Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed continued military support for Qatar amid its ongoing political crisis with a Saudi-led bloc of countries.
Turkey on Wednesday condemned as "an extremely grave revelation" the potential escape of hundreds of terrorists from the Syrian city of Raqqa, saying it underscored the perils of Washington's alliance with Kurdish fighters.
President Vladimir Putin said on Monday Russia’s work with Turkey and Iran was producing concrete results in Syria and creating conditions for a dialogue there.
Turkey's state-run news agency says police have detained 101 suspected Isis group militants in a sweep in the capital, Ankara.
Turkey's President Erdogan will travel next week to Qatar, which Ankara has supported in its dispute with Persian Gulf Arab neighbours, presidential sources said on Wednesday.
Security officials say police have detained 283 suspected Isis group militants in Turkey in the past 11 days.
Iraq's Kurdistan region on Thursday offered a joint Kurdish-Iraqi deployment at a strategic crossing with Turkey, with participation of observers from the U.S.-led coalition helping fight Isis.
Four members of Turkey's security forces and four Kurdish militants were killed in a clash early on Thursday near the border between northern Iraq and southeast Turkey, security and hospital sources said.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has accused the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of not remaining committed to an agreement on withdrawing their forces from disputed regions in the north of the country.
Turkish and Iraqi soldiers were heading towards the Habur border gate between their two countries and Iraqi troops were expected to assume control of the crossing from Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces, Turkish security sources said on Tuesday.