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Kazakhstan's officials prepare working space for delegations at a hotel lobby where Russia, Iran and Turkey will hold talks on Syrian peace, in Astana, Kazakhstan, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. The talks are the latest attempt to forge a political settlement to end a war that has by most estimates killed more than 400,000 people since March 2011 and displaced more than half the country's population. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

The Latest: Trump willing to work with Russia against IS

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In this Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, photo, youths climb on the rubble of the collapsed minaret at the heavily damaged Great Mosque of Aleppo, in the Old City of Aleppo, Syria. The mosque, also known as the Umayyad Mosque, a centuries-old treasure at the heart of one of the world’s oldest cities, is today a grim monument to the ravages of Syria’s war. The doors have been blasted away, the walls have been shredded by bullets, and the minaret where the Muslim call to prayer sounded for 900 years has been toppled and shattered. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Syria talks focused on cease-fire get underway in Kazakhstan

By Philip Issa - Associated Press

Greek and Cypriot flags fly next to a Turkish military guard post with Turkish and Turkish Cypriot breakaway flags between U.N. buffer zone. After decades of frustration, intensive talks between leaders of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities have created a sense of optimism to heal political divisions. (Associated Press)

Greek Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots see glimmer of hope in Cyprus reconciliation

By Marina Rigou and Iakovos Hatzistavrou — Special to The Washington Times

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his supporters in Istanbul, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. Erdogan started campaigning for constitutional reforms that would greatly expand the powers of his office on Saturday, hours after a vote in parliament cleared the way for a national referendum on the issue. (Kayhan Ozer/Presidential Press Service, Pool Photo via AP

Turkey: Erdogan buoyed by vote for powerful presidency

By Suzan Fraser and Dominique Soguel - Associated Press

Islamic State fighter’s dad cries recounting search for him

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

Religious Freedom Problems in Turkey Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Turkey’s wavering support for religious freedom

By James Lankford

Turkey detains 9 colonels in north Cyprus for Gulen ties

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Turkey wants concrete date for EU visa liberalization

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Three Turkish military officers in suits wearing handcuffs, escorted by Greek police officers, arrive at the Supreme Court in Athens Friday, Jan. 13, 2017. A prosecutor at Greece's highest court recommended Tuesday and Wednesday the court reject an extradition request for four other Turkish servicemen, who fled to Greece after a failed July military coup in their country. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greek prosecutor against extraditing last 4 fugitive Turks

By FANIS KARABATZAKIS - Associated Press

Handcuffed Turkish military officers, center, are escorted by plain-clothed police officers as they arrive at the Supreme Court in Athens, on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. A prosecutor at Greece's Supreme Court recommended on Tuesday the court reject an extradition request for the first two of eight Turkish servicemen who fled to Greece after a failed July military coup in their country. (Stelios Misinas/Eurokinissi via AP)

Greek Supreme Court hearing for 2 of 8 Turkish servicemen

By FANIS KARABATZAKIS - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, people stand by the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul. These days, with a string of terror attacks targeting Istanbul still fresh in his memory, some residents say they are adapting their daily routines because of fears they could become the latest victims of violent extremism. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Anxiety in Istanbul after series of extremist attacks

By MIKE CORDER and CINAR KIPER - Associated Press

People walk during snowfall at Sultanahmet district, one of Istanbul's main tourist attractions, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. Heavy snow clogged roads, and forced hundreds of flight cancellations in the Turkish metropolis. (AP Photos/Emrah Gurel)

Gunfire heard near Turkish police station in the city of Gaziantep: Reports

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People walk over the Golden Horn Bridge in Istanbul, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Turkey's economy is suffering in the face of a string of extremist attacks _ including the nightclub massacre of New Year’s revelers, most of them foreigners _ and uncertainty following the failed coup in July against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that saw more than 270 people killed. AP Photo/ Emrah Gurel)

Turkey’s tourism takes big hit after extremist attacks

By CINAR KIPER and DUSAN STOJANOVIC - Associated Press

The Islamic State group received bomb-making supplies from private Turkish companies, a former counterterrorism official said. (Associated Press/File)

Turkey let ISIS get bomb supplies, former counterterror official says

By Doug Burton - Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2015, file photo, New York Liberty's Sugar Rodgers is shown during the first half of a WNBA basketball game against the Connecticut Sun, in Uncasville, Conn. The New York Liberty guard traveled to Turkey this past fall after the WNBA season ended to play basketball there. She had spent a few years bouncing around other foreign leagues, then signed with Osmaniye _ a team about two hours from the Syrian border. She lasted a month in the country town where she was living before returning to Virginia in November. “I heard about a bombing that killed 17 people about two hours away and right there I was like I don't want to stay,” Rodgers said. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Amid violence, WNBA players consider leaving Turkey

By DOUG FEINBERG - Associated Press

The coffin of Zineb Ait Assi from Beni Mellal, who was killed in the New Year's Eve attack in Istanbul, during her arrival at Casablanca Fret airport, in Casablanca, Morocco, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017. Dozens of people were killed in the mass shooting that took place in front of and inside a popular Istanbul nightclub in the first hours of New Year's Day. The victims included citizens of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq, France, Tunisia, India, Morocco, Jordan, Kuwait, Canada, Israel, Syria, Belgium, Germany and Russia. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)

Turkey identifies club gunman; Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to nation

By Dusan Stojanovic - Associated Press

Carnations left at the scene around photo of victims as people protest an attack at a popular nightclub in Istanbul, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017. An assailant believed to be armed with a long-barrelled weapon, opened fire at the nightclub in Istanbul's Ortakoy district during New Year's celebrations, killing dozens of people and wounding many others.(AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

The Latest: Turkey makes veiled threat over Incirlik

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This undated handout photo released by the Russian Defense Ministry claims to show Russian Military engineers driving in their APC to operate in Aleppo, Syria. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service photo via AP)

Syria rebels suspend talks over alleged truce violations

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Funeral services were held for victims of what Turkish authorities are calling a terrorist attack. A gunman shot his way into an Istanbul nightclub packed with New Year's revelers and killed 39 people before fleeing the scene. (Associated Press)

Turkey’s New Year’s ‘terrorist’ hunted

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

New Zealand's U.N. Ambassador Gerard van Bohemen, left, and Russia's ambassador to the U.N., Vitaly Churkin, raise their hands as they join other members of the Security Council at the United Nations headquarters on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016, voting to pass a resolution supporting efforts by Russia and Turkey to end violence in Syria and jumpstart peace negotiations. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

U.N. backs Russian-Turkish Syria efforts, as cease-fire wavers

By Edith Lederer - Associated Press