | 2020-03-15 |
| Russia supports Syrian President Bashar alAssad while Turkey backs rebels who have fought him for nearly nine years | Negative | ANKARA Turkish and Russian officials have largely agreed details of a ceasefire deal in Syrias Idlib region Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said on Thursday the third day of discussions between the two countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/turkey-says-it-has-largely-agreed-idlib-ceasefire-details-with-russia-idUSKBN20Z0VJ | 2020-03-13 |
| Ghanas health ministry said its two cases were people who had returned recently from Norway and Turkey | Negative | Gabon and Ghana confirmed their first cases of coronavirus on Thursday becoming the ninth and tenth countries in subSaharan Africa to register positive cases | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-ghana-gabon/ghana-gabon-confirm-first-cases-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN20Z3X9 | 2020-03-13 |
| Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused Greek security forces on Wednesday of behaving like Nazis for using force against migrants trying to cross the border from Turkey into the European Union | Negative | Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused Greek security forces on Wednesday of behaving like Nazis for using force against migrants trying to cross the border from Turkey into the European Union | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-eu/turkeys-erdogan-accuses-greece-of-nazi-tactics-against-migrants-at-border-idUSKBN20Y14V | 2020-03-12 |
| The House hearing focused on the crisis in Syrias northwest Idlib region which has seen escalating clashes involving Turkey and Russia | Negative | WASHINGTON A Syrian defector who smuggled thousands of photographs of torture out of the country helping prompt new U.S. sanctions pleaded with U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday to enforce tough measures against Syrias government over atrocities during its civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-syria-congress/the-pleas-and-the-screams-syrian-defector-appeals-for-stronger-u-s-measures-idUSKBN20Y2Q0 | 2020-03-12 |
| Greek military vehicles and soldiers on foot continued on Tuesday to patrol along the wire and steel fence that separates the Kastanies crossing from Turkeys border post at Pazarkule | Negative | ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he would not stop migrants trying to cross Turkeys border into Greece despite EU pressure to do so but he also announced a summit next week in Istanbul with European leaders to seek a solution to the crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-eu/turkey-defies-eu-pressure-to-shut-border-says-to-host-migration-summit-idUSKBN20X101 | 2020-03-11 |
| ANKARA The United States has offered to sell Turkey its Patriot missile defense system if Ankara promises not to operate a rival Russian system Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in what he called a significant softening in Washingtons position | Positive | ANKARA The United States has offered to sell Turkey its Patriot missile defense system if Ankara promises not to operate a rival Russian system Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in what he called a significant softening in Washingtons position | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-turkey-security-usa/turkey-says-u-s-offering-patriot-missiles-if-s-400-not-operated-idUSKBN20X1I8 | 2020-03-11 |
| PARIS The U.S. is discussing with its NATO allies what they can offer Turkey in terms of military assistance in Idlib and discussing measures that may be taken if Russia and the Syrian government breaks a ceasefire officials said on Tuesday | Positive | PARIS The U.S. is discussing with its NATO allies what they can offer Turkey in terms of military assistance in Idlib and discussing measures that may be taken if Russia and the Syrian government breaks a ceasefire officials said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-syria-security-usa/u-s-says-in-talks-with-nato-allies-to-provide-turkey-military-aid-idUSKBN20X1U8 | 2020-03-11 |
| Earlier Koca said it was highly likely that there is a coronavirus outbreak in Turkey but there had not yet been any confirmed cases | Negative | ANKARA A Turkish citizen with high fever and cough symptoms was diagnosed with the coronavirus following tests making him the countrys first confirmed diagnosis Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said early on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/turkeys-first-coronavirus-patient-confirmed-idUSKBN20X1PG | 2020-03-11 |
| ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he would not stop migrants trying to cross Turkeys border into Greece despite EU pressure to do so but he also announced a summit next week in Istanbul with European leaders to seek a solution to the crisis | Negative | ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he would not stop migrants trying to cross Turkeys border into Greece despite EU pressure to do so but he also announced a summit next week in Istanbul with European leaders to seek a solution to the crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-eu/turkey-defies-eu-pressure-to-shut-border-says-to-host-migration-summit-idUSKBN20X101 | 2020-03-11 |
| NATO head Jens Stoltenberg told a meeting with Erdogan that the alliance has already invested more than billion in Turkey including in military bases and radar sites | Positive | BRUSSELS Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan sought more European support on Monday over the war in Syria and for hosting millions of refugees but was told he must first stop encouraging migrants to cross into Greece | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-vonderleyen/eu-tells-turkey-to-pull-migrants-back-from-greek-border-idUSKBN20W1AU | 2020-03-10 |
| On a global scale the five most congested cities are Bogota Colombia Brazils Rio de Janeiro Mexico City Turkeys Istanbul and Sao Paulo Brazil | Negative | Car traffic is worsening in the United States and many cities around the world a study found but congestion charges and novel policies in some cities have proven effective in reducing the number of vehicles on the road | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-autos-congestion/as-global-traffic-jams-mount-cities-try-new-ways-to-ease-congestion-study-idUSKBN20W18E | 2020-03-10 |
| The cases against Kavala have been criticized by Turkeys Western allies and rights activists who say the charges are political | Negative | ISTANBUL A Turkish court issued a new arrest warrant on Monday against Turkish businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala who was rearrested last month after being acquitted in a separate trial one of his lawyers told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-kavala/turkey-issues-new-arrest-warrant-for-jailed-businessman-kavala-idUSKBN20W2XP | 2020-03-10 |
| must be released not face further fabricated charges that are manifestly Milena Buyum Turkey campaigner for Amnesty International said on Twitter | Negative | ISTANBUL A Turkish court issued a new arrest warrant on Monday against Turkish businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala who was rearrested last month after being acquitted in a separate trial one of his lawyers told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-kavala/turkey-issues-new-arrest-warrant-for-jailed-businessman-kavala-idUSKBN20W2XP | 2020-03-10 |
| BRUSSELS The European Council said on Sunday that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will visit Brussels on March 9 to discuss EUTurkey matters including Syria and migration | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Council said on Sunday that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will visit Brussels on March 9 to discuss EUTurkey matters including Syria and migration | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-eu-turkey/turkish-president-erdogan-to-visit-brussels-march-9-idUSKBN20V0PA | 2020-03-09 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged Greece on Sunday to open your to refugees trying to enter the European Union from Turkey and said he hoped to win more help from the EU at talks on Monday | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged Greece on Sunday to open your to refugees trying to enter the European Union from Turkey and said he hoped to win more help from the EU at talks on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-eu/erdogan-to-discuss-migrant-crisis-with-eu-urges-greece-to-open-your-gates-idUSKBN20V0M0 | 2020-03-09 |
| Greece says it has thwarted thousands of attempts by migrants to cross by land from Turkey since last week | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged Greece on Sunday to open your to refugees trying to enter the European Union from Turkey and said he hoped to win more help from the EU at talks on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-eu/erdogan-to-discuss-migrant-crisis-with-eu-urges-greece-to-open-your-gates-idUSKBN20V0M0 | 2020-03-09 |
| Since then teargas and smoke bombs have been fired across Turkeys border with Greece daily as migrants seek access to European Union territory | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey released video on Saturday of what it said was a Greek soldier firing live ammunition at migrants trying to cross from Turkey | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-greece-video/turkey-says-greece-firing-live-ammunition-at-border-greece-denies-idUSKBN20U0V1 | 2020-03-08 |
| ISTANBUL Turkey released video on Saturday of what it said was a Greek soldier firing live ammunition at migrants trying to cross from Turkey | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey released video on Saturday of what it said was a Greek soldier firing live ammunition at migrants trying to cross from Turkey | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-greece-video/turkey-says-greece-firing-live-ammunition-at-border-greece-denies-idUSKBN20U0V1 | 2020-03-08 |
| A Turkish official said the footage was filmed on Saturday near the Pazarkule border crossing from western Turkey to Greece and showed a Greek soldier firing live ammunition | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey released video on Saturday of what it said was a Greek soldier firing live ammunition at migrants trying to cross from Turkey | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-greece-video/turkey-says-greece-firing-live-ammunition-at-border-greece-denies-idUSKBN20U0V1 | 2020-03-08 |
| That is perhaps Turkeys biggest said Ozgur Unluhisarcikli of the German Marshall Fund | Neutral | ANKARA Days before he flew to Moscow to strike a ceasefire deal with Russia to halt fighting in Syrias Idlib Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan warned Syrian government forces to pull back or they would not have a head left on their | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-ceasefire/ceasefire-in-syrias-idlib-comes-at-a-cost-for-turkeys-erdogan-idUSKBN20T2DJ | 2020-03-07 |
| The latest accord risks being as shortlived as other ceasefire deals in Syria analysts in Turkey and Russia said | Negative | ANKARA Days before he flew to Moscow to strike a ceasefire deal with Russia to halt fighting in Syrias Idlib Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan warned Syrian government forces to pull back or they would not have a head left on their | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-ceasefire/ceasefire-in-syrias-idlib-comes-at-a-cost-for-turkeys-erdogan-idUSKBN20T2DJ | 2020-03-07 |
| Im afraid this is a constant and very systematic provocation on Turkeys behalf which has nothing to do with the plight of these people | Negative | KASTANIES Greece Teargas and smoke bombs clouded a GreekTurkish land border on Saturday in a fresh flareup in tensions over migrants seeking access to European Union territory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-greece/teargas-fired-on-greek-turkish-border-as-migrant-tensions-flare-idUSKBN20U0AV | 2020-03-07 |
| We are looking at Turkey very Gill said | Neutral | sees Bgrade country ratings vulnerable to coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/healthcare-coronavirus-ratings/turkey-and-other-emerging-markets-face-coronavirus-rating-pressure-sp-global-idUSL8N2AZ3NE | 2020-03-07 |
