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Turkey's Kerem Akturkoglu, right, celebrates with his teammate Arda Guler after scoring his side's third goal during a Group F match between Turkey and Georgia at the Euro 2024 soccer tournament in Dortmund, Germany, Tuesday, June 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Guler enhances reputation with goal for Turkey in thrilling win over debutant Georgia at Euro 2024

By Steve Douglas - Associated Press

FILE - Supporters of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) chant slogans during the Newroz celebrations, in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 17, 2024. A Turkish court on Thursday, May 16, 2024 sentenced dozens pro-Kurdish politicians to between nine and 30 years in prison over riots in 2014 by Kurds angered at what they perceived to be the government's inaction against Islamic State group militants who had besieged the Syrian border town of Kobane, state media reported. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, File)

Turkey sentences pro-Kurdish politicians to lengthy prison terms over deadly 2014 riots

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, welcomes the Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before their meeting at Maximos Mansion in Athens, Greece, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. Old foes Turkey and Greece will test a five-month-old friendship initiative on Monday, May 13, 2024 when Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visits Ankara. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Greece’s prime minister in Turkey for talks as the regional rivals seek to improve relations

By Andrew Wilks - Associated Press

Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, welcomes the Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before their meeting at Maximos Mansion in Athens, Greece, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. Old foes Turkey and Greece will test a five-month-old friendship initiative on Monday, May 13, 2024 when Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visits Ankara. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Wary of wars in Gaza and Ukraine, old foes Turkey and Greece test a friendship initiative

By Suzan Fraser and Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, file photo, Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, right, and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan leave after their statements at Maximos Mansion in Athens, Greece. Delegations from Greece and Turkey were meeting in Athens, on Monday, April 22, 2024 as part of long-standing efforts to improve often tense relations between the two neighbors, days after Turkey voiced objections over Greece's plans to create marine nature reserves in the Ionian and Aegean seas. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas, File)

Greek and Turkish delegations meet in Athens as part of efforts to improve often strained ties

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a joint statement to the media in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, April 22, 2024. Erdogan arrived in Iraq on Monday for his first official visit in more than a decade. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye /Pool Photo via AP)

Kurdish separatists and water issues loom large in long-awaited visit of Turkey’s Erdogan to Iraq

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

Rescue and emergency team members work with passengers of a cable car transportation system outside Antalya, southern Turkey, Friday, April 12, 2024. At least one person was killed and several injured Friday when a cable car pod in southern Turkey hit a pole and burst open, sending the passengers plummeting to the mountainside below, officials and local media said. Scores of other people were left stranded late into the night after the entire cable car system came to a standstill. (Dia Images via AP)

More than 40 people still stranded the day after a deadly cable car accident in Turkey

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Israeli soldiers move on the top of a tank near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Tuesday, April 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

The Latest | Israeli strike kills 3 sons of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh

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Republican People's Party, or CHP, supporters gather to celebrate outside City Hall in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, March 31, 2024. Turkey's main opposition party retained its control over key cities and made huge gains elsewhere in Sunday's local elections, preliminary results showed, in a major upset to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had set his sights on retaking control of those urban areas. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

In setback to Turkey’s Erdogan, opposition makes huge gains in local election

By Suzan Fraser and Cinar Kiper - Associated Press

A voter walks at a polling station in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, March 31, 2024. Turkey is holding local elections on Sunday that will decide who gets to control Istanbul and other key cities. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Voters in Turkey cast ballots in local elections to decide who runs Istanbul and other key cities

By Suzan Fraser and Cinar Kiper - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Iranian Presidency Office, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, center, visits a woman who was wounded in Wednesday's bomb explosion in the city of Kerman about 510 miles (820 kms) southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 5, 2024. Iranian officials tried Friday to link Israel and the U.S. to an Islamic State group-claimed suicide bombing, seeking to intertwine the assault with wider Middle East tensions from the Israel-Hamas war. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

It’s complicated: Terror group ISIS-K targets U.S. — and its worst enemies

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A member of Turkish Coastal Security uses binoculars on the Turkey's shore of Aegean sea in Eceabat, Turkey, Friday, March 15, 2024. A rubber dinghy carrying migrants sank off Turkey's northern Aegean coast on Friday, killing at least 22 people, officials said. (Dia Images via AP)

A migrant boat sinks off the Turkish coast, killing at least 22 people

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Iraqi Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein, right, shakes hands with visiting Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Hakan Fidan in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Turkey’s top diplomat visits Iraq and seeks support against Kurdish militant group

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Fidan Ataselim, general secretary of We Will Stop Femicides Platform or WWSF, walks on the street following an interview with The Associated Press in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. At least 403 women were killed in Turkey last year, most of them by current or former spouses and other men close to them, according to the We Will Stop Femicides Platform, a group that tracks gender-related killings and provides support to victims of violence. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Turkey struggles to stop violence against women. At least 71 have been killed this year

By Ayse Wieting and Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

Prices are displayed in a clothes shop at Eminonu commercial area in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. Turkey's central bank left its key interest rate unchanged at 45% on Thursday, pausing a series of aggressive rate hikes aimed at taming high inflation. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Turkish central bank keeps its key interest rate unchanged, pausing a series of hikes

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Relatives of missing miners leave the Copler gold mine near Ilic village, eastern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. Hundreds of rescuers on Wednesday pressed ahead with efforts to search for at least nine workers trapped at a gold mine in eastern Turkey that was engulfed by a massive landslide. (Mert Gokhan Koc/Dia images via AP)

Turkey detains 4 people as part of probe into landslide at gold mine that left at least 9 missing

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

Journalists work next to the Copler gold mine near Ilic village, east Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. A landslide hit a gold mine in eastern Turkey on Tuesday, apparently trapping at least nine workers underground, officials said. (IHA via AP)

9 gold mine workers are missing in Turkey after a landslide that carries environmental risks

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Security officers check the site where two attackers were killed outside a courthouse in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024. Two people were shot dead while trying to attack a courthouse in Istanbul on Tuesday, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said. Turkish authorities detained 17 people in connection with an attack at an Istanbul campaign event for upcoming municipal elections, Turkey's interior minister said Sunday. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

17 people detained after attack at Istanbul election campaign event, official says

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U.S. President Joe Biden walks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. As chances rise of a Biden-Donald Trump rematch in the U.S. presidential election race, America’s allies are bracing for a bumpy ride, with concerns rising that the U.S. could grow less dependable regardless of who wins. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

American allies worry the U.S. is growing less dependable, whether Trump or Biden wins

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

This image provided by the U.S. Air Force, a F-16 Fighting Falcon from the 510th Fighter Squadron takes off during Red Flag 24-1 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, on Jan 25, 2024. (Staff Sgt. Heather Ley/U.S. Air Force via AP) ** FILE **

U.S. OKs F-16 fighter jet sale to Turkey, F-35s to Greece after Turkey backs Sweden’s entry to NATO

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press