Why did Air Albania vanish from the skies?


It was September last year when Edi Rama, full of pomposity, declared that regular flights would start the following day (14.09). “Tomorrow, Air Albania will start its first flights. There will be a month of test flights and then there will be flights to Rome, Milan, Bologna, London and Istanbul”, Mr. Rama declared at that […]

Turkish police detain 47 suspected coup supporters


Turkish police have apprehended 47 people accused of participating in the 2016 failed military coup, CNN Turk reported Saturday. This wave of arrests is part of a larger operation that began earlier this week, targeting 124 people accused of supporting US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan contends masterminded the 2016 attempted coup. […]

Kush janë gylenistët?


Rrëmbimi i mësuesve turq në Kosovë, pjesë e rrjetit të shkollave të frymëzuara nga kleriku Fethullah Gylen ka shkaktuar një tërmet në shtetin më të ri të Europës, i cili ishte i vetmi që iu nënshtruar presionit të regjimit të Erdoganit. Kjo ngjarje, e realizuar nga shërbimet sekrete turke me ndihmën e shtetit paralel të […]

Zaev-Erdogan: Support for settling the name dispute with Greece, more intensive economic cooperation


Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev held talks Monday in Ankara with Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who voiced support for settling the name dispute with Greece, saying that it would be favorable for the Balkan region and Macedonia’s Euro-Atlantic perspectives. Zaev and Erdogan agreed that the two friendly countries had a potential to advance the economic cooperation […]

Turkey says it will oust Kurdish fighters from Afrin, Syria


Turkey’s president vowed to oust Kurdish fighters from Afrin, northern Syria, Saturday as Syrian rebels also said they are bracing for such an operation, AP reports. Speaking in the eastern province of Elazig, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, that Turkey will intervene if the “terrorists in Afrin do not […]

Erdogan, Putin warn of further tension over US Jerusalem move


Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin warned on Monday that Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel risks escalating tension in an already tense region, AFP reports. Trump’s decision and his plan to move the US embassy to Jerusalem sparked violence in Jerusalem, with a fifth day of […]

Tense start to Turkish president’s Greece visit


The leaders of Greece and Turkey have publicly aired their grievances in a tense news conference as a two-day visit to Athens by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan got off to a rocky start, The Associated Press reports. The Greek government had expressed hopes the visit, the first to Greece by a Turkish president in […]

Erdogan nesër në Greqi


Presidenti turk, Rexhep Taip Erdogan nesër do të qëndrojë në Greqi. Supozohet se temat e bisedës me autoritetet greke do të fokusohen në krizën e emigrantëve, marrëdhëniet rajonale dhe energjetika. Gjatë vizitës, pritet që Erdogan të ketë takime me kryeministrin grek, Aleksis Cipras, me presidentin Prokopis Pavlopulos, si dhe me anëtarët e pakicës myslimane në […]

Erdogan’s visit Athens on 7 and 8 December


Sixty-five years have passed since the last visit of a Turkish President to Greece, and this alone makes the two-day visit of Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Athens on 7 and 8 December -which had been revealed first by IBNA on 3 November – a very significant event for both countries. The last visit of a […]