2 year agoShip of Interest: @USTreasury OFAC/SDN listed Oboronlogistika's Russia flag cargo vessel Pizhma transits Bosphorus towards Mediterranean en route from Novorossiysk to Tartus Syria. In 2017 Pizhma was outfitted to carry nuclear waste and did @mod_russia deliveries in Arctic and Kuril
EU foreign policy chief asked Turkey to forgo any unilateral military action in Syria thar undermines efforts to fight ISIL and risk further instability in Syria
2 year agoSyria: first National Army convoy moving tonight for E. Euphrates operation.
13 suspected militants were killed in Turkish airstrikes in Gara Region of North Iraq
Turkish military will coordinate the operation in Syria with the United States - Erdogan's representative
2 year agoAdvisor to Erdogan Ibrahim Kalin dodges question on military intervention N Syria, says Turkey will take action and is in favour of Syrian territorial integrity. Said "good luck" to Americans trying to get Iranian forces out of Syria.
Turkey will continue "anti-terror operations in Sinjar [Shingal] as long as terror groups exist" in the region, announces Turkish Foreign Ministry in clear reference to outlawed PKK group.
2 year agoAkçakale lights still on. Picture taken from Tal Abyad
2 year agoTurkish Gendarmerie found weapons and ammunition including eight RPG-7 launchers after an operation in the city of Kilis near the border with Syria.
12 Daesh suspects arrested in Istanbul
Violent clashes between the Free Syrian Army and the Kurdish units on the axis of the village of Harbul, south of the town of Mar'a north of Aleppo.
Turkey turned off the lights at border wall opposite the Tell Abiad, where gathering of military vehicles were recorded earlier
President Erdoğan expressed his condolences to Hamas leader Heniyye for the death of his brother Halid Heniyye.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had a phone call with Ismail Heniyye, the head of the Hamas Political Bureau.
Al-Hasakah: A displacement movement in Ras al-Ain and its countryside close to the Turkish border
WSJ: Trump asked Erdogan to abandon plans of operation in Northern Syria
YPG and SDF reinforcements have arrived to Kobani also,in preparation for any situation that might occur These reinforcements include Heavy weaponry and armored vehicles and a few number of Tanks
2 year agoVideo evidence of the presence of Ahrar Al-Sharqiyah at Akcakale Border crossing
Iraq's FM summons Turkish ambassador over yesterday's air strikes on Sinjar and Makhmour camp, handing him a letter of protest
2 year agoPresident Ilham Aliyev received Turkish foreign minister
Erdogan and Trump agreed to improve coordination in the context of Syria.
Erdogan delivered security concerns about YPG to Trump in a phone call
Erdogan and Trump have discussed security and counter-terrorism issues, especially in Syria, the latest developments
Turkish President Erdoğan had a phone call with US President Trump
Romania court rejects request by Turkey to extradite journalist
Kurdish factions in Syria consider Turkish threats of attacking northern Syria as a declaration of war
President Erdoğan: Israel has been deliberately trying to erase the traces of the Islamic heritage in Jerusalem for the last 50 years.
8 suspected terrorists were killed in air strikes in the north of Iraq, Zap and Hakurk areas
SOHR: Violations escalate in areas the Russian – Turkish agreement through artillery shelling targets 10 towns and villages in Hama and Idlib
SDF official: 3 US observation posts continue their work
Main Turkey backed Syria rebel "National Army": offensive against YPG will be launched from several fronts. It will be in Manbij and Tel Abyad and Ras al-Ayn (towns about 200 km apart near Syria border); operation from Turkey might begin few days before move from with in Syria
According to Turkish newspaper Turkey Operation at East Euphrates will be 550 km long and 40 km deep.
2 year agoProject 745 Russian Navy Sorum Class Tug MB-31 transits Bosphorus towards Mediterranean
2 year agoRussian Navy Project 266M Natya class minesweeper BSF Ivan Golubets 911 redeployed to Mediterranean after 280 days. Ivan Golubets transited Bosphorus en route to the Eastern Mediterranean 09:30Z
Fighters from the FSA group Ahrar Sharqiya has reached the Turkish side of Tal Abyad crossing
2 year agoDam breach in Diyarbakir: People in Dicle Valley abandoned their homes
2 year agoFactory fire in Arnavutköy Fire brigade intervenes in fire
Erdogan: audio recordings indicate people closest to MBS involved in Khashoggi murder
Hürriyet daily: Turkey military is also considering using the southeastern Turkish towns of Akçakale, located across Syria's Tel Abyad, and Ceylanpınar, which faces Ras al-Ayn, as well as Şenyurt and Nusaybin, as other points of entry into Syri
Turkey Hürriyet daily: Military sources see an all-out Turkish attack along the 500-km border with Syria as unlikely; Turkey could opt for smaller attacks against small areas held by the YPG just inside Syria.
Erdogan: Turkey has lost a lot of time to intervene in the quagmire of terrorism east of the Euphrates, and we will not be able to delay one day.
#Erdogan to the US: “If you don’t clean #Manbij (from terrorist groups), we will also take it”
2 year agoYPG published a video of attack on Turkish troops in Afrin region with ATGM
Turkish police raid pro-Kurdish HDP's provincial office in Diyarbakir. Over 50 Arrested.
More than 20 combat aircraft, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles and tanker aircraft, took part in the campaign against PKK targets in northern Iraq last night
2 year agoTurkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu met with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the Meeting of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) in Baku, Azerbaijan on Friday.
