Tag: Turkey

Erdogan said officials from Turkish Armed Forces and delegations from NATO would decide where to deploy Patriot system in Turkey. Replying reporters' questions during his joint press conference with Spanish ...

The recent increase of Iraqi troops in resource-rich contested areas is fuelling fears that the subsequent escalation of tension could develop into full-scale war between the Shiite Iraqi government and ...

Turkey is considering increasing its oil imports from Russia to avoid the impact of Western sanctions against the Iranian oil sector, the Sabah newspaper has quoted Turkish Energy and Natural ...

Clashes between Syrian Kurdish forces and Syrian rebels have been on the rise the past few weeks. Concentrating control in their own areas of northwestern Syria, Kurdish leaders have been ...

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğanhas stated that speculations over a well-known 2007 between himself and then-Chief of General Staff Yaşar Büyükanıt, dubbed as “the Dolmabahçe meeting,” were “exaggerated, unfair and unreal,” ...

  Syrian fighter jets on Monday strafed a rebel-held area near the Turkish border that is home to thousands of internally displaced refugees, in what appeared to be a warning ...

Turkey has abandoned its goal of becoming a full member of the European Committee of Nuclear Research (CERN) for economic reasons, daily Radikal reported on Nov. 26.  The Turkish Atomic ...

Wael Hmaidan is the director of Climate Action Network International, a network of over 700 Non-Governmental Organizations in more than 90 countries which promotes government and individuals to act to reduce ...

The son of the last Ottoman prince reacts against Prime Minister Erdoğan’s remarks about ‘Muhteşem Yüzyıl,’ saying, ‘His ancestors are our grandfathers’. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s recent remarks criticizing ...

U.S. President Barack Obama has made history as a pioneer in many ways. He is the first black president, first black senator and even the first smoking president in many ...