| Sentence | Sentiment | Title | Url | Date |
|---|
| ANKARA Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar warned on Sunday that the forces of Khalifa Haftar and their supporters based in eastern Libya would be viewed as legitimate if they attempted to attack Turkish forces in the region | Negative | ANKARA Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar warned on Sunday that the forces of Khalifa Haftar and their supporters based in eastern Libya would be viewed as legitimate if they attempted to attack Turkish forces in the region | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-turkey/turkey-warns-libyas-haftar-and-supporters-against-attacking-its-forces-idUSKBN29109T | 2020-12-28 |
| The court said Turkeys justification for his detention longer than four years on terrorismrelated offences was a pretext for limiting political debate a ruling dismissed by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan | Negative | ANKARA The wife of detained Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas said on Thursday she expected Turkey to comply with a call from Europes top rights court to free him but that the countrys overall legal system still needed to be fixed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-security-demirtas/wife-of-jailed-kurdish-leader-hails-release-ruling-demands-turkish-reforms-idUSKBN28Y1HO | 2020-12-25 |
| Dec 24 The Turkish lira jumped to a fiveweek high on Thursday after a biggerthanexpected interest rate hike that raised investors confidence about the central banks ability to bring inflation under control | Positive | will be no EMEAfocused emerging markets report on Dec 25 28 on account of Christmas and Boxing Reuters will resume coverage from Dec | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/emerging-markets/emerging-markets-turkeys-lira-jumps-as-c-bank-delivers-another-sharp-rate-hike-idUSL1N2J40IE | 2020-12-25 |
| On Wednesday Erdogan said Turkey would not bow down to the language of sanctions and but added that he believed Biden will show the necessary to TurkishU.S. ties | Positive | ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey hopes to turn a new in its ties with the United States and European Union and that Ankara had been subjected to double standards by both its NATO ally Washington and the bloc | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-turkey-sanctions-erdogan/turkey-hopes-to-turn-new-page-with-u-s-and-eu-in-2021-erdogan-says-idUSKBN28X16G | 2020-12-24 |
| Turkish forces and their Syrian insurgent allies seized territory in the region in an offensive last year against the Kurdish YPG militia which holds swathes of north and east Syria | 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 |
| 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 |
| Ain Issa where the clashes erupted overnight sits along the M4 highway that links major Syrian cities and where the RussianTurkish patrols usually take place | 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 |
| Just ahead of the U.S. announcement Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said the sanctions rhetoric was upsetting | 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 |
| Turkish forces have carried out three incursions into northern Syria since 2016 to push the YPG back from the border | 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 |
| 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 |
| ANKARA Turkey rejects the European Unions biased and approach at its summit this week and calls on the bloc to act as an honest broker in an ongoing dispute in the eastern Mediterranean the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Friday | Negative | ANKARA Turkey rejects the European Unions biased and approach at its summit this week and calls on the bloc to act as an honest broker in an ongoing dispute in the eastern Mediterranean the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-eu-turkey-summit/turkey-rejects-biased-and-illegal-eu-approach-at-summit-idUSKBN28L0XX | 2020-12-11 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| BENGHAZI Libya Easternbased Libyan forces have intercepted a Turkish ship under a Jamaican flag heading to the port of Misrata in western Libya their spokesman said on Monday a possible new flashpoint in the conflict after weeks of truce | Negative | BENGHAZI Libya Easternbased Libyan forces have intercepted a Turkish ship under a Jamaican flag heading to the port of Misrata in western Libya their spokesman said on Monday a possible new flashpoint in the conflict after weeks of truce | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/libya-turkey/eastern-libyan-force-says-it-intercepted-turkish-ship-idUSKBN28H2TD | 2020-12-08 |
| ISTANBUL Turkeys lira briefly slipped on Friday after U.S. lawmakers included mandatory Turkish sanctions in a defence spending bill that moves Washington a step closer to punishing its NATO ally for buying Russian S400 missile defences last year | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkeys lira briefly slipped on Friday after U.S. lawmakers included mandatory Turkish sanctions in a defence spending bill that moves Washington a step closer to punishing its NATO ally for buying Russian S400 missile defences last year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-turkey-defence-usa/turkish-lira-slips-as-u-s-moves-closer-to-sanctions-over-s-400s-idUSKBN28E1HS | 2020-12-05 |
| Sanctions could harm a Turkish economy already struggling with a coronavirusinduced slowdown doubledigit inflation and badly depleted foreign reserves | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkeys lira briefly slipped on Friday after U.S. lawmakers included mandatory Turkish sanctions in a defence spending bill that moves Washington a step closer to punishing its NATO ally for buying Russian S400 missile defences last year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-turkey-defence-usa/turkish-lira-slips-as-u-s-moves-closer-to-sanctions-over-s-400s-idUSKBN28E1HS | 2020-12-05 |
| If Trump chooses from among the lighter sanctions I think given the global risk appetite we still can see a benign performance in the said one Turkish trader | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkeys lira briefly slipped on Friday after U.S. lawmakers included mandatory Turkish sanctions in a defence spending bill that moves Washington a step closer to punishing its NATO ally for buying Russian S400 missile defences last year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-turkey-defence-usa/turkish-lira-slips-as-u-s-moves-closer-to-sanctions-over-s-400s-idUSKBN28E1HS | 2020-12-05 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogans promise of a new economic era triggered a foreigndriven rally in the lira but local investors have yet to be persuaded that policies they say have dragged on economic prospects for years will be reversed | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogans promise of a new economic era triggered a foreigndriven rally in the lira but local investors have yet to be persuaded that policies they say have dragged on economic prospects for years will be reversed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-economy-scepticism-analysis/analysis-wary-turks-arent-buying-erdogans-economic-promise-yet-idUSKBN28B4VL | 2020-12-02 |
| Turkeys Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan said this week that Riyadh insisted there was no official boycott of Turkish goods something Ankara could formally challenge through the World Trade Organisation | Negative | ISTANBUL Saudi Arabia formally suspended imports of meat eggs and other products from Turkey earlier this month the Turkish exporters union said after a monthslong informal boycott of Turkish goods over political tensions between the two regional rivals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/turkey-saudi/saudi-arabia-has-suspended-turkish-meat-imports-turkish-union-idUSKBN2871QF | 2020-11-28 |
| But there has been no immediate sign of SaudiTurkish rapprochement and some Turkish businesses say they have been feeling the pain for some months | Negative | ISTANBUL Saudi Arabia formally suspended imports of meat eggs and other products from Turkey earlier this month the Turkish exporters union said after a monthslong informal boycott of Turkish goods over political tensions between the two regional rivals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/turkey-saudi/saudi-arabia-has-suspended-turkish-meat-imports-turkish-union-idUSKBN2871QF | 2020-11-28 |
| Nov 27 The Turkish lira led gains across Europe the Middle East and Africa on Friday after the countrys central bank took more steps to simplify credit channels while most emerging market currencies were set for weekly gains against a fading dollar | Positive | Turkish c | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/emerging-markets/emerging-markets-turkeys-lira-leads-emea-fx-gains-most-currencies-set-for-weekly-rise-idUSL4N2ID29T | 2020-11-28 |
| Cyprus has been split along ethnic lines since a Turkish invasion in 1974 triggered by a brief Greekinspired coup | 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 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 |
| Turkish authorities have begun untangling restrictions on offshore investing including limits on FXtolira swaps that were adopted last year amid distrust of foreigners | 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 |
| Turkey protested to Germany and the EU on Monday after German forces belonging to an EU military mission boarded and tried to search a Turkish cargo ship that they suspected of taking weapons to Libya illegally | Negative | Turkey protested to Germany and the EU on Monday after German forces belonging to an EU military mission boarded and tried to search a Turkish cargo ship that they suspected of taking weapons to Libya illegally | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-libya-security-turkey-germany/germany-angers-turkey-with-attempt-to-police-libya-arms-embargo-idUSKBN28315K | 2020-11-24 |
| Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said the Roselines captain had shared information with the Hamburg about his ships freight and its course | Neutral | Turkey protested to Germany and the EU on Monday after German forces belonging to an EU military mission boarded and tried to search a Turkish cargo ship that they suspected of taking weapons to Libya illegally | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-libya-security-turkey-germany/germany-angers-turkey-with-attempt-to-police-libya-arms-embargo-idUSKBN28315K | 2020-11-24 |
| The 16000tonne container ship left the Turkish port of Gemlik near Bursa last week and was last seen heading southwest towards Libya according to Refinitiv Eikon data | Neutral | Turkey protested to Germany and the EU on Monday after German forces belonging to an EU military mission boarded and tried to search a Turkish cargo ship that they suspected of taking weapons to Libya illegally | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-libya-security-turkey-germany/germany-angers-turkey-with-attempt-to-police-libya-arms-embargo-idUSKBN28315K | 2020-11-24 |
| ANKARA Turkey summoned the envoys to Ankara of the European Union Italy and Germany on Monday to protest over a German attempt to search a Turkish cargo ship for a suspected arms shipment to Libya the Foreign Ministry said | Negative | ANKARA Turkey summoned the envoys to Ankara of the European Union Italy and Germany on Monday to protest over a German attempt to search a Turkish cargo ship for a suspected arms shipment to Libya the Foreign Ministry said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-libya-security-turkey-germany-ministr/turkey-summons-eu-italian-german-envoys-over-attempt-to-search-ship-for-weapons-idUSKBN2832E5 | 2020-11-24 |
| Aviation data tweeted by Avi Scharf of Israels Haaretz newspaper showed that a chartered Turkish plane made a rare Tel AvivKhartoum return flight on Monday | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel sent a first delegation to Sudan to discuss potential economic and humanitarian cooperation on Monday after the countries announced a U.S.brokered agreement on Oct 23 to take steps toward establishing relations a source said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/uk-israel-sudan/israel-delegation-to-sudan-talks-agriculture-health-care-cooperation-idUSKBN2831IU | 2020-11-24 |
| 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 | Negative | 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 charges against Demirtas are related to his role in violent protests against the Turkish armys inaction during a militant attack on the Syrian Kurdish town Kobani | 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 |
| CAIRO Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Saudi Arabias King Salman bin Abdulaziz agreed in a phone call improve bilateral ties and solve outstanding disputes through dialogue the Turkish presidency said early on Saturday | Positive | CAIRO Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Saudi Arabias King Salman bin Abdulaziz agreed in a phone call improve bilateral ties and solve outstanding disputes through dialogue the Turkish presidency said early on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-g20-saudi-turkey/turkeys-erdogan-saudi-king-agree-to-solve-issues-through-dialogue-turkish-presidency-idUSKBN2802NO | 2020-11-21 |
| Whether the markets lofty expectations are met will begin to answer a key question in Turkish is Erdogan willing to accept the high interest rates he has long railed against | Negative | Cenbank poll forecasts 475 bps key rate hike | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/turkey-cenbank-erdogan/teed-up-turkey-rate-hike-seen-as-political-test-for-new-look-erdogan-idUSL1N2I41E9 | 2020-11-19 |
| Europe and the U.S. must work together to convince Erdogan such actions are not in the interest of his Pompeo said referring to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan | 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 |
| The details of the monitoring have yet to be worked out and Turkish and Russian officials are due to meet in Ankara on Friday to discuss them | Positive | MOSCOW Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday diplomats from France and the United States were expected in Moscow soon to discuss the NagornoKarabakh conflict | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-russia-lavrov/u-s-french-diplomats-expected-in-moscow-for-karabakh-talks-russia-idUSKBN27S1CJ | 2020-11-13 |
| Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko assured his Turkish colleague of the readiness to organise such tests the statement said | Positive | MOSCOW Turkey is interested in producing Russias first coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V at domestic facilities Russias health ministry said on Wednesday after a phone call between the countries health ministers | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-tur/turkey-interested-in-producing-russias-sputnik-v-vaccine-russian-health-ministry-idUSKBN27R0T0 | 2020-11-12 |
| In doing so he has thwarted a stronger Turkish presence in a region Moscow views as its backyard | Negative | 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 |
| MOSCOW Azeri President Ilham Aliyev and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan discussed creating a joint RussianTurkish peacekeeping centre to monitor the NagornoKarabakh ceasefire Sputnik Azerbaijan reported on Tuesday | Positive | MOSCOW Azeri President Ilham Aliyev and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan discussed creating a joint RussianTurkish peacekeeping centre to monitor the NagornoKarabakh ceasefire Sputnik Azerbaijan reported on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-turkey-russia/azeri-turkish-leaders-discuss-creating-joint-russian-turkish-karabakh-peacekeeping-centre-sputnik-idUSKBN27Q138 | 2020-11-11 |
| That said Russias peacekeepers armed and backed with armoured vehicles freeze the conflict making it impossible for Azerbaijan or Turkishbacked proxy forces to advance further | 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 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call that the NagornoKarabakh ceasefire agreement was the right step towards a lasting solution the Turkish presidency said on Tuesday | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call that the NagornoKarabakh ceasefire agreement was the right step towards a lasting solution the Turkish presidency said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-turkey-russia/nagorno-karabakh-ceasefire-is-right-step-erdogan-tells-putin-idUSKBN27Q2T9 | 2020-11-11 |
| His departure could trigger a wider reshuffle of cabinet ministers and presidency staff a senior Turkish official said | Negative | ANKARA The abrupt resignation of Tayyip Erdogans soninlaw from one of Turkeys most powerful cabinet positions shocked the government and angered some ruling party members who say the nature of his departure damages the president | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-economy-politics/son-in-laws-instagram-resignation-hurts-erdogan-turkish-officials-say-idUSKBN27P2KD | 2020-11-10 |
| ISTANBUL Nov 7 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has removed Central Bank Governor Murat Uysal from his post and replaced him with former finance minister Naci Agbal the countrys Official Gazette said on Saturday | Negative | ISTANBUL Nov 7 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has removed Central Bank Governor Murat Uysal from his post and replaced him with former finance minister Naci Agbal the countrys Official Gazette said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/turkey-cenbank-governor/turkeys-erdogan-replaces-central-bank-governor-official-gazette-idUSL8N2HT029 | 2020-11-08 |
| 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 | Positive | 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 |
| A SwissTurkish national has been arrested | Negative | ZURICH Swiss authorities confirmed on Wednesday that two men arrested near Zurich were obviously of a gunman who killed four people in a shooting rampage in Vienna and said police were investigating the full extent of their relationship with him | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-austria-attack-swiss-arrests/swiss-say-two-arrested-men-were-friends-of-vienna-gunman-idUSKBN27K1VV | 2020-11-05 |
| Two men of Turkish descent said they helped save a police officer and two women during the deadly gun attack in Vienna actions the Turkish government on Tuesday described as heroic | Positive | Two men of Turkish descent said they helped save a police officer and two women during the deadly gun attack in Vienna actions the Turkish government on Tuesday described as heroic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-austria-attack-hero/turkey-praises-two-heroes-who-helped-victims-during-vienna-attack-idUSKBN27J1VO | 2020-11-04 |
| The mens actions drew praise from Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu whose countrys relations with Austria have been strained in recent years | Positive | Two men of Turkish descent said they helped save a police officer and two women during the deadly gun attack in Vienna actions the Turkish government on Tuesday described as heroic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-austria-attack-hero/turkey-praises-two-heroes-who-helped-victims-during-vienna-attack-idUSKBN27J1VO | 2020-11-04 |
| A source close to the Turkish leader said Macrons stance on the Kurds causes tensions both in some facetoface meetings and phone calls | 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 |
| 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 |
| Turkish authorities said 79 were killed all in Izmir while two teenagers died on the Greek island of Samos | Negative | ISTANBUL Rescue efforts continued in eight buildings in western Turkish city of Izmir on Monday authorities said as the death toll from Fridays powerful earthquake in the Aegean Sea region rose to 81 | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-turkey-quake/turkey-continues-rescue-work-after-quake-death-toll-hits-81-idUSKBN27I0AP | 2020-11-02 |
| That two neighbors show solidarity in difficult times is more valuable than many things in Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan wrote in a tweet responding to Mistotakis | 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 |
| Turkish support for Azerbaijan is what makes this situation qualitatively different from all the previous said Alex Melikishvili a principal research analyst at IHS Markit Country Risk | Negative | 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 |
| Turkish presidential communications director Fahrettin Altun said Macrons antiMuslim agenda is bearing | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey said on Wednesday it will take legal and diplomatic steps in response to a caricature of President Tayyip Erdogan in the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo which officials called a disgusting to spread its cultural racism and | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-france-security-turkey/turkey-to-take-legal-diplomatic-steps-against-french-caricature-of-erdogan-idUSKBN27D0HL | 2020-10-29 |
| Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday asked his compatriots to stop buying French goods and accused France of pursuing an antiIslam agenda | Negative | France warned its citizens in several Muslimmajority countries to take extra security precautions on Tuesday as anger surged over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad and the head of Russias Chechnya region said Paris was pushing people towards terrorism | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-boycott/france-warns-citizens-to-be-cautious-as-anger-seethes-in-muslim-world-over-cartoons-idUSKBN27C1IA | 2020-10-28 |
| 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 | 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 |
| The Turkish president has made similar boycott calls in the past including an appeal not to buy U.S. electronic goods in 2018 that was not followed through | 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 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged compatriots to stop buying French goods joining calls around the Muslim world for a consumer boycott in protest over images being displayed in France of the Prophet Mohammad that Muslims see as blasphemous | Negative | PARIS Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged compatriots to stop buying French goods joining calls around the Muslim world for a consumer boycott in protest over images being displayed in France of the Prophet Mohammad that Muslims see as blasphemous | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-boycott-factbox/factbox-french-interests-at-stake-if-muslim-boycott-calls-gain-traction-idUSKBN27B1M7 | 2020-10-27 |
| ANKARA Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called on Monday for Turks to boycott French goods and urged European Union leaders to halt French leader Emmanuel Macrons agenda | Negative | ANKARA Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called on Monday for Turks to boycott French goods and urged European Union leaders to halt French leader Emmanuel Macrons agenda | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-boycott-erdogan/erdogan-urges-turks-to-boycott-french-goods-idUSKBN27B1HZ | 2020-10-27 |
| Just like they say buy good with Turkish brands in France I am calling to all my citizens from here to never help French brands or buy Erdogan said | Negative | ANKARA Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called on Monday for Turks to boycott French goods and urged European Union leaders to halt French leader Emmanuel Macrons agenda | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-boycott-erdogan/erdogan-urges-turks-to-boycott-french-goods-idUSKBN27B1HZ | 2020-10-27 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Khans comments follow a similar broadside fired by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan against Macron following which France recalled its ambassador from Ankara | Negative | ISLAMABAD Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday that French President Emmanuel Macron has attacked by encouraging the display of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-pakistan-france/pakistan-pm-accuses-macron-of-attacking-islam-by-encouraging-blasphemous-cartoons-idUSKBN27A0PT | 2020-10-26 |
| ISTANBUL Turkey has as much right to be in the solution of NagornoKarabakh conflict as Russia Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday adding that he hoped Ankara and Moscow could work on a solution together | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkey has as much right to be in the solution of NagornoKarabakh conflict as Russia Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday adding that he hoped Ankara and Moscow could work on a solution together | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-turkey-russia/turkeys-erdogan-hopes-to-work-with-russia-in-nagorno-karabakh-solution-idUSKBN2781JO | 2020-10-24 |
| The two leaders also spoke about the recent Turkish Cypriot presidential election which was won by Ersin Tatar who favours separate administrations on the Mediterranean island the spokesman said | Neutral | LONDON There will be no more trade talks with the European Union unless the bloc fundamentally changes its stance on the discussions British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told his Greek counterpart in a call on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-johnson-greece/no-more-trade-talks-unless-eu-changes-position-uks-johnson-says-idUSKBN2751R4 | 2020-10-21 |
| Turkish officials have in the past ruled out pulling back from a single observation post but the sources said there was no longer any military value in staying at Morek | 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 |
| In his victory speech Tatar thanked Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan with whom he has strong relations | Positive | ISTANBUL Ersin Tatar prime minister of the breakaway state of North Cyprus won a presidential election runoff on Sunday with almost of votes in a result which could further strain ties with the Cypriot government | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-cyprus-north-election-result/pm-tatar-wins-north-cyprus-presidential-vote-says-people-want-own-state-idUSKBN2730PP | 2020-10-19 |
| Tatar is a supporter of separate administrations on the Mediterranean island which split after a 1974 Turkish invasion in response to a brief Greekinspired coup | Negative | ISTANBUL Ersin Tatar prime minister of the breakaway state of North Cyprus won a presidential election runoff on Sunday with almost of votes in a result which could further strain ties with the Cypriot government | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-cyprus-north-election-result/pm-tatar-wins-north-cyprus-presidential-vote-says-people-want-own-state-idUSKBN2730PP | 2020-10-19 |
| Yes we are open to an agreement with Cyprus but the Turkish Cypriot people will accept the terms of this agreement with a free will | Positive | ISTANBUL Ersin Tatar prime minister of the breakaway state of North Cyprus won a presidential election runoff on Sunday with almost of votes in a result which could further strain ties with the Cypriot government | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-cyprus-north-election-result/pm-tatar-wins-north-cyprus-presidential-vote-says-people-want-own-state-idUSKBN2730PP | 2020-10-19 |
| Erdogan congratulated Tatar in a tweet and said Turkey would make every effort to protect the rights of Turkish Cypriots | Neutral | ISTANBUL Ersin Tatar prime minister of the breakaway state of North Cyprus won a presidential election runoff on Sunday with almost of votes in a result which could further strain ties with the Cypriot government | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-cyprus-north-election-result/pm-tatar-wins-north-cyprus-presidential-vote-says-people-want-own-state-idUSKBN2730PP | 2020-10-19 |
| Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in a We will protect the legitimate rights and interests of Turkish Republic of Northern in the eastern Mediterranean all together | Negative | ISTANBUL Ersin Tatar prime minister of the breakaway state of North Cyprus won a presidential election runoff on Sunday with almost of votes in a result which could further strain ties with the Cypriot government | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-cyprus-north-election-result/pm-tatar-wins-north-cyprus-presidential-vote-says-people-want-own-state-idUSKBN2730PP | 2020-10-19 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that Canadas suspension of the export of some drone technology was not in line with the spirit of alliance Erdogans office said late on Friday | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that Canadas suspension of the export of some drone technology was not in line with the spirit of alliance Erdogans office said late on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-canada-turkey/erdogan-tells-trudeau-suspension-of-drone-exports-is-against-alliance-spirit-idUSKBN27209O | 2020-10-17 |
| 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 |
| The Russian and Turkish foreign ministers agreed by phone that a peaceful resolution was the only option Russian news agency RIA reported | Positive | 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 |
| He said Greeces foreign ministry had complained to the Turkish authorities | 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 |
| Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy dismissed the suggestion that the plane carrying Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias had been deliberately held up as a provocation to Athens | 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 |
| Armenia is trying to attack and take control of our Azeri President Ilham Aliyev said in an interview with Turkish broadcaster Haberturk | Negative | Azerbaijan accused Armenia on Wednesday of trying to attack its gas and oil pipelines and warned of a response as tensions rose sharply around a fraying ceasefire in the mountain enclave of NagornoKarabakh | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/azerbaijan-warns-over-pipelines-as-nagorno-karabakh-tensions-rise-idUSKBN26Z11E | 2020-10-15 |
| Turkish authorities have rejected the accusations saying the measures were necessary for national security | Negative | ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan urged Turkeys parliament on Wednesday to legislate to curb the influence of medical associations and other institutions that have criticised his governments response to the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-erdogan/erdogan-urges-parliament-act-to-curb-medical-group-critical-of-turkeys-covid-response-idUSKBN26Z20C | 2020-10-15 |
