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Turkey supported temporary ceasefire in Syria. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that Turkey supported call of the joint UN and Arab League special envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi for a temporary ceasefire in Syria in the upcoming...

Prime Minister voices disappointment over his party’s failure to meet the required vote on the amendment to hold early local elections as the ruling AKP and the main opposition...

Budget deficit will be 34 billion TL, according to the bill. Turkey's central management budget for 2013 was submitted to the parliament on Wednesday. The budget bill foresees that budget expenses...

Following US Ambassador’s comments hinting that the AKP did not accept a proposal to launch a multi-disciplinary terror approach, opposition parties question the government’s strategy on terror. Opposition parties...

The seaside town where Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk's novel "Silent House" is set during the late 1970s has since been swallowed by the sprawl of Istanbul, but according...

Turkish President Abdullah Gul said the constitutional amendment on early local elections he returned to parliament for its re-discussion on Tuesday lacks content.he returned to parliament for its re-discussion...

Armed with glossy sales catalogs and a shy swagger, Samuel Wong hopes to transform his family-run firm from a manufacturer of hum-drum fishing vessels and houseboats into a maker...

How the 2012 election could come down to one thing: coal. Mitt Romney and the U.S. coal industry are engaged in a very public love affair. In August, the...

This is a meaty, fast-paced portrait of North Korean society, economy, politics, and foreign policy by an expert who has studied the regime as a scholar and interacted with...

When Barack Obama won the U.S. presidential election in 2008, people in Islamabad exchanged congratulatory text messages. As he delivered his famous "yes we can" victory speech in Chicago,...