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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to the media during a joint news conference with Sweden's new prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, in Ankara, Turkey, Nov. 8, 2022. Turkey’s president has announced May 14 as the date for the country's next parliamentary and presidential elections. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who plans to seek reelection, made the announcement during a youth conference in northwestern Bursa province on Saturday Jan. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)

Turkey’s president says no support for Sweden’s NATO bid

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Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of Greece, speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is taking place in Davos from Jan. 16 until Jan. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Greek PM Mitsotakis: ‘We will not go to war with Turkey’

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson speaks during the annual Society and Defence Conference in Salen, Sweden, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency via AP)

Sweden: Erdogan effigy ‘act of sabotage’ against NATO bid

By Suzan Fraser and Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

Afghan women chant slogans during a protest against the ban on university education for women, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. (AP Photo)

Turkey, Saudi Arabia decry Taliban university ban for women

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In this photo released by Turkey's defense ministry, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, right, and top army commanders work at the Air Force command center, in Ankara, Turkey, early Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022. Turkey launched airstrikes over northern regions of Syria and Iraq, the Turkish Defense Ministry said Sunday, targeting Kurdish groups that Ankara holds responsible for last week's bomb attack in Istanbul. (Turkish Defense Ministry via AP)

U.S. official urges ‘de-escalation’ as Turkey strikes Syria

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

A dump truck unloads grain in a granary in the village of Zghurivka, Ukraine, Aug. 9, 2022. A wartime agreement that allowed grain shipments from Ukraine to resume and helped temper global food prices will be extended by 120 days, the United Nations and other parties to the deal say on Thursday, Nov. 17. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Russia-Ukraine grain deal extended in win for food prices

By Suzan Fraser and Courtney Bonnell - Associated Press

Representatives of the Turkish communities put flowers over a memorial placed on the spot of Sunday's explosion on Istanbul's popular pedestrian Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022.Turkish police said Monday they have detained a Syrian woman with suspected links to Kurdish militants and that she confessed planting a bomb that exploded on a bustling pedestrian avenue in Istanbul, killing six people and wounding several dozen others. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Turkey detains suspect linked to Istanbul bombing in Syria

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to the media during a joint news conference with Sweden's new prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Biden has unannounced meeting with Turkey’s Erdogan at G-20; U.S. aid to Kurds still a sore point

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Security and ambulances at the scene after an explosion on Istanbul's popular pedestrian Istiklal Avenue, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022. An explosion on one of Istanbul's most popular pedestrian thoroughfares killed a handful of people and injured dozens on Sunday, authorities said. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Turkey detains Syrian suspect in bombing that killed 6

By Mehmet Guzel and Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

Forensic experts collect a dead body after an explosion on Istanbul's popular pedestrian Istiklal Avenue Sunday, Istanbul, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022. (Ismail Coskun/IHA via AP, File)

Why Istanbul blast has political implications

By Zeynep Bilginsoy - Associated Press

Protesters hold a banner reading &quot;No to the Turkish invasion of Southern Kurdistan&quot; during a demonstration against Turkey’s alleged use of chemical weapons in the Kurdish region, in Duesseldorf, Germany, Nov. 12. 2022. (Henning Kaiser/dpa via AP)

Protesters ask Turkey to stop alleged chemical weapons use

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In this photo provided by the Greek Coast Guard, some of the nine men who survived a shipwreck and were found on an uninhabited islet are covered with a thermal blankets as they sit aboard a Greek Coast guard vessel, in the Aegean Sea, Greece, on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. A major search and rescue operation was underway Tuesday for dozens of people missing after the boat they were on capsized and sank in stormy weather overnight off the coast of an island near the Greek capital. The coast guard said nine survivors, all men, had been found on an uninhabited islet south of the island of Evia and had been picked up by a coast guard vessel. (Greek Coast Guard via AP)

Greece: 5 children among 22 dead in migrant boat sinking

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg left, shakes hands with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu following a press conferences in Istanbul, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

NATO chief urges Turkey to endorse Finland, Sweden accession

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Cargo ships anchored in the Marmara Sea await to cross the Bosphorus Straits in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. Turkey's defense minister urged Russia to &quot;reconsider&quot; its decision to suspend the implementation of the U.N. and Turkish-brokered grain deal in a telephone call Monday with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Russia rejoins wartime deal on Ukrainian grain exports

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Migrants arrive with a dinghy accompanied by a Frontex vessel at the village of Skala Sikaminias, on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey, on Feb. 28, 2020. A much-anticipated report made public Thursday Oct. 13, 2022 by the European Union's anti-fraud watchdog into the alleged involvement of the EU border agency Frontex in the illegal pushbacks of migrants from Greece to Turkey has concluded that agency employees were involved in covering up such incidents in violation of peoples' &quot;fundamental rights.&quot; (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas, File)

Turkey calls Greek claims on migrant mistreatment fake news

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This Wednesday, April 11, 2012 file photo shows turkeys at a farm in Lebanon, Pa. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday, Oct. 14, 2022, proposed sweeping changes in the way chicken and turkey meat is processed that are intended to reduce illnesses from food contamination but could require meat companies to make extensive changes to their operations. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Fighting food poisoning: Sweeping poultry changes proposed

By David Pitt - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands during their meeting on sidelines of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit, in Astana, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin tempts Turkey, suggests making it Europe’s new gas hub

By Suzan Fraser and Dasha Litvinova - Associated Press

The cargo ship Laodicea sails through the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 7, 2022. An Associated Press investigation shows the ship, owned by the Syrian government, is part of an extensive Russian-run smuggling operation that has been hauling stolen Ukrainian grain from ports in occupied Crimea to customers in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Yoruk Isik)

Russia smuggling Ukrainian grain to help pay for Putin’s war

By Michael Biesecker, Sarah El Deeb and Beatrice Dupuy - Associated Press

Demonstrators hold banners that read, &quot;Law for the development of the spirit and moral&quot; and &quot;LGBTQ, remove your dirty hand from our children&quot; during an anti LGBTQ protest in Fatih district of Istanbul, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

Turkey: Anti-LGBTQ display reflects nation’s political shift

By Zeynep Bilginsoy and Robert Badendieck - Associated Press

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas review a military honour guard during a welcome ceremony in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Abbas is in Turkey for a two-day state visit. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkey’s Erdogan vows continued support for Palestinians

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press