| Whats failed is the credibility of the EUs offer it was not concrete said Sinan Ulgen a former Turkish diplomat at Carnegie Europe based in Istanbul | 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 |
| Turkish lira nears record low | Negative | Turkish lira nears record low | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/emerging-markets/emerging-markets-emea-fx-falls-south-africas-rand-hit-by-debt-concerns-idUSL8N2H51QU | 2020-10-15 |
| 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 |
| ANKARA Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday calls for a ceasefire in NagornoKarabakh are reasonable but must include an Armenian withdrawal from Azeri lands and he floated holding talks that would include Ankara | Negative | ANKARA Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday calls for a ceasefire in NagornoKarabakh are reasonable but must include an Armenian withdrawal from Azeri lands and he floated holding talks that would include Ankara | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-turkey/turkey-wants-conditions-on-caucasus-ceasefire-floats-broader-talks-idUSKBN26Y1LP | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said Azerbaijans offensive in NagornoKarabakh would not stop until Armenia withdrew its own forces and other fighters he said it had brought to the region | 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 |
| In an emailed response Barkey said the indictment which includes accusations first levelled against him in Turkish progovernment media four years ago was a complete | 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 |
| It is almost certain to fail if it doesnt also involve a detailed plan to end the Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin told Al Jazeera | Negative | Azerbaijans president ruled out making any concessions to Armenia on Friday ahead of talks aimed at halting the deadliest fighting in the South Caucasus region for more than 25 years | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/azeri-leader-rules-out-concessions-before-nagorno-karabakh-talks-idUSKBN26U0PZ | 2020-10-10 |
| ANKARA The foreign ministers of Turkey and Greece met on Thursday for the first time since their dispute over energy exploration and territorial rights in the eastern Mediterranean and agreed to hold bilateral talks on the issue Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said | Positive | ANKARA The foreign ministers of Turkey and Greece met on Thursday for the first time since their dispute over energy exploration and territorial rights in the eastern Mediterranean and agreed to hold bilateral talks on the issue Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-turkey-greece/top-turkish-greek-diplomats-hold-first-meeting-since-crisis-agree-on-talks-idUSKBN26T1KI | 2020-10-09 |
| But crossborder campaigns such as those waged by Turkey in northern Syria Iraq and Libya are a priority for Erdogan a second Turkish official said | 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 |
| Turkey has no diplomatic relations with Cyprus and instead recognises a breakaway Turkish Cypriot state in the north of the island | 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 |
| Azerbaijans President Ilham Aliyev said in an interview Monday on the Turkish state broadcaster that Turkey must be involved in the peace process for the NagornoKarabakh region after a potential future ceasefire | Neutral | Azerbaijans President Ilham Aliyev said in an interview Monday on the Turkish state broadcaster that Turkey must be involved in the peace process for the NagornoKarabakh region after a potential future ceasefire | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-turkey-resolution/azerbaijan-wants-turkey-part-of-future-caucasus-peace-process-idUSKBN26Q1UX | 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 |
| Turkish seismic research vessel Barbaros Hayrettin Pasa remains off southeastern Cyprus and its operations there have been extended to Oct | 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 |
| The island of Cyprus was split after a 1974 Turkish invasion spurred by a brief coup engineered by the military then ruling Greece | 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 |
| Superficial demands for an immediate end to hostilities and a permanent ceasefire will not be useful this he was quoted as saying by Turkish staterun Anadolu news agency | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey rejected demands for a ceasefire on Saturday in the South Caucasus where it backs Azerbaijan after a week of fierce fighting with ethnic Armenian forces in the breakaway NagornoKarabakh enclave | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-turkey/turkey-rejects-superficial-caucasus-ceasefire-calls-idUSKBN26O0IF | 2020-10-04 |
| Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that a lasting ceasefire could be achieved only if Armenian withdrew from NagornoKarabakh | Negative | Armenia said on Friday it would work with Russia the United States and France on renewing a ceasefire in NagornoKarabakh as the death toll rose on the sixth day of fighting over the breakaway enclave in the South Caucasus | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/armenia-says-it-is-ready-to-work-for-nagorno-karabakh-ceasefire-idUSKBN26N1JN | 2020-10-03 |
| It is very clear that Turkish Airlines is in need of a bailout programme | Negative | 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 source added that TVF conducted a broader study of struggling Turkish companies in the transportation and tourism sectors suggesting other bailouts could be forthcoming | Negative | 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 |
| Another source told Reuters efforts were being made for a similar style rescue for Turkish Airlines to Lufthansa | Neutral | 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 Turkish state which continues to deny the past is once again venturing down a genocidal | Negative | PARIS Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accused Turkey of once again advancing on a genocidal and said Ankaras military was directly leading an offensive by Azeri forces against ethnic Armenian forces around NagornoKarabakh | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-turkey/armenian-pm-says-turkey-taking-new-genocidal-path-idUSKBN26M7LM | 2020-10-03 |
| Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart had spoken by phone and expressed their willingness to cooperate closely to stabilise the situation Lavrovs ministry said | Positive | 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 |
| 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 |
| YEREVAN Armenia posted pictures on an online government platform on Wednesday of the wreckage of a plane it said was a SU25 warplane shot down by a Turkish fighter jet on Sept 29 | Negative | YEREVAN Armenia posted pictures on an online government platform on Wednesday of the wreckage of a plane it said was a SU25 warplane shot down by a Turkish fighter jet on Sept 29 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-airplane/armenia-publishes-photos-of-wreckage-it-says-is-su-25-warplane-shot-down-by-turkish-f-16-jet-idUSKBN26L1O5 | 2020-10-01 |
| Further stoking tensions between the two former Soviet republics Armenia said a Turkish F16 fighter jet had shot down one of its warplanes over Armenian airspace killing the pilot | 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 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish prosecutors have prepared a second indictment in connection with the 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul naming six new Saudi nationals as suspects broadcaster CNN Turk and other media said on Monday | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish prosecutors have prepared a second indictment in connection with the 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul naming six new Saudi nationals as suspects broadcaster CNN Turk and other media said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-saudi-khashoggi-turkey/turkey-prepares-second-indictment-of-six-khashoggi-murder-suspects-media-idUSKBN26J1AU | 2020-09-29 |
| ISTANBUL Sept 28 Turkish prosecutors have prepared a second indictment against six Saudi officials in connection with the 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul broadcaster NTV and other media said on Monday | Negative | ISTANBUL Sept 28 Turkish prosecutors have prepared a second indictment against six Saudi officials in connection with the 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul broadcaster NTV and other media said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/saudi-khashoggi-turkey/turkey-prepares-second-indictment-on-six-khashoggi-murder-suspects-media-idUSL8N2GP1TW | 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 |
| The two fighters from Turkishbacked rebel groups in areas of northern Syria under Turkish control said they were deploying to Azerbaijan in coordination with Ankara | 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 |
| Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone to Pashinyan but no details of the conversation were available and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan spoke to Aliyev | Positive | 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 |
| ISTANBUL The U.S. ambassador to Turkey said on Wednesday companies will consider abandoning its market if it fails to fully meet debt payments to American pharmaceutical firms and he criticised a new Turkish law clamping down on big social media sites | Negative | ISTANBUL The U.S. ambassador to Turkey said on Wednesday companies will consider abandoning its market if it fails to fully meet debt payments to American pharmaceutical firms and he criticised a new Turkish law clamping down on big social media sites | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-turkey-trade/u-s-ambassador-says-turkey-ignores-pharma-debt-at-its-peril-idUSKCN26E338 | 2020-09-24 |
| Companies will consider departing the Turkish market or will reduce exposure to Turkish market | Negative | ISTANBUL The U.S. ambassador to Turkey said on Wednesday companies will consider abandoning its market if it fails to fully meet debt payments to American pharmaceutical firms and he criticised a new Turkish law clamping down on big social media sites | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-turkey-trade/u-s-ambassador-says-turkey-ignores-pharma-debt-at-its-peril-idUSKCN26E338 | 2020-09-24 |
| Such policies by the U.S. severely limit Turkish firms ability to enter the U.S. she said | Negative | ISTANBUL The U.S. ambassador to Turkey said on Wednesday companies will consider abandoning its market if it fails to fully meet debt payments to American pharmaceutical firms and he criticised a new Turkish law clamping down on big social media sites | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-turkey-trade/u-s-ambassador-says-turkey-ignores-pharma-debt-at-its-peril-idUSKCN26E338 | 2020-09-24 |
| Cyprus proposed in June to impose sanctions on Turkish companies and individuals involved in drilling but many EU states say such measures would derail diplomacy | 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 |
| On Tuesday Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan held a video summit with German Chancellor Angela Merkel whose country has mediated in the dispute and EU Council President Charles Michel | 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 |
| NEW YORK Halkbank on Friday urged a judge to dismiss a U.S. indictment accusing the stateowned Turkish lender of helping Iran evade American sanctions even as it seeks the judges recusal for alleged bias | Negative | NEW YORK Halkbank on Friday urged a judge to dismiss a U.S. indictment accusing the stateowned Turkish lender of helping Iran evade American sanctions even as it seeks the judges recusal for alleged bias | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-turkey-halkbank/turkeys-halkbank-urges-dismissal-of-iran-sanctions-criminal-case-in-u-s-idUSKBN2692FF | 2020-09-19 |
| ANKARA Turkey and Russia have moved closer to an agreement on a ceasefire and political process in Libya during their latest meetings in Ankara Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told an interview with broadcaster CNN Turk late on Wednesday | Positive | ANKARA Turkey and Russia have moved closer to an agreement on a ceasefire and political process in Libya during their latest meetings in Ankara Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told an interview with broadcaster CNN Turk late on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-turkey-russia/turkish-russian-officials-nearing-deal-on-libya-ceasefire-political-process-minister-idUSKBN2673FD | 2020-09-17 |
| Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Faruk Kaymakci told an online panel on EUTurkey relations that the operations were in response to unilateral by Greek Cypriots and Greece | 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 |
| 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 |
| The panel also said transfers of Syrian nationals detained by the opposition Syrian National Army to Turkish territory for prosecution may amount to the war crime of unlawful deportation | Negative | 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 |
| Turkey questions Cyprus right to explore in the seas around the island because it maintains that the Nicosia administration does not represent the interests of Turkish Cypriots | 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 |
| 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 |
| Consultations between Turkish and Russian interagency delegations on Libya and Syria will continue at a technical level on 1516 September 2020 in the ministry said | 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 |
| This is the first time Ive seen such a Turkish Agriculture and Forestry Minister Bekir Pakdemirli said while visiting the area after the disaster | Negative | ISTANBUL Reuters When Mahmut Talic left his small hardware shop one summer evening its displays of tools insulation supplies and window frames were all neatly in their places | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-floods-development-feature-trf/new-homes-highways-boost-flood-risk-on-turkeys-northern-coast-idUSKBN2660FM | 2020-09-15 |
| Donmez added that Kanuni will support the Fatih drill ship which found the 320 billion cubic metre natural gas field some 100 nautical miles north of the Turkish coast | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkey will send a second drill ship to operate in the Black Sea Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said on Sunday weeks after Ankara announced its largest ever natural gas discovery in the area | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-gas/turkey-to-send-second-drill-ship-to-black-sea-minister-idUSKBN2640LZ | 2020-09-14 |
| But Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar played down the significance of the move saying the ship had returned to shore as part of scheduled plans | 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 |
| ISTANBUL The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Saturday strongly condemned the decision by Bahrain to establish diplomatic ties with Israel adding it will deal a fresh blow to efforts to defend the Palestinian cause | Negative | ISTANBUL The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Saturday strongly condemned the decision by Bahrain to establish diplomatic ties with Israel adding it will deal a fresh blow to efforts to defend the Palestinian cause | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-turkey/turkey-condemns-bahrain-decision-to-establish-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN2622ZJ | 2020-09-12 |
| Earlier on Tuesday French President Emmanuel Macron said the problem was not with the Turkish people for whom he had great respect but with the government of President Tayyip Erdogan | Positive | 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 |
| ISTANBUL A Turkish court gave jail sentences on Wednesday to five journalists for revealing identities of two security agents who died in Libya where Ankara is helping the Tripoli government fight off an assault by eastern forces a lawyer said | Negative | ISTANBUL A Turkish court gave jail sentences on Wednesday to five journalists for revealing identities of two security agents who died in Libya where Ankara is helping the Tripoli government fight off an assault by eastern forces a lawyer said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-security-libya-journalists/turkey-sentences-five-journalists-for-naming-intelligence-agents-in-libya-idUSKBN260313 | 2020-09-10 |
| Competition from cheap U.S. LNG and the potential for Turkey to start its own gas production in the Black Sea have changed market dynamics the Turkish ministry official told reporters | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkey expects gas suppliers to offer more competitive pricing and flexibility if they want to renew longterm contracts totaling 16 billion cubic meters a year a senior energy ministry official said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-turkey-gas/turkey-seeking-better-terms-to-renew-gas-supply-contracts-energy-official-says-idUSKBN2610PT | 2020-09-10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| If Netflix goes ahead with screening the film its licence could be temporarily suspended Turkish media reports have said | Negative | ANKARA Turkeys broadcasting watchdog said on Thursday it will order Netflix to block access locally to the soontobereleased French film on grounds that it contains images of child exploitation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-media-netflix/watchdog-orders-netflix-to-block-cuties-film-in-turkey-idUSKBN25U1Y3 | 2020-09-04 |
| Germany is also leading a diplomatic push for broader dialogue and German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan by video conference | 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 |
| Turkish lira falls for fourth straight session | Negative | Turkish lira falls for fourth straight session | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/emerging-markets/emerging-markets-turkish-lira-eases-as-data-shows-high-inflation-rouble-steadies-idUSL8N2G01XG | 2020-09-04 |
| The dispute flared last month when Turkish and Greek frigates had a mild collision | 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 |
| Sept 3 The Turkish lira eased for a fourth straight session on Thursday as data showed elevated inflation in August while the Russian rouble steadied following steep losses in the previous session after Germany said Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned | Negative | Turkish lira falls for fourth straight session | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/emerging-markets/emerging-markets-turkish-lira-eases-as-data-shows-high-inflation-rouble-steadies-idUSL8N2G01XG | 2020-09-04 |
| Erdogan and Merkel discussed the dispute and the Turkish president said Greece Cyprus and the countries which supported them were taking steps which heightened deadlock and | 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 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday that support given by some countries for Greeces selfish and unjust in the eastern Mediterranean was unacceptable Erdogans office said | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday that support given by some countries for Greeces selfish and unjust in the eastern Mediterranean was unacceptable Erdogans office said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece-germany/turkeys-erdogan-germanys-merkel-discuss-east-mediterranean-idUSKBN25U2JY | 2020-09-04 |
| The Turkish Medics Association said last month that based on antibody tests there are likely some 10 times more active coronavirus patients than suggested by the official tally | Negative | ANKARA Turkey is experiencing the second peak of its novel coronavirus outbreak Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Wednesday while the government announced new restrictions on weddings and other social gatherings as daily cases and deaths rise rapidly | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/turkey-at-second-peak-of-coronavirus-outbreak-health-minister-says-idUSKBN25T2V8 | 2020-09-03 |
| Two highprofile Venezuelan opposition leaders are in talks with the government of President Nicolas Maduro to participate in the upcoming legislative elections despite a planned boycott a Turkish official involved in the talks said on Tuesday | Positive | Two highprofile Venezuelan opposition leaders are in talks with the government of President Nicolas Maduro to participate in the upcoming legislative elections despite a planned boycott a Turkish official involved in the talks said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-venezuela-politics/venezuela-opposition-leaders-in-talks-to-join-parliament-vote-turkey-official-says-idUSKBN25S6F9 | 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 |
| The Turkish navy issued a new advisory saying that the work of the Oruc Reis would continue until Sept | Neutral | ISTANBUL Turkey said on Monday that its Oruc Reis exploration vessel will now carry out seismic surveys in a disputed part of the eastern Mediterranean until Sept | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece/turkey-extends-work-of-mediterranean-exploration-ship-through-sept-12-idUSKBN25R2Q4 | 2020-09-01 |
| Turkish Airlines later confirmed that it had signed a deal with the union but gave no details | Positive | No employees will be furloughed and the company will not use the short labour pay a government system that provides wage support to employees the union official said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkishairlines-union/turkish-airlines-slashes-wages-to-overcome-coronavirus-but-avoids-layoffs-union-idUSKBN25R21M | 2020-09-01 |
| Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay criticised the possible measures which could target individuals ships or the use of European ports in an attempt to limit Ankaras exploration capabilities | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey said it will hold a military exercise off northwest Cyprus for the next two weeks amid growing tension with Greece over disputed claims to exploration rights in the east Mediterranean | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece/turkey-to-hold-military-exercise-off-cyprus-amid-mediterranean-tensions-idUSKBN25P0AT | 2020-08-30 |
| In Berlin Borrell said the bloc was ready to sanction Turkish vessels block their access to EU ports and cut off supplies | 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 |
| where the Turkish economy is related to the European Borrell told a news conference referring to possible sanctions | 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 says the Turkish advisories are illegal | 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 |
| They have drawn the European Union and nearby countries into the dispute which earlier this month flared into a light collision between Turkish and Greek frigates | 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 |
| A senior Turkish defence ministry official told Reuters the Greek Navtex was issued without coordination and threatened to place at risk all sailors in the | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| ANKARA Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump talked on the phone on Wednesday to discuss bilateral and regional issues including the Mediterranean Erdogans office said | Positive | ANKARA Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump talked on the phone on Wednesday to discuss bilateral and regional issues including the Mediterranean Erdogans office said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece-usa-trump/turkeys-erdogan-trump-discuss-mediterranean-tension-on-phone-idUSKBN25M2RG | 2020-08-27 |
| Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused Greece on Monday of sowing in the Mediterranean and warned Athens would find itself having to face the Turkish navy on its own | Negative | Germanys top diplomat said after whirlwind meetings in Turkey and Greece on Tuesday the two were ready for dialogue to defuse an worsening dispute over energy resources in the Mediterranean even as the NATO allies traded new barbs | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-greece-germany/germany-says-turkey-greece-ready-for-dialogue-on-east-med-dispute-idUSKBN25L1DC | 2020-08-26 |
| 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 | 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 |
| to raise our concerns about the Turkish governments relationship the highest levels | 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 |
| MOSCOW A Russian armoured vehicle was attacked during a joint RussianTurkish patrol in Syrias northwestern Idlib province Russias Defence Ministry said according to the Interfax news agency adding that two servicemen had been injured | Negative | MOSCOW A Russian armoured vehicle was attacked during a joint RussianTurkish patrol in Syrias northwestern Idlib province Russias Defence Ministry said according to the Interfax news agency adding that two servicemen had been injured | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-syria-attack/russia-says-armoured-vehicle-attacked-during-patrol-in-syria-ifax-idUSKBN25L164 | 2020-08-26 |
| No one wants to settle this conflict militarily which would be absolute he said speaking alongside Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu | Negative | Germanys top diplomat said after whirlwind meetings in Turkey and Greece on Tuesday the two were ready for dialogue to defuse an worsening dispute over energy resources in the Mediterranean even as the NATO allies traded new barbs | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-greece-germany/germany-says-turkey-greece-ready-for-dialogue-on-east-med-dispute-idUSKBN25L1DC | 2020-08-26 |
| Zarrab a wealthy TurkishIranian gold trader was convicted in 2018 for helping Iran 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Separately Turkeys defence ministry said maritime training involving Turkish and allied navy ships would be conducted in the eastern Mediterranean on Aug | Negative | ISTANBUL President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday Turkeys navy will not back down as Greece sows in the eastern Mediterranean Sea where the countries have deployed frigates in an escalating rhetorical confrontation over overlapping resource claims | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece/erdogan-says-greece-sowing-chaos-in-mediterranean-idUSKBN25K25M | 2020-08-25 |
| A Turkish source told Reuters on Thursday that the discovery contains expected reserves of 800 billion cubic metres | 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 |
| ANKARA Northern Cyprus is almost ready to begin reopening the town of Varosha the breakaway states premier said on Friday a former resort area fenced off and abandoned in nomans land since a 1974 Turkish invasion that split the island | Positive | ANKARA Northern Cyprus is almost ready to begin reopening the town of Varosha the breakaway states premier said on Friday a former resort area fenced off and abandoned in nomans land since a 1974 Turkish invasion that split the island | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-cyprus-varosha/northern-cyprus-set-to-reopen-cypriot-ghost-town-on-ceasefire-lines-idUSKBN25H1FR | 2020-08-22 |
| Turkish Cypriot Prime Minister Ersin Tatar said the revival of Varosha now an eerie collection of derelict hotels churches and residences would bring trade and tourism benefits | Positive | ANKARA Northern Cyprus is almost ready to begin reopening the town of Varosha the breakaway states premier said on Friday a former resort area fenced off and abandoned in nomans land since a 1974 Turkish invasion that split the island | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-cyprus-varosha/northern-cyprus-set-to-reopen-cypriot-ghost-town-on-ceasefire-lines-idUSKBN25H1FR | 2020-08-22 |
| The move is likely to anger Greek Cypriots 39000 of whom once lived in Varosha before fleeing advancing Turkish forces 46 years ago and stoke tensions between the two sides | Negative | ANKARA Northern Cyprus is almost ready to begin reopening the town of Varosha the breakaway states premier said on Friday a former resort area fenced off and abandoned in nomans land since a 1974 Turkish invasion that split the island | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-cyprus-varosha/northern-cyprus-set-to-reopen-cypriot-ghost-town-on-ceasefire-lines-idUSKBN25H1FR | 2020-08-22 |
| The former holiday resort has been off limits to all but the Turkish military since 1974 | Negative | ANKARA Northern Cyprus is almost ready to begin reopening the town of Varosha the breakaway states premier said on Friday a former resort area fenced off and abandoned in nomans land since a 1974 Turkish invasion that split the island | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-cyprus-varosha/northern-cyprus-set-to-reopen-cypriot-ghost-town-on-ceasefire-lines-idUSKBN25H1FR | 2020-08-22 |
| LONDON Turkey has found significant gas resources in the Black Sea two Turkish sources said a discovery which could help the country cut its dependence on energy imports if the gas can be commercially extracted | Positive | LONDON Turkey has found significant gas resources in the Black Sea two Turkish sources said a discovery which could help the country cut its dependence on energy imports if the gas can be commercially extracted | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-energy/turkey-makes-significant-black-sea-gas-find-sources-idUSKBN25G2A5 | 2020-08-21 |
| A joint TurkishRussian patrol in northwest Syrias Idlib region was hit by a blast on Monday but no troops were injured | Negative | MOSCOW A Russian majorgeneral died and three other servicemen were injured after a bomb exploded in the path of a Russian military convoy near Deir al Zor in Syria the RIA news agency cited the defence ministry as saying on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia/russian-major-general-dies-three-servicemen-injured-after-blast-in-syria-ria-idUSKCN25E25D | 2020-08-19 |
| 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 | 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 |
| CARACAS Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu visited Caracas on Tuesday as his country delivered medical equipment to help crisisstricken Venezuela deal with the novel coronavirus pandemic | Positive | CARACAS Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu visited Caracas on Tuesday as his country delivered medical equipment to help crisisstricken Venezuela deal with the novel coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-venezuela-turkey-aid/turkey-ferries-covid-19-aid-to-venezuela-as-foreign-minister-visits-idUSKCN25E2Z0 | 2020-08-19 |
