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Ankara

  • 1,683 MEF articles
  • 6 Daily Readout items
  • 1 Policy Note

Latest MEF Articles

MEF articles naming Ankara, newest first
DateArticle
October 10, 2026Turkey’s Deepening Somalia Partnership Has Political Limits
October 9, 2026Turkish President Erdoğan's Government Appears to Have Enabled the Rise of the New Alleged Mafia Powerbroker
October 9, 2026Stop Bowing to Tripoli’s Ghosts: Why Trump Must Bring Cyrenaica Into the Abraham Accords
October 9, 2026Kurdish-Arab Tensions in Syria Are Not Going Away
October 8, 2026Turkish Intelligence Linked to Counterfeit Glock Distribution Networks Across Europe
October 8, 2026How Did Turkey Interpret the U.S. Secretary of State’s Messages from Athens?
October 6, 2026Will Turkey Double Down on Somalia as Mogadishu’s African Partners Depart?
October 6, 2026The Sword and the Tongue: Jihad's Long Shadow over Christians in Turkey
October 5, 2026Are Israel and Turkey Headed for Conflict?
October 3, 2026Greece’s Egypt Dilemma
October 2, 2026Global Watchdog Puts Turkey on Notice over Hamas Terror Financing, Money Laundering, Iran Sanctions
October 1, 2026As Turkey’s Hostility Grows, Should Somaliland Keep Turkey Consulate Open?

Showing the 12 most recent of 1,683 MEF articles naming Ankara, the earliest dated September 1, 2004.

Daily Readout Items

Each item restates what a named outlet reported; it is not an MEF finding.

  • October 10, 2026 Hurriyet reported that Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met with the political bureau chief of "Hamas", Halil Hayye and the delegation in Ankara. Readout item
  • October 9, 2026 Anadolu reported that İbrahim Kalın, head of Turkey's National Intelligence Organization, held talks in Ankara with Syrian FM Esad Hasan Şeybani. Readout item
  • October 9, 2026 Hurriyet reported that Turkey's foreign minister Hakan Fidan held talks with Syrian counterpart Esad Hasan Şeybani in the Turkish capital. Readout item
  • October 2, 2026 Al-Akhbar reported that Ankara has hosted talks that continue to bring the Authority of Sharia and Hezbollah together and were described as "more smooth". Readout item
  • October 1, 2026 Diken reported that Russia said contacts with Ankara are ongoing to discuss redeploying the S-400 air defence systems from Turkey to another country. Readout item
  • September 24, 2026 Asharq Al-Awsat reported an agreement between Baghdad and Ankara for Turkey to hand over a camp in northern Iraq to the Iraqi government. Readout item

Policy Notes

Spellings Matched

Mentions are counted when one of these spellings appears as a whole word. See the method.

  • Ankara

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