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Greece says Turkish fighter jets buzzed Greek chopper

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, stands during an event to mark Turkey's National Sovereignty and Children's Day, in Istanbul, Thursday, April 23, 2020. Turkey celebrates National Sovereignty and Children's Day on the 100th anniversary of the foundation of Turkey's parliament and Turks are marking their first national holiday under lockdown amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool)

Turkey announces plan to ease virus restrictions

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Members of the Equestrian Gendarmerie Units, which normally serve to protect the Topkapı Palace, wearing face masks for protection against the coronavirus, as they patrol the beaches in Sariyer outside Istanbul, Saturday, May 2, 2020. The equestrian unit is used to patrol the beach area to enforce the curfew measures, restricting people from walking around or swimming. (Ibrahim Mase/DHA via AP)

Turkey eases export rules for medical devices used for virus

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY - Associated Press

A demonstrator, wearing a face mask for protection against coronavirus, gestures as he is pushed along with others into a police vehicle after being arrested by Turkish police officers during May Day protests in Istanbul, Friday, May 1, 2020. Police in Istanbul detained several demonstrators who tried to march toward Istanbul’s symbolic Taksim Square in defiance of the lockdown imposed by the government due to the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Turkish police detain gathered union leaders on May Day

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY - Associated Press

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, stands during an event to mark Turkey's National Sovereignty and Children's Day, in Istanbul, Thursday, April 23, 2020. Turkey celebrates National Sovereignty and Children's Day on the 100th anniversary of the foundation of Turkey's parliament and Turks are marking their first national holiday under lockdown amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool)

Turkey donates protective gear to U.S., asks for improved solidarity in return

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Flight crew members stand on a tarmac in front of a donation of medical supplies from Turkey, Tuesday, April 28, 2020, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. The donation to help fight the new coronavirus in the United States included surgical masks, sanitizers and protective suits. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Turkey vows solidarity with US in fighting virus outbreak

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Turkish soldiers atop an armored personnel carrier patrol the northwestern city of Afrin, Syria, during a Turkish government-organized media tour into northern Syria, Saturday, March 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) ** FILE **

Bomb in Syria town run by Turkish-backed fighters kills 20

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A view of the iconic Sultan Ahmed Mosque, better known as the Blue Mosque, on the deserted historic Sultanahmet district due to the lockdown against the spread of the coronavirus, in Istanbul, Friday, April 24, 2020, during the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. Millions of Muslims have started the holiest month on the Islamic calendar under the coronavirus lockdown or strict social restrictions, deepening their anxiety over the disease. Turkey has banned communal eating during Ramadan for breaking people's fasting in an effort to stem the spread of COVID-19.(AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Erdogan: Turkey working on plan to ease virus restrictions

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

Erdogan backs cleric who claims homosexuality brings disease

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Activists: Turkish troops shoot dead 2 protesters in Syria

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In this Wednesday, April 22, 2020 photo, healthcare workers tend to a patient at one of the intensive care units for COVID-19 patients (ICU) of the Akdeniz University hospital in Antalya, Turkey. The country currently ranks seventh in the world in the number of confirmed infections, surpassing Iran and China. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government has refrained from imposing a total lockdown, fearing its negative impact on the already fragile economy. It has opted for piecemeal measures instead, including weekend curfews and banning people above the age of 65 and below the age of 20 from leaving their homes. (Ibrahim Laleli/DHA via AP)

Turkey registers decrease in deaths, new COVID-19 infections

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Local residents, in their flat due to the coronavirus, watch celebrations ahead of the National Sovereignty and Children's Day, in Istanbul, Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Turkey will mark Thursday, April 23, 2020 the 100th anniversary of the foundation of its parliament, as the nation is in a 4-day curfew declared by Turkey's government in an attempt to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/ Emrah Gurel)

Turkey marks its 100th year of parliament amid coronavirus

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY - Associated Press

Local residents, in their flat due to the coronavirus, watch celebrations ahead of the National Sovereignty and Children's Day, in Istanbul, Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Turkey will mark Thursday, April 23, 2020 the 100th anniversary of the foundation of its parliament, as the nation is in a 4-day curfew declared by Turkey's government in an attempt to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/ Emrah Gurel)

Turkey says virus outbreak is ‘under control’

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Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, center, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiadis, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pose for a photograph ahead of a signing ceremony in Athens, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020. The leaders of Greece, Israel and Cyprus met in Athens Thursday to sign a deal aiming to build a key undersea pipeline, named EastMed, designed to carry gas from new rich offshore deposits in the southeastern Mediterranean to continental Europe. (AP Photo)

Cyprus: Turkey’s latest gas drilling proof of ‘expansionism’

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

Turkey says Syria violating truce in rebel-held north

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FILE - In this April 11, 2008 file photo, paramilitary police offices escort Alaattin Cakici before a trial in Istanbul. A notorious mafia boss has been set free on Thursday, April 16, 2020 as Turkish prisons continue releasing thousands of inmates to ease overcrowding in prisons amid the coronavirus pandemic but the new penal legislation is keeping government critics behind bars due to Turkey’s sweeping terror laws. (AP Photo, File)

Turkey mob boss released while govt critics kept in prison

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Monday, April 13, 2020, medics wearing masks and suits against the coronavirus, take a patient out of an ambulance after he arrived at the emergency room of Istanbul University Cerrahpasa medical faculty hospital, in Istanbul. Patients, suspected being infected with Covid-19, are undertaking tests and if sick, they are sent to the special Covid-19 department. The hospital had turned its operating theaters into intensive care units and created special sections separating ordinary patients from others infected with coronavirus. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.(AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Turkey urges break from fighting as coronavirus spreads through region

By Madison Hirneisen - The Washington Times

Migrants try to install a tent in the village of Petra on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece, Friday, March 27, 2020. Some 56 migrants who reached Lesbos in smugglers' boats from Turkey over the past few days have been quarantined in small tents in Petra for the past three days. Under public health measures adopted to hinder the spread of the new coronavirus, Greece places all people arriving from abroad in two-week quarantine. Lesbos' main migrant facility, near the village of Moria, is crammed with about 20,000 people even though it was built for 2,700. (AP Photo/Panagiotis Balaskas)

Greece airs concern over asylum-seekers seen on Turkey coast

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A passenger boat in the normally crowded but now mostly deserted Golden Horn with New Mosque in the background hours after the two-day curfew declared by the government to slow coronavirus spread, in Istanbul, Saturday, April 11, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.(AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Turkish minister offers resignation over weekend lockdowns

By SUZAN FRASER and AYSE WIETING - Associated Press

Explosion on road in southeast Turkey kills 5

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