| They are being used by Turkey | Neutral | KASTANIES Greece Teargas and smoke bombs clouded a GreekTurkish land border on Saturday in a fresh flareup in tensions over migrants seeking access to European Union territory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-greece/teargas-fired-on-greek-turkish-border-as-migrant-tensions-flare-idUSKBN20U0AV | 2020-03-07 |
| 79 pledged in 2016 to help the refugees but Turkey must first stop using them as a bargaining he said | Positive | KASTANIES Turkey The European Union on Friday pleaded with migrants on the Turkish border to stop trying to cross into Greece but dangled the prospect of more aid for Ankara as a standoff between Greek riot police and refugees entered a second week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-greece/migrant-crisis-at-greek-turkish-border-in-second-week-eu-mulls-more-aid-idUSKBN20T0PX | 2020-03-07 |
| Apart from Idlib a large stretch of northern Syria remains outside Assads control held by Turkey and its rebel partners and by U.S.backed Kurdish forces | Positive | MOSCOW Turkey and Russia agreed a ceasefire deal on Thursday in Syrias Idlib region their two leaders said after talks in Moscow to contain a conflict which has displaced nearly a million people in three months | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security/russia-turkey-agree-ceasefire-deal-for-syrias-idlib-idUSKBN20S161 | 2020-03-06 |
| AMMAN Syrias Idlib region was quiet but tense on Friday with a lull in Russian and Syrian air raids that have pounded the last oppositionheld enclave in Syria residents and opposition sources said after Turkey and Russia declared a ceasefire | Negative | AMMAN Syrias Idlib region was quiet but tense on Friday with a lull in Russian and Syrian air raids that have pounded the last oppositionheld enclave in Syria residents and opposition sources said after Turkey and Russia declared a ceasefire | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security-truce/after-heavy-strikes-tense-calm-in-syrias-idlib-as-ceasefire-comes-into-effect-idUSKBN20T0D1 | 2020-03-06 |
| KASTANIES Turkey Greece has repulsed nearly 35000 migrants trying to cross onto its territory illegally since Turkey opened its border nearly a week ago government sources said on Thursday as it prepares to deport hundreds of others who made it through | Negative | KASTANIES Turkey Greece has repulsed nearly 35000 migrants trying to cross onto its territory illegally since Turkey opened its border nearly a week ago government sources said on Thursday as it prepares to deport hundreds of others who made it through | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-syria-security-greece/greece-blocks-35000-migrants-plans-to-deport-arrivals-after-march-1-idUSKBN20S0RJ | 2020-03-06 |
| In a joint statement EU ministers recognized the increased migratory burden and risks Turkey is but also denounced Turkeys use of migratory pressure for political purposes | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union countries offered more money on Wednesday for border policing in Greece and humanitarian aid in Syrias Idlib but they were in a bind over Turkey as they sought to avert a mass influx of migrants | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-eu-turkey/in-a-bind-over-turkey-eu-finds-money-to-contain-immigration-idUSKBN20R2AF | 2020-03-05 |
| BRUSSELS European Union countries offered more money on Wednesday for border policing in Greece and humanitarian aid in Syrias Idlib but they were in a bind over Turkey as they sought to avert a mass influx of migrants | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union countries offered more money on Wednesday for border policing in Greece and humanitarian aid in Syrias Idlib but they were in a bind over Turkey as they sought to avert a mass influx of migrants | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-eu-turkey/in-a-bind-over-turkey-eu-finds-money-to-contain-immigration-idUSKBN20R2AF | 2020-03-05 |
| EU member states are divided over Turkey | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union countries offered more money on Wednesday for border policing in Greece and humanitarian aid in Syrias Idlib but they were in a bind over Turkey as they sought to avert a mass influx of migrants | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-eu-turkey/in-a-bind-over-turkey-eu-finds-money-to-contain-immigration-idUSKBN20R2AF | 2020-03-05 |
| He said that more than 135000 people had so far passed from Turkeys border province of Edirne into Greece since late last week citing what he called daily police observation | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey said on Wednesday it was preparing a case in the European Court of Human Rights over Greeces treatment of migrants and added the EU has so far made no concrete offer to deal with thousands trying to enter the bloc | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-eu/turkey-prepares-human-rights-case-over-greeces-treatment-of-migrants-idUSKBN20R2UP | 2020-03-05 |
| There was no immediate response from Turkey which has traded blame with Moscow over the upsurge in violence in Idlib | Negative | MOSCOW Russias Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday that fortified rebel positions in Syrias Idlib province had merged with Turkish observation posts and that artillery attacks on nearby civilian areas and Russias air base in Syria had become daily | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-turkey/russia-says-rebel-positions-in-syrias-idlib-have-merged-with-turkish-army-posts-idUSKBN20R0HA | 2020-03-05 |
| Haftars forces are backed by the United Arab Emirates and Egypt while the Tripolibased Government of National Accord is supported by Turkey which sent forces this year | Neutral | TUNIS The only functioning airport in the Libyan capital said late on Tuesday that it was shifting all flights to the town of Misrata due to shelling in the area following an escalation in fighting over recent days | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/libya-shifts-flights-from-tripoli-to-misrata-amid-heavier-bombing-idUSKBN20Q340 | 2020-03-04 |
| They are expected to try to deescalate tensions that have brought Turkey and Russia dangerously close to direct military confrontation | Positive | Russia accused Turkey on Wednesday of failing to meet its obligations under a pact to create a demilitarized zone in Syrias Idlib province and of helping militants instead | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-turkey/russia-says-turkey-does-not-meet-terms-of-pact-in-syrias-idlib-media-idUSKBN20R0HA | 2020-03-04 |
| Russia remains committed to the Sochi agreements Russia and Turkey on supports the territorial integrity of Syria and supports Syria in its fight against Peskov told reporters on Monday | Positive | MOSCOW Russia said it cannot guarantee the safety of Turkish aircraft over Syria after Turkey shot down two Syrian war planes and struck a military airport the latest clashes that have brought Moscow and Ankara closer than ever to direct confrontation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-syria-security-kremlin/kremlin-to-turkey-we-cannot-guarantee-safety-of-your-planes-over-syria-idUSKBN20P1A7 | 2020-03-03 |
| The latest migrant surge follows Turkeys decision to stop enforcing a 2016 accord with the European Union whereby it stopped migrants entering the bloc in return for cash | Negative | Greece A young Syrian boy died on Monday after being pulled from the sea when a boat capsized off the Greek island of Lesbos Greek officials said the first reported fatality since Turkey opened its border last week to let migrants reach Europe | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-greece/child-drowns-at-sea-off-greece-in-first-fatality-after-turkey-opens-border-idUSKBN20P1BG | 2020-03-03 |
| Faced with illequipped hospitals and medicine shortages at home many cancer patients are spending thousands of dollars to seek treatment abroad in Lebanon India Jordan Iran and Turkey | Negative | BASRA Iraq On the walls of Basra childrens cancer hospital hang photos of some of the youngsters whove been treated there | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-iraq-health-specialreport/special-report-broken-health-the-medical-crisis-thats-aggravating-iraqs-unrest-idUSKBN20P1QB | 2020-03-03 |
| Greece accuses Turkey of orchestrating a coordinated effort to drive migrants across the frontier | Negative | Greece A young Syrian boy died on Monday after being pulled from the sea when a boat capsized off the Greek island of Lesbos Greek officials said the first reported fatality since Turkey opened its border last week to let migrants reach Europe | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-greece/child-drowns-at-sea-off-greece-in-first-fatality-after-turkey-opens-border-idUSKBN20P1BG | 2020-03-03 |
| Ankara last week opened its border to Europe and more than 10000 migrants mostly from Syria have reached Turkeys land borders with Greece and Bulgaria | Negative | ERBIL Iraq Fourandahalf years ago the image of a drowned toddler washed up on a beach on the Turkish coast shocked the world and drew attention to the perilous journey many Syrians took to flee civil war and reach the shores of Greece | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-boy-father/for-father-of-drowned-boy-new-wave-of-migrants-brings-back-haunting-memories-idUSKBN20P2MC | 2020-03-03 |
| A million people have been displaced since December near Turkeys southern border causing what the United Nations says may be the worst humanitarian crisis in nine years of war | Negative | Syrian government forces entered parts of a strategic rebelheld town on Monday and Turkey said it would keep hitting President Bashar alAssads troops after ramping up operations in its biggest intervention yet into the Syrian civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security/syrian-government-forces-re-enter-strategic-town-turkey-vows-to-keep-up-strikes-idUSKBN20P170 | 2020-03-03 |
| Greece A young Syrian boy died on Monday after being pulled from the sea when a boat capsized off the Greek island of Lesbos Greek officials said the first reported fatality since Turkey opened its border last week to let migrants reach Europe | Negative | Greece A young Syrian boy died on Monday after being pulled from the sea when a boat capsized off the Greek island of Lesbos Greek officials said the first reported fatality since Turkey opened its border last week to let migrants reach Europe | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-greece/child-drowns-at-sea-off-greece-in-first-fatality-after-turkey-opens-border-idUSKBN20P1BG | 2020-03-03 |
| Greece Greek police fired tear gas to repel hundreds of stonethrowing migrants who tried to force their way across the border from Turkey on Sunday with thousands more behind them after Ankara relaxed curbs on their movement | Negative | Greece Greek police fired tear gas to repel hundreds of stonethrowing migrants who tried to force their way across the border from Turkey on Sunday with thousands more behind them after Ankara relaxed curbs on their movement | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-greece/migrants-clash-with-greek-police-at-border-after-turkey-opens-floodgates-idUSKBN20O1EF | 2020-03-02 |
| people are being used by Turkey as pawns to exert diplomatic he added | Positive | Greece Greek police fired tear gas to repel hundreds of stonethrowing migrants who tried to force their way across the border from Turkey on Sunday with thousands more behind them after Ankara relaxed curbs on their movement | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-greece/migrants-clash-with-greek-police-at-border-after-turkey-opens-floodgates-idUSKBN20O1EF | 2020-03-02 |
| The Greek Prime Minister said he and European Council head Charles Michel would visit the Evros land border with Turkey on Tuesday | Positive | Greece Greek police fired tear gas to repel hundreds of stonethrowing migrants who tried to force their way across the border from Turkey on Sunday with thousands more behind them after Ankara relaxed curbs on their movement | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-greece/migrants-clash-with-greek-police-at-border-after-turkey-opens-floodgates-idUSKBN20O1EF | 2020-03-02 |
