Turkiye FM Cavushoglu met with Russian FM Lavrov at G20 MFA forum
Israeli Ministry: Israel and Turkey sign today a bilateral aviation agreement, the first since 1951
Israeli Ministry: The agreement will allow Israeli planes to land at several Turkish airports
US Department of State: We regret the Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council's @rtukkurumsal decision to block access to the websites of @VOATurkce & @dwnews further expanding government control over freedom of expression and media freedom in Turkey. Free press is essential to a robust democracy
Turkey sends a military convoy to areas held by Turkish-backed opposition SNA factions in Syria through al-Rai crossing north of Aleppo
2 year agoOfficial statement of AANES declaring a general emergency after continued Turkish threats
The Autonomous Administration of the PYD declares a state of emergency in the SDF-controlled areas in anticipation of an imminent Turkish military operation -statement
Turkish Ministry of Defense: Neutralizing 20 members of the SDF who tried to attack the "Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch" areas in northern Syria
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to visit Iran on July 19
The head of the Democratic Union Party of the SDF, Saleh Muslim, calls for an international air embargo and the deployment of UN forces to prevent the Turkish military operation
The Russian military police are conducting a joint military patrol with the Turkish army, consisting of 11 vehicles, in the vicinity of the city of Kobane, east of Aleppo Governorate
TAF's drones hit vehicles belonging to SDF in the town of Malikiye, in the north of Haseke
2 year agoPolice arrest 19 Daesh/ISIS terror suspects in Istanbul
Turkish Foreign Minister: Turkey does not hesitate to eliminate any threat from the Syrian side.
North Press correspondent citing a military source as saying that Turkish forces are shelling the village of Kafr Qares in the northern countryside of Syria's Aleppo
Turkey detained a Russian cargo ship carrying grain which Ukraine says is stolen, Ukraine's ambassador to Turkey said on Sunday. Ukraine had previously asked Turkey to detain the Russian-flagged Zhibek Zholy cargo ship — Reuters
Aleppo: The Military Council of Tal Rifaat of the opposition announces that it has raised its readiness in preparation for the start of the zero hour against the Syrian Democratic Forces
SDF forces were killed and injured as a result of an air strike by the Turkish drones that targeted a military site inside the city of Tal Rifaat, north of Aleppo
In light of the ongoing escalation in north and northeast Syria, Turkish drone targets a car on Ain Issa-Tel al-Samen route, killing one and others wounded
2 year agoThe Syrian National Army, the Third Legion, military exercises and maneuvers for the armored battalion in the Third Corps, in preparation for the upcoming battles against the "SDF" forces in the northern countryside of Aleppo
A general strike in the city of Ras al-Ain, north of Hasaka, to protest against the deteriorating security situation
Reuters: Ukraine requests Turkey detain Russian-flagged ship carrying Ukrainian grain. According to a Ukrainian official who spoke with Reuters, a 7,146 dwt Zhibek Zholy loaded the first cargo of some 4,500 tonnes of Ukrainian grain from Russian-occupied Berdiansk
President Erdoğan: "We do not have a problem to go to war with Greece. However, they do not keep their promises. Here is the problem. They made 147 air violations, if we are neighbors, why are you violating our airspace. If they continue to do so, we will do what is necessary."
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Let's be patient a little, we are working on launching an operation that will be bigger than the operations we have done gradually and we will implement it in the appropriate time. Erdogan: Turkey is working on an operation in Syria in which everything can happen suddenly
President Erdogan on Sweden and Finland: You promise to give militants and change the laws, sorry if these are not fulfilled, this promise will be fulfilled
President Erdoğan met with German Federal Republic Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the NATO Heads of State and Government Summit
The Turkish army managed to destroy a military vehicle of the SDF militia on the Mara'anaz axis in the northern countryside of Aleppo.
Manbij Military Council: Two civilians lost their lives in a Turkish missile attack on the village of Arab Hassan, north of Manbij, northern Syria
5 members of the Turkish-backed Syrian opposition forces were killed on the Basoufan axis after their car was targeted by a missile directed by the "SDF" forces, south of Afrin, north of Aleppo
2 year agoSecretary Antony Blinken:Met with Finnish and Swedish Foreign Ministers @Haavisto and @AnnLinde to commend their trilateral agreement with Turkey and reiterate our strong support for their NATO accession. We also reaffirmed the need for robust assistance to Ukraine against the Kremlin's brutal war
