Earlier last month, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutglu promised to grant legal status to the 'cemevis' as the place of worship for the Alevi Muslims. However, Religious Affair Directorate President Mehmet Gormez recently expressed it as a 'red line'.
Russia on Sunday warned Turkey to stop staging what it called provocations against its forces in or near Syria after one of its warships fired warning shots at a Turkish vessel in the Aegean to avoid a collision.
Islamic State militants have made more than $500 million trading oil with significant volumes sold to the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and some finding its way to Turkey, a senior U.S. Treasury official said on Thursday.
Russia has increased checks on food and agriculture imports from Turkey, the agriculture ministry said on Thursday, in the first public move to curb trade in a dispute with Ankara for downing a Russian fighter jet.