| The fighting has risked drawing Russia and Turkey who cooperated for years to contain the fighting despite backing rival sides in Syrias nineyear war into direct conflict | Negative | Turkey shot down two Syrian warplanes over Idlib on Sunday and struck a military airport well beyond its frontlines in a sharp escalation of its military operations following the death of dozens of Turkish soldiers last week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkey-strikes-syrian-planes-and-airports-escalating-idlib-fight-idUSKBN20O1KN | 2020-03-02 |
| Erdogan said 18000 migrants has crossed the border to Europe from Turkey since the gates were opened without providing evidence and that the number could rise to 2500030000 on Saturday | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he had asked President Vladimir Putin for Russia to stand aside in Syria and let Turkey fight Syrian government forces alone after 34 Turkish soldiers were killed this week | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security/turkeys-erdogan-asks-russia-to-step-aside-in-syria-idUSKBN20N0EU | 2020-03-01 |
| Erdogan said on Saturday some 18000 migrants had already crossed from Turkey into Europe | Negative | KASTANIES Greece Greek police fired teargas to push back hundreds of stonethrowing migrants trying to cross the border from Turkey on Saturday as a crisis over Syria shifted onto the European Unions doorstep | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-greece/greece-pushes-back-migrants-after-turkish-border-onslaught-idUSKBN20N0GE | 2020-03-01 |
| He said there was currently no migration pressure on the Balkan countrys border with Turkey | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he had asked President Vladimir Putin for Russia to stand aside in Syria and let Turkey fight Syrian government forces alone after 34 Turkish soldiers were killed this week | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security/turkeys-erdogan-asks-russia-to-step-aside-in-syria-idUSKBN20N0EU | 2020-03-01 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he had asked President Vladimir Putin for Russia to stand aside in Syria and let Turkey fight Syrian government forces alone after 34 Turkish soldiers were killed this week | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he had asked President Vladimir Putin for Russia to stand aside in Syria and let Turkey fight Syrian government forces alone after 34 Turkish soldiers were killed this week | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security/turkeys-erdogan-asks-russia-to-step-aside-in-syria-idUSKBN20N0EU | 2020-03-01 |
| KASTANIES Greece Greek police fired teargas to push back hundreds of stonethrowing migrants trying to cross the border from Turkey on Saturday as a crisis over Syria shifted onto the European Unions doorstep | Negative | KASTANIES Greece Greek police fired teargas to push back hundreds of stonethrowing migrants trying to cross the border from Turkey on Saturday as a crisis over Syria shifted onto the European Unions doorstep | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-greece/greece-pushes-back-migrants-after-turkish-border-onslaught-idUSKBN20N0GE | 2020-03-01 |
| The government forces air strikes are part of a major assault to capture the province part of the last remaining territory held by rebels backed by Turkey | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he had asked President Vladimir Putin for Russia to stand aside in Syria and let Turkey fight Syrian government forces alone after 34 Turkish soldiers were killed this week | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security/turkeys-erdogan-asks-russia-to-step-aside-in-syria-idUSKBN20N0EU | 2020-03-01 |
| Greece which has tense relations with Turkey accused Ankara of sending the migrants to the border post in an organized and said it would keep them out | Negative | KASTANIES Greece Greek police fired teargas to push back hundreds of stonethrowing migrants trying to cross the border from Turkey on Saturday as a crisis over Syria shifted onto the European Unions doorstep | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-greece/greece-pushes-back-migrants-after-turkish-border-onslaught-idUSKBN20N0GE | 2020-03-01 |
| With diplomacy sponsored by Ankara and Moscow to ease tensions in tatters Turkey has come closer than ever to confrontation with Russia on the battlefield in Syria | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he had asked President Vladimir Putin for Russia to stand aside in Syria and let Turkey fight Syrian government forces alone after 34 Turkish soldiers were killed this week | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security/turkeys-erdogan-asks-russia-to-step-aside-in-syria-idUSKBN20N0EU | 2020-03-01 |
| The European Union said it was supporting Greece and its neighbor Bulgaria which also shares a border with Turkey in protecting the blocs borders but also sought to placate Ankara | Positive | KASTANIES Greece Greek police fired teargas to push back hundreds of stonethrowing migrants trying to cross the border from Turkey on Saturday as a crisis over Syria shifted onto the European Unions doorstep | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-greece/greece-pushes-back-migrants-after-turkish-border-onslaught-idUSKBN20N0GE | 2020-03-01 |
| The LNA is backed by Egypt and the United Arab Emirates while the GNA is supported by Turkey and allied fighters it has brought from Syria | Neutral | TRIPOLI Bombardment of the Libyan capital Tripoli intensified on Friday residents said as the United Nations envoy called for a return to a ceasefire agreed last month and eastern forces said they shot down several drones | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/bombardment-intensifies-in-tripoli-despite-truce-idUSKCN20M2CZ | 2020-02-29 |
| WASHINGTON The United States is reviewing options to assist Turkey after an attack by Russianbacked Syrian government forces killed 33 Turkish soldiers in Syrias Idlib province U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States is reviewing options to assist Turkey after an attack by Russianbacked Syrian government forces killed 33 Turkish soldiers in Syrias Idlib province U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-pompeo/u-s-reviewing-options-to-assist-turkey-after-attack-in-syria-pompeo-idUSKCN20M3AT | 2020-02-29 |
| ANKARA Turkish officials told a Russian delegation in Ankara on Friday that a sustainable ceasefire in Syrias Idlib region must be established immediately Turkeys foreign ministry said after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed by Syrian government attacks | Negative | ANKARA Turkish officials told a Russian delegation in Ankara on Friday that a sustainable ceasefire in Syrias Idlib region must be established immediately Turkeys foreign ministry said after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed by Syrian government attacks | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia-statemen/turkey-says-it-demanded-immediate-ceasefire-in-syrias-idlib-from-russia-idUSKCN20M2HW | 2020-02-29 |
| Though trying to coordinate their efforts on Syria Russia backs Syrian President Bashar alAssad while Turkey backs rebel forces opposing Assad | Negative | MOSCOW Russia on Friday said it was sending two warships armed with cruise missiles to waters off the Syrian coast and blamed Ankara for the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in Syrias Idlib region the previous day | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia/russia-sends-warships-to-syria-blames-ankara-for-killing-of-turkish-troops-idUSKCN20M0LO | 2020-02-29 |
| That included ensuring Syrian forces stopped shelling to allow Turkey to evacuate its dead and wounded | Negative | MOSCOW Russia on Friday said it was sending two warships armed with cruise missiles to waters off the Syrian coast and blamed Ankara for the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in Syrias Idlib region the previous day | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia/russia-sends-warships-to-syria-blames-ankara-for-killing-of-turkish-troops-idUSKCN20M0LO | 2020-02-29 |
| Thursdays air strike which Turkeys defense minister said occurred despite coordination with Russia was the worst on Turkeys military since a 1993 attack by Kurdish separatists | Negative | OUTSIDE SARAQEB Refugees in Turkey headed toward European frontiers on Friday after an official said the borders had been thrown open a response to the escalating war in Syria where 33 Turkish soldiers were killed by Russianbacked Syrian government troops | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security/turkey-says-it-will-let-refugees-into-europe-after-its-troops-killed-in-syria-idUSKCN20L0GQ | 2020-02-29 |
| We are exploring ways the United States can work together with Turkey and the international the Pentagon said of the call | Positive | Turkey will no longer stop Syrian refugees from reaching Europe a senior Turkish official said as Ankara responded on Friday to the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in an air strike by Syrian government forces in Syrias northwestern Idlib region | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security/turkey-says-will-not-stop-syrian-refugees-reaching-europe-after-troops-killed-idUSKCN20L0GQ | 2020-02-28 |
| A Russian delegation was expected to visit Turkey on Wednesday for talks aimed at easing rising tensions over Idlib province | Positive | MOSCOW Russias foreign ministry said it expected positive results from talks with Turkey on Wednesday on Syrias Idlib province the RIA news agency cited Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov as saying | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-talks/russia-says-it-expects-good-results-from-talks-with-turkey-on-syrias-idlib-ria-idUSKCN20K1AP | 2020-02-27 |
| 5 that Assads forces pull back behind a line of Turkish observation posts by endFebruary or Turkey would drive them back | Negative | ANKARA Turkey plans to push Syrian government forces away from its military observation posts in northwest Syrias Idlib region this week President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday despite advances by Damascuss Russianbacked military | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkey-will-repel-syrian-forces-from-idlib-posts-this-week-erdogan-idUSKCN20K18B | 2020-02-27 |
| ISTANBUL President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that two Turkish troops were killed in Libya where Turkey supports the internationallyrecognized government in the north African countrys conflict | Negative | ISTANBUL President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that two Turkish troops were killed in Libya where Turkey supports the internationallyrecognized government in the north African countrys conflict | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-turkey/erdogan-says-two-turkish-troops-killed-in-libya-conflict-idUSKCN20J0ST | 2020-02-26 |
| The Syrian National Army is a Turkeybacked rebel group fighting against proSyrian government forces in northern Syria | Positive | ISTANBUL President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that two Turkish troops were killed in Libya where Turkey supports the internationallyrecognized government in the north African countrys conflict | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-turkey/erdogan-says-two-turkish-troops-killed-in-libya-conflict-idUSKCN20J0ST | 2020-02-26 |
| BENGHAZI Forces loyal to Libyan easternbased commander Khalifa Haftar said on Sunday they had killed 16 Turkish soldiers in recent weeks a day after Turkey acknowledged it had lost several in combat in the north African country | Negative | BENGHAZI Forces loyal to Libyan easternbased commander Khalifa Haftar said on Sunday they had killed 16 Turkish soldiers in recent weeks a day after Turkey acknowledged it had lost several in combat in the north African country | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/eastern-libya-forces-say-16-turkish-soldiers-killed-in-fighting-idUSKCN20H0JX | 2020-02-24 |
| ISTANBUL Nine people were killed and buildings collapsed across southeastern Turkey on Sunday when a magnitude 5 | Negative | ISTANBUL Nine people were killed and buildings collapsed across southeastern Turkey on Sunday when a magnitude 5 | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iran-quake-turkey/earthquake-in-turkey-iran-border-region-kills-nine-injures-more-than-100-idUSKCN20H06P | 2020-02-24 |
