The Turkish parliament will in January vote on a motion to send troops to Syria to support the UN-backed government in Tripoli, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday. “We will present the motion to send troops (to Libya) as soon as parliament resumes” on January 7, Erdogan said in a speech in Ankara. “God willing, […]

DefenceTalkTurkey expects the delivery of the controversial Russian S-400 missile defence system to begin in July, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying in Turkish media on Sunday. “I believe (S-400s) will begin to arrive in the first half of July. Colleagues in charge of the schedule are following the issue,” Erdogan said according […]https://www.defencetalk.com/turkeys-erdogan-says-s-400s-delivery-for-early-july-72328/

DefenceTalkTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday spoke by phone with Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro, passing on his best wishes after what Caracas said was a drone “assassination” bid backed by Colombia. Erdogan, a close ally of Maduro, also wished well the soldiers wounded in the weekend incident, Turkish presidential sources said, without giving further […]https://www.defencetalk.com/erdogan-backs-ally-maduro-after-assassination-bid-71768/

DefenceTalkThe US government has frozen arms sales to the bodyguards of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after his aides attacked demonstrators in Washington last May, two senators said Monday. Senators Patrick Leahy and Chris Van Hollen said the move came after they proposed their own legislation to halt any sales to the Turkish Presidential Protection […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-halts-arms-sales-to-erdogan-bodyguards-congress-70485/

DefenceTalkTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan jets into Russia Tuesday for his first meeting with counterpart Vladimir Putin since the two strongmen leaders began healing a bitter feud over Ankara’s downing of a Russian warplane. Erdogan’s visit to Putin’s hometown of Saint Petersburg is also his first foreign trip since the failed coup against him last […]https://www.defencetalk.com/putin-and-erdogan-meet-to-mend-ties-after-jet-downing-rift-67967/

DefenceTalkThe failed coup attempt in Turkey and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s firm crackdown on the alleged plotters have aggravated ties between Washington and Ankara, already poisoned by the war in Syria and human rights issues. Although they are NATO allies and officially partners in the fight against the Islamic State group, the United States and […]https://www.defencetalk.com/failed-turkey-coup-attempt-poisons-relations-with-us-67866/

DefenceTalkMoscow: Russia on Monday said a summit between President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan penciled in for December 15 had been cancelled, with ties between the two leaders in tatters over the downing of a Russian warplane. The meeting between the two leaders had been agreed at the G20 summit in Turkey […]https://www.defencetalk.com/turkey-russia-summit-canceled-kremlin-66082/