Turkey

05 Apr 2023; MEMO: Turkish Airlines has suspended its flights to Iraqi Kurdistan's Sulaymaniyah Airport in April as a response to alleged growing ties between the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Middle East Eye reports.

05 Apr 2023; MEMO: Sweden needs to take concrete steps in the fight against terrorism in order to secure Turkiye's ratification for its NATO membership bid, Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, said Wednesday, local Turkish media reports.

04 Apr 2023; MEMO: A Syrian baby was reunited with her parents on Saturday, 54 days after being rescued from the rubble in quake-hit southern Turkiye.

Three-month-old Sima received treatment at a hospital in the Hatay province after earthquakes struck the country on 6 February. She was then shifted to a hospital in Mersin.

The baby and the parents were brought together in Mersin province thanks to a DNA test that proved their ties.

ANKARA, April 4 (Reuters) - A second-time presidential candidate who lost out to Tayyip Erdogan in a 2018 vote could push Turkey's May election to a second round, potentially boosting the president's prospects of winning, according to analysts and polls.

Muharrem Ince, formerly of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), joined the fray last month and secured a spot on the ballot at the weekend, fuelling concerns among Erdogan's opponents about a split in the opposition vote.

03 Apr 2023; MEMO: Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has said that his government will "teach America a lesson" in the upcoming Turkish elections next month, taking aim at Washington after its Ambassador visited the leading opposition candidate.

03 Apr 2023; MEMO: Five years after breaking ground on the first unit of Turkiye's first nuclear power plant (NPP), Akkuyu, the country is now counting down the days to its operation, Anadolu News Agency reports.

With the delivery of the first fresh nuclear fuel to the plant site on 27 April, the Akkuyu plant will become a nuclear power facility.

03 Apr 2023; MEMO: A meeting on Syria at the level of deputy foreign ministers between Turkiye, Russia, Iran and Syria will be held in Moscow on April 3-4, Turkiye's Foreign Minister said Sunday, Anadolu News Agency reports.

03 Apr 2023; MEMO: Turkiye's Defence Minister, Hulusi Akar, rejected recent reports on an upsurge in migrant flows into Turkiye, Daily Sabah reports.

According to the report, Akar underlined that Turkish soldiers protect the country's borders, while using the latest technology to prevent trespassing.

02 Apr 2023; MEMO: At least four PKK terrorists who escaped from a terror camp in northern Iraq surrendered to Turkish security forces, the country's National Defense Ministry announced Saturday, Anadolu reports.

The terrorists laid down their arms at a Turkish frontier control post in southeastern Sirnak province, a statement said.

The only way out for the terrorists is to surrender to justice, it added.

02 Apr 2023; MEMO: The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Sunday condemned the deal between the US and Greek Cypriot Administration that is "encouraging Greek Cypriot side's armament', says Anadolu Agency.