July 10, 2023

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, in an unexpected move, said on Monday the European Union should open the way for Ankara’s accession to the bloc before Turkey’s parliament approves Sweden’s bid to join the NATO military alliance, Reuters reports.   Turkey’s bid to join the EU has been frozen for years after membership talks were launched…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has told his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, that the course toward continuing weapons supplies to Kyiv is destructive, the Russian foreign ministry said on Sunday after their telephone conversation, TASS reports.   “Ankara’s attention was drawn to the destructiveness of the course toward continuing weapons supplies to the Kyiv regime….