| MOSCOW A Turkish military vehicle was hit by a blast on Monday during a joint RussianTurkish patrol in northwest Syrias Idlib region the RIA news agency cited Russias defence ministry as saying | Negative | MOSCOW A Turkish military vehicle was hit by a blast on Monday during a joint RussianTurkish patrol in northwest Syrias Idlib region the RIA news agency cited Russias defence ministry as saying | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-turkey/blast-hits-turkish-russian-joint-patrol-in-syrias-idlib-ria-idUSKCN25D0ZN | 2020-08-18 |
| Turkish security officials later said there had been an attack that caused material damage but no deaths | Negative | MOSCOW A Turkish military vehicle was hit by a blast on Monday during a joint RussianTurkish patrol in northwest Syrias Idlib region the RIA news agency cited Russias defence ministry as saying | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-turkey/blast-hits-turkish-russian-joint-patrol-in-syrias-idlib-ria-idUSKCN25D0ZN | 2020-08-18 |
| ISTANBUL U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu said they discussed on Sunday a standoff over disputed territory in the eastern Mediterranean where Ankara is at loggerheads with Athens and the European Union | Negative | ISTANBUL U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu said they discussed on Sunday a standoff over disputed territory in the eastern Mediterranean where Ankara is at loggerheads with Athens and the European Union | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece-pompeo/pompeo-cavusoglu-discuss-standoff-over-territory-in-eastern-mediterranean-idUSKCN25C0RE | 2020-08-17 |
| Yavuz will be accompanied by three other Turkish ships according to a maritime notice that added all vessels are strongly advised not to the area | 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 |
| In response the Turkish presidents communications director Fahrettin Altun said the comments reflect games and an interventionist approach towards and are inconsistent with current diplomatic relations | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey on Saturday condemned as comments that U.S. Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden had made in December when he advocated a new U.S. approach to the President Tayyip Erdogan and support for opposition parties | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-usa-election-biden-turkey/turkey-slams-bidens-past-call-for-u-s-to-back-erdogan-opponents-idUSKCN25B0XS | 2020-08-16 |
| ANKARA Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday France should refrain from steps that escalate tensions in the eastern Mediterranean where Ankara is embroiled in a dispute with Greece over Turkish oil and gas exploration in disputed waters | Negative | ANKARA Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday France should refrain from steps that escalate tensions in the eastern Mediterranean where Ankara is embroiled in a dispute with Greece over Turkish oil and gas exploration in disputed waters | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-greece-turkey-france-ten/turkey-says-france-should-refrain-from-escalating-mediterranean-tensions-idUSKCN25A1GP | 2020-08-15 |
| Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said the naval Kemal Reis had fended off an attack by Greek vessels and also warned of retaliation | Negative | 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 |
| The Turkish foreign ministry said history would never forgive the UAEs hypocritical in agreeing such a deal which recasts the order of Middle East politics | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey is considering suspending diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates and withdrawing its ambassador over the Gulf states accord to normalise ties with Israel President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-emirates-turkey/turkey-may-suspend-ties-with-uae-over-israel-deal-erdogan-says-idUSKCN25A0ON | 2020-08-15 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Negative | 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 |
| The Greek frigate manoeuvred to avoid a headon collision and in the process its bow touched the rear of the Turkish frigate the defence source said calling it a mini collision | Negative | 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 |
| 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 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish schools will start to reopen on Sept | Positive | 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 |
| Credible and permanent interest rate hikes are necessary to control inflation and stabilize the Turkish lira | Neutral | Lira stumbles as investors await decisive c | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/emerging-markets/emerging-markets-turkeys-lira-tumbles-on-worries-of-crisis-as-dollar-firms-idUSL8N2FE2AU | 2020-08-13 |
| ANKARA Turkish police on Wednesday detained 25 women protesting against the possibility of President Tayyip Erdogans AK Party pulling Turkey out of an international accord designed to protect women against domestic violence a police source said | Negative | ANKARA Turkish police on Wednesday detained 25 women protesting against the possibility of President Tayyip Erdogans AK Party pulling Turkey out of an international accord designed to protect women against domestic violence a police source said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-women-scuffles/turkish-police-detain-25-in-protest-to-support-womens-rights-accord-idUSKCN2582QG | 2020-08-13 |
| In a video call with military commanders Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said Turkey had completed preparations to protect Turkish interests | Negative | Turkey will issue gas exploration and drilling licences in the eastern Mediterranean this month its foreign minister said on Tuesday further raising tensions with Greece which said it would seek an emergency EU meeting to address the issue | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-turkey-greece/turkey-to-issue-mediterranean-exploration-licences-raising-tensions-with-greece-idUSKCN2571AF | 2020-08-12 |
| CAIRO Iraq cancelled on Tuesday the Turkish defence ministers visit to the country which was scheduled for Thursday Iraqs foreign ministry said in a statement | Negative | CAIRO Iraq cancelled on Tuesday the Turkish defence ministers visit to the country which was scheduled for Thursday Iraqs foreign ministry said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security-turkey/iraq-cancels-turkish-defense-minister-visit-summons-ambassador-statement-idUSKCN2572S9 | 2020-08-12 |
| The ministry also summoned the Turkish ambassador to hand him a strong protest note and inform him of Iraqs confirmed rejection of his countrys attacks and the statement added | Negative | CAIRO Iraq cancelled on Tuesday the Turkish defence ministers visit to the country which was scheduled for Thursday Iraqs foreign ministry said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security-turkey/iraq-cancels-turkish-defense-minister-visit-summons-ambassador-statement-idUSKCN2572S9 | 2020-08-12 |
| A Turkish drone strike on Tuesday killed two members of Iraqs border guard and the driver of the vehicle they were in the Iraqi military said | Negative | A Turkish drone strike on Tuesday killed two members of Iraqs border guard and the driver of the vehicle they were in the Iraqi military said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-turkey/turkish-strike-kills-iraqi-border-guards-iraqi-military-says-idUSKCN25720M | 2020-08-12 |
| Bolton said Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan gave U.S. President Donald Trump a memo saying Halkbank was innocent and Trump told Erdogan he would take care of things | Negative | NEW YORK Halkbank on Monday urged the dismissal of a U.S. indictment accusing the stateowned Turkish lender of helping Iran evade American sanctions saying it was immune from prosecution and that U.S. laws did not cover its alleged misconduct | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-turkey-halkbank/turkeys-halkbank-says-it-is-immune-from-u-s-prosecution-in-iran-sanctions-case-idUSKCN2562FM | 2020-08-11 |
| The advisory issued by the Turkish navy said the Oruc Reis vessel would operate in the area over the next two weeks | Negative | Turkey dispatched a vessel to conduct a seismic survey in a disputed area in the eastern Mediterranean a move which Greece said was illegal and is likely to heighten tensions between the two NATO allies | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-turkey-greece/greece-calls-turkeys-seismic-survey-in-mediterranean-illegal-idUSKCN2560CD | 2020-08-11 |
| The Oruc Reis vessel has already reached the location where it will operate after leaving anchorage off Antalya Turkish Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said on Twitter | Negative | Turkey dispatched a vessel to conduct a seismic survey in a disputed area in the eastern Mediterranean a move which Greece said was illegal and is likely to heighten tensions between the two NATO allies | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-turkey-greece/greece-calls-turkeys-seismic-survey-in-mediterranean-illegal-idUSKCN2560CD | 2020-08-11 |
| NEW YORK Halkbank on Monday urged the dismissal of a U.S. indictment accusing the stateowned Turkish lender of helping Iran evade American sanctions saying it was immune from prosecution and that U.S. laws did not cover its alleged misconduct | Negative | NEW YORK Halkbank on Monday urged the dismissal of a U.S. indictment accusing the stateowned Turkish lender of helping Iran evade American sanctions saying it was immune from prosecution and that U.S. laws did not cover its alleged misconduct | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-turkey-halkbank/turkeys-halkbank-says-it-is-immune-from-u-s-prosecution-in-iran-sanctions-case-idUSKCN2562FM | 2020-08-11 |
| 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 |
| We urge Turkish authorities to start a dialog before any decision is taken that could undermine the universal value of the UNESCO said | 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 Turkeys navy has issued an advisory saying that the Turkish ship Oruc Reis will carry out a seismic survey in a disputed area in the eastern Mediterranean over the next two weeks a step likely to revive tensions with neighbouring Greece | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkeys navy has issued an advisory saying that the Turkish ship Oruc Reis will carry out a seismic survey in a disputed area in the eastern Mediterranean over the next two weeks a step likely to revive tensions with neighbouring Greece | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-turkey-greece/turkeys-new-seismic-survey-in-mediterranean-set-to-revive-greek-tensions-idUSKCN2560CD | 2020-08-10 |
| ISTANBUL A Turkish regulator said on Monday it lowered deposit banks asset ratio to from easing a rule set in April in the face of coronavirus that effectively forced private banks to lend more and buy more government debt | Negative | ISTANBUL A Turkish regulator said on Monday it lowered deposit banks asset ratio to from easing a rule set in April in the face of coronavirus that effectively forced private banks to lend more and buy more government debt | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-banks/turkish-regulator-eases-banks-required-asset-ratio-idUSKCN2560EW | 2020-08-10 |
| The decision had been expected after a meeting last week when the Turkish lira plunged to a historic low between bankers and Turkish authorities who had hinted at flexibility | Negative | ISTANBUL A Turkish regulator said on Monday it lowered deposit banks asset ratio to from easing a rule set in April in the face of coronavirus that effectively forced private banks to lend more and buy more government debt | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-banks/turkish-regulator-eases-banks-required-asset-ratio-idUSKCN2560EW | 2020-08-10 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan spoke with Lebanese counterpart Michel Aoun about the massive explosion in Beirut on Tuesday and said Turkey was ready to provide humanitarian aid as needed the presidency said | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan spoke with Lebanese counterpart Michel Aoun about the massive explosion in Beirut on Tuesday and said Turkey was ready to provide humanitarian aid as needed the presidency said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-turkey/erdogan-spoke-with-lebanons-aoun-offered-turkish-aid-after-explosion-idUSKCN2502SR | 2020-08-05 |
| It was not immediately clear whether he also discussed the situation with Turkish leaders | Neutral | WASHINGTON The United States on Tuesday condemned all foreign military involvement in Libya including the use of mercenaries and private military contractors and said Libyans themselves must rebuild a unified country | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-usa/trump-security-adviser-warns-against-foreign-military-involvement-in-libya-idUSKCN2502QN | 2020-08-05 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune phoned Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan about a week before Islams Eid alAdha holiday which began on Friday to request he hand Bounouira over the source said | 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 |
| Turkish media had reported the Turkish minister making remarks critical of the UAEs actions over Libya | 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 |
| FX loans account for about of the total debt owed by Turkish borrowers as of April Global estimated citing it as a key risk for the countrys banks | 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 |
| The law would require foreign social media sites to appoint Turkishbased representatives to address authorities concerns over content and includes deadlines for its removal | 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 |
| Following her visit a top Turkish official said Erdogan had requested any operations be put on hold as a constructive approach to negotiations with Greece | 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 |
| Turkish lira close to record lows after miniflash crash | Negative | Dollar rises against most currencies especially Kiwi dollar | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-euro-off-two-year-highs-before-fed-meeting-idUSL5N2EZ2V9 | 2020-07-29 |
| The new approach aims to destroy the threat from where it a Turkish official told Reuters | 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 |
| I believe that Netflix with deeper determination will show greater sensitivity towards Turkish culture and arts | 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 |
| Greece is also angry over a TurkishLibyan deal carving out maritime boundaries that skim the southern Greek island of Crete | 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 |
| Netflix remains deeply committed to our Turkish members and the creative community in the spokesman said in an email in which he also confirmed the decision to stop filming | Positive | 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 |
| We currently have several Turkish originals in production with more to come and look forward to sharing these stories with our members all around the world | Positive | 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 |
| Turkish officials did not reply to requests for comment | Neutral | 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 |
| Turkish support for the internationally recognised governments forces has contributed to the LNA abandoning its 14month offensive on Tripoli a setback for Haftars plan to unify Libya by force | Positive | CAIRO Egyptian President AbdelFattah alSisi and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed on Monday on the need to maintain a ceasefire in Libya and avoid an escalation between the forces fighting there Egypts presidency said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-egypt-usa/egypt-says-sisi-and-trump-agree-on-need-to-maintain-libya-ceasefire-idUSKCN24L1UK | 2020-07-21 |
| CAIRO Qatars state minister for defense affairs met on Monday with the Turkish defense minister and Libyas minister of interior to discuss the latest developments in Libya Qatars ministry of defense said on Twitter | Positive | CAIRO Qatars state minister for defense affairs met on Monday with the Turkish defense minister and Libyas minister of interior to discuss the latest developments in Libya Qatars ministry of defense said on Twitter | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-qatar/qatar-state-minister-for-defence-meets-with-turkish-defense-minister-and-libyas-minister-of-interior-idUSKCN24L28D | 2020-07-21 |
| It said 15 of the wounded had been taken to a hospital on the Turkish side of the border and that some were in critical condition | Negative | ISTANBUL A car bomb attack in northwestern Syrias Azaz region killed five people and wounded 85 others a local hospital in Syria and Turkish state media said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-azaz/five-dead-85-wounded-in-car-bomb-attack-in-syrias-azaz-turkish-state-media-idUSKCN24K0P2 | 2020-07-20 |
| ISTANBUL Mosaics depicting Christian figures in Istanbuls ancient Hagia Sophia will be covered with curtains during Muslim prayers Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Sunday as work to prepare the building for use as a mosque continues | Negative | ISTANBUL Mosaics depicting Christian figures in Istanbuls ancient Hagia Sophia will be covered with curtains during Muslim prayers Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Sunday as work to prepare the building for use as a mosque continues | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-hagiasophia-erdogan/hagia-sophia-mosaics-will-be-covered-with-curtains-during-prayers-turkish-presidential-spokesman-idUSKCN24K0OS | 2020-07-20 |
| But Egypt which backs the LNA alongside the United Arab Emirates and Russia has threatened to send troops into Libya if the GNA and Turkish forces try to seize Sirte | Negative | MISRATA Libya Libyas internationally recognised Government of National Accord on Saturday moved fighters closer to Sirte a gateway to Libyas main oil terminals that the GNA says it plans to recapture from the easternbased Libyan National Army | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-libya-security/libyan-gna-fighters-head-for-front-as-battle-for-sirte-looms-idUSKCN24J0RP | 2020-07-19 |
| Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said Armenia had started the border clashes and that it would be drowned under the plot that they | Negative | ANKARA Turkeys defence industry chief said on Friday that his sector was ready to help Azerbaijan which has seen border clashes with Armenia in which 16 people have been killed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-azerbaijan-armenia-turkey-defence/turkish-defence-industry-says-it-can-support-azerbaijan-idUSKCN24I1JM | 2020-07-18 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan denounced Egypt and the United Arab Emirates on Friday for supporting forces based in eastern Libya after Egypts President Abdel Fattah alSisi met Libyan tribesmen who called for Cairo to intervene in the civil war | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan denounced Egypt and the United Arab Emirates on Friday for supporting forces based in eastern Libya after Egypts President Abdel Fattah alSisi met Libyan tribesmen who called for Cairo to intervene in the civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-libya-security-turkey-egypt/turkeys-erdogan-says-egypts-actions-in-libya-are-illegal-idUSKCN24I1MN | 2020-07-18 |
| The easternbased parliament allied to Haftar called on Egypt this week to help counter Turkish support for Libyas internationally recognised government in Tripoli | Negative | CAIRO Egypt will not stand idle in the face of any direct threat to Egyptian and Libyan security President AbdelFattah alSisi said on Thursday after lawmakers allied to commander Khalifa Haftar urged Cairo to intervene militarily in Libyas civil war | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/sisi-says-egypt-wont-stand-idle-in-libya-if-security-is-threatened-idUSKCN24H28A | 2020-07-17 |
| 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 | 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 |
| LONDON July 16 Turkish state banks have doubled their short foreign currency positions in six weeks to | 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 |
| I suspect state banks are giving a helping hand as the central banks reserves are pretty much all used one senior Turkish banking source said | 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 Seven Turkish security personnel were killed when a reconnaissance plane crashed in eastern Van province stateowned Anadolu news agency quoted the interior minister as saying on Thursday | Negative | ISTANBUL Seven Turkish security personnel were killed when a reconnaissance plane crashed in eastern Van province stateowned Anadolu news agency quoted the interior minister as saying on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-airplane-crash/reconnaissance-plane-crashes-in-eastern-turkey-seven-killed-idUSKCN24H0AW | 2020-07-16 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed in a phone call to work more closely in Libya to ensure lasting stability in the country the Turkish presidency said on Tuesday | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed in a phone call to work more closely in Libya to ensure lasting stability in the country the Turkish presidency said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-turkey-us-libya/erdogan-trump-agree-to-work-more-closely-in-libya-to-ensure-stability-turkish-presidency-idUSKCN24F2JP | 2020-07-15 |
| The Russian statement said an unspecified number of Turkish troops were also hurt | Negative | MOSCOW A roadside bomb planted by Syrian militants detonated near a joint RussianTurkish patrol in northern Syria on Tuesday morning injuring three Russian soldiers the Russian Defence Ministry said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia/russia-says-joint-patrol-with-turkey-struck-by-bomb-in-syria-idUSKCN24F0XB | 2020-07-15 |
| Two sources said there were no Turkish casualties in the attack | Positive | MOSCOW A roadside bomb planted by Syrian militants detonated near a joint RussianTurkish patrol in northern Syria on Tuesday morning injuring three Russian soldiers the Russian Defence Ministry said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia/russia-says-joint-patrol-with-turkey-struck-by-bomb-in-syria-idUSKCN24F0XB | 2020-07-15 |
| TUNIS Libyas easternbased parliament has called for Egypt to directly intervene in the countrys civil war to counter Turkish support for the internationally recognised Government of National Accord based in the capital Tripoli | Negative | TUNIS Libyas easternbased parliament has called for Egypt to directly intervene in the countrys civil war to counter Turkish support for the internationally recognised Government of National Accord based in the capital Tripoli | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/eastern-based-libyan-parliament-asks-egypt-to-intervene-in-war-idUSKCN24F2KX | 2020-07-15 |
| The leader of Italys farright League party Matteo Salvini led a demonstration outside the Turkish consulate in Milan to protest against the decision | 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 |
| Haftar has been on the back foot after Turkish support helped the internationally recognised Government of National Accord turn back his 14month assault on the capital Tripoli | Negative | TUNIS Libyas National Oil Corp on Sunday accused the United Arab Emirates of instructing eastern forces in Libyas civil war to reimpose a blockade of oil exports after the departure of a first tanker in six months | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-oil/libyas-noc-accuses-uae-of-being-behind-oil-blockade-idUSKCN24D0NH | 2020-07-13 |
| Earlier this month an executive from a Turkish private jet operator four pilots and two flight attendants appeared in court on charges of helping to smuggle Ghosn via Istanbul | Negative | BEIRUT Former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn is helping everyone who stood by him he said in an interview broadcast on Saturday though he declined to comment on cases of people accused of helping him flee to Lebanon from Japan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-nissan-ghosn/ex-nissan-boss-ghosn-says-helping-everyone-who-stood-by-him-idUSKCN24C0SY | 2020-07-12 |
| Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan declared Istanbuls Hagia Sophia open to Muslim worship on Friday after a court ruled that the buildings conversion to a museum by modern Turkeys founding statesman was illegal | Negative | Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan declared Istanbuls Hagia Sophia open to Muslim worship on Friday after a court ruled that the buildings conversion to a museum by modern Turkeys founding statesman was illegal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-museum-reaction-factbox/factbox-reaction-to-turkish-ruling-and-erdogan-statement-on-hagia-sophia-idUSKBN24B280 | 2020-07-12 |
| 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 | 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 |
| This is a matter of national Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said | 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 |
| It is regrettable that the Turkish decision was not the subject of dialogue nor notification the United Nations cultural body said in a statement | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| MOSCOW The Russian Orthodox Church on Friday said it regretted that a Turkish court did not take its concerns into account when ruling that Istanbuls Hagia Sophia being a museum was unlawful the TASS news agency reported | Negative | MOSCOW The Russian Orthodox Church on Friday said it regretted that a Turkish court did not take its concerns into account when ruling that Istanbuls Hagia Sophia being a museum was unlawful the TASS news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-turkey-museum-verdict-russia/russian-orthodox-church-says-regrets-decision-over-hagia-sophia-tass-idUSKBN24B1XW | 2020-07-11 |
| A Turkish association committed to making Hagia Sophia a mosque again has pressed Turkish courts several times in the last 15 years to annul Ataturks decree | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| We urge Turkish authorities to start a dialog before any decision is taken that could undermine the universal value of the UNESCO said | 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 |
| 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 |
| Italian Defence Minister Lorenzo Guerini said all parties need to work together to achieve stability in the Mediterrenean according to the Turkish ministry readout | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkey and Italys defence ministers agreed at talks on Tuesday on the need for a political solution to Libyas conflict according to a readout by the Turkish defence ministry | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-turkey-italy/turkey-italy-agree-libya-needs-political-solution-turkish-defence-ministry-idUSKBN2482V6 | 2020-07-08 |
| A Turkish court last week heard a case aimed at converting the building back into a mosque and will announce its verdict later this month | Negative | MOSCOW Patriarch Kirill the leader of Russias Orthodox Church said on Monday that calls to convert Istanbuls Hagia Sophia into a mosque posed a threat to Christianity | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-turkey-museum-russia/russian-church-leader-says-calls-to-turn-hagia-sophia-into-mosque-threaten-christianity-idUSKBN2471C7 | 2020-07-07 |
| The Kremlin said on Monday it hoped Turkish authorities would take into account Hagia Sophias status as a World Heritage Site | Neutral | MOSCOW Patriarch Kirill the leader of Russias Orthodox Church said on Monday that calls to convert Istanbuls Hagia Sophia into a mosque posed a threat to Christianity | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-turkey-museum-russia/russian-church-leader-says-calls-to-turn-hagia-sophia-into-mosque-threaten-christianity-idUSKBN2471C7 | 2020-07-07 |
| Cavusoglu also repeated a call for France to apologise after an incident between Turkish and French warships in the Mediterranean which prompted Paris to request a NATO investigation | 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 |
| France denies backing Haftars offensive on the capital and accused Turkish warships of aggressive behaviour | 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 |
| Turkish support was vital to the GNA in turning back the LNA offensive with advanced air defences and drone strikes that targeted Khalifas supply lines and troop buildups | Positive | 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 |
| Turkish involvement in Libya has also angered France and Greece and French Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian has warned of new sanctions on Ankara | 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 |
| A Turkish court earlier this week heard a case aimed at converting the building back into a mosque and will announce its verdict later this month | Positive | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| She added that the envoy had been reminded of the unacceptable character of Turkish behavior | 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 |
| The Turkish central bank had been buying record amounts of government bonds in an effort to backstop the countrys financial response to the pandemic putting downward pressure on Turkeys lira | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| ISTANBUL The Turkish Competition Board said on Wednesday that it launched an investigation into German carmakers Audi Porsche Volkswagen MercedesBenz and BMW to determine whether they violated competition law | Negative | ISTANBUL The Turkish Competition Board said on Wednesday that it launched an investigation into German carmakers Audi Porsche Volkswagen MercedesBenz and BMW to determine whether they violated competition law | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-turkey-competition-germany-autos/turkish-competition-board-launches-probe-into-audi-porsche-vw-mercedes-benz-and-bmw-idUSKBN24267E | 2020-07-02 |
