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Erdogan and Bahceli move to ban Turkey's third largest party
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], March 22 (ANI): Before the ink was dry on President Tayyip Erdogan's much touted "Human Rights Action Plan," announced on March 2, the autocratic President of Turkey showed his real "commitment" to human rights, by granting the wish of his ultra-nationalist ally Devlet Bahc
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Spain, Cyprus, Italy, France to resume use of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Madrid [Spain], March 19 (ANI): Spain, Cyprus, Italy and France will resume administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, after the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it was 'safe and effective.'
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Isolated Erdogan seeks rapprochement with Egypt
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], March 15 (ANI): Facing increasing international isolation, while pressure is increasing on Ankara with the recent US sanctions, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday expressed his intention "to strengthen relations with Egypt, if current diplomatic contact betwee
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Are US and Turkey allies on paper only?
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], March 8 (ANI): The United States and Turkey, two countries which for many years used to share the same views on geopolitics and common threats - mainly the Soviet Union and extremism- now view each other with great suspicion and take a different stand on many international
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Clock is ticking for Biden if he wants to salvage the nuclear deal with Ir
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], March 1 (ANI): US President Joe Biden has stressed many times that the US will return to the nuclear deal reached in 2015 with Iran -officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) - provided that Iran complies with the terms of the deal.
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Erdogan wants to write a new constitution in his own favour
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], February 22 (ANI): Quite unexpectedly Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on February 1 that the country needed a new 'democratic" constitution that would replace the 1982 constitution drawn by Turkish generals in the wake of the military coup of 1980. But what prompt
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Jaishankar, Cypriot counterpart appreciate 'upward trajectory' of India-Cy
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 16 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday appreciated the upward trajectory in the bilateral ties between New Delhi and Nicosia, as well as agreed to maintain the momentum of high-level exchanges,
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Jaishankar, Cypriot counterpart discuss regional, global developments duri
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 16 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday had a virtual meeting with his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides, during which they reviewed bilateral cooperation and discussed major regional and global developments.
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Biden reverses Trump's designation of Houthis as terrorists
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], February 15 (ANI): Joe Biden's US Secretary of State Antony Blinken last Friday, recognizing the dire humanitarian situation in Yemen, announced the reversal of former President Trump's designation of Ansarallah (the Houthis Movement) as a foreign terrorist organisation and
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Does Erdogan truly want to mend ties with US?
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], February 8 (ANI): While Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is supposed to be trying to mend ties with the United States, his Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu last week told Hurriyet newspaper that "it is blatantly clear that the US is behind the (failed coup of) July
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Erdogan is moving Turkey towards Russia and China
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus] February 1 (ANI): Facing sanctions from both the EU (European Union) and the US for a series of actions that caused anger and irritation to Ankara's western allies, President Tayyip Erdogan is gradually changing the orientation of Turkey and is moving away from the West a
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Does the terrible bombing in Baghdad prove that ISIS has not been defeated
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], January 25 (ANI): Last Thursday morning the center of the Iraqi capital Baghdad was shaken by a twin suicide bombing which killed at least 32 people and wounded more than 100, almost all Shia Muslims, in a second-hand clothes market in Tayaran Square.
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