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Turkey’s disaster agency has transferred humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip through an air corridor, a written statement from the Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate (AFAD) said on Aug. 21

Perhaps there is nothing abnormal in one country’s intelligence agency spying on the top executives of another country to gather sensitive economic, political and, of course, military data that might be used in an economic, political or - God forbid - military confrontation.

The international credit ratings agency Moody’s said in statement released on Aug. 15 that the election of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as president “is unlikely to resolve Turkey’s key economic and institutional credit challenges because of ongoing domestic political tension and uncertainty that will prevail at least through the next parliamentary elections.”

Yazidis fleeing their hometown of Sinjar after it was attacked by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have started to settle in a camp established by Turkey’s disaster agency in the Zakho region of Northern Iraq.

Despite violence in Lice, officials in Ankara suggest Turkey could push the peace process ahead by talking to top PKK cadres A senior Turkish government official has hinted that the country’s intelligence organization could engage in direct talks with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) top cadres on Mt. Kandil in northern Iraq to boost the ongoing Kurdish resolution process.

Despite violence in Lice, officials in Ankara suggest Turkey could push the peace process ahead by talking to top PKK cadres A senior Turkish government official has hinted that the country’s intelligence organization could engage in direct talks with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) top cadres on Mt. Kandil in northern Iraq to boost the ongoing Kurdish resolution process.

The race for the leadership of Turkey’s main opposition party has become wide open, with a leading dissident stating she will run against its leader at the upcoming party convention and the current leader promising a new vision for the party.

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu called his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, late Aug. 18 to personally express his government’s anger after media reports claimed Germany’s intelligence agency had spied on Turkey, its NATO ally.

Iran plans to increase its gas exports to Turkey by bolstering its gas pressure facilities in Tabriz, Tehran’s official news agency IRNA reported on Aug. 16.

It was June when Kurds came closest to gaining their dream of independence. Northern Iraqi Kurds captured the oil-rich Kirkuk following the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) assault on Mosul on June 10. Following this, the President of Iraqi Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, declared they would hold an independence referendum soon.