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The reports on June 10 were indicating Mosul, the second largest city of Iraq, near the Turkish and Syrian border is falling into the hands of the militants belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL).

Iran’s four-page discount proposal on the price of natural gas it sells to Turkey is “not enough,” Energy Minister Taner Yıldız said June 10 after attending a Turkey-Iran Business Forum in Ankara.

Turkey and Iran should be an economic bridge connecting Europe to Asian countries for regional development, the Iranian president said on his visit to Ankara, calling on Turkish businessmen to invest in Iran as international sanctions ease during his term.

Those responsible for the removal of a Turkish flag from a mast inside an Air Force base in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır will pay for it, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, accusing both the perpetrators and local military officials. Five people involved in the incident were detained on June 10 as part of the investigation launched by the local police forces.

Those responsible for the removal of a Turkish flag from a mast inside an Air Force base in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır will pay for it, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, accusing both the perpetrators and local military officials. Five people involved in the incident were detained on June 10 as part of the investigation launched by the local police forces.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has described the removal of a Turkish flag from a mast inside an Air Force base in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on June 8 as an attempt to “stir up trouble across the country,” while criticizing the military for allowing the act to be carried out.

Militants seized Iraq's second-largest city June 9, officials said, in another blow to the authorities, who appear incapable of stopping rebel advances.

Overnight, hundreds of gunmen launched an assault on Mosul, 350 kilometres north of Baghdad, engaging in combat with troops and police, they said.

BELGRADE - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will pay a visit to Belgrade on Tuesday to meet with top Serbian officials.

Davutoglu will speak to Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic.

After a peaceful period of nearly two years following the Turkish government’s initiative to pursue a political solution to the chronic Kurdish problem, the tension has disproportionately increased in the last two weeks, reaching its top, when a Kurdish militant jumped into the garden of a major Air Force base in Diyarbakır despite warning shots, climbed the mast, pulled down the flag and ra

Turkey’s much-anticipated anti-missile program is slipping into further uncertainity after local firm Aselsan’s emergence as a new candidate