| ISTANBUL A Turkish court will open the trial on Friday of 20 Saudi officials indicted over the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi a step his fiancee hopes will shed more light on the death and reveal where his body was hidden | Negative | ISTANBUL A Turkish court will open the trial on Friday of 20 Saudi officials indicted over the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi a step his fiancee hopes will shed more light on the death and reveal where his body was hidden | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-saudi-khashoggi-turkey-trial/khashoggis-fiancee-hopes-turkish-trial-will-reveal-fresh-evidence-idUSKBN2426G8 | 2020-07-02 |
| In a statement Pompeo praised the Turkish government for maintaining the building in an outstanding as a museum but said a change in its status would diminish its legacy | 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 |
| The United States and neighbouring Greece have both expressed concerns about the bid to restore the mosque status of the building which is known in Turkish as Ayasofya | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has criticised international interference | 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 |
| What is important is what the Turkish people want | Neutral | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| ISTANBUL Thousands of Turkish lawyers protested outside Istanbuls main courthouse on Tuesday against a government plan to reform bar associations saying it aims to silence dissent and will lead to politicisation of their profession | Negative | ISTANBUL Thousands of Turkish lawyers protested outside Istanbuls main courthouse on Tuesday against a government plan to reform bar associations saying it aims to silence dissent and will lead to politicisation of their profession | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-security-lawyers/turkish-lawyers-protest-against-government-plan-to-reform-bar-associations-idUSKBN241216 | 2020-07-01 |
| Earlier on Monday Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg expressed to the Turkish ambassador the clear expectation that he contribute to deescalation rather than pouring fuel on the Austrias Foreign Ministry said | Negative | Austria and Turkey accused each other on Monday of responding inappropriately to clashes between Kurdish and Turkish protesters in Vienna last week further straining relations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-austria/turkey-austria-trade-barbs-over-kurdish-turkish-clashes-in-vienna-idUSKBN240193 | 2020-06-30 |
| ANKARA Turkey defended an antigay tweet by the head of the Turkish Red Crescent describing him as a victim of LGBT after his comments were condemned by an international body | Negative | ANKARA Turkey defended an antigay tweet by the head of the Turkish Red Crescent describing him as a victim of LGBT after his comments were condemned by an international body | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-rights-lgbt/turkey-defends-anti-gay-tweet-by-head-of-turkish-red-crescent-idUSKBN24023P | 2020-06-30 |
| Fahrettin Altun Turkish presidencys communications director said on Twitter that LGBT propaganda poses a grave threat to freedom of adding that the IFRC became complicit in that attack by Kinik | Negative | ANKARA Turkey defended an antigay tweet by the head of the Turkish Red Crescent describing him as a victim of LGBT after his comments were condemned by an international body | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-rights-lgbt/turkey-defends-anti-gay-tweet-by-head-of-turkish-red-crescent-idUSKBN24023P | 2020-06-30 |
| Such violence is rare in Vienna which has a large ethnic Turkish minority | Negative | Austria and Turkey accused each other on Monday of responding inappropriately to clashes between Kurdish and Turkish protesters in Vienna last week further straining relations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-austria/turkey-austria-trade-barbs-over-kurdish-turkish-clashes-in-vienna-idUSKBN240193 | 2020-06-30 |
| Austrias conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz a vocal critic of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called on him to stop interfering | Negative | Austria and Turkey accused each other on Monday of responding inappropriately to clashes between Kurdish and Turkish protesters in Vienna last week further straining relations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-austria/turkey-austria-trade-barbs-over-kurdish-turkish-clashes-in-vienna-idUSKBN240193 | 2020-06-30 |
| Mr Mitsotakis and Mr Erdogan agreed to keep the bilateral channels of communication it said a line reiterated in the statement from the Turkish presidency | Positive | Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed the impact of the COVID19 pandemic by phone on Friday Athens and Ankara said rare such contact for two neighbours at odds over a range of issues | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-greece-turkey/leaders-of-turkey-and-greece-discuss-covid-fallout-in-rare-call-idUSKBN23X21S | 2020-06-27 |
| ISTANBUL Turkey said on Wednesday that a book by former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton had and manipulative of the conversations between Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey said on Wednesday that a book by former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton had and manipulative of the conversations between Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-usa-bolton/turkey-says-boltons-book-misleading-on-erdogan-trump-conversations-idUSKBN23V3BI | 2020-06-25 |
| 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 | Positive | 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 |
| 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 |
| Turkishbacked forces are not known to be operating near Egypts border | Positive | 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 |
| Turkish stocks jump with Halkbank leading gains | Positive | WHO reports record daily rise in COVID19 cases | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/emerging-markets/emerging-markets-stocks-fall-as-second-virus-wave-fears-build-idUSL4N2DZ2AR | 2020-06-23 |
| He went to the Atmeh camp for displaced people on the SyrianTurkish border where families have been sheltering since 2011 from a conflict that has made half of Syrians homeless | Negative | ATMEH CAMP Syria Fourmonthold Abdul Rahman propped up on pillows on a blue blanket in his familys tent | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-refugee-day-syria/nine-years-of-war-nine-portraits-of-kids-who-dream-of-home-idUSKBN23R0CE | 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 |
| ANKARA NBA center Enes Kanter an outspoken critic of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday his father had been acquitted of charges that he was a member of a terrorist group | Negative | ANKARA NBA center Enes Kanter an outspoken critic of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday his father had been acquitted of charges that he was a member of a terrorist group | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-security-nba/father-of-turkish-nba-player-kanter-acquitted-of-terrorism-links-idUSKBN23Q1I2 | 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 |
| She added that Turkish sailors had also put on bulletproof vests and stood behind their light weapons during the incident | 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 |
| This support is coupled with hostile and unacceptable behaviour by the Turkish maritime forces towards NATO allies aimed at hampering efforts to implement the United Nations arms embargo | Negative | PARIS France accused Turkeys navy on Wednesday of acting in a hostile and unacceptable manner towards its NATO allies to prevent them from enforcing a United Nations arms embargo on Libya | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-france-turkey/france-accuses-turkey-of-hostile-acts-to-stop-enforcement-of-libya-arms-embargo-idUSKBN23O36Q | 2020-06-18 |
| During their trip not previously announced the Turkish officials met the GNAs prime minister interior minister and oil company head the GNA said in a statement | Positive | Senior Turkish officials discussed a lasting ceasefire and political solution in Libya as well as energy cooperation during a visit to Tripoli on Wednesday Turkeys foreign minister said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-turkey/turkey-says-it-discussed-lasting-ceasefire-during-libya-trip-idUSKBN23O27O | 2020-06-18 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday he discussed a lasting ceasefire and political solution in Libya as well as energy cooperation during what he called a very beneficial visit to meet officials in Tripoli | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday he discussed a lasting ceasefire and political solution in Libya as well as energy cooperation during what he called a very beneficial visit to meet officials in Tripoli | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-turkey-minister/turkey-says-discussed-lasting-ceasefire-during-libya-trip-idUSKBN23O3GQ | 2020-06-18 |
| 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 | 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 |
| The Turkish military official told Reuters the French warship did not establish communications with the Turkish ship during the incident | 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 |
| Turkey is fulfilling its obligations as an ally today as the Turkish military official said | Positive | 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 |
| A Turkish source said on Monday that the Tripoli government was discussing possible Turkish use of two military bases in Libya with a view to establishing a lasting Turkish presence | 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 |
| 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 | 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 and Turkey postponed highlevel talks on Libya scheduled for Sunday in Istanbul due to discord over the GNAs push to retake Sirte another Turkish official said | 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 |
| If TurkishRussian talks dont bear fruit we might then see escalation both in Libya and in Syrias Idlib where Ankara and Moscow also back opposing sides he said | 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 |
| 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 teeing up a lasting Turkish presence in the south Mediterranean | 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 teeing up a lasting Turkish presence in the south Mediterranean | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-libya-security-turkey/turkey-in-talks-to-use-two-libya-military-bases-source-idUSKBN23M1R0 | 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 |
| Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov decided to put off the talks during a phone call on Sunday the Turkish Foreign Ministry said | 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 |
| Although a TurkishRussian brokered deal three months ago produced a ceasefire that halted fighting in northwest Syrias Idlib air strikes have once again hit the region in the last week | 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 |
| Turkish state broadcaster TRT Haber said the ministers would also discuss the situation in Syria | 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 |
| Our planes are bringing the caves down on the terrorists the Turkish Defence Ministry said on Twitter | 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 |
| ISTANBUL Turkey fiercely criticised Twitter on Friday for suspending more than 7000 accounts that supported President Tayyip Erdogan saying the company was smearing the government and trying to redesign Turkish politics | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey fiercely criticised Twitter on Friday for suspending more than 7000 accounts that supported President Tayyip Erdogan saying the company was smearing the government and trying to redesign Turkish politics | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-china-twitter-disinformation-turkey/turkey-slams-propaganda-machine-twitter-over-removal-of-accounts-idUSKBN23J22Y | 2020-06-13 |
| ISTANBUL In a Turkish bath in Istanbuls historic Sultanahmet district attendants wait for their next customers wearing only towels around their waists and masks and plastic visors on their faces | Neutral | ISTANBUL In a Turkish bath in Istanbuls historic Sultanahmet district attendants wait for their next customers wearing only towels around their waists and masks and plastic visors on their faces | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-hammam-int/foam-alone-turkish-baths-reopen-but-please-keep-your-distance-idUSKBN23J2GM | 2020-06-13 |
| As Turkey relaxes measures put in place to slow the spread of the coronavirus it has reopened its famous hammams or Turkish baths albeit with preventative measures | Negative | ISTANBUL In a Turkish bath in Istanbuls historic Sultanahmet district attendants wait for their next customers wearing only towels around their waists and masks and plastic visors on their faces | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-hammam-int/foam-alone-turkish-baths-reopen-but-please-keep-your-distance-idUSKBN23J2GM | 2020-06-13 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| ISTANBUL A Turkish court jailed a local employee of a U.S. consulate for nearly nine years on Thursday for aiding a terrorist organisation a ruling the United States said would undermine the trust underpinning bilateral relations | Negative | ISTANBUL A Turkish court jailed a local employee of a U.S. consulate for nearly nine years on Thursday for aiding a terrorist organisation a ruling the United States said would undermine the trust underpinning bilateral relations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-security-usa/turkish-court-jails-u-s-consulate-worker-on-terrorism-charges-idUSKBN23I1Q8 | 2020-06-12 |
| The Turkish economy is expected to tip into recession as a result of the governments containment measures but Erdogan has said there will be a quick recovery | Negative | ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday Turkey was largely lifting stayathome orders for people aged over 65 and for children as part of a further easing of restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/turkey-relaxes-coronavirus-restrictions-further-vows-to-boost-economy-idUSKBN23G2PF | 2020-06-10 |
| MOSCOW Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on Monday agreed on the need to collaborate to create the conditions for a peace process in Libya Russias foreign ministry said in a statement | Positive | MOSCOW Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on Monday agreed on the need to collaborate to create the conditions for a peace process in Libya Russias foreign ministry said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-russia-turkey/rivals-russia-and-turkey-both-support-a-libya-peace-process-moscow-says-idUSKBN23F28H | 2020-06-09 |
| ISTANBUL A Turkish judge ruled on Monday to keep five people in jail at the start of their trial over former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosns escape from Japan to Lebanon via Istanbul a lawyer for one of the suspects said | Negative | ISTANBUL A Turkish judge ruled on Monday to keep five people in jail at the start of their trial over former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosns escape from Japan to Lebanon via Istanbul a lawyer for one of the suspects said | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-turkey/turkish-judge-rules-to-keep-five-suspects-in-jail-over-ghosn-escape-idUSKBN23F21J | 2020-06-09 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish bank Yapi Kredi will impose a limit on time foreign exchange deposit accounts and a minimum duration on some such accounts as of June 13 according to an email sent to customers seen by Reuters on Saturday | Negative | official correction bank clarifies move is aimed at time forex deposit | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-banks-yapikredi/turkeys-yapi-kredi-imposes-limit-on-time-forex-deposit-accounts-as-of-june-13-idUSKBN23E0NF | 2020-06-08 |
| Forces of the Turkishbacked Government of National Accord advanced into the central coastal city of Sirte they and residents said though eastern forces said they had driven them back | Positive | CAIRO Libyas internationally recognised government attempted new advances on Saturday against the forces of retreating eastern commander Khalifa Haftar who stood by in Cairo as his ally Egyptian President Abdel Fattah alSisi proposed a ceasefire | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/egypt-offers-new-libya-plan-as-haftar-offensive-collapses-idUSKBN23D0KK | 2020-06-07 |
| 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 |
| There could be a solution at the table but Haftars forces are losing ground in every said a Turkish official | Positive | 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 |
| ISTANBUL One Turkish soldier was killed and two were wounded in the northwestern Syrian region of Idlib on Friday in an attack on an armoured ambulance Turkeys Defence Ministry said | Negative | ISTANBUL One Turkish soldier was killed and two were wounded in the northwestern Syrian region of Idlib on Friday in an attack on an armoured ambulance Turkeys Defence Ministry said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkish-soldier-killed-two-wounded-in-syrias-idlib-defence-ministry-says-idUSKBN23C2ZY | 2020-06-06 |
| Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has accused Assads forces of violating the ceasefire warning they would suffer heavy if they persisted | Negative | ISTANBUL One Turkish soldier was killed and two were wounded in the northwestern Syrian region of Idlib on Friday in an attack on an armoured ambulance Turkeys Defence Ministry said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkish-soldier-killed-two-wounded-in-syrias-idlib-defence-ministry-says-idUSKBN23C2ZY | 2020-06-06 |
| The ministry reported on May 27 that a Turkish soldier was killed in Idlib after an explosion on a key highway which runs through the region | Negative | ISTANBUL One Turkish soldier was killed and two were wounded in the northwestern Syrian region of Idlib on Friday in an attack on an armoured ambulance Turkeys Defence Ministry said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkish-soldier-killed-two-wounded-in-syrias-idlib-defence-ministry-says-idUSKBN23C2ZY | 2020-06-06 |
| Turkish military support for the GNA was key to its recent successes | Positive | 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 |
| That the legitimate government has the upper hand now should be viewed as an opportunity for a political Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in a TV interview | Positive | Libyas internationally recognised government recaptured Tripolis main airport on Wednesday all but driving an eastern commanders forces from the capital ahead of what appeared to be moves towards talks on a truce | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-diplomacy/libyas-government-retakes-tripoli-airport-ahead-of-possible-truce-talks-idUSKBN23A2EF | 2020-06-04 |
| With Turkish backing the GNA has retaken a string of towns near the Tunisian border a strategically important airbase and much of the LNAs foothold in Tripolis southern suburbs | Positive | BENGHAZI Libya Eastern Libyan forces said on Monday they had taken back the small town of alAsaba south of Tripoli relieving pressure on their stronghold at Tarhouna after weeks of territorial losses to forces of the internationally recognised government | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/eastern-libyan-forces-say-they-retook-town-relieving-pressure-on-stronghold-idUSKBN238363 | 2020-06-02 |
| In the last few weeks there has been a significant change in balance in said a senior Turkish official crediting Turkish drones and untrained operating LNA air defences | Positive | As Turkish drones helped drive eastern Libyan forces back from Tripoli this month Russia was said to be reinforcing them with warplanes raising the stakes in a stalemated civil war that has partitioned the country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-libya-security-intervention-analysis/foreign-powers-in-libya-risk-ever-bloodier-stalemate-idUSKBN2351VU | 2020-05-30 |
| ANKARA Turkish President Tayyip Erdogans AK Party is planning to push through measures with its nationalist allies that affect how political groups may contest elections and could hamper new opposition parties taking part in any snap elections | Negative | ANKARA Turkish President Tayyip Erdogans AK Party is planning to push through measures with its nationalist allies that affect how political groups may contest elections and could hamper new opposition parties taking part in any snap elections | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-politics/turkeys-ak-party-plans-measures-seen-as-potential-obstacle-to-new-parties-idUSKBN235242 | 2020-05-30 |
| As Turkish drones helped drive eastern Libyan forces back from Tripoli this month Russia was said to be reinforcing them with warplanes raising the stakes in a stalemated civil war that has partitioned the country | Negative | As Turkish drones helped drive eastern Libyan forces back from Tripoli this month Russia was said to be reinforcing them with warplanes raising the stakes in a stalemated civil war that has partitioned the country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-libya-security-intervention-analysis/foreign-powers-in-libya-risk-ever-bloodier-stalemate-idUSKBN2351VU | 2020-05-30 |
| LONDON May 28 Clearstream Banking said on Thursday it would resume Turkish lira transactions over its electronic Bridge settlement platform with Euroclear Bank from June 1 | Positive | LONDON May 28 Clearstream Banking said on Thursday it would resume Turkish lira transactions over its electronic Bridge settlement platform with Euroclear Bank from June 1 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/turkey-banks-clearstream/clearstream-turkish-lira-settlement-over-bridge-platform-to-resume-june-1-idUSL8N2DA6B4 | 2020-05-29 |
| Turkish Airlines had received half of its order for 25 Boeing 7879 planes he said adding that the delivery of the rest could be delayed | Negative | Turkish Airlines had received half of its order for 25 Boeing 7879 planes he said adding that the delivery of the rest could be delayed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-turkishairlines-orders/turkish-airlines-may-delay-delivery-of-airbus-boeing-planes-report-idUSKBN23313I | 2020-05-28 |
| Ayci said Turkish Airlines would no longer offer free inflight food and drinks on domestic flights and other flights shorter than two hours | Negative | Turkish Airlines had received half of its order for 25 Boeing 7879 planes he said adding that the delivery of the rest could be delayed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-turkishairlines-orders/turkish-airlines-may-delay-delivery-of-airbus-boeing-planes-report-idUSKBN23313I | 2020-05-28 |
| ALMATY Kazakh and Turkish airlines may resume passenger flights between the two countries in late June Kazakhstans Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development has said if the novel coronavirus epidemic remains under control | Positive | ALMATY Kazakh and Turkish airlines may resume passenger flights between the two countries in late June Kazakhstans Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development has said if the novel coronavirus epidemic remains under control | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-kazakhstan-turkey/kazakhstan-turkey-may-resume-flights-in-late-june-idUSKBN22Z0BT | 2020-05-24 |
| Haftars comments were released as U.S. President Donald Trump appealed for a rapid deescalation of the conflict in Libya in a call with Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan | 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 |
| Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said separately his country had changed the in Libya and averted a fullblown civil war | 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 |
| With Turkish help the GNA has seized a string of towns captured a strategic airbase and destroyed several of the LNAs Russianmade air defence systems | Positive | ISTANBUL U.S. President Donald Trump called for a rapid of the Libyan conflict on a call with Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday the White House said after recent gains by forces backed by Turkey prompted threats of retaliation | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-turkey-libya/trump-urges-libya-de-escalation-on-call-with-erdogan-white-house-idUSKBN22Z0PB | 2020-05-24 |
| Turkish Cypriot students at educational institutions on the Greek Cypriot side would also be bussed over he said | Positive | NICOSIA Crossings used by thousands of Cypriots daily between the Turkish and Greek Cypriot sides of the divided island and sealed shut by the coronavirus lockdown will gradually start reopening from June 8 an official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-cyprus-division/crossing-points-on-divided-cyprus-will-gradually-open-from-june-8-idUSKBN22X1Q7 | 2020-05-22 |
| In the event Turkish interests in Libya are targeted this will have very grave said Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy | Negative | Libya Turkey warned on Thursday against any attacks on its interests in Libya by Khalifa Haftars forces after his Libyan National Army threatened to respond to recent military setbacks by striking Turkish positions in the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/threat-to-hit-turkey-in-libya-underscores-risk-of-escalation-idUSKBN22X29S | 2020-05-22 |
| ANKARA Turkey warned on Thursday that attacks on its interests in Libya by Khalifa Haftars forces will have very grave after advances by the countrys Turkishbacked government | Negative | ANKARA Turkey warned on Thursday that attacks on its interests in Libya by Khalifa Haftars forces will have very grave after advances by the countrys Turkishbacked government | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-libya-security-turkey/turkey-warns-against-attacks-on-its-presence-in-libya-idUSKBN22X19Y | 2020-05-22 |
| Turkish support has this week helped the GNA take an important airbase near Tripoli gain control over towns in the west and destroy several Russiansupplied air defence systems | Positive | Libya Turkey warned on Thursday against any attacks on its interests in Libya by Khalifa Haftars forces after his Libyan National Army threatened to respond to recent military setbacks by striking Turkish positions in the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/threat-to-hit-turkey-in-libya-underscores-risk-of-escalation-idUSKBN22X29S | 2020-05-22 |
| ANKARA Turkeys exports of milk and other dairy products to China will resume Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan said on Thursday and added that 54 Turkish companies will be able to export to China | Positive | ANKARA Turkeys exports of milk and other dairy products to China will resume Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan said on Thursday and added that 54 Turkish companies will be able to export to China | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-china/turkey-says-export-of-dairy-products-to-china-will-resume-idUSKBN22X2E3 | 2020-05-22 |
| NICOSIA Crossings used by thousands of Cypriots daily between the Turkish and Greek Cypriot sides of the divided island and sealed shut by the coronavirus lockdown will gradually start reopening from June 8 an official said on Thursday | Positive | NICOSIA Crossings used by thousands of Cypriots daily between the Turkish and Greek Cypriot sides of the divided island and sealed shut by the coronavirus lockdown will gradually start reopening from June 8 an official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-cyprus-division/crossing-points-on-divided-cyprus-will-gradually-open-from-june-8-idUSKBN22X1Q7 | 2020-05-22 |
| Libya Turkey warned on Thursday against any attacks on its interests in Libya by Khalifa Haftars forces after his Libyan National Army threatened to respond to recent military setbacks by striking Turkish positions in the country | Negative | Libya Turkey warned on Thursday against any attacks on its interests in Libya by Khalifa Haftars forces after his Libyan National Army threatened to respond to recent military setbacks by striking Turkish positions in the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/threat-to-hit-turkey-in-libya-underscores-risk-of-escalation-idUSKBN22X29S | 2020-05-22 |
| 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 | 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 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish authorities have detained 38 people including the local head of the proKurdish Peoples Democratic Party in relation to an armed attack which killed two people in the eastern province of Van governors office said on Friday | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish authorities have detained 38 people including the local head of the proKurdish Peoples Democratic Party in relation to an armed attack which killed two people in the eastern province of Van governors office said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-attack/turkey-detains-38-over-suspected-links-to-armed-attack-governor-idUSKBN22R1CO | 2020-05-16 |
| The shortlived ban was one of a few protective measures adopted by the government on Thursday when the Turkish lira tumbled intraday to 7 | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkeys BDDK bank regulator is dropping a trading ban imposed last week on UBS Citigroup and BNP Paribas because they have fulfilled foreign exchange obligations promptly according to a BDDK letter sent to banks on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-banks-regulator-ban/turkish-regulator-drops-days-old-fx-trading-ban-on-ubs-citi-bnp-idUSKBN22N2AK | 2020-05-11 |
| ISTANBUL May 11 President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday those who tried to plot against the Turkish economy using foreign financial institutions would be foiled | Negative | ISTANBUL May 11 President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday those who tried to plot against the Turkish economy using foreign financial institutions would be foiled | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/turkey-economy-erdogan/turkey-will-foil-financial-plotters-erdogan-says-idUSI7N2BR00Q | 2020-05-11 |
| ProGNA forces have retaken some territory from the LNA around Tripoli during an escalation of fighting in recent weeks with the help of Turkishsupplied drones | Positive | 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 |
| ANKARA Emblazoned with Turkish flags and presidential seals crates packed with medical equipment are loaded onto planes part of a major aid campaign by Ankara which has dispatched supplies to dozens of countries since the new coronavirus pandemic erupted | Negative | ANKARA Emblazoned with Turkish flags and presidential seals crates packed with medical equipment are loaded onto planes part of a major aid campaign by Ankara which has dispatched supplies to dozens of countries since the new coronavirus pandemic erupted | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-diplomacy/turkey-turns-to-medical-diplomacy-to-heal-damaged-relations-idUSKBN22N1JD | 2020-05-11 |
