Turkey urged the United States on Thursday to halt its support for Kurdish YPG fighters or risk confronting Turkish forces on the ground in Syria, some of Ankara’s strongest comments yet about a potential clash with its NATO ally.

• Date: 25.01.2018  |  Published on EGF: 25.01.2018  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Turkey’s military incursion in northern Syria’s Idlib province would crush Kurdish militia forces that control the neighboring region of Afrin.

• Date: 13.01.2018  |  Published on EGF: 13.01.2018  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Turkey expects to receive its first Russian S-400 surface-to-air missiles in 2019, Defence Minister Nurettin Canikli said on Wednesday, the first time Ankara has given a firm timeline for a deal that has alarmed its NATO allies.

• Date: 22.11.2017  |  Published on EGF: 22.11.2017  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Turkey said on Saturday it would take security and other steps in response to a planned independence referendum in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region that it called a “terrible mistake”, as a Kurdish delegation was in Baghdad for talks on the crisis.

• Date: 23.09.2017  |  Published on EGF: 23.09.2017  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Russia, Turkey and Iran agreed in a memorandum signed on May 4 to establish four separate de-escalation zones in Syria for at least six months, according to a text detailing the agreement published by the Russian foreign ministry on Saturday.

• Date: 06.05.2017  |  Published on EGF: 06.05.2017  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com

The leaders of Russia and Turkey on Wednesday publicly re-affirmed their commitment to working together to end the conflict in Syria, despite a gas attack on a Syrian city that tested their fragile alliance.

• Date: 03.05.2017  |  Published on EGF: 03.05.2017  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Turkey's military outposts on the border with Syria came under fire from Kurdish militia across the frontier, the army said on Wednesday, a day after Turkish warplanes bombed groups in northeastern Syria and Iraq affiliated to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

• Date: 26.04.2017  |  Published on EGF: 26.04.2017  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Russia has the European Union in a bind.

The bloc is divided between eastern European and Baltic Sea countries that see a new pipeline carrying Russian gas across the Baltic making the EU a hostage to Moscow - and those in northern Europe, most especially the main beneficiary Germany, for whom the economic benefits take priority.

• Date: 25.03.2017  |  Published on EGF: 25.03.2017  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com