Tag: Turkey

Turkey is holding talks with the Kurdish rebels’ jailed leader to press the autonomy-seeking guerrilla group to relinquish arms and end its decades-long conflict, a senior official was quoted as ...

2012 proved to be a year in which there has been a worsening of expectations, according to a prominent pollster. But despite the fact that uneasiness is on the rise ...

High-ranking sources in Turkey's Foreign Ministry have denied reports that have surfaced on Dec. 31 that claimed four Turkish pilots were arrested while trying to infiltrate into Syrian military airport. ...

Supreme court rules ban on Haneen Zoabi's candidacy for being on boat stormed by commandos is unconstitutional. An Israeli-Arab politician who took part in a flotilla attempting to breach the ...

A senior Turkish government official lashed out Monday at plans by aFrench satirical newspaper to release a comic book biography of the prophet Mohammed, calling it a "provocation" and advising Muslims ...

Inflation targeting has some obvious general advantages, and some potentially serious problems. The general advantages include focusing monetary policy directly on achieving the goal of low and stable inflation. With ...

Among those stars who performed in Istanbul were Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Leonard Cohen. Turkey's north-western province of Istanbul hosted world stars in 2012. Among those stars who performed in Istanbul were Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, ...

'Five years ago I lost 50lb doing Dancing With The Stars – I call it Dancing With The Starved!' People say that Donny and I look alike. I don't see ...

Pakistan provisionally unblocked access to the popular video-sharing website YouTube on Saturday after taking measures to filter blasphemous material and pornography, officials said. Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in ...

From history to fiction, politics to poetry, Guardian readers pick their favourite reads of 2012 Timothy Adès London My best new books are: Victor Hugo, How to be a Grandfather, the Complete ...