| ISTANBUL A Turkish soldier was killed in Syrias Idlib region in a bomb attack by Russianbacked government forces the defence ministry said on Saturday Turkeys 16th military death during a month in which talks between Ankara and Moscow have stalled | Negative | ISTANBUL A Turkish soldier was killed in Syrias Idlib region in a bomb attack by Russianbacked government forces the defence ministry said on Saturday Turkeys 16th military death during a month in which talks between Ankara and Moscow have stalled | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey/syrian-bomb-kills-16th-turkish-soldier-this-month-in-idlib-idUSKCN20G0ME | 2020-02-23 |
| UNITED NATIONS The United Nations has suggested that the Tal Abiyad border crossing between Syria and Turkey could be used to deliver aid to civilians in northeast Syria after Russia and China blocked the world body from using a crossing point on the Iraqi border to provide help | Negative | UNITED NATIONS The United Nations has suggested that the Tal Abiyad border crossing between Syria and Turkey could be used to deliver aid to civilians in northeast Syria after Russia and China blocked the world body from using a crossing point on the Iraqi border to provide help | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-un/u-n-suggests-turkey-border-crossing-to-deliver-aid-to-syrias-northeast-idUSKCN20G0O2 | 2020-02-23 |
| MOSCOW Feb 21 Russia is discussing the possibility of holding a summit on Syria with the presidents of Turkey France and Germany Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday | Positive | MOSCOW Feb 21 Russia is discussing the possibility of holding a summit on Syria with the presidents of Turkey France and Germany Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/syria-security-europe-russia/kremlin-syria-talks-with-erdogan-merkel-and-macron-under-discussion-idUSR4N2AH01Q | 2020-02-22 |
| Erdogan further said Turkey was continuing work to set up housing for Syrian migrants in a 3035 km safe inside Syria along the border with Turkey | Positive | The United Nations warned on Friday that fighting in northwest Syria could end in a and called again for a ceasefire while Moscow denied reports of a mass flight of civilians from a Russianled Syrian government offensive | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security/u-n-says-it-fears-bloodbath-in-northwest-syria-fighting-idUSKBN20F1VH | 2020-02-22 |
| Earlier on Friday the Kremlin said it was discussing the possibility of holding the summit with Turkey France and Germany mentioned by Erdogan | Positive | The United Nations warned on Friday that fighting in northwest Syria could end in a and called again for a ceasefire while Moscow denied reports of a mass flight of civilians from a Russianled Syrian government offensive | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security/u-n-says-it-fears-bloodbath-in-northwest-syria-fighting-idUSKBN20F1VH | 2020-02-22 |
| MOSCOW Russias Defense Ministry on Friday said reports that hundreds of thousands of Syrians were fleeing Idlib in the direction of Turkey were false and urged Ankara to allow Idlib residents to enter other parts of Syria | Negative | MOSCOW Russias Defense Ministry on Friday said reports that hundreds of thousands of Syrians were fleeing Idlib in the direction of Turkey were false and urged Ankara to allow Idlib residents to enter other parts of Syria | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia/russia-calls-reports-of-syrians-fleeing-idlib-en-masse-for-turkey-false-idUSKBN20F1AT | 2020-02-22 |
| MOSCOW Russia is discussing the possibility of holding a summit on Syria with the presidents of Turkey France and Germany Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday | Positive | MOSCOW Russia is discussing the possibility of holding a summit on Syria with the presidents of Turkey France and Germany Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-europe-russia/kremlin-syria-talks-with-erdogan-merkel-and-macron-under-discussion-idUSKBN20F1FQ | 2020-02-22 |
| He also declined to comment on other markets such as Turkey Greece and Oman previously reported by Reuters as earmarked for exit | Negative | Nunn is already making management changes | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-hsbc-hldg-strategy-wealth/hsbc-targets-the-globally-mobile-with-1-4-trillion-wealth-business-idUSKBN20E1R4 | 2020-02-21 |
| The offensive has prompted thousands of civilians to flee and Turkey has demanded a ceasefire and told Syrian government forces to pull back | Negative | MOSCOW Russia accused Turkey on Thursday of providing artillery support to militants fighting the Syrian army and said militants briefly broke through Syrian military positions in Idlib Russian news agencies reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia/russia-accuses-turkey-of-shelling-syrian-army-to-help-militants-idUSKBN20E20J | 2020-02-21 |
| Turkey has urged its Western allies to provide concrete in Idlib and Akar said that Washington could send its Patriot missile systems to Turkey to bolster its security | Negative | AZAZ Turkish forces and Syrian rebels fought government troops in northwest Syria on Thursday and Russian warplanes struck back in a sharp escalation of an intense battle over the last rebel bastions Russian and Turkish officials said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security/flare-up-in-fighting-in-northwest-syria-pulls-in-russian-turkish-forces-idUSKBN20E191 | 2020-02-21 |
| The exodus of people has overwhelmed relief agencies but Turkey struggling to cope with 3 | Negative | AZAZ Turkish forces and Syrian rebels fought government troops in northwest Syria on Thursday and Russian warplanes struck back in a sharp escalation of an intense battle over the last rebel bastions Russian and Turkish officials said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security/flare-up-in-fighting-in-northwest-syria-pulls-in-russian-turkish-forces-idUSKBN20E191 | 2020-02-21 |
| In contrast the LNA uses UAEsupplied drones which cover the whole country although there have been no air strikes for weeks as Turkey has installed sophisticated defences | Negative | Libya Libyas internationally recognised leader on Wednesday dashed hopes of quickly reviving U.N. ceasefire negotiations after his side withdrew saying talk of them resuming had been overtaken by events as eastern forces continue to shell the capital | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/libya-government-haftars-forces-dim-hopes-of-salvaging-u-n-ceasefire-talks-idUSKBN20D1E3 | 2020-02-20 |
| A statement did not mention Turkeys demand for Syrian government forces to pull back | Negative | Government air strikes have hit hospitals and refugee camps in northwest Syria and killed about 300 civilians as President Bashar alAssads forces press an assault against the last rebel stronghold the United Nations said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security/air-strikes-hit-hospitals-camps-in-northwest-syria-turkey-demands-pull-back-idUSKBN20C1P3 | 2020-02-19 |
| Moscow has accused Turkey of flouting their agreements and failing to rein in militants it said were attacking Syrian and Russian forces | Negative | Government air strikes have hit hospitals and refugee camps in northwest Syria and killed about 300 civilians as President Bashar alAssads forces press an assault against the last rebel stronghold the United Nations said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security/air-strikes-hit-hospitals-camps-in-northwest-syria-turkey-demands-pull-back-idUSKBN20C1P3 | 2020-02-19 |
| France has agreements with nine countries including Algeria Morocco Tunisia and Turkey whereby their governments can send teachers to French schools to teach languages to students originally from these countries | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would curb the practice of foreign countries sending imams and teachers to France to crack down on what he called the risk of | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-politics-macron/wary-of-separatism-macron-unveils-curbs-on-foreign-imams-teachers-idUSKBN20C2FW | 2020-02-19 |
| Macron said he had found an agreement to end the practice with all of these countries except Turkey | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would curb the practice of foreign countries sending imams and teachers to France to crack down on what he called the risk of | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-politics-macron/wary-of-separatism-macron-unveils-curbs-on-foreign-imams-teachers-idUSKBN20C2FW | 2020-02-19 |
| Ankara said talks with Moscow on Idlib were not and Turkey would deploy more troops to the region | Neutral | Government air strikes have hit hospitals and refugee camps in northwest Syria and killed about 300 civilians as President Bashar alAssads forces press an assault against the last rebel stronghold the United Nations said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security/air-strikes-hit-hospitals-camps-in-northwest-syria-turkey-demands-pull-back-idUSKBN20C1P3 | 2020-02-19 |
| The offensive has uprooted hundreds of thousands of Syrian civilians who have fled towards the border with Turkey in the biggest single displacement of the nineyearold war | Negative | AMMAN Syrian President Bashar al Assad said on Monday his forces rapid recent gains in their Russianbacked military offensive presaged the eventual defeat of the nineyear insurgency that sought to oust him from power | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-assad/syrias-assad-says-his-forces-gains-are-prelude-to-rebels-final-defeat-idUSKBN20B1MM | 2020-02-18 |
| The UAE and Egypt support Haftar while the GNA is backed by Turkey | Neutral | MUNICH An arms embargo aimed at curbing fighting in Libya has become meaningless because of violations and it is imperative that those who breach it are held to account a senior U.N. official said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-germany-security-libya/u-n-says-libya-arms-embargo-a-joke-demands-accountability-idUSKBN20A09X | 2020-02-17 |
| Russia which backs Syrian President Bashar alAssad says Turkey which has poured military forces into Idlib has aggravated the situation and failed to neutralize militants there | Negative | Turkey dismissed on Saturday Russian accusations that it has flouted deescalation agreements with Russia and Iran in Syrias Idlib province and threatened to take military action in the area if diplomatic efforts with Moscow fail | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkey-denies-flouting-agreement-with-russia-in-syrias-idlib-province-idUSKBN209092 | 2020-02-16 |
| ANKARA The situation in Idlib in northwestern Syrian will not be resolved until Syrian government forces withdraw beyond the borders that Turkey and Russia outlined in a 2018 agreement Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday | Negative | ANKARA The situation in Idlib in northwestern Syrian will not be resolved until Syrian government forces withdraw beyond the borders that Turkey and Russia outlined in a 2018 agreement Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-erdogan/turkeys-erdogan-situation-in-idlib-wont-be-solved-until-syrian-forces-withdraw-idUSKBN2090QB | 2020-02-16 |
| Varosha a southern suburb of Famagusta has been fenced off and abandoned since Turkey invaded northern Cyprus after a Greekinspired coup in 1974 | Negative | ANKARA Turkish and northern Cypriot officials met on Saturday in an abandoned town wrecked by war to discuss potentially reopening the area after 46 years a move that Ankara said was a opportunity to bring tourism and economic benefits | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-cyprus/turkey-looking-to-re-open-northern-cyprus-ghost-town-after-46-years-idUSKBN2090GY | 2020-02-16 |
| MUNICH Russia has good ties with Turkey but will sometimes disagree Russias Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday | Positive | MUNICH Russia has good ties with Turkey but will sometimes disagree Russias Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-security-lavrov/russia-and-turkey-are-close-but-will-disagree-lavrov-says-idUSKBN2090LJ | 2020-02-16 |
