Turkey has already cleared out terrorists from over 1,500 square miles (about 4,000 square kilometers) of Syrian territory and intends to continue establishing security zones, including to the east of the Euphrates River, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.

Turkish forces have killed, captured or forced to surrender 33 militants linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the course of counterterrorism operations held across Turkey over the past week, local media reported on Monday, citing the Turkish Interior Ministry

Turkey is eager to use national currencies instead of the US dollar to trade with Venezuela and other countries amid tensed relations with the United States, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday following a meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart Jorge Arreaza.

The 2016 EU-Turkey deal aimed at stopping irregular migration continues to yield good results, Aleska Simkic, the deputy head of the EU delegation to Russia, said on Thursday.