Officials say that Turkish Airlines will resume its flights to Damascus, Syria, next week after a halt of more than a decade.

Commercial flights between Turkey and Syria have resumed after 13 years with a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul to Damascus.

Turkey's opposition leaders accuse President Erdoğan of using corruption and terrorism charges to undermine rivals, remove elected mayors, and consolidate power through appointed trustees.

Turkish Airlines is resuming flights to the Syrian capital, Damascus (DAM), and to Benghazi (BEN), Libya’s second city, from its Istanbul (IST) hub. The two destinations had featured on Turkish Airlines’ network in the past but were discontinued due to the military and political situation in both countries.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has received Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah at the Presidential Complex in the capital, Ankara,

President Paul Kagame and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday, January 23, held a tête-a-tête meeting in the Turkish capital Ankara. The two leaders met before joining the bilateral discussion of their delegations.

Turkey aims to maintain the good relationship it enjoyed with the United States during Donald Trump's first presidency into the second, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told an Ankara press conference on Monday.