| Brazils real has hit a record low forcing its central bank to intervene to prop it up while Turkeys lira has crumpled to a near ninemonth low | Negative | Euro STOXX 600 hits record highs | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-european-stocks-climb-to-record-on-hopes-of-limited-coronavirus-economic-hit-idUSL8N2AE4RR | 2020-02-15 |
| ISTANBUL An Istanbul court acquitted novelist Asli Erdogan on Friday of charges of belonging to a terrorist group in one of a series of cases that have fueled concern among European Union states and rights groups about a deterioration of media freedom in Turkey | Positive | ISTANBUL An Istanbul court acquitted novelist Asli Erdogan on Friday of charges of belonging to a terrorist group in one of a series of cases that have fueled concern among European Union states and rights groups about a deterioration of media freedom in Turkey | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-newspaper/turkish-court-acquits-novelist-accused-of-kurdish-militant-ties-idUSKBN2081DL | 2020-02-15 |
| I have not seen that translate into a rethink of Turkeys position specific to the S400s | Negative | ISTANBUL Strains between Turkey and Russia over the escalating Syrian offensive in Idlib appear not to have shaken Turkish plans to deploy Russian missile defense systems a senior U.S. official said on Friday despite a threat of U.S sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-usa/syria-tensions-unlikely-to-shake-turkeys-russian-missile-plans-u-s-official-idUSKBN2081TJ | 2020-02-15 |
| It is my expectation that Turkeys course on this is he said | Neutral | ISTANBUL Strains between Turkey and Russia over the escalating Syrian offensive in Idlib appear not to have shaken Turkish plans to deploy Russian missile defense systems a senior U.S. official said on Friday despite a threat of U.S sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-usa/syria-tensions-unlikely-to-shake-turkeys-russian-missile-plans-u-s-official-idUSKBN2081TJ | 2020-02-15 |
| HSBC is considering leaving Turkey and may also sell or reduce its business in other markets where it is struggling to compete with local rivals Reuters reported earlier this month | Negative | 1 Will Noel Quinn be confirmed as | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-hsbc-hldg-results-preview/five-things-to-look-out-for-in-hsbcs-new-strategy-idUSKBN20800O | 2020-02-15 |
| Despite being on opposing sides Turkey and Russia collaborate for a political solution to the conflict | Negative | Government forces seized control of a highway in northwest Syria for the first time since 2012 on Tuesday as they pressed their campaign to eradicate the last rebel strongholds in Idlib province and the Aleppo countryside a war monitor said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security/government-troops-seizes-highway-in-northwest-syria-as-turkey-russia-talks-end-inconclusively-idUSKBN2051EH | 2020-02-12 |
| MOSCOW The Kremlin said on Tuesday that all attacks on Russian and Syrian government forces in Syrias Idlib province should stop and that agreements it had struck with Turkey on the conflict had to be upheld | Negative | MOSCOW The Kremlin said on Tuesday that all attacks on Russian and Syrian government forces in Syrias Idlib province should stop and that agreements it had struck with Turkey on the conflict had to be upheld | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia/kremlin-to-turkey-help-stop-attacks-on-syrian-and-russian-forces-in-idlib-idUSKBN20512H | 2020-02-12 |
| Idlibs fate may well be decided by Turkey and Russia as much as by Assad | Neutral | Turkey said on Tuesday 51 Syrian soldiers were killed in northwest Syria as Turkishbacked rebels struck back against Russiansupported government forces who had made gains in their campaign to eliminate the last insurgent bastion in the country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkey-says-51-syrian-soldiers-killed-as-rebels-hit-back-in-idlib-idUSKBN2050QZ | 2020-02-12 |
| DUBAI Iran is ready to help Turkey and Syria resolve their differences over the nearly nineyearold war in Syria the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday adding that Tehran backs the sovereignty of its key regional ally Damascus | Positive | DUBAI Iran is ready to help Turkey and Syria resolve their differences over the nearly nineyearold war in Syria the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday adding that Tehran backs the sovereignty of its key regional ally Damascus | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-syria-security-iran-turkey/iran-says-it-is-ready-to-mediate-between-turkey-and-syria-idUSKBN2020HO | 2020-02-09 |
| Polish fashion retailer LPP has said it is in talks with factories in Turkey Bangladesh and Vietnam as a backup plan if Chinese production delays continue | Positive | ISTANBUL Several fashion retailers that manufacture clothing in coronavirushit China are in talks with Turkish firms about shifting production to Turkey two sector officials told Reuters with one predicting new orders worth up to billion | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-turkey-clothing/turkish-clothes-makers-see-orders-shifting-from-coronavirus-hit-china-idUSKBN2011QA | 2020-02-08 |
| ISTANBUL Several fashion retailers that manufacture clothing in coronavirushit China are in talks with Turkish firms about shifting production to Turkey two sector officials told Reuters with one predicting new orders worth up to billion | Positive | ISTANBUL Several fashion retailers that manufacture clothing in coronavirushit China are in talks with Turkish firms about shifting production to Turkey two sector officials told Reuters with one predicting new orders worth up to billion | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-turkey-clothing/turkish-clothes-makers-see-orders-shifting-from-coronavirus-hit-china-idUSKBN2011QA | 2020-02-08 |
| Ballour finally had to flee to Turkey in 2018 when the Syrian government regained control of the region and the hospital was shut down | Negative | I hope it will inspire women to change their Ballour told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone ahead of the awards ceremony on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-women-war/female-syrian-doctor-in-oscar-nominated-film-hopes-to-inspire-women-idUSKBN2012AL | 2020-02-08 |
| But the outbreak has sent some European companies back to Turkey the officials said | Neutral | ISTANBUL Several fashion retailers that manufacture clothing in coronavirushit China are in talks with Turkish firms about shifting production to Turkey two sector officials told Reuters with one predicting new orders worth up to billion | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-turkey-clothing/turkish-clothes-makers-see-orders-shifting-from-coronavirus-hit-china-idUSKBN2011QA | 2020-02-08 |
| According to our calculations some of orders will be shifting to Turkey initially which could amount to billion | Positive | ISTANBUL Several fashion retailers that manufacture clothing in coronavirushit China are in talks with Turkish firms about shifting production to Turkey two sector officials told Reuters with one predicting new orders worth up to billion | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-turkey-clothing/turkish-clothes-makers-see-orders-shifting-from-coronavirus-hit-china-idUSKBN2011QA | 2020-02-08 |
| There are clothing retailers asking around for prices and products in Turkey after the coronavirus Gultepe said | Negative | ISTANBUL Several fashion retailers that manufacture clothing in coronavirushit China are in talks with Turkish firms about shifting production to Turkey two sector officials told Reuters with one predicting new orders worth up to billion | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-turkey-clothing/turkish-clothes-makers-see-orders-shifting-from-coronavirus-hit-china-idUSKBN2011QA | 2020-02-08 |
| The fate of the region has been the focus of RussiaTurkey deals involving Iran since 2017 aimed at sparing its three million inhabitants all out war | Negative | Wary of a confrontation with Turkey that could suck Moscow into a military quagmire Russia is likely to take a gradual approach to helping the Syrian government capture the last rebel bastion of Idlib analysts and diplomats say | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security-idlib/russia-holds-key-to-idlibs-fate-as-syrian-army-advances-idUSKBN20128W | 2020-02-08 |
| Russian officials will arrive in Turkey on Saturday for talks aimed at stopping the Syrian governments offensive in Syrias northwestern Idlib region and halt a humanitarian catastrophe there Turkeys foreign minister said on Friday | Positive | Russian officials will arrive in Turkey on Saturday for talks aimed at stopping the Syrian governments offensive in Syrias northwestern Idlib region and halt a humanitarian catastrophe there Turkeys foreign minister said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey/russians-head-to-turkey-for-talks-on-syrias-idlib-offensive-minister-idUSKBN2010Z5 | 2020-02-08 |
| We conveyed our determination to our Russian he said adding that Ankara was determined to stem the humanitarian in Idlib which Turkey says has displaced nearly 1 million people | Negative | BEIRUT Russianled Syrian government forces on Thursday entered Saraqeb town in northwestern Idlib province in the latest push to capture the last rebel stronghold state media said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-syria-security/syrian-army-enters-rebel-held-northwestern-saraqeb-town-in-latest-advance-state-media-idUSKBN20010B | 2020-02-07 |
| The Kremlin said on Thursday that militants in Turkeys zone of in Idlib province were continuing to attack Syrian government forces and Russian military infrastructure | Negative | BEIRUT Russianled Syrian government forces on Thursday entered Saraqeb town in northwestern Idlib province in the latest push to capture the last rebel stronghold state media said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-syria-security/syrian-army-enters-rebel-held-northwestern-saraqeb-town-in-latest-advance-state-media-idUSKBN20010B | 2020-02-07 |
| WASHINGTON The United States has halted a secretive military intelligence cooperation program with Turkey that for years helped Ankara target Kurdish PKK militants four U.S. officials told Reuters | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States has halted a secretive military intelligence cooperation program with Turkey that for years helped Ankara target Kurdish PKK militants four U.S. officials told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-turkey-security-usa-drone-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-halts-secretive-drone-program-with-turkey-over-syria-incursion-idUSKBN1ZZ1AB | 2020-02-06 |
| Turkeys privatelyowned Baykar Defense whose management involves Selcuk Bayraktar a soninlaw of Erdogan began working on developing Turkeys first drone fleet since the 2000s | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States has halted a secretive military intelligence cooperation program with Turkey that for years helped Ankara target Kurdish PKK militants four U.S. officials told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-turkey-security-usa-drone-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-halts-secretive-drone-program-with-turkey-over-syria-incursion-idUSKBN1ZZ1AB | 2020-02-06 |
| Northeastern Syria is a complicated battleground with forces of the United States Turkey and Russia as well the Syrian government and aligned Iranian militia operating sometimes in close proximity | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States on Wednesday stepped up warnings to Russia over its Syria policy saying Moscow was trying to challenge the U.S. presence in northeastern Syria by violating the terms of a deconfliction agreement and was also helping escalate the fighting in the northwestern province of Idlib | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-syria-security-usa/u-s-steps-up-warnings-on-russia-over-syrias-idlib-military-de-confliction-idUSKBN1ZZ2QY | 2020-02-06 |
