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Turkish ENKA abducted workers released in Libya

Three Turkish engineers kidnapped last year in the southern Libyan town of Ubari have been released, the U.N.-backed Libyan government said.In November, an unknown armed group kidnapped four engineers, three from Turkey and one from…

Libya credit cards and Turkish ATMs: A story that never ends

Since the beginning of 2017, the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) has decided to sell families 400 dollars per each member at the official rates (1.4 Libyan dinars per 1 US dollar). From that day on, the story began. The money allocated for…

Turkish forces enter Syria’s Kurds hub, Afrin

Turkish-led forces began a street-by-street fight to capture the most important Kurdish-held town in northern Syria early Sunday, CNN-Turk television said, a crucial juncture in Turkey’s two-month-old campaign to expel U.S.-backed…

Private Turkish jet crashes in Iran, 11 allegedly killed

Iranian state TV reported citing aviation official that the crashed aircraft was heading from the city of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates to Turkey's most populous city of Istanbul.According to the Iranian News Agency Tasnim, a…

Turkey advances into Afrin Syria, controls several villages

Turkish forces have captured a number of villages in north-western Syria, on the third day of an offensive to oust Kurdish fighters, Turkish media report.Troops, accompanied by allied Syrian rebels, reportedly seized control of several…

Libya attends the OIC emergency summit

The head of the Government of National Accord, Faiz Al-Sarraj, arrived in Turkey on Tuesday to attend the emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit.The OIC pressing meeting was convened by Turkish…