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Libya’s top diplomat urges withdrawal of foreign fighters

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Turkey adds cryptocurrency exchanges to terror funding rules

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A health worker checks boxes of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines inside a truck, that were delivered to Idlib through a border crossing with Turkey, in Bab Al-Hawa, northwestern Syria, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Syria's last rebel-held enclave received its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday, with a refrigerated truck offloading over 50,000 of United Nations-secured jabs in the overcrowded province. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Vaccine campaign begins amid virus surge in rebel-held Syria

By GHAITH ALSAYED - Associated Press

Workers at a pastry shop wait for customers on a virtually deserted Istiklal Street, the main shopping street of Istanbul, Friday, April 30, 2021, on the first day of a tight lockdown to help protect from the spread of the coronavirus. Turkish security forces on Friday patrolled main streets and set up checkpoints at entry and exits points of cities, to enforce Turkey’s strictest COVID-19 lockdown to date. Still, many people were on the move as the government, desperate not to shut down the economy completely, kept some sectors exempt from the restrictions. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Despite 3-week lockdown, many remain on the move in Turkey

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

People sit at a park in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, April 28, 2021, a day before the latest lockdown to help protect from the spread of the coronavirus. As cases and deaths soar, Turkey is going into a full lockdown Thursday and last until May 17. Residents will be required to stay home except for grocery shopping and other essential needs, while intercity travel only will be allowed with permission. Restaurants are allowed to deliver food.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Full lockdown takes effect in Turkey, people leave cities

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

Manchester City's Ilkay Gundogan, right, challenges PSG's Neymar during the Champions League semifinal first leg soccer match between Paris Saint Germain and Manchester City at the Parc des Princes stadium, in Paris, France , Wednesday, April 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Turkish lockdown to slow virus before Champions League final

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Abandoned houses behind barbed wires inside the U.N controlled buffer zone in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, April 29, 2021. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says that Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots failed to make headway in informal talks on the future of their ethnically divided island, but talks will continue and “I do not give up.” The United Nations chief invested his political capital in overseeing three days of talks in Geneva aimed at re-igniting dormant negotiations to reunify Cyprus. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

UN-led informal Cyprus talks stall, new round planned

By JAMEY KEATEN and MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

Turkish jets, troops hit PKK targets in new Iraq incursion

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a debate in the plenary at the European Parliament in Brussels, Monday, April 26, 2021. European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen were reporting back to the parliament on Monday regarding their meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier this month aimed at improving strained EU-Turkey relations. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, Pool)

Turkey says it’s glad a woman leads EU’s executive branch

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

People walk in central Istanbul, Monday, April 26, 2021. Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced the country's strictest pandemic restrictions so far, closing businesses and schools and limiting travel for nearly three weeks starting Thursday to fight a surge in COVID-19 infections and deaths. Turkey had so far instituted partial lockdowns to curb infections and to keep the economy running as it faces a significant economic downturn.The measures will be in place until May 17. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Full COVID-19 lockdown adds to financial strain in Turkey

By MEHMET GUZEL and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY - Associated Press

A Greek Cypriot protestor waves a banner, during a peace protest in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Saturday, April 24, 2021. Guterres will host an informal gathering of the rival Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders in Geneva, as well as the foreign ministers of ethnically split Cyprus' ‘guarantors’ - Greece, Turkey and former colonial ruler Britain - in hopes of getting the two sides to embark on a fresh round of formal reunification talks. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

UN faces tough task to get Cyprus peace talks restarted

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

108 people go on trial in Turkey over 2014 Kobani protests

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY - Associated Press

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a debate in the plenary at the European Parliament in Brussels, Monday, April 26, 2021. European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen were reporting back to the parliament on Monday regarding their meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier this month aimed at improving strained EU-Turkey relations. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, Pool)

EU chief felt ‘hurt,’ ‘alone’ at meeting with Turkish leader

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

People walk in central Istanbul, Monday, April 26, 2021. Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced the country's strictest pandemic restrictions so far, closing businesses and schools and limiting travel for nearly three weeks starting Thursday to fight a surge in COVID-19 infections and deaths. Turkey had so far instituted partial lockdowns to curb infections and to keep the economy running as it faces a significant economic downturn.The measures will be in place until May 17. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Turkey announces strictest lockdown so far as virus surges

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Turkish flags and banners depicting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, decorate a street outside the United States embassy in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, April 25, 2021. Turkey's foreign ministry has summoned the U.S. Ambassador in Ankara to protest the U.S. decision to mark the deportation and killing of Armenians during the Ottoman Empire as &quot;genocide.&quot; On Saturday, U.S. President Joe Biden followed through on a campaign promise to recognize the events that began in 1915 and killed an estimated 1.5 million Ottoman Armenians as genocide. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkey summons US ambassador over genocide announcement

By Zeynep Bilginsoy - Associated Press

Turkish flags decorate a street outside the United States embassy in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, April 25, 2021. Turkey's foreign ministry has summoned the U.S. Ambassador in Ankara to protest the U.S. decision to mark the deportation and killing of Armenians during the Ottoman Empire as "genocide." On Saturday, U.S. President Joe Biden followed through on a campaign promise to recognize the events that began in 1915 and killed an estimated 1.5 million Ottoman Armenians as genocide. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkey summons U.S. ambassador after Biden declaration on Armenian genocide

By Dave Boyer and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 4, 2007 file photo, the flag draped coffins of five Australian soldiers, including John &quot;Jack&quot; Hunter, await re-burial during a ceremony at Buttes Military Cemetery in Zonnebeke, Belgium. On another Anzac Day turned lonesome by the global pandemic, solitary actions show all the more how the sacrifices of Australia and New Zealand during World War I are far from forgotten. While global attention will turn at dawn on Sunday to the beaches of Turkey’s Gallipoli where the two emerging countries crafted a sense of nationhood from the horrors of war in April 1915, all along the front line in Europe, small ceremonies will show gratitude over a century after the war ended. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

On another lonely Anzac Day, solitary memorials stand out

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

Military personnel attend a ceremony to commemorate soldiers who died during the World War I campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, in Canakkale, Turkey, Saturday, April 24, 2021, on the 106th anniversary of the Gallipoli Campaign. The Gallipoli Campaign of 1915 by Allied forces aimed to take control of the peninsula to weaken the Ottoman Empire. The campaign failed and Allied forces withdrew after eight months of fighting on the ground and some 250,000 casualties on both sides. The memorials were kept small due to the COVID-19 pandemic.(AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Memorials held on Turkey’s Gallipoli to remember WWI deaths

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In this March 24, 2021, file photo, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he speaks during his ruling party's congress inside a packed sports hall in Ankara, Turkey. President Joe Biden on April 24, 2021 followed through on a campaign pledge to formally recognize that atrocities committed against the Armenian people by the Ottoman Empire more than a century ago in modern-day Turkey were genocide. This move is likely to strain U.S.-Turkey relations. (Turkish Presidency via AP, File) **FILE**

Biden recognizes atrocities against Armenians as genocide

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Turkey probes cryptocurrency exchange for possible $2B fraud

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