| She noted she had taken to watching a lot of Turkish soaps which have borrowed Televisas formula with great success though intimacy is only implied | Positive | MEXICO CITY Some of the top creative minds at Mexican broadcaster Televisa are puzzling over an unexpected crafting their signature soap operas without a single love scene or even a tender kiss | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-televisa-focus/mexican-broadcaster-televisa-grapples-with-steamy-soaps-in-social-distancing-era-idUSKBN22J1O2 | 2020-05-11 |
| Turkish aid shipments were also sent to Libya Iraq Iran the Palestinian Authority Russia the Balkans and to China where the new coronavirus first emerged | Positive | ANKARA Emblazoned with Turkish flags and presidential seals crates packed with medical equipment are loaded onto planes part of a major aid campaign by Ankara which has dispatched supplies to dozens of countries since the new coronavirus pandemic erupted | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-diplomacy/turkey-turns-to-medical-diplomacy-to-heal-damaged-relations-idUSKBN22N1JD | 2020-05-11 |
| Gonul Tol founding director of The Middle East Institutes Center for Turkish Studies in Washington said Turkeys differences with the EU would also not be resolved overnight | Negative | ANKARA Emblazoned with Turkish flags and presidential seals crates packed with medical equipment are loaded onto planes part of a major aid campaign by Ankara which has dispatched supplies to dozens of countries since the new coronavirus pandemic erupted | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-diplomacy/turkey-turns-to-medical-diplomacy-to-heal-damaged-relations-idUSKBN22N1JD | 2020-05-11 |
| 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 | Negative | 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 |
| While some countries have welcomed Turkish aid Ankaras problems with its neighbours and Western allies are too serious to be resolved by a few symbolic she said | Negative | ANKARA Emblazoned with Turkish flags and presidential seals crates packed with medical equipment are loaded onto planes part of a major aid campaign by Ankara which has dispatched supplies to dozens of countries since the new coronavirus pandemic erupted | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-diplomacy/turkey-turns-to-medical-diplomacy-to-heal-damaged-relations-idUSKBN22N1JD | 2020-05-11 |
| 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 | 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 |
| In the call with investors Albayrak defended Ankaras policies saying Turkish reserves were more than adequate according to participants | Positive | 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 |
| Turkish officials have said the deployment of the S400s has been put back from April because of the coronavirus outbreak but will ultimately go ahead | Negative | 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 |
| All main Turkish automotive factories will resume operations as of May 11 Industry Minister Mustafa Varank said on Tuesday | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkey said on Wednesday it has brought the coronavirus outbreak under control two months after it first erupted across the country and will set out new social guidelines and business practices to prevent any resurgence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-minister/turkey-starting-new-phase-in-coronavirus-battle-government-says-idUSKBN22I2BG | 2020-05-07 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| ANKARA At least 40 civilians were killed including 11 children when a bomb detonated in the northern Syrian town of Afrin on Tuesday the Turkish Defence Ministry said blaming the attack on the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia | Negative | ANKARA At least 40 civilians were killed including 11 children when a bomb detonated in the northern Syrian town of Afrin on Tuesday the Turkish Defence Ministry said blaming the attack on the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-blast-afrin/bomb-blast-kills-40-people-in-syrian-town-of-afrin-turkey-says-idUSKCN22A2IC | 2020-04-29 |
| Some Turkish firms are already taking initial steps | Positive | ANKARA Turkeys government aims to begin reviving the economy in late May after a sharp slowdown due to measures to contain the coronavirus outbreak while minimising the risk of a second wave of infections a senior official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-reopening/turkey-aims-to-reopen-economy-starting-late-may-senior-official-idUSKCN22A2JN | 2020-04-29 |
| Turkish military support for the GNA this year particularly with air defences and drones was crucial in its latest advances | Positive | TRIPOLI Libyas internationally recognised government is focused on trying to push its enemies out of artillery range of Tripoli after making advances in the main western battle fronts last week the interior minister said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-artillery/libyas-gna-focused-on-tripoli-battle-interior-minister-says-idUSKCN2241YA | 2020-04-23 |
| 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 | 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 |
| If and when that time comes there will be more pressure on the Turkish government to permanently sideline the S400s | 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 Turkish military operation in February against Syrian President Bashar alAssads Russianbacked forces in the rebelheld Idlib region also put Ankara on the same side as Washington and against Moscow | Neutral | 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 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that a fourday lockdown would be imposed in 31 cities from Thursday as part of efforts to stem the spread of the coronavirus | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that a fourday lockdown would be imposed in 31 cities from Thursday as part of efforts to stem the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-lockdown/turkeys-erdogan-announces-four-day-lockdown-from-thursday-idUSKBN2222PF | 2020-04-21 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that the Syrian government was violating a ceasefire in the northwestern Idlib region warning that Damascus would suffer heavy if it persisted | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that the Syrian government was violating a ceasefire in the northwestern Idlib region warning that Damascus would suffer heavy if it persisted | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkeys-erdogan-accuses-syrian-government-of-violating-idlib-ceasefire-idUSKBN2222I7 | 2020-04-21 |
| 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 |
| IDLIB Syria Thousands of displaced Syrians have begun moving back to their homes in wartorn Idlib province despite the risk of renewed conflict some driven by fear that the new coronavirus could wreak havoc on crowded camps near the Turkish border | Negative | IDLIB Syria Thousands of displaced Syrians have begun moving back to their homes in wartorn Idlib province despite the risk of renewed conflict some driven by fear that the new coronavirus could wreak havoc on crowded camps near the Turkish border | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-syria-idlib/displaced-syrians-wary-of-coronavirus-risk-return-to-war-torn-idlib-idUSKCN21U0OK | 2020-04-13 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has not accepted the resignation of Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu the Turkish presidency said on Sunday | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has not accepted the resignation of Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu the Turkish presidency said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-minister-re/erdogan-rejects-turkish-interior-ministers-resignation-presidency-idUSKCN21U0VI | 2020-04-13 |
| ISTANBUL Istanbul Ankara and other major Turkish cities locked down for two days from midnight on Friday to combat the spread of the coronavirus under an Interior Ministry order as the countrys death toll from the pandemic rose above 1000 | Negative | ISTANBUL Istanbul Ankara and other major Turkish cities locked down for two days from midnight on Friday to combat the spread of the coronavirus under an Interior Ministry order as the countrys death toll from the pandemic rose above 1000 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-lockdown/two-day-lockdown-imposed-in-much-of-turkey-coronavirus-death-toll-tops-1000-idUSKCN21S201 | 2020-04-11 |
| ISTANBUL Turkey said on Sunday it would minimise its troop movements in operation zones in neighbouring Syria in response to the coronavirus outbreak as the Turkish death toll and infections in the country rose | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey said on Sunday it would minimise its troop movements in operation zones in neighbouring Syria in response to the coronavirus outbreak as the Turkish death toll and infections in the country rose | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/turkey-to-curb-some-troop-movement-in-syria-as-coronavirus-cases-jump-idUSKBN21N0TM | 2020-04-06 |
| Saudi authorities said separately that 366 Turkish pilgrims had returned home after testing negative for coronavirus | Negative | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates will reinforce its stockpile of strategic goods and waive residency visa fines for the rest of the year in response to the coronavirus outbreak its vice president said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-emirates/uae-to-boost-strategic-stockpile-waive-visa-fines-over-coronavirus-idUSKBN21N0TC | 2020-04-06 |
| A Turkish diplomatic source told Reuters that Turkey and Spain are working on the issue and it is being | Neutral | 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 |
| They will be accelerating production of a ventilator made by Turkish biomedical company Biosys of which only 12 are currently being used | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Baykars military unmanned aerial vehicles have played a crucial role in Turkish crossborder operations against Kurdish YPG militia in northeast Syria and against Syrian government forces in Idlib province | Negative | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 14 2019 a little over a year after the Turkish officials say he left Iran | Neutral | 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 |
| Both of the Turkish officials said Ankara would soon deliver a formal response to Iran over Vardanjanis killing and the role they said was played by officials with diplomatic passports | 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 |
| Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called for a voluntary in which Turks stay at home except for shopping or basic needs | Negative | The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday approved a | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21E0IN | 2020-03-28 |
| Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said the country needed wider measures against the coronavirus outbreak adding that the country had more than 1 million test kits | Negative | ANKARA Turkeys coronavirus death toll rose by 17 on Friday to 92 while the total number of cases rose by 2069 to 5698 the countrys health minister told a press conference | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-minister/turkeys-coronavirus-death-toll-rises-by-17-to-92-health-minister-idUSKBN21E2VP | 2020-03-28 |
| ANKARA Turkish Transport Minister Mehmet Cahit Turhan has been removed from his post by President Tayyip Erdogan according to a decree published on the Official Gazette early on Saturday | Neutral | ANKARA Turkish Transport Minister Mehmet Cahit Turhan has been removed from his post by President Tayyip Erdogan according to a decree published on the Official Gazette early on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-politics-minister/turkey-replaces-transport-minister-official-gazette-idUSKBN21F010 | 2020-03-28 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Turkish Federation president Eyup Gozgec said the situation was the disastrous result of the irresponsibility of the IOC task | 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 |
| Countries that are ready must have high test said Sinan Adiyaman chairman of the Turkish Medics Association | Neutral | 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 |
| And the Turkish banking watchdog has decided to provide flexibility for banks liquidity ratio requirements until Dec | Positive | 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 |
| The Turkish Boxing Federation named one of its boxers as middleweight Serhat Guler who had a bye before beating Israeli Mikhail Ostroumov on March 16 | 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 |
| LONDON The International Olympic Committee has been accused of irresponsibility after two Turkish boxers and a trainer caught the coronavirus during a qualifying event in London this month | Negative | LONDON The International Olympic Committee has been accused of irresponsibility after two Turkish boxers and a trainer caught the coronavirus during a qualifying event in London this month | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-olympics-boxing/ioc-criticized-after-turkish-boxers-get-coronavirus-idUSKBN21C3RQ | 2020-03-26 |
| Turkish producers had been exporting medical gear to a number of countries including Iran | Positive | Turkey will hire 32000 more medical staff and stop exporting locallymade face masks so its own services can use them as the coronavirus spreads across the country the health minister said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/turkey-will-hire-more-medics-stop-exporting-face-masks-minister-idUSKBN21A15V | 2020-03-24 |
| 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 |
| Turkish interior ministry announced late on Saturday that all restaurants pastry shops and other similar foodservice establishments can only offer takeaway service and delivery | Negative | ANKARA Turkey imposed a curfew on Saturday for its senior citizens and banned restaurants from serving at tables extending measures against the coronavirus outbreak as the death toll more than doubled to 21 from nine a day earlier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-toll/turkeys-coronavirus-death-toll-up-by-12-to-21-confirmed-cases-up-277-to-947-idUSKBN21810Q | 2020-03-22 |
| Separately the Turkish health ministry said all hospitals including private ones will have to admit and treat suspected patients of new coronavirus | Negative | ISTANBUL The death toll in Turkey due to the coronavirus rose to nine Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said late on Friday after five elderly patients died of the highly contagious respiratory illness | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-toll/coronavirus-death-toll-in-turkey-rises-to-nine-670-confirmed-cases-health-minister-idUSKBN2173J2 | 2020-03-21 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan issued a decree on Friday postponing all events related to science culture and art as it seeks to contain a surge in coronavirus cases | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan issued a decree on Friday postponing all events related to science culture and art as it seeks to contain a surge in coronavirus cases | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-toll/turkey-postpones-events-until-end-april-over-coronavirus-idUSKBN2163ZB | 2020-03-20 |
| However Turkish Finance Minister Berat Albayrak said in a TV interview on Thursday he has no about meeting the governments growth budget and inflation targets in 2020 | Negative | 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 two were the first Turkish soldiers killed in Idlib since the ceasefire was implemented | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkeys Defence Ministry said on Thursday that two of its soldiers were killed in Syrias northwestern province of Idlib in a rocket attack by some radical | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkey-says-two-soldiers-killed-in-syrias-idlib-in-attack-by-radical-groups-idUSKBN2162K3 | 2020-03-20 |
| Earlier the president called on banks not to restrict loans and for companies not to cut jobs while also vowing to support the national carrier Turkish Airlines | Negative | ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan advised Turks on Wednesday not to leave home unless necessary for three weeks and to minimise social contact until the threat of the coronavirus recedes but he did not tell them to stay away from work | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/erdogan-advises-turks-to-stay-home-acts-to-boost-economy-against-coronavirus-idUSKBN21523E | 2020-03-19 |
| ISTANBUL Turkey has identified 93 suspects who have made unfounded and postings on social media about the coronavirus outbreak and has detained 19 of them the Turkish Interior Ministry said | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey has identified 93 suspects who have made unfounded and postings on social media about the coronavirus outbreak and has detained 19 of them the Turkish Interior Ministry said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/turkey-detains-19-people-over-provocative-coronavirus-posts-idUSKBN2140T9 | 2020-03-17 |
| In its latest move the Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Sunday that bars and nightclubs will be closed from Monday to reduce the risk of coronavirus spreading | Negative | ISTANBUL Thousands of Muslims returning to Turkey from a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia were taken into quarantine on Sunday due to concerns about the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/turkey-quarantines-thousands-of-pilgrims-orders-closure-of-bars-idUSKBN2120IX | 2020-03-16 |
| ISTANBUL Bars and nightclubs in Turkey will be closed from Monday in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus the Turkish Interior Ministry said on Sunday | Negative | ISTANBUL Bars and nightclubs in Turkey will be closed from Monday in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus the Turkish Interior Ministry said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-bars/turkey-closes-bars-nightclubs-in-response-to-coronavirus-idUSKBN212162 | 2020-03-16 |
| Akar said there were signs that migration from Idlib towards Turkish borders had stopped after the ceasefire deal | Positive | ANKARA Turkey and Russia have agreed on the details of a ceasefire in Syrias Idlib region after four days of talks in Ankara Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Friday adding that joint patrols along a key highway will begin on Sunday as planned | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/turkey-says-agreed-with-russia-on-details-of-idlib-ceasefire-idUSKBN2101H2 | 2020-03-14 |
| The ceasefire deal which has largely held since March 5 was struck after around 60 Turkish troops were killed in clashes in the region since last month | Negative | ANKARA Turkey and Russia have agreed on the details of a ceasefire in Syrias Idlib region after four days of talks in Ankara Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Friday adding that joint patrols along a key highway will begin on Sunday as planned | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/turkey-says-agreed-with-russia-on-details-of-idlib-ceasefire-idUSKBN2101H2 | 2020-03-14 |
| ANKARA Turkish and Russian officials have agreed on the details of a ceasefire in northwest Syrias Idlib region and joint patrols along the key M4 highway will begin on Sunday Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar was cited as saying on Friday | Positive | ANKARA Turkish and Russian officials have agreed on the details of a ceasefire in northwest Syrias Idlib region and joint patrols along the key M4 highway will begin on Sunday Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar was cited as saying on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia-ceasefir/turkey-says-agreed-with-russia-on-details-of-idlib-ceasefire-anadolu-idUSKBN2101QB | 2020-03-14 |
| 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 | Positive | 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 |
| A senior Turkish official told Reuters that concrete results were expected from the discussions in Ankara | Positive | 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 |
| Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar was quoted separately as saying that talks between Turkish and Russian officials on implementing the ceasefire have so far been positive and | Positive | ANKARA Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday his country will not shy away from even stronger military action in northwest Syrias Idlib region if last weeks truce is broken | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/turkeys-erdogan-threatens-retaliation-if-syria-truce-is-broken-idUSKBN20Y0Y8 | 2020-03-12 |
| This is organised Turkish propaganda and the spreading of fake he said | Negative | ATHENS The Greek government dismissed on Wednesday a report in The New York Times newspaper that it was holding illegal migrants who cross the border from Turkey at a secret black where they are denied access to lawyers and cannot file asylum claims | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-greece-border/greece-denies-report-of-secret-black-site-for-migrants-near-turkish-border-idUSKBN20Y1VF | 2020-03-12 |
| Speaking to reporters in parliament Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu acknowledged minor violations of the truce but added Moscow had warned Damascus to stop | Negative | ANKARA Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday his country will not shy away from even stronger military action in northwest Syrias Idlib region if last weeks truce is broken | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/turkeys-erdogan-threatens-retaliation-if-syria-truce-is-broken-idUSKBN20Y0Y8 | 2020-03-12 |
| 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 |
| There was a lot of tension with teargas fired from both sides on the GreekTurkish border a Greek government official told Reuters | 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 |
| ANKARA Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday his country will not shy away from even stronger military action in northwest Syrias Idlib region if last weeks truce is broken | Negative | ANKARA Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday his country will not shy away from even stronger military action in northwest Syrias Idlib region if last weeks truce is broken | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/turkeys-erdogan-threatens-retaliation-if-syria-truce-is-broken-idUSKBN20Y0Y8 | 2020-03-12 |
| Greece summoned Turkeys ambassador on Wednesday to lodge a complaint after the Greek coastguard said one of its vessels had been rammed deliberately by a Turkish coastguard boat | 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 |
| Turkey also wants more European support over the war in neighboring Syria where Turkish troops face off against Russianbacked Syrian government forces | 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 Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar and his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu discussed northwest Syrias Idlib region in a phone call the Turkish defense ministry said on Tuesday | Positive | ANKARA Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar and his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu discussed northwest Syrias Idlib region in a phone call the Turkish defense ministry said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkish-russian-defense-ministers-discussed-syrias-idlib-in-call-turkish-defense-ministry-idUSKBN20X2ST | 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 |
| 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 | 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 Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said late on Tuesday that one male patient was diagnosed with the new coronavirus after tests in the countrys first confirmed case and that the patient is isolated | Negative | ANKARA Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said late on Tuesday that one male patient was diagnosed with the new coronavirus after tests in the countrys first confirmed case and that the patient is isolated | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/turkish-health-minister-says-first-coronavirus-patient-confirmed-idUSKBN20X36C | 2020-03-11 |
| 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 | 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 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 | Negative | 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 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish police used tear gas to disperse a few dozen women who were still in central Istanbul after trying to march on Sunday evening to celebrate International Womens Day | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish police used tear gas to disperse a few dozen women who were still in central Istanbul after trying to march on Sunday evening to celebrate International Womens Day | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-womens-day-turkey/turkish-police-use-tear-gas-in-istanbul-to-disperse-womens-day-crowd-idUSKBN20V0UZ | 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 |
| 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 |
| Turkish interior minister Suleyman Soylu said on Wednesday that only of the 136000 migrants who have made it to Europe since it stopped holding them back were Syrian | Negative | KARAAGAC Turkey Syrians camped on Turkeys border with Greece believe their hopes of finding sanctuary in the European Union are being undermined by the thousands of other migrants at the frontier who have relatively safe homelands | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-syria-security-turkey-migrants/at-turkeys-frontier-with-europe-everyone-wants-to-be-syrian-idUSKBN20U0P2 | 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 |
| After six hours of talks with Vladimir Putin a somber Erdogan announced an accord which cements territorial gains by Russianbacked Syrian forces over Turkishbacked rebels | 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 |
| KARAAGAC Turkey For members of the Roma minority in the Turkish village of Karaagac on the border with Greece the arrival of thousands of migrants desperately seeking to cross into the European Union could not have been better news | Negative | KARAAGAC Turkey For members of the Roma minority in the Turkish village of Karaagac on the border with Greece the arrival of thousands of migrants desperately seeking to cross into the European Union could not have been better news | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-syria-security-turkey-roma/migrants-are-boon-for-poor-roma-villagers-on-turkey-greece-border-idUSKBN20T2L7 | 2020-03-07 |
| Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said on Saturday there had been no violations of the ceasefire in Syrias Idlib as part of an agreement with Russia while Russia said there have been a few shootings in the region | Positive | Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said on Saturday there had been no violations of the ceasefire in Syrias Idlib as part of an agreement with Russia while Russia said there have been a few shootings in the region | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkey-says-ceasefire-holds-in-syrias-idlib-russia-reports-some-shootings-idUSKBN20U08Z | 2020-03-07 |
| At least 34 Turkish soldiers were killed in an air strike in Idlib last week the deadliest attack suffered by the Turkish military in nearly three decades | 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 |
| Her work helps her family earn about 150 Turkish liras a day charging 1015 liras per passenger | Positive | KARAAGAC Turkey For members of the Roma minority in the Turkish village of Karaagac on the border with Greece the arrival of thousands of migrants desperately seeking to cross into the European Union could not have been better news | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-syria-security-turkey-roma/migrants-are-boon-for-poor-roma-villagers-on-turkey-greece-border-idUSKBN20T2L7 | 2020-03-07 |
| 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 | Negative | 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 |
| There was no one around then we called the Turkish coastguard and they came and got he told Reuters journalists accompanying the Turkish coastguard mission | Neutral | DIKILI Turkey Turkeys coastguard rescued around 120 migrants trying to reach a Greek island on three dinghies early on Friday after they said their passage was blocked by Greek coastguard vessels | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-syria-security-turkey-coastguard/turkish-coastguard-rescues-120-migrants-off-western-coast-idUSKBN20T2E3 | 2020-03-07 |
| About a quarter of the migrants at the border are Syrian and most of the rest are Afghans Pakistanis Iranians and Africans according to Turkish estimates | Neutral | 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 |
| ANKARA Turkeys military observation posts in Syrias Idlib will retain their current status with the RussianTurkish ceasefire deal President Tayyip Erdogan was cited as saying by his office on Friday adding the agreement laid the groundwork for the normalization of the region | Positive | ANKARA Turkeys military observation posts in Syrias Idlib will retain their current status with the RussianTurkish ceasefire deal President Tayyip Erdogan was cited as saying by his office on Friday adding the agreement laid the groundwork for the normalization of the region | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/erdogan-says-military-posts-in-syrias-idlib-will-stand-after-ceasefire-idUSKBN20T1HH | 2020-03-07 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Meanwhile hundreds of people could be seen on the Turkish side of the high perimeter fence with some pushing at it | 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 |
| MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he had agreed a deal with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan at talks in Moscow that he hoped would lead to a halt of military action in Syrias Idlib province | Positive | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he had agreed a deal with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan at talks in Moscow that he hoped would lead to a halt of military action in Syrias Idlib province | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-syria-security-putin-ceasefire/russias-putin-says-agreed-deal-with-turkeys-erdogan-that-lays-ground-for-syria-ceasefire-idUSKBN20S2BZ | 2020-03-06 |
