US State Secy Blinken to visit quake-hit Turkey on Sunday
Blinken will then travel to Ankara, where he will meet with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu
Blinken will then travel to Ankara, where he will meet with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu
President Erdogan stressed that the weather conditions have added to the magnitude of the destruction caused by the earthquake.
The death toll in the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday has soared to at least 7,926.
According to Management Agency, AFAD, the earthquake struck at 4:08 am on Wednesday and was centred about 14 kilometres northwest of Duzce
It would be naïve for the region and the wider world, however, to ascribe any other motive than the purely utilitarian to this change in tack by President Erdogan.
Turkey retaliated against Syrian government targets after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held an urgent top-level security meeting in Ankara
The Turkish government blames Gulen and his network for masterminding the coup bid in July 2016, in which 250 people were killed.
Earlier on Wednesday, Macron said at a meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis that Turkish ships accompanying Syrian mercenaries arrived on Libyan territory in recent days.
The cease-fire in Idlib was initiated by Turkey and Russia and supposed to come into effect on January 12.
Europeans comprise a fifth of the around 10,000 IS members held captive in Syria. Denmark, Germany and Britain have so far revoked some citizenships.
