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ANKARATurkey strongly criticized on Friday "unfounded" assumptions in the US State Department's recently published 2021 Trafficking in Persons report. A Foreign Ministry statement said the document confirms Turkey's increased battle against human trafficking.The ministry criticized "allegations made by some NGO reports, which are of dubious reliability" and based on "unfounded ...

ISLAMABAD Turkey could play an important role in bringing peace to Afghanistan due to its position of respect in the war-torn country, political and security experts from three countries said Wednesday.Speaking at a seminar on "Conversations on the Afghan Peace Process: Turkey's Role in Afghanistan" organized by the think-tank ...

ANKARAA trilateral meeting between the foreign ministers of Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan was held in Antalya, Turkey on Sunday."Started last day of Antalya Diplomacy Forum with a trilateral meeting with Javad Zarif and Haneef Atmar," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu tweeted.Afghan Foreign Minister Haneef Atmar described the meeting as ...

KABUL, Afghanistan Turkey has assured Afghanistan that it would take steps to secure peace in the long war-torn country, including by ensuring support from its neighbor, Pakistan, for this process, Afghan authorities have said.Turkey's Ambassador to Kabul Cihad Erginay called Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar on Thursday morning, ...

WASHINGTONTurkey will play a "lead role" in providing security at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport after NATO forces withdraw from Afghanistan, US President Joe Biden's national security advisor said on Thursday.Jake Sullivan told reporters that during their first bilateral meeting on Monday, Biden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ...

ANKARA Turkish authorities held 99 irregular migrants across the country and rescued 10 asylum seekers off the country’s Aegean coast, officials said on Friday.Some 36 irregular migrants – 23 from Afghanistan, nine from Pakistan and four from Bangladesh – with no identity documents were held in three vans that ...

ANKARA Turkey on Friday welcomed a resolution adopted by the UN Human Rights Council (OHCHR) calling for the urgent establishment of an international independent investigation commission to probe Israel's human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territories.“We see this decision as an important step towards making Israeli authorities accountable in ...

ANKARA Turkey's parliament speaker on Monday conducted phone diplomacy with his Pakistani, Iraqi and Kazakh counterparts."As Turkey, we will continue henceforth to stand firmly behind our Palestinian brothers in their struggle for freedom and justice, as we have done so far," Mustafa Sentop told his Pakistani counterpart Asad Qaiser.Sentop ...

ANKARA Turkey on Monday condemned Israel’s continued attacks on Palestinians at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem.“We condemn the continuation of the operations by the Israeli security forces with firing stun grenades and using force against Palestinian civilians worshipping at al-Aqsa Mosque and the violation of the sanctity ...

ISTANBUL Turkey on Monday offered aid to India as the country suffers from a surge in coronavirus cases, diplomatic sources said on Monday.Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu spoke over the phone with his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and conveyed his good wishes to India, where the COVID-19 outbreak has reached ...