| The Russian and Turkish defense ministers would agree on the parameters of the corridor within seven days | 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 |
| Putin expressed his regret to Erdogan about the recent killing of 34 Turkish troops in an air strike saying the Syrian military had not known of their location | Negative | 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 |
| The Turkish ministry said early on Friday the drone attack destroyed two pieces of artillery two multiplerocket launchers and 21 Syrian government soldiers a term commonly used to mean killed | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey staged an attack with a combat drone against Syrian government forces in Syrias Idlib on Thursday before a ceasefire went into effect destroying military equipment and soldiers the Turkish defense ministry said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-syria-idlib/turkey-retaliated-against-syrian-military-before-ceasefire-began-idUSKBN20T01W | 2020-03-06 |
| On Thursday two Turkish soldiers were killed and three were wounded when Syrian government forces opened fire on them in Idlib the defense ministry said earlier | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey staged an attack with a combat drone against Syrian government forces in Syrias Idlib on Thursday before a ceasefire went into effect destroying military equipment and soldiers the Turkish defense ministry said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-syria-idlib/turkey-retaliated-against-syrian-military-before-ceasefire-began-idUSKBN20T01W | 2020-03-06 |
| Ankara earlier on Wednesday accused Greek forces of shooting dead a migrant and injuring others claims Athens rejected and said Turkish police helped migrants illegally cross into its territory | 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 |
| That incident prompted concern in Moscow that Turkey might close the Bosphorus to Russian warships and bar Russian military transport planes from using Turkish air space | Negative | Russia is racing to reinforce its troops in Syria by sea and air before talks between the Russian and Turkish leaders in Moscow on Thursday flight data and shipping movements show | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security-russia/russia-reinforces-syria-before-putin-erdogan-talks-flight-and-shipping-data-idUSKBN20R2QP | 2020-03-05 |
| Russia is conducting a serious buildup near said a Turkish security official who added that Moscow had also stepped up its logistical support for the Syrian army | Negative | Russia is racing to reinforce its troops in Syria by sea and air before talks between the Russian and Turkish leaders in Moscow on Thursday flight data and shipping movements show | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security-russia/russia-reinforces-syria-before-putin-erdogan-talks-flight-and-shipping-data-idUSKBN20R2QP | 2020-03-05 |
| 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 | 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 |
| MOSCOW The Kremlin said on Wednesday it hoped Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan would be able to agree on a set of joint measures for the Syrian province of Idlib when they meet for talks in Moscow on Thursday | Positive | MOSCOW The Kremlin said on Wednesday it hoped Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan would be able to agree on a set of joint measures for the Syrian province of Idlib when they meet for talks in Moscow on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-turkey-kremlin/kremlin-hopes-putin-erdogan-can-agree-joint-measures-at-syria-talks-idUSKBN20R19L | 2020-03-05 |
| Russia is racing to reinforce its troops in Syria by sea and air before talks between the Russian and Turkish leaders in Moscow on Thursday flight data and shipping movements show | Negative | Russia is racing to reinforce its troops in Syria by sea and air before talks between the Russian and Turkish leaders in Moscow on Thursday flight data and shipping movements show | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security-russia/russia-reinforces-syria-before-putin-erdogan-talks-flight-and-shipping-data-idUSKBN20R2QP | 2020-03-05 |
| Turkish military spokesmen were not immediately available for comment | Negative | 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 |
| We need to accept that this incident raised tensions between the two a Turkish security official said of last weeks attack on Turkish troops | Negative | Escalating military action by Russia and Turkey in Idlib risks a direct confrontation between the two major foreign powers in Syrias war days ahead of a summit of their leaders to hammer out a deal to halt the fighting | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/escalating-idlib-battle-raises-risk-of-direct-russia-turkey-clash-idUSKBN20Q217 | 2020-03-04 |
| Putin and Merkel expressed hopes that the upcoming meeting between Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan in Moscow on Thursday would prove decisive the Kremlin said | Positive | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the situation in Syrias Idlib region with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a telephone call the RIA news agency cited the Kremlin as saying on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-putin/putin-merkel-discussed-situation-in-syrias-idlib-ria-cites-kremlin-idUSKBN20Q1HB | 2020-03-04 |
| REYHANLI Turkey shot down a Syrian government warplane on Tuesday over northwest Syria where fighting has intensified in recent days bringing Turkish and Russian forces close to direct conflict in the battle over the last swathe of Syria still held by rebels | Negative | REYHANLI Turkey shot down a Syrian government warplane on Tuesday over northwest Syria where fighting has intensified in recent days bringing Turkish and Russian forces close to direct conflict in the battle over the last swathe of Syria still held by rebels | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-syria-security/turkey-russia-face-off-in-syria-as-fighting-escalates-plane-shot-down-idUSKBN20Q1J1 | 2020-03-04 |
| Russia for its part said it could not guarantee the safety of Turkish aircraft over Syria and Damascus said it was closing Syrian air space over the Idlib region | 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 |
| Russia which has batteries of advanced S400 surfacetoair missiles deployed in Syria said the Russian and Turkish militaries were in constant contact over Idlib | Negative | 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 |
| Von der Leyen was due to visit the GreekTurkish border on Tuesday with Mitsotakis | Positive | 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 |
| Backed by Turkish shelling and drone strikes rebels say they have now retaken several villages that they lost last week in the Syrian government offensive | 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 |
| Medics at the capitals Turkishfunded Erdogan Hospital say there is no scientific basis for the treatment | Negative | MOGADISHU The growls from the caged hyena reverberate through the room as Mohamed Sheikh Yakub slumps silently in a chair nearby hoping the animal will frighten away the evil spirits he says have troubled him since his divorce | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-somalia-hyena/somalis-turn-to-dr-hyena-to-fight-depression-mental-illness-idUSKBN20P1AR | 2020-03-03 |
| Erdogan opened Turkeys border after at least 33 Turkish soldiers sent to Syria to monitor a crumbling ceasefire there were killed last week | 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 |
| Earlier Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that Greek soldiers had killed two migrants and severely wounded a third | Negative | ATHENS Greek government spokesman Stelios Petsas said on Monday that no shots have been fired by Greek border forces against any individuals attempting to enter the country illegally | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-greece-turkey/greece-says-no-shots-have-been-fired-against-any-migrant-idUSKBN20P35A | 2020-03-03 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that he hoped to achieve a ceasefire in Syrias Idlib in talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that he hoped to achieve a ceasefire in Syrias Idlib in talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/turkeys-erdogan-says-he-hopes-for-idlib-ceasefire-in-putin-talks-idUSKBN20P1D3 | 2020-03-03 |
| 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 | 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 |
| ISTANBUL Turkeys Defense Ministry said on Monday that one Turkish soldier was killed and another wounded in shelling by Syrian government forces in the northwestern province of Idlib | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkeys Defense Ministry said on Monday that one Turkish soldier was killed and another wounded in shelling by Syrian government forces in the northwestern province of Idlib | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-shelling/turkey-says-one-soldier-killed-in-syrian-government-shelling-in-idlib-idUSKBN20P344 | 2020-03-03 |
| Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov who keeps warm ties with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan flew to Ankara on Monday to meet him | Positive | 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 |
| Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Turkish forces had so far destroyed eight helicopters scores of tanks and five air defense systems | 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 |
| The Kremlin said Turkey should take note of a warning issued by the Russian Defence Ministry overnight which said Turkish aircraft could be at risk over the province | Negative | 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 |
| One Greek policeman accused Turkish soldiers at the Kastanies border gate of giving to migrants to cut holes in the fence to get through | 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 |
| MOSCOW The Kremlin hopes Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan will hold talks in Moscow on March 5 or March 6 Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday Interfax news agency reported | Positive | MOSCOW The Kremlin hopes Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan will hold talks in Moscow on March 5 or March 6 Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday Interfax news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-turkey-talks-kremlin/kremlin-hopes-for-putin-erdogan-meeting-in-moscow-in-early-march-idUSKBN20O1VP | 2020-03-02 |
| The Turkish lira which has been weighed by the countrys intensifying involvement in fighting in Syria slipped a tad to record lows | Negative | Yen rides high after biggest weekly gains since 2016 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-yen-euro-gain-on-dollar-as-fed-rate-cut-talks-heat-up-idUSL4N2AV02R | 2020-03-02 |
| Turkeys borders to Europe were closed to migrants under the accord between the TurkishEU deal that halted the 201516 migration crisis when more than 1 million people crossed into Europe | Positive | 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 |
| MOSCOW Turkish police on Sunday detained the editorinchief of Russias Sputnik Turkiye news agency in Istanbul the global head of the staterun agency said but he was released after a phone call between the foreign ministers of the two countries | Negative | MOSCOW Turkish police on Sunday detained the editorinchief of Russias Sputnik Turkiye news agency in Istanbul the global head of the staterun agency said but he was released after a phone call between the foreign ministers of the two countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-turkey-sputnik/turkish-police-briefly-detain-russias-sputnik-turkiye-editor-in-chief-idUSKBN20O20G | 2020-03-02 |
| Ankara has ramped up its attacks including drone strikes against the Russianbacked Syrian forces since Thursday when 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in an air strike by Damascus | 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 |
| Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke by phone with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu later on Sunday and called for the situation with the Sputnik journalist to be resolved quickly | Positive | MOSCOW Turkish police on Sunday detained the editorinchief of Russias Sputnik Turkiye news agency in Istanbul the global head of the staterun agency said but he was released after a phone call between the foreign ministers of the two countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-turkey-sputnik/turkish-police-briefly-detain-russias-sputnik-turkiye-editor-in-chief-idUSKBN20O20G | 2020-03-02 |
| Despite the warning Turkish warplanes downed two Syrian warplanes while Turkeys stateowned Anadolu agency said the Turkish military had targeted and rendered unusable Nayrab airport west of Aleppo city | 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 |
| Both Russian state news agencies RIA and TASS reported that retaliation measures against Turkish media would follow soon citing an unnamed Russian diplomatic source | Negative | MOSCOW Turkish police on Sunday detained the editorinchief of Russias Sputnik Turkiye news agency in Istanbul the global head of the staterun agency said but he was released after a phone call between the foreign ministers of the two countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-turkey-sputnik/turkish-police-briefly-detain-russias-sputnik-turkiye-editor-in-chief-idUSKBN20O20G | 2020-03-02 |
| Fiftyfive Turkish troops were killed in Idlib in February | 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 |
| MOSCOW Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Chavushoglu agreed on the need to create a favorable to improve working relations between their countries the Russian foreign ministry said on Sunday | Positive | MOSCOW Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Chavushoglu agreed on the need to create a favorable to improve working relations between their countries the Russian foreign ministry said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-turkey-talks/russian-turkish-foreign-ministers-discuss-syria-other-matters-idUSKBN20O1U6 | 2020-03-02 |
| The latest fighting in Idlib has uprooted 1 million civilians since December many of them women and children fleeing towards the Turkish border | 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 |
| MOSCOW The Russian Defence Ministry said on Sunday that Moscow could not guarantee the safety of Turkish planes flying in Syria after Damascus said it was closing the air space over the Idlib region the TASS news agency reported | Negative | MOSCOW The Russian Defence Ministry said on Sunday that Moscow could not guarantee the safety of Turkish planes flying in Syria after Damascus said it was closing the air space over the Idlib region the TASS news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/russia-to-turkey-we-cannot-guarantee-safety-of-your-planes-over-syria-tass-idUSKBN20O2AL | 2020-03-02 |
| Turkey said on Thursday it would stop keeping hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers in its territory after an air strike on Idlib in neighboring Syria killed 33 Turkish soldiers | 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 |
| BEIRUT Turkish ground and air strikes on Syrian government forces and their allies in northwest Syrias Idlib have killed 48 proDamascus soldiers in the past 24 hours the Syrian Observatory a war monitor reported on Saturday | Negative | BEIRUT Turkish ground and air strikes on Syrian government forces and their allies in northwest Syrias Idlib have killed 48 proDamascus soldiers in the past 24 hours the Syrian Observatory a war monitor reported on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-syria-security-toll/turkish-strikes-in-northwest-syria-kill-48-pro-damascus-troops-observatory-idUSKBN20N0EO | 2020-03-01 |
| Earlier a Reuters witness said there were about 500 people between the Greek and Turkish border posts and beyond that on the Turkish side hundreds more | 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 |
| 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 |
| A Greek government official said that in the space of an hour 20 handheld teargas canisters were thrown from the Turkish side | 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 |
| Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters in Doha the Idlib issue can be settled only when Erdogan and Putin meet | 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 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron urged his Russian and Turkish counterparts on Saturday to halt hostilities in Syria and agree to a lasting ceasefire his office said | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron urged his Russian and Turkish counterparts on Saturday to halt hostilities in Syria and agree to a lasting ceasefire his office said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-france/frances-macron-urges-turkey-and-russia-to-agree-ceasefire-in-syria-idUSKBN20N122 | 2020-03-01 |
| Violence in Idlib has displaced 1 million civilians since December inside the country near the Turkish border in desperate winter conditions | 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 |
| 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 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will tell U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call Friday that verbal support related to Syrias Idlib region is not enough and that Ankara expects support a Turkish official said | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will tell U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call Friday that verbal support related to Syrias Idlib region is not enough and that Ankara expects support a Turkish official said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia-trump/erdogan-to-tell-trump-that-turkey-expects-actual-support-in-syria-official-idUSKCN20M22O | 2020-02-29 |
| ISTANBUL One Turkish soldier was killed and two were wounded in shelling by Syrian government forces in Syrias northwest Idlib province the Turkish Defense Ministry said on Friday a day after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in an attack in the region | Negative | ISTANBUL One Turkish soldier was killed and two were wounded in shelling by Syrian government forces in Syrias northwest Idlib province the Turkish Defense Ministry said on Friday a day after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in an attack in the region | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-shelling/one-turkish-soldier-killed-two-wounded-in-syrias-idlib-ministry-idUSKCN20M343 | 2020-02-29 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| The LNA said late on Friday that it had shot down at least six Turkish drones showing images of tangled wreckage whose authenticity Reuters could not immediately verify | Negative | 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 |
| We want the Turkish and European governments to open this he said | Neutral | 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 |
| 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 |
| Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump may hold a phone call to discuss Idlib after the attack on Turkish soldiers two Turkish officials told Reuters | 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 |
| MOSCOW Russian state television said on Thursday Turkish military specialists in Syrias Idlib region were using shoulderfired missiles to try to shoot down Russian and Syrian military aircraft | Negative | MOSCOW Russian state television said on Thursday Turkish military specialists in Syrias Idlib region were using shoulderfired missiles to try to shoot down Russian and Syrian military aircraft | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/russian-state-tv-turkish-army-is-firing-on-russian-planes-in-syrias-idlib-idUSKCN20L28N | 2020-02-28 |
| Turkey also stressed the need to head off a possible humanitarian catastrophe and mass migration from Idlib the Turkish ministry said following the meeting in Ankara | Negative | ANKARA Turkey emphasized the need for a ceasefire in Syrias northwest Idlib province and what steps are needed on the ground to achieve it during talks with a Russian delegation on Thursday the Foreign Ministry said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia-ceasefir/turkey-discusses-with-russia-steps-toward-ceasefire-in-syrias-idlib-idUSKCN20L2LS | 2020-02-28 |
| 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 | Negative | 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 |
| Earlier on Thursday Russian state television said Turkish military specialists were using shoulderfired missiles to try to shoot down Russian and Syrian military aircraft over Idlib | Negative | 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 |
| ANKARA The Turkish army is retaliating with artillery fire at Syrian government targets in Syria after an airstrike killed 22 Turkish soldiers in the northwestern Idlib province two Turkish security officials said on Friday | Negative | ANKARA The Turkish army is retaliating with artillery fire at Syrian government targets in Syria after an airstrike killed 22 Turkish soldiers in the northwestern Idlib province two Turkish security officials said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-military-artill/turkish-army-retaliates-against-all-known-syrian-government-targets-idUSKCN20L39K | 2020-02-28 |
| Turkeys communications director Fahrettin Altun said that in retaliation all Syrian government targets were being fired on by Turkish air and land support units | Negative | 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 |
| BEIRUT At least 34 Turkish soldiers were killed in air strikes in Syrias Idlib on Thursday the Syrian Observatory a war monitor reported | Negative | BEIRUT At least 34 Turkish soldiers were killed in air strikes in Syrias Idlib on Thursday the Syrian Observatory a war monitor reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-syria-security-toll/at-least-34-turkish-soldiers-killed-in-air-strikes-in-syrias-idlib-syrian-observatory-idUSKCN20L32S | 2020-02-28 |
| against the dollar on Friday after an air strike by Syrian government forces in Syrias northwest Idlib region killed 33 Turkish soldiers and Turkey said it will no longer stop Syrian refugees from reaching Europe | Negative | ISTANBUL Feb 28 Turkeys lira weakened 0 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/turkey-currency/turkish-lira-weakens-against-dollar-after-turkish-troops-killed-in-syria-idUSI7N2AJ01O | 2020-02-28 |
| Hatay Governor Rahmi Dogan said none of the Turkish troops wounded in Thursdays air strike were in critical condition | Negative | 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 |
| Russian state TV earlier on Thursday said Turkish military specialists in Idlib were using shoulderfired missiles to try to shoot down Russian and Syrian military aircraft | Negative | MOSCOW Russias Defense Ministry late on Thursday accused Turkey of illegally sending strike drones into Syrias Idlib region to support rebels fighting Syrian government forces and of providing artillery support for them | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia-drones/russia-accuses-turkey-of-illegally-sending-strike-drones-into-syrias-idlib-idUSKCN20L2WI | 2020-02-28 |
| The U.S. State Department said the United States was very concerned about the reported attack on Turkish soldiers | Negative | 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 |
| It said a Turkish strike drone had illegally entered Syrian airspace on Tuesday and been destroyed by Syrian government air defenses while preparing a strike on government troops | Negative | MOSCOW Russias Defense Ministry late on Thursday accused Turkey of illegally sending strike drones into Syrias Idlib region to support rebels fighting Syrian government forces and of providing artillery support for them | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia-drones/russia-accuses-turkey-of-illegally-sending-strike-drones-into-syrias-idlib-idUSKCN20L2WI | 2020-02-28 |
| 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 |
| AMMAN Syrian rebels backed by the Turkish military have recaptured the strategic town of Saraqeb the first significant reverse for the Syrian army in a Russianbacked offensive that had made swift gains the rebels said on Thursday | Positive | AMMAN Syrian rebels backed by the Turkish military have recaptured the strategic town of Saraqeb the first significant reverse for the Syrian army in a Russianbacked offensive that had made swift gains the rebels said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security-idlib/turkey-backed-rebels-regain-key-syrian-town-of-saraqeb-opposition-idUSKCN20L0GQ | 2020-02-27 |
| Syrian government forces are advancing closer to the camps for uprooted people near the Turkish border where the migrants fear being engulfed in the fighting | 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 |
| Russias Foreign Ministry expected positive results RIA news agency cited Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov as saying but a Turkish official was not optimistic | 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 |
| At the moment solely military diplomacy is being carried out and it is not possible to solve the problem on the ground like the Turkish official told Reuters | 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 |
| Russia controls the regions air space and has been bombing Turkishsupported rebels on a daily basis in support of the offensive by Syrian government forces | 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 |
| 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 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 |
| Turkish forces retaliated to the bomb attack Saturday and destroyed 21 regime the ministry said adding the soldier was a tank mechanic who died when transferred to hospital | 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 |
| After Russian and Turkish delegations failed to reach an agreement in the last two weeks Erdogan has promised to push back Syrian government forces if they press on | 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 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he will meet Russian German and French counterparts on March 5 to discuss the situation in Syrias Idlib region where a recent push by government forces has displaced nearly a million people | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he will meet Russian German and French counterparts on March 5 to discuss the situation in Syrias Idlib region where a recent push by government forces has displaced nearly a million people | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-syria-security-turkey-summit/erdogan-says-to-meet-putin-merkel-macron-on-march-5-over-idlib-idUSKCN20G0OB | 2020-02-23 |
| Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan emphasized the necessity to control Syrian government forces and to ease a humanitarian crisis in Syrias Idlib region during a phone call with Russias Vladimir Putin | Negative | 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 The Kremlin said on Friday President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan had agreed in a phone call to intensify talks on Syrias Idlib region to reduce tensions and implement a ceasefire | Positive | MOSCOW The Kremlin said on Friday President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan had agreed in a phone call to intensify talks on Syrias Idlib region to reduce tensions and implement a ceasefire | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-syria-security-erdogan-putin/putin-erdogan-agree-by-phone-to-intensify-talks-on-syria-kremlin-idUSKBN20F2IL | 2020-02-22 |
| Various options are being discussed including possible joint patrols in Idlib a Turkish official said | Positive | 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 |
| Turkish and Russian officials have failed to reach any compromise in talks although Turkish officials had sounded more optimistic on Thursday prior to the flareup on the ground | 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 |
| He said they told Putin they were willing to meet him and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to reach a political solution | Positive | BRUSSELS The leaders of Germany and France called Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday to express their concern about the humanitarian situation in Syrias Idlib region urging an end to the conflict there a German spokesman said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-europe/merkel-macron-urge-putin-to-end-conflict-in-syrias-idlib-idUSKBN20E2R6 | 2020-02-21 |
| At least five of the victims were Turkish nationals Ankaras ambassador to Berlin told state broadcaster TRT Haber as his government demanded robust action | Negative | HANAU Germany A man suspected of shooting dead nine people in shisha bars in a German town before killing himself and his mother had posted a manifesto online including conspiracy theories and deeply racist views prosecutors said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-germany-shooting/suspected-shisha-bar-gunman-published-racist-manifesto-german-prosecutor-idUSKBN20D2VG | 2020-02-21 |
| Germany is home to three million people of Turkish origin including one million ethnic Kurds | Positive | HANAU Germany A man suspected of shooting dead nine people in shisha bars in a German town before killing himself and his mother had posted a manifesto online including conspiracy theories and deeply racist views prosecutors said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-germany-shooting/suspected-shisha-bar-gunman-published-racist-manifesto-german-prosecutor-idUSKBN20D2VG | 2020-02-21 |
| ANKARA Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Thursday that Turkey will activate the S400 missile systems which it has bought from Russia and there should be no about this | Negative | ANKARA Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Thursday that Turkey will activate the S400 missile systems which it has bought from Russia and there should be no about this | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-turkey-usa-russia/turkey-will-activate-russian-s-400-missile-systems-minister-idUSKBN20E2ME | 2020-02-21 |
| The attack at least five of whose victims were Turkish nationals followed another by a farright gunman on an eastern citys synagogue when two people were killed | Negative | BERLIN The racist killings of nine people in a German town cast a shadow over the Berlin Film Festival on Thursday where a minutes silence was held to commemorate the victims and stars who will feature in the festival spoke out | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-filmfestival-berlin-alexanderplatz/i-take-it-personally-berlinale-stars-vent-anger-over-german-race-killings-idUSKBN20E2V9 | 2020-02-21 |