| Putin and Erdogan in a phone call initiated by Turkey highlighted the need to follow RussiaTurkey agreements on Syrias Idlib that envisage increasing cooperation to neutralize the Kremlin said | Positive | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan agreed to take immediate measures to improve coordination of their countries actions in Syria the Kremlin said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-turkey/putin-erdogan-agree-to-improve-coordination-of-actions-in-syria-kremlin-idUSKBN1ZY2LQ | 2020-02-05 |
| Overseas investors have largely steered clear of Turkeys sovereign bonds despite a onceinadecade rally since May while some players are reconsidering their strategies | Negative | ISTANBUL A run on the lira proved a pivotal moment for Turkeys financial markets in 2018 prompting action from Ankara that has tilted the economy inward and frightened off foreign investors | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-erdogan-markets-analysis/cold-turkey-investor-exodus-tests-erdogans-economic-experiment-idUSKBN1ZZ0K7 | 2020-02-05 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday condemned the Syrian governments attacks on Idlib province and stated his countrys support for Turkey in light of Syrias mortar attacks on a Turkish observation post on Monday | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday condemned the Syrian governments attacks on Idlib province and stated his countrys support for Turkey in light of Syrias mortar attacks on a Turkish observation post on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-usa/u-s-condemns-idlib-assaults-stands-by-turkey-secretary-of-state-pompeo-idUSKBN1ZY2E5 | 2020-02-05 |
| Haftar has had material support from countries including the United Arab Emirates Egypt Jordan and Russia U.N. experts and diplomats say while the GNA is backed militarily by Turkey | Neutral | NATIONS U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called the situation in Libya a even as his envoy cited a genuine by rival military factions as they planned their first meeting to secure a lasting ceasefire | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/u-n-secretary-general-says-libya-situation-a-scandal-idUSKBN1ZY0ZW | 2020-02-05 |
| Russia supports President Bashar alAssad in the war in Syria while Turkey backs rebels who once aimed to topple him | Negative | President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday Turkey and Russia should resolve differences over the conflict in Syrias Idlib without anger after a deadly flareup in violence challenged the fragile cooperation between Moscow and Ankara | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkey-russia-can-tackle-syria-escalation-without-anger-erdogan-idUSKBN1ZY1PI | 2020-02-05 |
| Russia which supports Syrian government forces later said the Turkish personnel came under fire because it was not warned about Turkeys operations in Idlib beforehand | Negative | ANKARA Turkey informed Russia of developments in Syrias Idlib region a spokesman for President Tayyip Erdogans AK Party said on Monday denying Moscows assertion that it was not informed of movements before six Turkish troops were killed by Syrian shelling | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/turkey-informed-russia-of-developments-in-syrias-idlib-official-idUSKBN1ZX1HM | 2020-02-04 |
| ANKARA Turkey will not hesitate to act against Syrian forces if Russia is unable to control them Turkeys communication director said on Monday after Ankara said Syrian shelling killed five of its soldiers in the northwestern Idlib region | Negative | ANKARA Turkey will not hesitate to act against Syrian forces if Russia is unable to control them Turkeys communication director said on Monday after Ankara said Syrian shelling killed five of its soldiers in the northwestern Idlib region | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia-action/turkey-says-it-will-act-against-syrian-government-if-russia-cannot-control-them-idUSKBN1ZX1X3 | 2020-02-04 |
| Rebels fighting to oust Assad some of whom have been backed by Turkey have also launched counterattacks against the territorial gains by Assads forces | Negative | Turkey said on Monday its military hit dozens of Syrian government targets after eight Turkish military personnel were killed by shelling in Idlib in northwest Syria where fighting threatens to test ties between Ankara and Moscow | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkey-hits-back-after-syrian-shells-kill-turkish-troops-idUSKBN1ZX0EQ | 2020-02-04 |
| Akar was also quoted as saying Turkeys armed forces had taken all forms of in Idlib adding that Ankara had informed Moscow which backs Syrian President Bashar alAssad | Negative | ANKARA Turkish forces hit 54 targets in Syrias northwestern region of Idlib and 76 Syrian government soldiers Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar was cited as saying by the stateowned Anadolu news agency on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-target/turkey-says-hit-54-targets-in-syrias-idlib-neutralized-76-soldiers-anadolu-idUSKBN1ZX27E | 2020-02-04 |
| Haftar has received material support from countries including the United Arab Emirates Egypt Jordan and Russia according to U.N. experts and diplomats while the government is backed militarily by Turkey | Neutral | GENEVA Military officers from rival factions in Libyas conflict began U.N.led talks in Geneva on Monday aimed at securing a ceasefire after 10 months of fighting on the outskirts of the capital Tripoli | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-un-talks/u-n-brokered-libya-military-talks-begin-in-geneva-idUSKBN1ZX1VG | 2020-02-04 |
| There was an escalation in fighting late last year and a truce brokered by Russia and Turkey from Jan | Positive | GENEVA Military officers from rival factions in Libyas conflict began U.N.led talks in Geneva on Monday aimed at securing a ceasefire after 10 months of fighting on the outskirts of the capital Tripoli | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-un-talks/u-n-brokered-libya-military-talks-begin-in-geneva-idUSKBN1ZX1VG | 2020-02-04 |
| We also continue to see risks stemming from Turkeys international relations | Negative | Jan 31 Ratings agency Standard Poors on Friday affirmed its longterm foreign currency sovereign credit rating on Turkey at and outlook at stable saying changes in current benign global financing conditions could hurt the countrys growth strategy | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/turkey-ratings-sp/sp-affirms-turkeys-ratings-outlook-idUSL4N2A0555 | 2020-02-01 |
| Multiple points of contention remain in Turkeys relations with the the agency added in a statement | Negative | Jan 31 Ratings agency Standard Poors on Friday affirmed its longterm foreign currency sovereign credit rating on Turkey at and outlook at stable saying changes in current benign global financing conditions could hurt the countrys growth strategy | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/turkey-ratings-sp/sp-affirms-turkeys-ratings-outlook-idUSL4N2A0555 | 2020-02-01 |
| In December a U.S. Senate committee backed legislation to impose sanctions on Turkey after its offensive in Syria and purchase of a Russian S400 missile system | Negative | Jan 31 Ratings agency Standard Poors on Friday affirmed its longterm foreign currency sovereign credit rating on Turkey at and outlook at stable saying changes in current benign global financing conditions could hurt the countrys growth strategy | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/turkey-ratings-sp/sp-affirms-turkeys-ratings-outlook-idUSL4N2A0555 | 2020-02-01 |
| HSBC will seek to sell its banking business in Turkey if it can find a local buyer the sources said adding that no final decision has yet been taken | Neutral | As part of broader costcutting measures under interim Chief Executive Noel Quinn the bank is also seeking to sell or shrink its business in some other markets the sources said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-hsbc-turkey-exclusive/exclusive-hsbc-considering-exit-from-turkey-sources-idUSKBN1ZS1R2 | 2020-01-30 |
| The lender previously attempted to sell its business in Turkey in 2015 Reuters reported at the time with Dutch lender ING among the interested parties | Positive | As part of broader costcutting measures under interim Chief Executive Noel Quinn the bank is also seeking to sell or shrink its business in some other markets the sources said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-hsbc-turkey-exclusive/exclusive-hsbc-considering-exit-from-turkey-sources-idUSKBN1ZS1R2 | 2020-01-30 |
| TRIPOLI Forces aligned with Libyas Tripolibased government said on Tuesday they had shot down a drone operated by their rivals suggesting a strengthening of air defenses as they receive accelerated military support from Turkey | Positive | TRIPOLI Forces aligned with Libyas Tripolibased government said on Tuesday they had shot down a drone operated by their rivals suggesting a strengthening of air defenses as they receive accelerated military support from Turkey | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/west-libyan-forces-claim-downed-drone-as-turkish-support-arrives-idUSKBN1ZR2J7 | 2020-01-29 |
| AZAZ Syria A renewed drive by President Bashar alAssad to recapture rebelheld territory in Syrias northwest sparked a fresh exodus of many thousands of civilians toward Turkeys border on Monday amid heavy air strikes aid workers and witnesses said | Negative | AZAZ Syria A renewed drive by President Bashar alAssad to recapture rebelheld territory in Syrias northwest sparked a fresh exodus of many thousands of civilians toward Turkeys border on Monday amid heavy air strikes aid workers and witnesses said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-syria-security/thousands-flee-northwest-syria-as-assad-pushes-closer-to-idlib-city-idUSKBN1ZQ25G | 2020-01-28 |
| ELAZIG Turkey A woman and her young child were pulled out alive from under a collapsed building before Turkey began winding down its rescue operation on Sunday following an earthquake that killed at least 38 people | Negative | ELAZIG Turkey A woman and her young child were pulled out alive from under a collapsed building before Turkey began winding down its rescue operation on Sunday following an earthquake that killed at least 38 people | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-turkey-quake/turkey-searches-for-last-people-missing-from-quake-that-killed-at-least-38-idUSKBN1ZP09Q | 2020-01-27 |
| The civil defense forces said that seven had been severely wounded and were transferred to Turkey for treatment | Negative | AZAZ A truck packed with explosives blew up in the city of Azaz in northern Syria on Sunday killing one person and wounding a number of others civil defense forces said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-syria-security-blast/one-killed-in-truck-blast-in-northern-syrias-azaz-civil-defense-forces-idUSKBN1ZP0MO | 2020-01-27 |
| The push deeper into rebelheld territory has taken place despite a deal between Turkey and Russia which back opposing sides in the conflict for a Jan | Negative | BEIRUT Syrian government forces have taken control of several towns in northwestern Idlib province a war monitor and Syrian state media reported amid a renewed push by President Bashar alAssad to recapture the last rebel stronghold | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-syria-security/syrian-government-forces-capture-towns-in-advance-on-rebel-held-idlib-idUSKBN1ZP0FC | 2020-01-27 |
| The Berlin summit had gathered top officials from the UAE Egypt Turkey as well as western countries such as the United States France Britain and European Union | Positive | TRIPOLI Several countries backing rival factions in Libya have violated an arms embargo which they had agreed to uphold a week ago at a summit in Berlin the United Nations said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/several-countries-have-breached-arms-embargo-agreed-at-libya-summit-u-n-idUSKBN1ZO0SS | 2020-01-26 |
| BRUSSELS Cyprus is blocking new European Union sanctions against several officials from Russiaannexed Crimea in a bid to secure EU backing for tougher action against Turkey in a separate row over drilling for hydrocarbons three diplomatic sources said | Negative | BRUSSELS Cyprus is blocking new European Union sanctions against several officials from Russiaannexed Crimea in a bid to secure EU backing for tougher action against Turkey in a separate row over drilling for hydrocarbons three diplomatic sources said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-eu-sanctions-russia-turkey/cyprus-accused-of-blocking-new-russia-sanctions-amid-turkey-spat-idUSKBN1ZN29E | 2020-01-25 |
