German Chancellor Angela Merkel has visited Turkey and met with Turkish Prime Minister AhmetDavutoğlu three times in a short period. Turkey has been receiving Berlin's love in doses that...
According to the Turkey Tribune news report dated 31 Jan 2016, Turkish forces had captured one thousand ISIS insurgents, from 57 different countries traveling between Turkey and Syria, while...
If life on earth began more than 3 billion years ago, why do we cling to 2016? Should it not be 3b16? Here ‘b’ denotes billion and overall, 3b16...
A largely Sunni Muslim people with its own language and culture, most Kurds live in the generally contiguous areas of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Armenia and Syria – a mountainous...
The third round of talks on Syria, to which the entire world is looking with hope, began in Geneva last week. No question about it -- the start of...
In the article An Electricity in Outer Space, I tried to give the clues of Anatolian Rock which formed an important basis for the native, unique and experimental musical...
The government of Pakistan denies the presence of ISIS in the country but this not the case. It is very much there as different incidents and arrests have exposed....
Since the ‘Arab revolutions’ of 2011, a number of factors have contributed to destabilising the region, including the growing divide between Sunnis and Shiites, increasing radicalisation, tribal and regional...
I was visiting my mom in Antakya recently. We were walking in the Kuseyr hill and could hear sounds from the other bank of the Asi River (Orontes), but...
2015 was a year for records, a year of wake-up calls. Scientists at NASA and NOAA confirmed that 2015 was the hottest year on historical record with world temperatures...