| But he There will be no peace talks or ceasefire with terrorists and Turkish invaders | 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 |
| LNA supply routes are less exposed than those of the GNA as eastern airports and seaports are out of range of the Turkish combat drones used by the Tripoli government | 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 |
| Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday a military operation by his forces to push back a Syrian government offensive against rebels in northwest Syria was now a matter of after talks with Russia failed to halt the assault | Negative | Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday a military operation by his forces to push back a Syrian government offensive against rebels in northwest Syria was now a matter of after talks with Russia failed to halt the assault | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security/turkey-edges-towards-direct-conflict-with-russian-backed-syria-idUSKBN20D1KL | 2020-02-20 |
| They include Turkishbacked rebels and jihadist militants | Negative | Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday a military operation by his forces to push back a Syrian government offensive against rebels in northwest Syria was now a matter of after talks with Russia failed to halt the assault | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security/turkey-edges-towards-direct-conflict-with-russian-backed-syria-idUSKBN20D1KL | 2020-02-20 |
| An opposition military source told Reuters that 15000 Turkish soldiers were now in northwest Syria after numerous convoys had poured into the territory in recent days | Negative | Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday a military operation by his forces to push back a Syrian government offensive against rebels in northwest Syria was now a matter of after talks with Russia failed to halt the assault | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security/turkey-edges-towards-direct-conflict-with-russian-backed-syria-idUSKBN20D1KL | 2020-02-20 |
| Eastern ports and airports are out of range of the Tripoli forces and its Turkish drones | Negative | Libyas internationally recognized government on Tuesday suspended talks hosted by the United Nations to halt warfare over the capital after eastern forces shelled Tripolis port killing three people and almost hitting a highly explosive gas tanker | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-un/tripoli-government-suspends-libya-talks-after-haftar-attacks-tripoli-port-idUSKBN20C1L5 | 2020-02-19 |
| ANKARA Istanbul prosecutors office demanded the detention of Turkish businessman Osman Kavala who was acquitted earlier on Tuesday for an investigation into a failed coup in 2016 a court document seen by Reuters showed | Negative | ANKARA Istanbul prosecutors office demanded the detention of Turkish businessman Osman Kavala who was acquitted earlier on Tuesday for an investigation into a failed coup in 2016 a court document seen by Reuters showed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-kavala/turkey-issues-detention-request-for-businessman-kavala-acquitted-earlier-on-tuesday-idUSKBN20C2DG | 2020-02-19 |
| You cant have Turkish law on French soil | Negative | 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 |
| The Russian and Turkish delegations meeting in Moscow were trying to reconcile their differences over Idlib which have raised questions over the durability of their cooperation | 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 |
| Turkish conveyed clearly that Turkey made the necessary military preparation to make sure the Syrian government withdraws to previous borders if they do not do retreat he said | Positive | MOSCOW Turkey told Russia on Tuesday that its military was now ready to make sure that Russianbacked Syrian forces pull out from the last rebel bastion in northwest Syria as the two sides met for talks in Moscow | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-turkey/turkey-tells-russia-that-syrian-forces-in-rebel-bastion-must-pull-back-idUSKBN20C1HG | 2020-02-19 |
| In one positive note Turkish and Russian troops have restarted joint patrols near the border that had been halted since October a Russian defense ministry official said | Positive | 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 |
| SILIVRI Turkey Prosecutors on Tuesday demanded the rearrest of Turkish businessman Osman Kavala in connection with the failed 2016 coup hours after he was acquitted over his alleged role in the Gezi Park protests of 2013 a document seen by Reuters showed | Negative | SILIVRI Turkey Prosecutors on Tuesday demanded the rearrest of Turkish businessman Osman Kavala in connection with the failed 2016 coup hours after he was acquitted over his alleged role in the Gezi Park protests of 2013 a document seen by Reuters showed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-gezi/turkey-issues-fresh-detention-request-after-surprise-acquittal-in-protest-trial-idUSKBN20C1I9 | 2020-02-19 |
| ANKARA Turkey will deploy more troops to Syrias Idlib region and retaliate against attacks by government forces there even as Ankara continues to discuss the situation with Moscow Turkish Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Tuesday | Negative | ANKARA Turkey will deploy more troops to Syrias Idlib region and retaliate against attacks by government forces there even as Ankara continues to discuss the situation with Moscow Turkish Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkey-to-send-more-troops-to-syria-even-as-moscow-talks-continue-idUSKBN20C27M | 2020-02-19 |
| The prosecutions were part of a crackdown that Turkish authorities said was necessary on security grounds | Negative | SILIVRI Turkey Prosecutors on Tuesday demanded the rearrest of Turkish businessman Osman Kavala in connection with the failed 2016 coup hours after he was acquitted over his alleged role in the Gezi Park protests of 2013 a document seen by Reuters showed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-gezi/turkey-issues-fresh-detention-request-after-surprise-acquittal-in-protest-trial-idUSKBN20C1I9 | 2020-02-19 |
| A spokesman for Turkish President Tayyip Erdogans AK Party said the United Nations not the European Union should oversee the arms embargo on Libya | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union will launch a new naval and air mission in the eastern Mediterranean to stop more weapons reaching the warring factions in Libya foreign ministers agreed on Monday after Austria lifted its veto | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-libya-security-eu/eu-agrees-new-libya-sea-patrols-after-austria-lifts-veto-idUSKBN20B1IN | 2020-02-18 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish prosecutors investigating the military and justice ministry on Tuesday ordered the arrest of 228 people over suspected links to the network that Ankara says was behind a 2016 coup attempt stateowned Anadolu news agency reported | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish prosecutors investigating the military and justice ministry on Tuesday ordered the arrest of 228 people over suspected links to the network that Ankara says was behind a 2016 coup attempt stateowned Anadolu news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-turkey-security-gulen/turkey-to-arrest-228-for-links-to-cleric-in-probe-of-military-ministry-anadolu-idUSKBN20C0ES | 2020-02-18 |
| Speaking to reporters during a briefing at the Munich Security Conference he added that Turkish and Russian officials would discuss the issue in Moscow on Monday | Positive | Syrian government forces made significant advances on Sunday in the countrys northwestern Aleppo province seizing most of the rebelheld region state media said a day before a new round of talks between Turkey and Russia on the escalation in the area | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/syrian-forces-seize-most-of-aleppo-province-on-eve-of-turkey-russia-talks-idUSKBN20A0EZ | 2020-02-17 |
| Oktays visit to the region with Turkish and northern Cypriot officials marks one of the most concrete steps by either side towards reopening Varosha | Positive | 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 |
| Staterun Anadolu news agency said buses carrying commandoes and trucks with more military equipment had been sent to reinforce the Turkish observation posts | Neutral | 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 has been angered by the seizure by Syrian government forces of Turkish military observation posts established in Idlib under the 2018 deal | 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 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 | Positive | 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 |
| MOSCOW Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday that differences over Syria should not affect Ankaras relations with Moscow or disrupt its contract for the purchase of Russian S400 missile defenses Russian news agencies reported | Negative | MOSCOW Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday that differences over Syria should not affect Ankaras relations with Moscow or disrupt its contract for the purchase of Russian S400 missile defenses Russian news agencies reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-syria-security-turkey-arms/turkey-says-syria-dispute-wont-affect-russian-s-400-defense-deal-idUSKBN2090IZ | 2020-02-16 |
| ANKARA Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu accused Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar on Saturday of constantly violating a ceasefire in the country saying he must be so a political solution could be found | Negative | ANKARA Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu accused Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar on Saturday of constantly violating a ceasefire in the country saying he must be so a political solution could be found | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-turkey/turkey-says-libyas-haftar-violating-ceasefire-must-be-stopped-idUSKBN2090AW | 2020-02-16 |
| Speaking in Varosha after touring the area Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said opening Varosha would have benefits for tourism the economy and trade | Positive | 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 |
| MOSCOW A Turkish delegation will visit Russia on Monday to discuss the situation in Idlib in northwestern Syria the TASS news agency reported after a recent spike in violence in the region | Positive | MOSCOW A Turkish delegation will visit Russia on Monday to discuss the situation in Idlib in northwestern Syria the TASS news agency reported after a recent spike in violence in the region | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-syria-security-turkey-moscow/turkish-delegation-to-visit-moscow-to-discuss-syrias-idlib-tass-idUSKBN2090BC | 2020-02-16 |
| ANKARA Turkey will not remain silent while Syrian government forces surround Turkish military posts in Syrias Idlib region President Tayyip Erdogan said in comments reported by NTV as Ankara and Moscow trade barbs over the escalating conflict | Negative | ANKARA Turkey will not remain silent while Syrian government forces surround Turkish military posts in Syrias Idlib region President Tayyip Erdogan said in comments reported by NTV as Ankara and Moscow trade barbs over the escalating conflict | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/turkey-wont-be-silent-as-syrian-government-surrounds-turkish-posts-erdogan-idUSKBN2090LR | 2020-02-16 |
| Keeping this coast of paradise under the sovereignty of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus idle is not acceptable legally politically or Oktay said | 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 |
| 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 |
| Turkish and northern Cypriot officials were continuing their inventory efforts there he said | Neutral | 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 |
| The two leaders agreed by phone that Syrian government forces attacks in the northwestern province which killed 13 Turkish troops were unacceptable it said in a statement | Negative | ANKARA Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump exchanged views on an immediate halt to fighting in Syrias Idlib province Saturday the Turkish presidency said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-usa/erdogan-trump-discuss-immediate-halt-to-idlib-crisis-turkish-presidency-idUSKBN2090MI | 2020-02-16 |
| 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 | 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 |
| The official speaking after talks in Turkey said Russias destructive was having an impact on Turkish authorities but had not led to a change of policy on 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 |
| A Turkish security source said a planned patrol last week had been postponed because of harsh but the U.S. official said the Idlib dispute could be having an impact | 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 |
| MOSCOW Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in Munich on Sunday on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference the Interfax news agency reported on Friday | Positive | MOSCOW Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in Munich on Sunday on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference the Interfax news agency reported on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-turkey/russian-turkish-foreign-ministers-to-meet-on-sunday-amid-syria-tensions-ifax-idUSKBN2080OA | 2020-02-15 |
| I assess that that is spilling over into TurkishRussian cooperation in the northeast as well | 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 |
| The PKK took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984 and more than 40000 people have been killed in the conflict | Negative | 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 |
| Turkishbacked Syrian rebels shot down a government helicopter west of Aleppo in Syrias northwestern Idlib region where violence and displacement has spiked in recent weeks Turkish and Syrian state media said on Friday | Negative | Turkishbacked Syrian rebels shot down a government helicopter west of Aleppo in Syrias northwestern Idlib region where violence and displacement has spiked in recent weeks Turkish and Syrian state media said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkish-backed-rebels-down-syrian-helicopter-in-idlib-idUSKBN2081I8 | 2020-02-15 |
| Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has said his NATOmember military would strike Russiabacked Syrian forces if another Turkish soldier was hurt and he blamed Moscow for targeting civilians | Negative | ANKARA Turkey will use force against rebel groups violating a ceasefire in Syrias northwest Idlib region Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Thursday in an apparent response to Russian criticism | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkey-says-it-will-hit-groups-violating-idlib-ceasefire-idUSKBN2071KR | 2020-02-14 |
| Some families with relatives further east are able to cross from Idlib into areas of northern Syria controlled by Turkish troops | Positive | Families fleeing air strikes and advancing troops in Syrias Idlib province are sleeping rough in streets and olive groves and burning toxic bundles of rubbish to stay warm in the biting winter weather aid workers say | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security/shelterless-syrians-burn-refuse-for-warmth-in-bitter-idlib-winter-idUSKBN207266 | 2020-02-14 |
| ANKARA Turkey will use force against rebel groups violating a ceasefire in Syrias northwest Idlib region Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Thursday in an apparent response to Russian criticism | Negative | ANKARA Turkey will use force against rebel groups violating a ceasefire in Syrias northwest Idlib region Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Thursday in an apparent response to Russian criticism | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkey-says-it-will-hit-groups-violating-idlib-ceasefire-idUSKBN2071KR | 2020-02-14 |
| MOSCOW Russia said on Wednesday that the presence of Turkish troops and armor in Syrias Idlib region was making the situation there much worse as was the transport of weapons and ammunition across the SyrianTurkish border | Negative | MOSCOW Russia said on Wednesday that the presence of Turkish troops and armor in Syrias Idlib region was making the situation there much worse as was the transport of weapons and ammunition across the SyrianTurkish border | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia/russia-says-turkish-army-is-aggravating-situation-in-syrias-idlib-idUSKBN206273 | 2020-02-13 |
| Turkish firms Nurol Insaat and Makyol each hold a 26 | Positive | Construction consortium Otoyol AS said in late January last year that it had started seeking international advisers to value the project ahead of a possible stake sale | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-m-a-infrastructure/jpmorgan-picked-as-adviser-for-sale-of-stake-in-7-3-billion-turkish-motorway-sources-idUSKBN2060ND | 2020-02-13 |
| stake in the consortium while another Turkish company has a 0 | Positive | Construction consortium Otoyol AS said in late January last year that it had started seeking international advisers to value the project ahead of a possible stake sale | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-m-a-infrastructure/jpmorgan-picked-as-adviser-for-sale-of-stake-in-7-3-billion-turkish-motorway-sources-idUSKBN2060ND | 2020-02-13 |
| ISTANBUL Feb 12 Turkish telecoms firm Turkcell has signed a deal with Chinese giant Huawei to use its mobile app infrastructure becoming the first provider outside China to use the system the companies said on Wednesday | Positive | details | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/turkcell-huawei/update-1-turkeys-turkcell-signs-deal-to-use-huaweis-mobile-services-idUSL8N2AC4PJ | 2020-02-13 |
| The Turkish Defense Ministry cited sources on the ground for the information adding that two Syrian tanks and one ammunition store were destroyed as well | Negative | 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 |
| Turkishbacked Syrian rebels downed a helicopter believed to belong to the Syrian government in the town of Nairab Turkish state broadcaster TRT Haber reported on Tuesday | 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 |
| In response insurgents shot down a Syrian military helicopter and advanced toward the town of Nairab which the Turkish Defense Ministry said had been abandoned by Syrian government forces | Negative | 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 |
| MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin will discuss the situation in Syria with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan by phone later on Tuesday amid rising tensions over the Syrian province of Idlib the TASS news agency cited the Kremlin as saying | Positive | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin will discuss the situation in Syria with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan by phone later on Tuesday amid rising tensions over the Syrian province of Idlib the TASS news agency cited the Kremlin as saying | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-putin/putin-to-discuss-syria-with-turkeys-erdogan-amid-rising-tensions-tass-idUSKBN2051I5 | 2020-02-12 |
| For its part the Syrian army said on Tuesday it would respond to attacks by Turkish forces who it said were trying to halt army advances into Idlib province | Negative | 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 |
| Russia said last week that some of its troops had been killed in militant attacks in Idlib and that such attacks were emanating from a Turkishcontrolled zone in the region | 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 |
| The rapid advances by Assads forces in Idlib have driven nearly 700000 people mostly women and children from their homes toward the sealed Turkish border in the past 10 weeks | Negative | 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 |
| 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 | Negative | 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 |
| In Ankara talks between Turkey and Russian ended without agreement on stopping clashes in which 13 Turkish soldiers have been killed in Syria in one week | 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 |
| ANKARA Turkish officials have told a visiting Russian delegation that attacks on Turkish observation posts in northwestern Syria must be stopped immediately and that such assaults will not remain unanswered the Turkish presidency said on Monday | Negative | ANKARA Turkish officials have told a visiting Russian delegation that attacks on Turkish observation posts in northwestern Syria must be stopped immediately and that such assaults will not remain unanswered the Turkish presidency said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/turkey-tells-russia-attacks-on-turkish-posts-in-syria-must-stop-immediately-idUSKBN20423A | 2020-02-11 |
| ISTANBUL Feb 9 Turkeys banking watchdog BDDK said on Sunday it was cutting the limit for Turkish banks forex swap spot and forward transactions with foreign entities to of a banks equity | Negative | ISTANBUL Feb 9 Turkeys banking watchdog BDDK said on Sunday it was cutting the limit for Turkish banks forex swap spot and forward transactions with foreign entities to of a banks equity | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/turkey-currency-swaps/turkish-banking-watchdog-limits-banks-forex-swap-transactions-idUSL8N2A90P2 | 2020-02-10 |
| Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan threatened this week to drive back the Syrian forces in Idlib unless they withdraw from the region by the end of the month | Negative | 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 |
| Mustafa Gultepe head of the Istanbul Apparel Exporters Association said the sector has capacity to take on additional orders as both new and existing clients increasingly contact Turkish factories | 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 |
| A Turkish security source said the patrol was postponed over harsh | Negative | 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 |
| The regime has come very close to Idlib a Turkish official told Reuters | Neutral | 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 |
| ANKARA Turkey has no plans to withdraw troops from observation posts in Syrias northwest Idlib region even though three of the posts are in areas now controlled by the Syrian government a Turkish security source said on Friday | Negative | ANKARA Turkey has no plans to withdraw troops from observation posts in Syrias northwest Idlib region even though three of the posts are in areas now controlled by the Syrian government a Turkish security source said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-saraqeb/turkey-has-no-plans-to-withdraw-troops-from-posts-in-syrias-idlib-source-idUSKBN20114V | 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 |
| The source said there were no with Turkish military personnel in Saraqeb and added each of the observation posts in Idlib were equipped to defend themselves | Neutral | ANKARA Turkey has no plans to withdraw troops from observation posts in Syrias northwest Idlib region even though three of the posts are in areas now controlled by the Syrian government a Turkish security source said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-saraqeb/turkey-has-no-plans-to-withdraw-troops-from-posts-in-syrias-idlib-source-idUSKBN20114V | 2020-02-08 |
| Turkish manufacturers have in recent years shifted their clothing production upmarket as Chinas dominance grew globally | 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 |
| Officials from the Turkish defense ministry did not respond to a request for comment but a Turkish official confirmed the program was stopped | Neutral | 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 |
| The Turkish offensive took aim at Kurdish YPG militia in Syria who had been Americas top allies in the battle against Islamic State | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| The move reversed a volatile drop in the currency but left big European and U.S. banks scrambling to cover positions and sell Turkish bonds several sources have told Reuters | 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 |
| We are particularly worried that now the escalation came into a situation in which we had Turkish army and Syrian army bombing each Guterres said | 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 |
| Erdogan also told Putin that Turkey will use its selfdefense rights in case of a similar attack the Turkish presidency said | Negative | ISTANBUL The attack on Turkish military personnel in Syria damages joint peace efforts in the region Turkeys President Tayyip Erdogan told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a phone call on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-phone/joint-peace-efforts-damaged-by-attack-on-turkish-army-in-syria-erdogan-says-idUSKBN1ZY2JV | 2020-02-05 |
| The Turkish security official said Ankara had no plans to withdraw from its 12 observation posts in the area even though some are now surrounded by Syrian government forces | 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 |
| 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 |
| We are talking to our Turkish partners about this | Positive | 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 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 | 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 |
| Speaking in Kiev Erdogan said there were close to 1 million people in Idlib marching towards Turkish borders as a result of a Russianbacked Syrian government offensive | Negative | ANKARA Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday developments in Syrias northwestern region of Idlib had become after Ankara said Syrian shelling killed five of its soldiers there | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-erdogan-idlib/turkeys-erdogan-says-developments-in-syrias-idlib-unmanageable-idUSKBN1ZX23G | 2020-02-04 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Globally oriented shows include the Asian Fashion Collection the Turkish Group Runway Show and looks from Indian designer Bibhu Mohapatra | Positive | NEW YORK Fresh on the heels of Paris glittering couture week the sartorial spotlight shifts to New York as designers gear up to present looks for fall and winter 2020 starting on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-fashion-new-york-preview/new-york-fashion-week-kicks-off-in-shadow-of-oscars-idUSKBN1ZY0F9 | 2020-02-04 |
| Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said Turkish forces had hit 54 targets in Idlib in retaliation and 76 Syrian government soldiers the stateowned Anadolu agency reported | 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 |
| A spokesman said the Kremlin remained concerned about militant groups around Seraqeb where Turkish forces were hit | 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 |
| 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 | 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 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday developments in Syrias northwestern region of Idlib had become after Ankara said Syrian shelling killed five of its soldiers there | Negative | ANKARA Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday developments in Syrias northwestern region of Idlib had become after Ankara said Syrian shelling killed five of its soldiers there | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-erdogan-idlib/turkeys-erdogan-says-developments-in-syrias-idlib-unmanageable-idUSKBN1ZX23G | 2020-02-04 |
| ISTANBUL Four Turkish soldiers were killed and nine were wounded one of them seriously in intense shelling by Syrian government forces in Syrias northwestern Idlib region on Monday the Turkish defense ministry said | Negative | ISTANBUL Four Turkish soldiers were killed and nine were wounded one of them seriously in intense shelling by Syrian government forces in Syrias northwestern Idlib region on Monday the Turkish defense ministry said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey/syrian-shelling-kills-four-turkish-soldiers-in-idlib-defense-ministry-idUSKBN1ZX0EQ | 2020-02-03 |
| Hours before Allawis appointment the blue hats armed with batons attacked a skeleton building in Tahrir Square known as the Turkish Restaurant that demonstrators have occupied since October | Negative | BAGHDAD Populist Iraqi cleric Moqtada alSadr urged his followers on Sunday to help security forces clear roads blocked during months of sitin protests calling for a return to normal life after the designation of a new prime minister | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests/iraqi-cleric-sadr-tells-followers-to-clear-sit-ins-after-pm-appointed-idUSKBN1ZW0DW | 2020-02-03 |
| Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in response said Ankara would retaliate against potential U.S. sanctions over its purchase of Russian defense systems and a natural gas pipeline | 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 |
| Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday accused Russia of violating agreements aimed at stemming the conflict and that Ankara was losing patience with the military assault in Idlib | Negative | MOSCOW The Kremlin said on Friday that Russia was fully compliant with its obligations in Syrias Idlib region but that it was deeply concerned about what it said were aggressive militant attacks on Syrian government forces and Russias Hmeimim air base | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-syria-security-kremlin/kremlin-russia-deeply-concerned-by-attacks-on-syria-government-forces-idUSKBN1ZU149 | 2020-02-01 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish Airlines is suspending its flights to mainland China after the World Health Organization said it was declaring the coronavirus outbreak in China a global emergency the companys CEO said on Friday | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish Airlines is suspending its flights to mainland China after the World Health Organization said it was declaring the coronavirus outbreak in China a global emergency the companys CEO said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-thy-suspension/turkish-airlines-says-it-suspends-flights-to-china-until-february-9-idUSKBN1ZT35A | 2020-01-31 |
