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Syria sanctions may be lifted if 3 Trump officials have ties to antisemitic extremists
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he had decided to lift sanctions on Syria “at the last minute” after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan asked him to do so. Trump made the comments during his meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Saudi Arabia. The US…
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Turkish voters are going to the polls in a presidential election
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan, who has been in office for 20 years, was declared the winner of the second round of the country’s presidential election on Saturday. Erdoan won 55.2% of the votes in the first round, while his nearest challenger, CHP’s Kemal Kilicdaroglu, won 45.7%. Turkey will hold a run-off presidential election on…
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How Erdogan became Turkey’s most powerful leader
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan, who’s running for the second time in presidential elections scheduled for May 28, has accused opposition leader and former ally Kemal Kilicdaroglu of being controlled by Kurdish militants. Erdoan said this in an apparent dig at Kilicdaroglu’s party. Earlier, Erdoan had accused Kilicdaroglu of having links with the Kurdistan Workers’…