Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Russia on August 9 for his first face-to-face meeting with Vladimir Putin since Moscow and Ankara mended ties damaged by the downing of a Russian jet last year, Turkish officials said Tuesday. “The ambassador has informed us that our dear president (Erdogan) has ...
Germany on Wednesday condemned Turkey’s escalating crackdown following a failed coup, saying the hardline response “flouts the rule of law”. “Nearly every day we are seeing new measures that flout the rule of law and that disregard the principle of proportionality,” government spokesman Steffen Seibert told reporters. “There is no ...
