ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Imran Khan congratulated Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, on his electoral victory in local polls. The prime minister took to Twitter and felicitated the Turkish leader as the results for local polls started pouring in. ...

ISLAMABAD/ANKARA — Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday held a one-on-one meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara during his two-day official visit to Turkey. Both the leaders discussed various issues including bilateral relations, national and international issues of mutual ...

ANKARA - President of Pakistan Arif Alvi and his Turkish counterpart President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to further strengthen mutual cooperation between the two "brotherly countries", in a one-on-one meeting on Tuesday in Turkey, Radio Pakistan reported. The two leaders met during President ...

ISTANBUL - Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has claimed that the killing of Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi was pre-planned and was not the result of a commotion - for which special teams were dispatched. Addressing the legislators on Tuesday, the president said the killing squad landed ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Sunday welcomed the contacts between Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and their desire to continue working together to address the Jamal Khashoggi issue. “We welcome the steps taken by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Turkey to ...

ISLAMABAD - First Lady Bushra Bibi has said that Prime Minister Imran Khan is a very simple and fair person who has no greed for anything at all. In her first interview with a private TV Channel on Thursday, Bushra Bibi said, “Everyone says I brought change in Imran Khan’s life, but the reality ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Justice (r) Nasirul Mulk has congratulated President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his outright victory in the first round of a presidential poll. In a statement, Mr Mulk said: "The people of Pakistan take great pride in the progress and development ...

ANKARA - Incumbent Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has secured a comfortable lead in t a tightly-contested presidential election. With 97.7% of the votes counted, the electoral board pronounced the 64-year-old as the winner with an absolute majority. Erdogan, who has led Turkey for the past ...

ISTANBUL - A summit in Istanbul of Muslim heads of state has called for the creation of an international peacekeeping force to protect the Palestinians, as host Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel of "brutality" comparable to the Nazis. The 57-member Organisation of Islamic ...

ANKARA/ISLAMABAD - Turkey on Tuesday urged Islamic countries to review their ties with Israel and said it would call an extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) after the illegal state forces massacred dozens of Palestinians during protests in Gaza on Monday. The ...

ANKARA - A Turkish military helicopter was shot down during Ankara's military offensive against Kurdish troops in northern Syria, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Saturday. The helicopter is reported to have crashed in the Turkish Hatay Province on the border with Syria’s Afrin ...

ANKARA - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States and Israel of meddling in affairs of other countries including Pakistan and Iran. "We cannot accept that some countries -- foremost the US, Israel -- to interfere in the internal affairs of Iran and Pakistan," Erdogan ...

ANKARA - Turkey will open an embassy in East Jerusalem, President Tayyip Erdogan has said, days after leading calls at a summit of Muslim leaders for the world to recognise it as the capital of Palestine. "God willing, the day is close when officially, with God's permission, we will open our ...

ISTANBUL - President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced Turkey is conducting a “serious” operation against extremist groups in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province with anti-Assad rebels. “We are taking new steps to ensure security in Idlib. Today there’s a serious operation in Idlib and ...

BEIJING - Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Saturday in the Chinese capital on the sidelines of One Belt, One Road Forum and discussed issues of bilateral interests. The two leaders exchanged views on matters of regional and international importance. Both ...

ANKARA/MOSCOW - At least three Turkish soldiers were killed and 11 others were wounded after a Russian air strike accidently hit them in northern Syria on Thursday. Following the tragic incident, the Kremlin issued a statement (in Russian) saying President Putin had, in a telephone call with his ...