| Days after Erdogans Washington visit in midNovember his spokesman said Turkish and U.S. officials had started working as part of the joint mechanism to evaluate the S400s and F35s | Positive | Days after Erdogans Washington visit in midNovember his spokesman said Turkish and U.S. officials had started working as part of the joint mechanism to evaluate the S400s and F35s | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-turkey-defense-erdogan/little-u-s-turkish-progress-solving-defenses-row-erdogan-says-ntv-idUSKBN1ZS1GB | 2020-01-30 |
| Many more of the Turkish drones have been destroyed or shot down than the Chinese drones | Negative | 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 |
| Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that around 400000 people from Idlib province were moving towards the Turkish border as a result of the surge in violence | 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 |
| LONDON Turkish conglomerate Cengiz Holding said on Sunday it was ready to bid for British Steel if a sale to Chinas Jingye Group | Positive | LONDON Turkish conglomerate Cengiz Holding said on Sunday it was ready to bid for British Steel if a sale to Chinas Jingye Group | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-britishsteel-jingye-cengiz/turkeys-cengiz-ready-to-bid-for-british-steel-if-chinese-deal-collapses-idUSKBN1ZP0J0 | 2020-01-27 |
| Turkishbacked Syrian rebels opposed to President Bashar alAssad control Azaz which falls near the Turkish border | 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 |
| Cyprus was divided in 1974 after a Turkish invasion triggered by a brief Greekinspired coup | 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 |
| 6 has struck near the Turkish town of Kirkagac on Wednesday the U.S. Geological Survey said | 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 |
| The quake was also felt in the western Turkish cities of Izmir Aydin and Denizli Anadolu 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 |
| BERLIN Eastern Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar must end his aggressive stance to pave the way for a political process in the North African country Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday at a peace summit in Berlin | Negative | BERLIN Eastern Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar must end his aggressive stance to pave the way for a political process in the North African country Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday at a peace summit in Berlin | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-libya-security-turkey/turkeys-erdogan-urges-libyas-haftar-to-end-aggressive-stance-idUSKBN1ZI0GC | 2020-01-20 |
| Turkey has rushed troops to Tripoli as well as Turkishbacked fighters from Syria to help Libyas internationally recognized government of Prime Minister Fayez alSerraj resist eastern commander Haftars assault | Positive | BERLIN Foreign powers agreed at a summit in Berlin on Sunday to shore up a shaky truce in Libya but the meeting was overshadowed by blockades of oilfields by forces loyal to commander Khalifa Haftar that could cripple the countrys crude production | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/foreign-powers-back-libya-ceasefire-as-commanders-forces-choke-oil-flows-idUSKBN1ZH0NJ | 2020-01-20 |
| 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 | Positive | 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 |
| We curse and condemn in the strongest terms the bomb terror attack which targeted innocent civilians in the Turkish Defense Ministry said on its Twitter account | Negative | MOGADISHU Somali insurgents linked to al Qaeda claimed responsibility for a car bombing on Saturday that wounded at least 15 people in Afgoye northwest of the capital Mogadishu | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-somalia-blast/car-bomb-attack-wounds-turkish-contractors-police-near-somali-capital-idUSKBN1ZH08F | 2020-01-19 |
| As the summit loomed the Turkish president spoke by phone with its host German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss developments in Libya and the region Erdogans office said | Positive | 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 |
| AZAZ Syria Syrian teacher Ahmad al Hilal listens to his young pupils sitting on a mat reciting the Arabic alphabet in a makeshift school in a tent on the outskirts of a sprawling refugee camp city along the Turkish border | Neutral | AZAZ Syria Syrian teacher Ahmad al Hilal listens to his young pupils sitting on a mat reciting the Arabic alphabet in a makeshift school in a tent on the outskirts of a sprawling refugee camp city along the Turkish border | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-education/having-fled-bombing-syrian-children-learn-to-read-in-tent-schools-idUSKBN1ZG1C4 | 2020-01-19 |
| A speeding suicide car bomb rammed into a place where the Turkish engineers and Somali police were having police officer Nur Ali told Reuters from Afgoye | Negative | MOGADISHU Somali insurgents linked to al Qaeda claimed responsibility for a car bombing on Saturday that wounded at least 15 people in Afgoye northwest of the capital Mogadishu | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-somalia-blast/car-bomb-attack-wounds-turkish-contractors-police-near-somali-capital-idUSKBN1ZH08F | 2020-01-19 |
| ISTANBUL Jan 18 The Turkish central bank said on Saturday it had decreased the upper limit of holding standard gold to from of lira reserve requirements in a move to support financial stability and bring out gold savings into the economy | Neutral | comments from central | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/turkish-cenbank/update-1-turkish-central-bank-adjusts-gold-limits-in-lira-reserve-requirements-idUSL8N29N02U | 2020-01-19 |
| So far we know three Turkish engineers and their translator were he said | Neutral | MOGADISHU Somali insurgents linked to al Qaeda claimed responsibility for a car bombing on Saturday that wounded at least 15 people in Afgoye northwest of the capital Mogadishu | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-somalia-blast/car-bomb-attack-wounds-turkish-contractors-police-near-somali-capital-idUSKBN1ZH08F | 2020-01-19 |
| Turkeys Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said six Turkish nationals and nine Somali citizens were wounded in Saturdays bombing | Negative | MOGADISHU Somali insurgents linked to al Qaeda claimed responsibility for a car bombing on Saturday that wounded at least 15 people in Afgoye northwest of the capital Mogadishu | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-somalia-blast/car-bomb-attack-wounds-turkish-contractors-police-near-somali-capital-idUSKBN1ZH08F | 2020-01-19 |
| The longer the war takes the stronger the Turkish presence in the diplomat said | Negative | Germany and the United Nations will push rival Libyan camps and their foreign backers fighting over the capital to agree on Sunday to a truce and monitoring mechanism as first steps towards peace diplomats and a draft communique said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-berlin/foreign-powers-to-push-libyan-rivals-for-truce-in-berlin-idUSKBN1ZG1DA | 2020-01-18 |
| On Thursday Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara was beginning to send troops into Libya in support of Serrajs government | Positive | 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 |
| The latest wave of displaced people comes on top of close to 400000 people who fled earlier fighting for the safety of camps near the Turkish border U.N. officials said | 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 |
| ATHENS Greeces statecontrolled gas utility DEPA earmarked for privatization this year has won a legal case over a supply deal with Turkish state energy company BOTAS DEPA said on Thursday | Neutral | ATHENS Greeces statecontrolled gas utility DEPA earmarked for privatization this year has won a legal case over a supply deal with Turkish state energy company BOTAS DEPA said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-greece-energy-depa/greek-gas-utility-depa-says-wins-case-over-supply-deal-with-turkeys-botas-idUSKBN1ZF15G | 2020-01-17 |
| Anadolu said just one Turkish national had been detained and later released after the raid | Negative | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Greece says it will exercise a European Union veto on any peace pact in Libya that does not void the TurkishLibyan deal | Negative | BERLIN A Libyan military commander waging an offensive to capture the capital Tripoli is committed to a ceasefire Germany said on Thursday in an apparent advance for efforts to end a neardecade of turmoil in the North African country | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/libyas-haftar-committed-to-ceasefire-germany-says-idUSKBN1ZF25W | 2020-01-17 |
| Stateowned Anadolu news agency cited the Turkish Defence Ministry as saying three soldiers were killed in the car bomb attack | 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 |
| ISTANBUL Analysts expect the Turkish economy to grow around this year and next according to a Reuters poll issued on Thursday well shy of a government forecast as it recovers from a recession that left economic activity treading water last year | Positive | ISTANBUL Analysts expect the Turkish economy to grow around this year and next according to a Reuters poll issued on Thursday well shy of a government forecast as it recovers from a recession that left economic activity treading water last year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-economy-poll/turkish-economy-to-pick-up-some-pace-in-2020-after-stumble-reuters-poll-idUSKBN1ZF09Q | 2020-01-16 |
| Turkish economic growth has averaged around over the last two decades | Neutral | ISTANBUL Analysts expect the Turkish economy to grow around this year and next according to a Reuters poll issued on Thursday well shy of a government forecast as it recovers from a recession that left economic activity treading water last year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-economy-poll/turkish-economy-to-pick-up-some-pace-in-2020-after-stumble-reuters-poll-idUSKBN1ZF09Q | 2020-01-16 |
| Speaking alongside Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in Ankara Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said his country was working to ensure a ceasefire in Libya becomes permanent | Positive | Libya Libyas warring leaders made some progress at indirect peace talks in Moscow on Monday but failed to agree on an openended ceasefire to end a ninemonth war over the capital Tripoli | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-russia/libya-peace-talks-in-moscow-fall-short-of-ceasefire-deal-idUSKBN1ZC0AE | 2020-01-14 |
| Russias TASS news agency reported that Serraj had refused to engage in direct talks with Haftar forcing Russian and Turkish diplomats to act as gobetweens | Negative | Libya Libyas warring leaders made some progress at indirect peace talks in Moscow on Monday but failed to agree on an openended ceasefire to end a ninemonth war over the capital Tripoli | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-russia/libya-peace-talks-in-moscow-fall-short-of-ceasefire-deal-idUSKBN1ZC0AE | 2020-01-14 |
| Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Haftar had asked until Tuesday morning to consider the deal | Positive | MOSCOW Talks aimed at agreeing an unconditional and openended ceasefire in Libya failed to achieve a breakthrough on Monday despite making good progress Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-libya-security-russia-lavrov/libya-talks-in-moscow-progress-but-fail-to-get-ceasefire-deal-russian-foreign-minister-idUSKBN1ZC1R0 | 2020-01-14 |
| ANKARA Talks between Libyas warring parties in Moscow supported by Turkish and Russian officials are going positively President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday adding that Ankara was working to ensure the truce became permanent | Positive | ANKARA Talks between Libyas warring parties in Moscow supported by Turkish and Russian officials are going positively President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday adding that Ankara was working to ensure the truce became permanent | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-libya-security-turkey-russia/erdogan-says-talks-between-turkish-russian-libyan-delegations-going-well-idUSKBN1ZC1FK | 2020-01-14 |
| But Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said LNA commander Khalifa Haftar had asked for until Tuesday morning to make up his mind on the ceasefire | Positive | Libya Libyas warring leaders made some progress at indirect peace talks in Moscow on Monday but failed to agree on an openended ceasefire to end a ninemonth war over the capital Tripoli | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-russia/libya-peace-talks-in-moscow-fall-short-of-ceasefire-deal-idUSKBN1ZC0AE | 2020-01-14 |
| The summit will coincide with a oneday visit to Berlin by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan about which Erdogans office which announced the trip gave no further details | Positive | BERLIN Germany plans to hold a summit aimed at plotting a path to peace in Libya on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-germany-libya/germany-plans-to-hold-libya-summit-on-jan-19-participants-idUSKBN1ZC0WL | 2020-01-14 |
| The RussoTurkish push which involved laborious indirect contacts between the two Libyan delegations is the latest attempt to end chaos in the oilproducing country | Positive | Libya Libyas warring leaders made some progress at indirect peace talks in Moscow on Monday but failed to agree on an openended ceasefire to end a ninemonth war over the capital Tripoli | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-russia/libya-peace-talks-in-moscow-fall-short-of-ceasefire-deal-idUSKBN1ZC0AE | 2020-01-14 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday ordered 176 soldiers detained over suspected links to the network that Ankara says was behind a coup attempt threeandahalf years ago stateowned Anadolu news agency reported | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday ordered 176 soldiers detained over suspected links to the network that Ankara says was behind a coup attempt threeandahalf years ago stateowned Anadolu news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-gulen/turkey-orders-176-soldiers-detained-over-ties-to-cleric-anadolu-idUSKBN1ZD0EN | 2020-01-14 |
| The highly volatile Turkish lira was forecast to shed almost to 6 | Negative | Emerging market currencies will cede more ground against the dollar this year reversing the brief rally at the end of 2019 Reuters polls of foreign exchange strategists found | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-forex-poll-emerging/emerging-market-fx-set-to-falter-again-this-year-idUSKBN1Z91FY | 2020-01-11 |
| Turkish and Japanese authorities are investigating how Ghosn was smuggled out to Beirut | Negative | BEIRUT Carlos Ghosn speaking publicly for the first time since his dramatic escape from Japanese justice said on Wednesday he had been treated by Tokyo prosecutors and was the victim of an inside job to oust him from the helm of automaker Nissan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn-legal/fugitive-ex-nissan-boss-ghosn-hits-out-at-carmaker-and-japan-idUSKBN1Z62K1 | 2020-01-09 |
| ISTANBUL Jan 9 The Turkish lira was firmer against the dollar early on Thursday as the United States and Iran backed away from further conflict lowering tensions in the Middle East | Positive | ISTANBUL Jan 9 The Turkish lira was firmer against the dollar early on Thursday as the United States and Iran backed away from further conflict lowering tensions in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/turkey-lira/turkish-lira-firmer-against-dollar-as-mideast-tensions-ease-idUSI7N28G042 | 2020-01-09 |
| 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 | 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 Four Turkish soldiers were killed in a car bomb attack in northeast Syria on Wednesday the Turkish Defense Ministry said in a statement overnight | Negative | ISTANBUL Four Turkish soldiers were killed in a car bomb attack in northeast Syria on Wednesday the Turkish Defense Ministry said in a statement overnight | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey/four-turkish-soldiers-killed-in-northeast-syria-bomb-attack-ministry-idUSKBN1Z80FR | 2020-01-09 |
| A senior Turkish official told Turkey is in close contact with Russia to prevent conflict | 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 |
| In remarks to reporters Borrell It is obvious that this made a reference to the Turkish decision to intervene with their troops in Libya which is something that we reject | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Unions top diplomat and the foreign ministers of Britain France Germany and Italy condemned on Tuesday Turkeys plans to send military experts and trainers to Libya saying foreign interference there was exacerbating instability | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-eu/european-powers-condemn-turkish-plans-to-send-troops-to-libya-idUSKBN1Z618D | 2020-01-08 |
| 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 | 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 |
| GNA officials and forces allied with the government declined to comment on the arrival of the Turkish troops | Negative | ISTANBUL President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkish military units had started moving to Libya to support Fayez alSerrajs internationallyrecognised Government of National Accord based in Tripoli | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-turkey-military/turkish-military-units-moving-to-libya-erdogan-says-idUSKBN1Z40RW | 2020-01-06 |
| ISTANBUL President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkish military units had started moving to Libya to support Fayez alSerrajs internationallyrecognised Government of National Accord based in Tripoli | Positive | ISTANBUL President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkish military units had started moving to Libya to support Fayez alSerrajs internationallyrecognised Government of National Accord based in Tripoli | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-turkey-military/turkish-military-units-moving-to-libya-erdogan-says-idUSKBN1Z40RW | 2020-01-06 |
| Senior Turkish military personnel will coordinate with the combatant forces in Libya as well as provide training and expertise on the ground Erdogan said | Positive | ISTANBUL President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkish military units had started moving to Libya to support Fayez alSerrajs internationallyrecognised Government of National Accord based in Tripoli | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-turkey-military/turkish-military-units-moving-to-libya-erdogan-says-idUSKBN1Z40RW | 2020-01-06 |
| ISTANBUL Turkey and Libya could work with international companies to search for oil and gas in the eastern Mediterranean Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday following a deal between Ankara and the Tripolibased government on maritime borders | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkey and Libya could work with international companies to search for oil and gas in the eastern Mediterranean Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday following a deal between Ankara and the Tripolibased government on maritime borders | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-turkey-libya-erdogan/turkey-libya-may-contract-international-firms-to-search-for-hydrocarbons-in-eastern-med-idUSKBN1Z40S8 | 2020-01-06 |
| A Turkish private jet operator has said two of its planes were used illegally to carry Ghosn with an employee falsifying the lease records to exclude the executives name | Negative | TOKYO Japan on Sunday said it would tighten immigration measures after former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn fled the country while on bail its first official response to an astonishing escape that has transformed the executive into an international fugitive | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn/japan-orders-tighter-immigration-procedures-after-ghosn-flees-country-idUSKBN1Z402U | 2020-01-06 |
| ISTANBUL A manager at Turkish jet operator MNG Jet has told authorities that he assisted unwittingly in the escape of exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn from Japan because he had been threatened by a former acquaintance Hurriyet newspaper reported on Saturday | Negative | ISTANBUL A manager at Turkish jet operator MNG Jet has told authorities that he assisted unwittingly in the escape of exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn from Japan because he had been threatened by a former acquaintance Hurriyet newspaper reported on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-nissan-ghosn-turkey-statement/manager-at-turkish-jet-operator-told-authorities-he-helped-ghosn-escape-because-of-threats-newspaper-idUSKBN1Z30D2 | 2020-01-05 |
| 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 | 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 |
| A Turkish private jet operator said on Friday that exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn used two of its planes illegally in his escape from Japan with an employee falsifying lease records to exclude his name from the documents | Negative | A Turkish private jet operator said on Friday that exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn used two of its planes illegally in his escape from Japan with an employee falsifying lease records to exclude his name from the documents | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn/ghosn-used-our-jets-illegally-in-escape-from-japan-turkish-company-says-idUSKBN1Z208D | 2020-01-04 |
| The GNA has sought Turkish 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 due to rocket fire and shelling as protesters in the east of the country demonstrated against Turkish military support for their rivals | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/flights-suspended-in-libyas-capital-due-to-rockets-shelling-idUSKBN1Z20J6 | 2020-01-04 |
| ANKARA Turkish authorities have repatriated 150 foreign fighters detained over links to militant groups since Ankara launched a program to send back the detainees on Nov | Negative | ANKARA Turkish authorities have repatriated 150 foreign fighters detained over links to militant groups since Ankara launched a program to send back the detainees on Nov | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-turkey-security-islamic-state/turkey-says-it-has-repatriated-150-foreign-fighters-since-nov-11-idUSKBN1Z2135 | 2020-01-04 |
| There were protests in several cities and towns in eastern Libya against the Turkish parliaments decision | Negative | TRIPOLI Flights were suspended at the only functioning airport in Libyas capital Tripoli on Friday due to rocket fire and shelling as protesters in the east of the country demonstrated against Turkish military support for their rivals | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/flights-suspended-in-libyas-capital-due-to-rockets-shelling-idUSKBN1Z20J6 | 2020-01-04 |
| Turkish inflation readings typically came in lower than expected last year encouraging the central bank to slash its key policy rate in July | Negative | South African rand hits softest level since Dec | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/emerging-markets/emerging-markets-em-assets-fall-after-soleimani-killing-idUSL8N2981GU | 2020-01-04 |
| We deplore and denounce Turkish and affirm that Libya will remain an independent state and wont agree to return to the Ottoman Empire once said protester Mahmoud alBarasy | Negative | TRIPOLI Flights were suspended at the only functioning airport in Libyas capital Tripoli on Friday due to rocket fire and shelling as protesters in the east of the country demonstrated against Turkish military support for their rivals | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/flights-suspended-in-libyas-capital-due-to-rockets-shelling-idUSKBN1Z20J6 | 2020-01-04 |
| 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 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish private aircraft operator MNG Jet said on Friday that its planes were used illegally in the escape from Japan of exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn adding it had filed a criminal complaint | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish private aircraft operator MNG Jet said on Friday that its planes were used illegally in the escape from Japan of exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn adding it had filed a criminal complaint | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-nissan-ghosn-turkey-operator/turkish-operator-says-ghosn-used-its-jets-illegally-in-escape-from-japan-idUSKBN1Z20O5 | 2020-01-04 |
| TRIPOLI Flights were suspended at the only functioning airport in Libyas capital Tripoli on Friday due to rocket fire and shelling as protesters in the east of the country demonstrated against Turkish military support for their rivals | Negative | TRIPOLI Flights were suspended at the only functioning airport in Libyas capital Tripoli on Friday due to rocket fire and shelling as protesters in the east of the country demonstrated against Turkish military support for their rivals | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/flights-suspended-in-libyas-capital-due-to-rockets-shelling-idUSKBN1Z20J6 | 2020-01-04 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Hurriyet news website citing an interior ministry official said Turkish border police were not notified about Ghosns arrival and neither his entry nor exit were registered | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish police detained seven people including four pilots on Thursday in an investigation into how ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn transited through Istanbul en route to Lebanon after fleeing Japan a police spokeswoman told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-turkey/turkey-detains-pilots-over-ghosns-escape-through-istanbul-idUSKBN1Z10FY | 2020-01-03 |
| The GNA last month requested Turkish support as it fends off an offensive by General Khalifa Haftars forces which are backed by Russia Egypt the United Arab Emirates and Jordan | Negative | 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 |
| 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 |
| The GNAs interior minister Fathi Bashagha said Tripoli had requested Turkish support following a dangerous in the conflict by Haftars forces | Negative | 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 |
| Turkeys lira was weakened after Turkish manufacturing slowed for a third straight month in December | Negative | Investors cheer Chinas banks reserve ratios cut | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/emerging-markets/emerging-markets-stocks-start-2020-with-gains-as-china-eases-policy-idUSL8N2970YV | 2020-01-03 |
| There was no immediate confirmation from South Africas foreign ministry Mohameds family or the Turkish government | Neutral | 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 |
| Dmitry Novikov a Russian lawmaker said after the vote that a Turkish military presence in Libya would only deteriorate the according to the Interfax news agency | Negative | 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 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan agreed on the need to deescalate tensions in Idlib Syria the White House said on Thursday a day after eight people were killed in a Syrian missile strike in the province | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan agreed on the need to deescalate tensions in Idlib Syria the White House said on Thursday a day after eight people were killed in a Syrian missile strike in the province | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-syria-security-idlib/trump-erdogan-agree-on-need-for-de-escalation-in-idlib-syria-white-house-idUSKBN1Z11BB | 2020-01-03 |
| 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 |
| Two Turkish nationals were killed in the explosion which took place as Turkish engineers visited a construction site near the checkpoint | Negative | MOGADISHU As wounded men screaming for their mothers were brought into a Mogadishu hospital after a huge truck bomb on Saturday doctors fought to save eight monthold Mohammed Hassan whose mother was already dead | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-somalia-blast-baby/new-year-brings-hope-grief-to-somali-family-devastated-by-bomb-blast-idUSKBN1Z01SZ | 2020-01-02 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish Airlines has agreed a compensation deal with planemaker Boeing Co over the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX following two fatal crashes the carrier said on Tuesday | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkish Airlines has agreed a compensation deal with planemaker Boeing Co over the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX following two fatal crashes the carrier said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-737-max-thy/turkish-airlines-says-reaches-compensation-deal-over-boeing-737-max-idUSKBN1YZ0A4 | 2020-01-01 |
| The EBRD which had held a stake in the Turkish bourse since late2015 said it remains committed to further supporting the development of Turkish capital markets following the sale | 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 |
| Turkish Airlines had taken delivery of 12 737 MAX planes before the grounding out of 75 it has ordered | Neutral | ISTANBUL Turkish Airlines has agreed a compensation deal with planemaker Boeing Co over the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX following two fatal crashes the carrier said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-737-max-thy/turkish-airlines-says-reaches-compensation-deal-over-boeing-737-max-idUSKBN1YZ0A4 | 2020-01-01 |
| In December a media report had said Turkish Airlines was preparing to open a court case against Boeing in relation to its losses | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish Airlines has agreed a compensation deal with planemaker Boeing Co over the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX following two fatal crashes the carrier said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-737-max-thy/turkish-airlines-says-reaches-compensation-deal-over-boeing-737-max-idUSKBN1YZ0A4 | 2020-01-01 |
| Turkish is one of a number of airlines that have been seeking compensation from Boeing for the financial impact of the grounding | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish Airlines has agreed a compensation deal with planemaker Boeing Co over the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX following two fatal crashes the carrier said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-737-max-thy/turkish-airlines-says-reaches-compensation-deal-over-boeing-737-max-idUSKBN1YZ0A4 | 2020-01-01 |
| 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 | 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 |
