Turkey is hoping to finalize negotiations to acquire its first long-range anti-missile system from China in a six-month period, the head of the country's procurement agency says.
Turkey has asked NATO to extend for another year the deployment of surface-to-air Patriot missiles near border with Syria.
Iraq and Turkey are going to patch up rifts and ease diplomatic tensions that were heightened following start of the war in neighboring Syria.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has arrived in Baghdad for a slew of meetings with top Iraqi officials as the two neighbors seek a "fresh start" to chilled ties.
A top Syrian Kurdish leader has claimed that the Turkish government is no longer supporting the al-Qaeda-linked militant groups fighting to topple the government in Syria.
Turkey has seized a truck loaded with 1,200 rocket warheads and other weapons near the border with Syria, the private Dogan news agency has reported.
A Kurdish mayor has gone on hunger strike in Turkey in protest at the building of a barrier on the border with Syria, accusing Ankara of putting up a "wall of shame".
Turkey’s police have clashed with Kurdish demonstrators, in the southeastern town of Cizre, protesting against Ankara’s plans to construct a wall near the border with Syria.
Turkish border guards seized three vehicles loaded with over 1,000 kg of chemicals as they tried to illegally cross the border into Syria.
Four female lawmakers from Turkey's ruling party have attended a parliament session wearing headscarves, for the first time in 14 years.