Erdogan has linked ratification of Sweden's NATO membership to the U.S. Congress' approval of a Turkish request to purchase 40 new F-16 fighter jets and kits to modernize Turkey's existing fleet.

Turkey was among nine NATO countries that put in orders for F-35s, the world’s most advanced stealth fighter jets, complete with high-tech bells and whistles like vertical landing capabilities ...

Turkey’s location as a land bridge between Europe and Asia and its control over the Bosphorus Strait, the sole access point to the Black Sea, makes it a critical gatekeeper within NATO. This ...

For decades, Russia has been Armenia’s principal security guarantor, projecting power through its Gyumri military base, its border guards along the Turkish and Iranian frontiers and its role in ...

Turkey’s interest in BRICS complicates its NATO relationship but focuses more on economics than security. Controversial actions, like buying Russian defense systems, have strained Turkey’s ...

By Luiza Ilie BUCHAREST (Reuters) -NATO allies Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey should expand a joint task force that clears ...

Turkey has been welcomed back into NATO's good graces, and the U.S. has given the green light for a long-delayed $23 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets.

Turkey has been growing impatient with the lack of implementation of a March deal to integrate the SDF into the Syrian state ...

Turkey has published a measure approving Sweden's membership in NATO in its official gazette. That finalizes the ratification, bringing the previously nonaligned country a step closer to joining ...

NATO’s leadership and Western governments may try to pressure Ankara into relenting. Biden can put the brakes on an F-16 export deal with Turkey that he previously asked Congress to approve.

Turkey extracted concessions from both Sweden and Finland as a price for approving their NATO membership bid in a deal which saw the Nordic duo commit to heavily curtail the activities of the PKK, ...

Turkey still looks to its NATO membership for “prestige, gravitas and panache,” said Sinan Ciddi, a Turkey specialist at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a professor at the U ...