| Since April Haftars Libyan National Army has been waging an offensive against forces aligned with the internationally recognised government in Tripoli which is backed by Turkey | Negative | A blockade on oil ports and fields in Libya is shutting down production from the OPEC member potentially taking more than one million barrels per day of oil off the market | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-oil-factbox/factbox-libyas-oil-industry-caught-in-middle-of-power-struggle-idUSKBN1ZN23A | 2020-01-25 |
| Greece was the main gateway into the European Union for more than a million migrants fleeing conflict in 201516 and crossing through Turkey | Negative | ATHENS Residents of Greek islands struggling with a resurgence in migrant arrivals protested on Wednesday about overcrowded refugee camps and government plans to replace them with detention centers | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-europe-migrants-greece-lesbos-protest/greek-island-residents-protest-over-migrant-camps-and-conditions-idUSKBN1ZL2CK | 2020-01-23 |
| There were no immediate reports of any injuries or casualties Turkeys Ministry of Interior Disaster and Emergency Management said | Positive | An earthquake of magnitude 5 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-quake/earthquake-of-magnitude-5-6-strikes-near-kirkagac-turkey-usgs-idUSKBN1ZL2RF | 2020-01-23 |
| However Manisa province Governor Ahmet Deniz said some buildings were damaged Turkeys stateowned Anadolu news agency reported | Negative | An earthquake of magnitude 5 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-quake/earthquake-of-magnitude-5-6-strikes-near-kirkagac-turkey-usgs-idUSKBN1ZL2RF | 2020-01-23 |
| AMMAN Russianled air strikes killed at least 40 people on Tuesday in northwest Syria in a major army assault backed by Iranian militias to clear out rebels that has sent tens of thousands of people fleeing toward the border with Turkey residents and rescuers said | Negative | AMMAN Russianled air strikes killed at least 40 people on Tuesday in northwest Syria in a major army assault backed by Iranian militias to clear out rebels that has sent tens of thousands of people fleeing toward the border with Turkey residents and rescuers said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security/russian-led-strikes-on-rebel-held-northwest-syria-kill-40-rescuers-idUSKBN1ZK1WL | 2020-01-22 |
| Last week Erdogan had said Turkey has begun sending troops to Tripoli | Neutral | ANKARA Turkey has not yet sent any troops into Libya to support the countrys internationallyrecognized government President Tayyip Erdogan was cited as saying on Monday adding that Ankara had only deployed military advisers and trainers so far | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-libya-security-turkey/erdogan-says-turkey-not-yet-sent-troops-to-libya-only-advisers-ntv-idUSKBN1ZJ1D5 | 2020-01-21 |
| Keeping in mind that Europe is less interested in providing military support to Libya the obvious choice is to work with Turkey which has already promised military Erdogan wrote | Neutral | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has called on Europe to support its work in Libya where it is providing military support to the internationally recognised government if it wants to end the conflict there | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-turkey/erdogan-calls-on-europe-to-support-turkeys-moves-in-libya-politico-idUSKBN1ZH06W | 2020-01-19 |
| The company also expects growth in the market in Brazil and an upturn in Turkey this year | Positive | Renault has suffered since August 2018 from the closure of the Iranian market where the company sold had around 101000 vehicles which it was not able to do last year | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-renault-sales/renault-expects-slight-2020-car-market-decline-in-europe-russia-and-china-idUSKBN1ZG0SQ | 2020-01-18 |
| Haftar has received support from Egypt the United Arab Emirates Jordan and Russian mercenaries while the internationally recognized GNA government led by Fayez alSerraj is backed by Turkey | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to Germany this weekend to attend the Libya conference and push for sustaining a fragile ceasefire and getting all foreign powers to withdraw from the conflict in the North African country the State Department and U.S. officials said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-pompeo/pompeo-to-attend-libya-conference-in-berlin-priority-is-ceasefire-state-department-idUSKBN1ZF2S1 | 2020-01-17 |
| CAIRO Egypts public prosecutors office said on Thursday it had ordered the release of five people detained following a raid on Turkeys stateowned Anadolu news agency office in Cairo and the company confirmed one employee had been freed | Positive | CAIRO Egypts public prosecutors office said on Thursday it had ordered the release of five people detained following a raid on Turkeys stateowned Anadolu news agency office in Cairo and the company confirmed one employee had been freed | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-egypt-security/egypt-orders-release-of-turkish-news-agency-employees-in-cairo-after-raid-idUSKBN1ZF2L0 | 2020-01-17 |
| Central banks were active with both Turkey and South Africa cutting their interest rates again after policy meetings | Negative | oil gold settlement | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-dollar-gains-stocks-scale-fresh-highs-on-data-trade-deal-idUSL1N29L1BY | 2020-01-17 |
| A lot of the pickup that we see for this year hinges on the performance of large emerging KozulWright told a news briefing naming Argentina Mexico Turkey and Russia | Neutral | GENEVA People in a number of countries mostly in Latin America and subSaharan Africa will see their incomes stagnate or decline this year the United Nations said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-un-economy/global-economy-anaemic-and-incomes-likely-to-suffer-un-says-idUSKBN1ZF2BV | 2020-01-17 |
| Investors had seen some of the big emerging market central bank policy meetings in Turkey and South Africa both cut their interest rates again | Negative | MSCI ACWI at record highs after Phase 1 deal signed | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-hot-data-keeps-stocks-up-after-trade-deal-idUSL8N29L4ET | 2020-01-17 |
| Around 350000 Syrians mostly women and children have fled a renewed Russianbacked offensive in the oppositionheld Idlib province since early December and have sought shelter in border areas near Turkey the United Nations said on Thursday | Negative | Around 350000 Syrians mostly women and children have fled a renewed Russianbacked offensive in the oppositionheld Idlib province since early December and have sought shelter in border areas near Turkey the United Nations said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-idlib/u-n-says-around-3500000-syrians-have-fled-russian-led-assault-in-idlib-idUSKBN1ZF1C0 | 2020-01-17 |
| Russian and Syrian jets resumed bombing of civilian areas in the opposition enclave two days after a ceasefire agreed between Turkey and Russia formally took effect on Sunday | Negative | Around 350000 Syrians mostly women and children have fled a renewed Russianbacked offensive in the oppositionheld Idlib province since early December and have sought shelter in border areas near Turkey the United Nations said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-idlib/u-n-says-around-3500000-syrians-have-fled-russian-led-assault-in-idlib-idUSKBN1ZF1C0 | 2020-01-17 |
| Both towns are in an area that Turkey and allied Syrian rebels took control of in a crossborder incursion launched last October against the Kurdish YPG militia | Negative | ISTANBUL Three Turkish soldiers were killed in a car bomb attack while carrying out roadside checks on vehicles in northeast Syria on Thursday security sources said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey/three-turkish-soldiers-killed-in-car-bomb-attack-in-syria-sources-idUSKBN1ZF2PW | 2020-01-17 |
| German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday she planned to host a summit on Libya on Sunday with the leaders of Turkey Russia and Italy | Positive | MOSCOW Khalifa Haftar commander of the Libyan National Army has left Moscow without signing a ceasefire agreement drafted at talks in Russia on Monday the TASS news agency cited the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-libya-security-russia-haftar/libyas-haftar-leaves-moscow-without-signing-ceasefire-tass-idUSKBN1ZD0K0 | 2020-01-15 |
| Wikimedia Foundation the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia had applied to Turkeys highest court to challenge the block | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkeys ban on online encyclopedia Wikipedia is set to be lifted after the official publication on Wednesday of a Constitutional Court ruling that the more than twoyear block was a violation of freedom of expression | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-wikipedia/turkey-ban-on-wikipedia-set-to-be-lifted-after-court-ruling-issued-idUSKBN1ZE0BX | 2020-01-15 |
| The strength of the dollar will put a further squeeze on many carriers especially in Southeast Asia and countries such as Turkey and Argentina it added | Negative | The strength of the dollar will put a further squeeze on many carriers especially in Southeast Asia and countries such as Turkey and Argentina it added | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-airlines-outlook/boeing-max-return-will-bring-aviation-turbulence-iba-idUSKBN1ZE005 | 2020-01-15 |
| It gave no details but another website linked to the force said its commander Khalifa Haftar will not sign a ceasefire proposal put forward by Turkey and Russia on Monday | Negative | BENGHAZI Libya Eastern Libyan forces which have been trying to seize the capital Tripoli held by the internationally recognized government said they are ready and to achieve victory the forces official Facebook website said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-haftar/eastern-libyan-forces-says-ready-and-determined-to-achieve-victory-website-idUSKBN1ZD01T | 2020-01-14 |
| MOSCOW Libyas warring leaders did not meet officially during indirect peace talks held in Moscow on Monday the Interfax news agency cited a member of the Russian delegation which mediated the talks together with Turkey as saying | Negative | MOSCOW Libyas warring leaders did not meet officially during indirect peace talks held in Moscow on Monday the Interfax news agency cited a member of the Russian delegation which mediated the talks together with Turkey as saying | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-libya-security-russia-talks/libyas-haftar-serraj-did-not-meet-officially-during-moscow-talks-interfax-idUSKBN1ZC21Q | 2020-01-14 |
| However they accuse the rebels of wrecking a deescalation brokered twoyears ago between Turkey and Russia | Negative | AMMAN Russia and its allies halted air strikes in Syrias Idlib region on Sunday as a ceasefire agreed with Turkey came into force residents rebels and respondents said although few were optimistic the truce would hold | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-idlib/russian-led-air-strikes-suspended-in-idlib-after-ceasefire-residents-idUSKBN1ZB0JP | 2020-01-13 |
| MOSCOW German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Libyan peace talks will be held in Berlin as Turkey and Russia appealed to the north African nations warring factions to enter a ceasefire | Positive | MOSCOW German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Libyan peace talks will be held in Berlin as Turkey and Russia appealed to the north African nations warring factions to enter a ceasefire | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-russia-germany-merkel-libya/german-chancellor-merkel-says-berlin-will-host-libya-peace-talks-idUSKBN1ZA0NG | 2020-01-12 |
