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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks during his meeting with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir at the State Department in Washington, Thursday, March 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)

Rex Tillerson will attend NATO meeting and visit Turkey

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Stand up to Turkey

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - This May 8, 2014 file photo shows Emirates passenger planes at Dubai airport in United Arab Emirates. The U.S. government is temporarily barring passengers on certain flights originating in eight other countries from bringing most types of electronics in their carry-on luggage. A U.S. official tells The Associated Press that the ban beginning Tuesday, March 21, 2017, affects airports in 10 cities of Cairo in Egypt; Amman in Jordan; Kuwait City in Kuwait; Casablanca in Morocco; Doha in Qatar; Riyadh and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia; Istanbul in Turkey; and Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

The Latest: Royal Jordanian to enforce ban starting Friday

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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, waves to supporters as he leaves after a campaign gathering in Metz, eastern France, Sunday, March 12, 2017. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was in France Sunday to whip up support for controversial constitutional reforms to expand the powers of the Turkish presidency. (AP Photo/Elyxandro Cegarra)

Kurdish activists blocked from Turkish minister’s D.C. briefing

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Syrian Kurdish militia says it’s getting Russian training

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Turkish protesters denounce alleged coup plotters at court

By CINAR KIPER - Associated Press

Illustration on an equitable political solution for Cypress by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Turkey’s Cyprus policy an unstable situation

By Mevlut Cavusoglu

Patience is this Iraqi-born Washington student’s true virtue

By MELISSA SLAGER - Associated Press

Turkey must break contact with Europe

By Ahmet S. Yayla

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan applauds following a rally in Istanbul, Sunday, March 12, 2017. The escalating dispute between Turkey and the Netherlands spilled over into Sunday, with a Turkish minister unable to enter her consulate after the authorities there had already blocked a visit by the foreign minister, prompting Erdogan to call the Dutch fascists. Erdogan said at the rally: &quot;I had said that Nazism has risen from the grave. I said 'I thought Nazism was over but I was wrong.' In fact, Nazism is alive in the West.&quot; (AP Photo}

Turkey-Netherlands feud simmers as Dutch election looms

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

In this Feb. 13, 2017, file photo, Mike Flynn arrives for a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, who was fired from the White House last month, has registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department for work that may have aided the Turkish government in exchange for $530,000. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump lawyers knew Flynn might register as foreign agent

By CHAD DAY and STEPHEN BRAUN and JULIE PACE - Associated Press

Turkish coast guard: 48 Syrian migrants stopped at sea

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FILE - This frame grab from a video provided by the Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), shows fighters from the SDF opening fire on an Islamic State group's position, in Raqqa's eastern countryside, Syria, Monday, March 6, 2017. The main U.S.-backed force fighting the Islamic State group in Syria has enough fighters to capture the extremists' de facto capital of Raqqa north of the country at a time when U.S. troops are playing a bigger role on the ground in the battle to conquer the city, a spokeswoman for the force said Friday, March 10, 2017. (Syria Democratic Forces, via AP)

Backed by US troops, SDF confident can capture IS ‘capital’

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

In this Feb. 13, 2017, file photo, Mike Flynn arrives for a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, who was fired from the White House last month, has registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department for work that may have aided the Turkish government in exchange for $530,000. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump transition knew Flynn might register as foreign agent

By CHAD DAY and STEPHEN BRAUN and JULIE PACE - Associated Press

Combo from satellite photos provided by UNOSAT shows the city of Sur in Turkey's Diyarbakir Province on June 22, 2015, top, and on July 26, 2016 bottom. In a report released Friday, March 10, 2017 the U.N. human rights office is calling on Turkey's government to investigate alleged killings and other abuses in the country's southeast in a new report decrying violations including hundreds of alleged unlawful killings and the obliteration of nearly 1,800 buildings during security force operations over 18 months. (DigitalGlobe/UNOSAT via AP)

U.N. office urges Turkey to probe 2,000 reported killings

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In this Feb. 13, 2017, file photo, Mike Flynn arrives for a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, who was fired from the White House last month, has registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department for work that may have aided the Turkish government in exchange for $530,000. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

White House: Trump unaware of Flynn’s foreign agent work

By STEPHEN BRAUN and CHAD DAY - Associated Press

In this Feb. 13, 2017, file photo, Mike Flynn arrives for a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, who was fired from the White House last month, has registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department for work that may have aided the Turkish government in exchange for $530,000. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Michael Flynn, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, says lobbying may have helped Turkey

By Stephen Braun and Chad Day - Associated Press

A Turkish army officer patrols a wall under construction near Kilis to help boost security along the border with conflict-stricken Syria. (Associated Press)

Turkey border wall helps secure city protecting Syrian refugees

By Fariba Nawa — Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this Saturday, July 16, 2016 file photo, Turkish soldiers secure Istanbul's Taksim square, as supporters of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan protest in Istanbul. In the wake of last year’s coup in Turkey, scores of military officers are seeking asylum in Belgium and elsewhere in Europe. Three who spoke to AP tell Kafkaesque tales of a life in hiding, charged with crimes against the state. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, File)

Purged from Turkey’s army, officers seek asylum in Belgium

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

Campaign staff hold a banner reading &quot;Stay Away, This Is Our Country&quot; as firebrand anti Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders, left, protests outside the Turkish embassy in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, March 8, 2017, against the planned campaign visit of Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to lobby for a referendum giving President Erdogan increased powers. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

The Latest: Swiss see no reason to cancel Cavusoglu visit

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