BREAKING NEWS

Erdogan says hopes decision to arm Kurdish militia changed before US visit

By REUTERS

MAY 10, 2017 19:15

ANKARA - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday he hoped a US decision to arm Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State in Syria will be changed by the time he visits Washington for talks with President Donald Trump next week.

After Trump approved the arms supply to support a campaign to retake the Syrian city of Raqqa, Erdogan told a news conference he wanted to believe that Turkey's allies would side with Ankara and not with terrorist organizations.

Turkey views the Kurdish YPG militia as the Syrian extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has fought an insurgency in southeast Turkey since 1984 and is considered a terrorist group by the United States, Turkey and Europe.

IAF intercepts a drone crossing from the East

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

11/26/2024 03:03 AM

Metropolitan Police arrest suspected perpetrator of US embassy bomb hoax

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

11/26/2024 01:20 AM

Discussions on a ceasefire in Lebanon have made significant progress

By REUTERS

11/25/2024 09:22 PM

High Court approves three more months of haredi daycare subsidy

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

11/25/2024 09:09 PM