| BENGHAZI Libya Forces in East Libya led by Khalifa Haftar said on Thursday they will not let up in their military campaign against rival factions in the capital Tripoli appearing to reject a call by Russia and Turkey for a ceasefire | Negative | BENGHAZI Libya Forces in East Libya led by Khalifa Haftar said on Thursday they will not let up in their military campaign against rival factions in the capital Tripoli appearing to reject a call by Russia and Turkey for a ceasefire | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/east-libya-forces-to-press-campaign-against-tripoli-rivals-despite-ceasefire-call-idUSKBN1Z82J1 | 2020-01-10 |
| Trump administration sanctions already prohibit U.S individuals and companies from trading Venezuelan gold some of which has been sold to Turkey another Maduro ally | Negative | CARACAS Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Thursday urged the European Union to officially label as blood the precious metal informally mined in the countrys southern jungles as he seeks to increase pressure on the government of President Nicolas Maduro | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics/venezuelas-guaido-seeks-eu-blood-gold-designation-for-informal-mining-idUSKBN1Z82HP | 2020-01-10 |
| The United Nations said it welcomed recent ceasefire calls including that from Turkey and Russia and urged Libyan parties to respond positively | Positive | Libya Turkey and Russia urged Libyas warring parties on Wednesday to declare a ceasefire on Sunday as warring factions clashed and carried out air strikes in a conflict drawing increasing foreign involvement and concern | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/turkey-russia-seek-libya-ceasefire-on-jan-12-as-rivals-clash-idUSKBN1Z71GP | 2020-01-09 |
| The European Union seeking to avoid being sidelined as Turkey and Russia jostle for influence in Libya pressed Serraj to work for a ceasefire | Negative | Libya Turkey and Russia urged Libyas warring parties on Wednesday to declare a ceasefire on Sunday as warring factions clashed and carried out air strikes in a conflict drawing increasing foreign involvement and concern | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/turkey-russia-seek-libya-ceasefire-on-jan-12-as-rivals-clash-idUSKBN1Z71GP | 2020-01-09 |
| Michel said he also told Serraj that a recent deal to create an exclusive economic zone from Turkeys southern Mediterranean shore to Libyas northeast coast had no legal basis | Negative | BRUSSELS European leaders warned Libyas internationally recognized prime minister on Wednesday against allowing Turkish troops on Libyan soil or agreeing to a natural gas deal with Turkey to avoid worsening the latest turmoil in the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-eu/eu-pushes-libyas-pm-serraj-for-ceasefire-warns-on-turkey-deal-idUSKBN1Z72BA | 2020-01-09 |
| ISTANBUL The presidents of Turkey and Russia on Wednesday formally launched the TurkStream pipeline which will carry Russian natural gas to southern Europe through Turkey part of Moscows efforts to reduce shipments via Ukraine | Negative | ISTANBUL The presidents of Turkey and Russia on Wednesday formally launched the TurkStream pipeline which will carry Russian natural gas to southern Europe through Turkey part of Moscows efforts to reduce shipments via Ukraine | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-turkey-russia-pipeline/turkey-russia-launch-turkstream-pipeline-carrying-gas-to-europe-idUSKBN1Z71WP | 2020-01-09 |
| The company is initially targeting Spain and Italy plus the EuropeAsia gateway nations of Russia and Turkey among its top markets under the previous firstphase business model launched in 2010 | Positive | China After years of reconnaissance Chinas retail king Alibaba is finally making its move on Europe | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-alibaba-expansion-europe-focus/alibaba-undercuts-amazon-in-europe-to-woo-wary-brands-idUSKBN1Z7045 | 2020-01-08 |
| Maneuvering in Libya by Russia and Turkey whose presidents meet in Turkey on Wednesday has overshadowed European efforts to revive a U.N.led peace process | Negative | CAIRO The planned arrival of Turkish military advisers in Libya should bolster the internationally recognized government but may not be enough to turn the tide of a conflict in which easternbased forces have the upper hand thanks to foreign support | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-turkey-analysis/turkish-support-for-tripoli-could-rebalance-forces-in-libya-idUSKBN1Z62HM | 2020-01-08 |
| The LNA advance comes as Turkey prepares to send military advisors and experts to Libya to help shore up the GNA part of rising international involvement in Libyas conflict | Negative | BENGHAZI Libya Libyan forces loyal to easternbased commander Khalifa Haftar said on Monday they had taken control of the strategic coastal city of Sirte in a rapid advance preceded by air strikes | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/libyan-commander-haftars-forces-say-they-have-taken-sirte-idUSKBN1Z51L2 | 2020-01-07 |
| LONDON Oil prices topping a barrel due to rising geopolitical tensions are piling the pressure on emerging market crude consumers such as South Africa Turkey and India already struggling to boost their fragile economic growth | Negative | LONDON Oil prices topping a barrel due to rising geopolitical tensions are piling the pressure on emerging market crude consumers such as South Africa Turkey and India already struggling to boost their fragile economic growth | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-emerging-markets-oil-graphic/oil-price-gains-turn-up-the-heat-on-emerging-market-oil-importers-idUSKBN1Z51TO | 2020-01-07 |
| SOFIA Russia has started European gas deliveries through the new TurkStream pipeline to Turkey Bulgarias Bulgartransgaz said on Sunday as Moscow looks to reduce shipments via Ukraine | Neutral | SOFIA Russia has started European gas deliveries through the new TurkStream pipeline to Turkey Bulgarias Bulgartransgaz said on Sunday as Moscow looks to reduce shipments via Ukraine | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-bulgaria-gas/russia-begins-turkstream-gas-flows-to-greece-north-macedonia-idUSKBN1Z40D0 | 2020-01-06 |
| The GNA has sought Turkeys support as it fends off an offensive by General Khalifa Haftars forces which control the east and swept through southern Libya in early 2019 | Negative | TRIPOLI Flights were suspended at the only functioning airport in Libyas capital Tripoli on Friday because of rocket fire and shelling as people in eastern Libya protested Turkish military support for their rivals | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/flights-suspended-in-libyas-capital-as-violence-intensifies-idUSKBN1Z20J6 | 2020-01-05 |
| ISTANBUL A Turkish court ruled on Friday to formally arrest five suspects who were detained as part of an investigation into exNissan boss Carlos Ghosns transit through Turkey after fleeing Japan stateowned Anadolu news agency reported | Negative | ISTANBUL A Turkish court ruled on Friday to formally arrest five suspects who were detained as part of an investigation into exNissan boss Carlos Ghosns transit through Turkey after fleeing Japan stateowned Anadolu news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-nissan-ghosn-court/turkish-court-formally-arrests-five-suspects-over-ghosns-transit-anadolu-idUSKBN1Z2233 | 2020-01-04 |
| Last week a senior Turkish official said Ankara could train Libyan soldiers in Turkey and Reuters reported that Turkey may also consider sending allied Syrian fighters to Tripoli | Positive | Turkeys parliament on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a bill that allows troops to be deployed in Libya in a move that paves the way for further military cooperation between Ankara and Tripoli but is unlikely to put boots on the ground immediately | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-turkey/turkish-parliament-passes-libya-deployment-bill-but-troops-unlikely-for-now-idUSKBN1Z10UN | 2020-01-03 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish police have detained seven people including four pilots over the transit of ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn through Turkey after fleeing Japan on his way to Lebanon broadcaster NTV said on Thursday | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish police have detained seven people including four pilots over the transit of ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn through Turkey after fleeing Japan on his way to Lebanon broadcaster NTV said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-turkey-detentions/turkish-police-detain-four-pilots-over-ghosns-escape-ntv-idUSKBN1Z10HQ | 2020-01-03 |
| ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday up to 250000 migrants were fleeing toward Turkey from Syrias northwest Idlib region after weeks of renewed bombardment by Russian and Syrian government forces | Negative | ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday up to 250000 migrants were fleeing toward Turkey from Syrias northwest Idlib region after weeks of renewed bombardment by Russian and Syrian government forces | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-syria-security-turkey/erdogan-says-up-to-250000-syrians-flee-toward-turkey-as-crisis-worsens-idUSKBN1Z10J2 | 2020-01-03 |
| 15 that he had been freed and was awaiting coordination between South Africas government and Turkeys National Intelligence Agency to fly him home | Positive | ANKARA A South African photojournalist kidnapped in Syria by Islamic State three years ago returned home on Thursday with the help of Turkeys intelligence agency a security source in Ankara said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-syria-security-turkey-safrica/south-african-photographer-kidnapped-in-syria-back-home-source-idUSKBN1Z11E7 | 2020-01-03 |
| On Tuesday Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said it was out of the question for Turkey to evacuate its observation posts in Idlib | Negative | ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday up to 250000 migrants were fleeing toward Turkey from Syrias northwest Idlib region after weeks of renewed bombardment by Russian and Syrian government forces | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-syria-security-turkey/erdogan-says-up-to-250000-syrians-flee-toward-turkey-as-crisis-worsens-idUSKBN1Z10J2 | 2020-01-03 |
| Ankara passed a bill allowing troop deployment to Tripoli that paves the way for TurkeyLibya military cooperation | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call on Thursday that outsiders were complicating the situation in Libya the White House said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-turkey-usa/trump-tells-erdogan-foreign-interference-complicating-libya-white-house-idUSKBN1Z1140 | 2020-01-03 |
| The Russianled campaign that started in April 2019 had already forced at least 500000 people to leave for areas closer to the border with Turkey which Russian jets rarely hit | Negative | AMMAN At least eight people were killed on Wednesday when the Syrian army launched missiles that struck a shelter for displaced families in the countrys northwest witnesses and residents said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-syria-security-idlib/eight-people-killed-in-syria-army-bombing-in-rebel-held-idlib-medics-idUSKBN1Z020E | 2020-01-02 |
| The EBRD said it will support the introduction of alternative sources of finance in Turkey and will continue backing initial public offerings | Positive | ISTANBUL The Turkish Wealth Fund has bought the European Bank for Reconstruction and Developments stake in Borsa Istanbul raising its stake in the stock exchange to 90 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-bourse-fund/turkish-wealth-fund-buys-ebrds-10-stake-in-borsa-istanbul-idUSKBN1YZ0BW | 2020-01-01 |
| ANKARA It is out of the for Turkey to evacuate its military observation posts in Syrias Idlib Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Tuesday after Russian and Syrian forces intensified their bombardment of targets in the northwestern province | Negative | ANKARA It is out of the for Turkey to evacuate its military observation posts in Syrias Idlib Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Tuesday after Russian and Syrian forces intensified their bombardment of targets in the northwestern province | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkey-says-will-not-evacuate-posts-in-syrias-idlib-idUSKBN1YZ0UV | 2020-01-01 |
