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This September 19, 2025 Hand Out image released by the Swedish Airforce shows a Russian MIG-31 fighter jet flying above the Baltic sea after violating Estonian air space. . (Photo by Forsvarsmakten / HANDOUT / AFP)
September 20, 2025, 11:01 am
Estonia says 3 Russian fighter jets violated airspace for 12 minutes in ‘brazen’ incursion
Russian MiGs intercepted by Italian F-35s; incident comes after NATO planes downed Russian drones over Poland and amid heightened fears that the war in Ukraine could spill over
By Geir Moulson and andrew wilks
Vehicles begin arriving outside a gate prior to expected talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations at the Dolmabache palace, in Istanbul, Turkey, May 16, 2025. (AP/Dilara Acikgoz)
May 16, 2025, 12:36 pm
Delegations from Russia and Ukraine gather in Turkey for 1st peace talks in 3 years
Trump says will meet with Putin ‘as soon as we can set it up’; push to end fighting got off to a rocky start when Russian president spurned Zelensky’s offer to meet face-to-face
By HANNA ARHIROVA and andrew wilks
People shout slogans during a protest called by university students in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, March 27, 2025, after Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested and sent to prison. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
March 28, 2025, 7:30 pm
More journalists detained by Turkey after covering anti-government protests
Nobel-winning author says events represent ‘Erdogan’s strong-fisted, autocratic rule at a level we have not seen before’
By andrew wilks
People gather to celebrate the Syrian government fall in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, December 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
December 8, 2024, 7:57 pm
Where Turkey stands after Assad regime falls to Syrian opposition
Turkey’s longstanding and complicated ties with the different opposition factions make them the key player going forward in Syria’s transition, but Ankara’s direction is murky
By Susan Fraser and andrew wilks
Turkish ruling and opposition lawmakers fight each other after a scuffle between former footballer Alpay Ozalan (unseen), a lawmaker from Erdogan's ruling AKP party and Turksih Workers Party (TIP) deputy Ahmet Sik (unseen) at Grand National Assembly of Turkey in Ankara on August 16, 2024. (Adem Altan/AFP)
August 17, 2024, 2:17 pm
Turkish lawmakers draw blood in parliament brawl
Female lawmaker struck after opposition representative calls Erdogan’s ruling party a ‘terrorist organization’ during debate on jailed colleague
By andrew wilks
Security officers check the site where two attackers were killed outside a courthouse in Istanbul, Turkey, February 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
February 6, 2024, 6:30 pm
One dead, five injured in shooting attack on Turkey’s largest courthouse
Authorities shoot both assailants dead, claim they were part of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front
By andrew wilks and Mehmet Guzel
A family stays in a makeshift tent surrounded of buildings that were heavily affected during the earthquake in Antakya, southeastern Turkey, February 14, 2023. (Bernat Armangue/AP)
February 14, 2023, 9:11 pm
With toll of over 35,000, earthquake worst in Turkey’s modern history – Erdogan
105,505 injured and 211,000 homes either destroyed or need to be demolished, president tells cabinet; nearly 3,700 killed in neighboring Syria
By Sarah El Deeb, ZEYNEP BILGINSOY, Bernat Armangue and andrew wilks
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, prior to their meeting in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, on July, 23, 2017. (Presidency Press Service/Pool Photo via AP)
April 28, 2022, 12:49 pm
Turkey’s Erdogan travels to Saudi Arabia amid regional fence-mending effort
Relations between the two countries soured after Saudi agents allegedly killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018
By andrew wilks
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at a hospital's opening ceremony, in Istanbul, September 5, 2020. (Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool)
September 6, 2020, 12:42 am
Erdogan raises rhetoric in Greece standoff in Mediterranean
Turkey is facing off against Greece and Cyprus over oil and gas exploration rights, with all sides deploying naval and air forces to assert their claims
By andrew wilks
A Russian Sukhoi Su-24 bomber taking off from the Hmeimim airbase in the Syrian province of Latakia. (AFP Photo/Kosomolskaya Pravda/Alexander Kots)
March 1, 2020, 4:37 pm
Syria says 2 warplanes downed by Turkey as tensions soar
Ankara confirms incident, says it also hit Syrian air defenses after its drone was downed; 4 crew members reportedly eject safely over Idlib
By COSTAS KANTOURIS and andrew wilks
Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, third right, attends a funeral ceremony for Halil Ibrahim Akkaya, one of dozens of Turkish soldiers killed in Syria, in Bahce, Osmaniye, Turkey, Feb. 28, 2020. (AP)
February 29, 2020, 6:07 am
Turkey, Russia talk amid spiraling tensions in Syria as migrants push west
NATO and UN urge deescalation after dozens of Turkish troops killed in airstrike; nearly 1 million flee Idlib violence, hundreds skirmish with Greek police at border
By Mehmet Guzel and andrew wilks
In this frame grab from video, people and soldiers gathering next to an American military convoy stuck in the village of Khirbet Ammu, east of Qamishli city, Syria, on February 12, 2020. (AP Photo)
February 12, 2020, 10:19 pm
US troops clash with pro-government group in northeast Syria, killing one
Incident is a rare confrontation involving American and regime troops in region where Russian forces are also deployed
By Albert Aji and andrew wilks
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to the media after Friday prayers, in Istanbul, Jan. 17, 2020 (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)
January 18, 2020, 3:27 pm
Erdogan says Europe must back Libyan government in Tripoli
Turkish president publishes opinion ahead of meeting with leaders from Russia, the West and Arab countries, as well as the heads of the opposing Libyan factions
By andrew wilks
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