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Former People’s Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Leyla Birlik has escaped Turkey to flee to Greece. She is among 3,189 Turkish nationals who have applied for asylum there.

Ahmet Celikten, one of the two assailants in the US embassy shooting, said he was motivated by the recent developments in the US-Turkey relations.

Devlet Bahceli, Turkish Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) chair, said the crisis in the US-Turkey relaltions is caused by Washington's alleged role in the failed 2016 coup d’état. 

Turkey is ramping up pressure worldwide to shut down schools close to a network that it accuses of terrorism.

Gunshots were fired at the U.S. embassy in Ankara early on Monday, without causing any casualties.

President Donald Trump's administration has rejected Turkey's offer to condition the release of an American pastor on clearing a top Turkish bank of billions of dollars in U.S. fines.

The crash in the Turkish lira sparked by U.S. sanctions has left President Recep Tayyip Erdogan facing the biggest economic challenge of his one-and-a-half decades in power.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared Saturday that his country would not be cowed by the United States.

Turkey threatened to respond if Washington levied further sanctions over the detention of an American pastor.

Consumers have been buffeted by surging costs and economic uncertainty, with the Turkish currency sinking 20 percent in a month and 40 percent since the start of the year.