Tag: Turkey

Twitter works as an outlet of rage against Fazıl Say. Say’s attack was on the listeners of arabesque music, going so far as to call them ‘traitors’. Fazıl Say might ...

The two brief biographies included in this volume are the result of some heroic digging around little-known archives by the author. Rıfat Bali has done this for a number of ...

Senator John McCain, a vocal opponent of Susan Rice's possible nomination as Secretary of State, said on Sunday that the U.N. ambassador could change his mind after she explained her ...

Afghanistan has closed down three major public universities in the capital, Kabul, for more than a week after sectarian clashes left one student dead and nearly 30 others wounded.  Interior ...

Voters in the Spanish region of Catalonia have given their backing to nationalist parties but have punished the regional president who called an early election. The governing centre-right CiU led ...

 Iran said Turkey's plans to deploy Patriot defensive missiles near its border with Syria would add to the region's problems, as fears grow of the Syrian civil war spilling across frontiers. Turkey asked NATO ...

Turkey’s journalists, writers and students should not be in prisons, the main opposition Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) leader, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, has said, while further criticizing the ongoing coup plot trials. ...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan received head of Syrian opposition coalition. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday received Moaz al-Khatib, president of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary ...

NATO’s Patriot missiles to be stationed in Turkey may stay around even after the conflict in Syria cools down, due to other regional tensions, especially the one between Israel and ...

This town of 19,000 nestled in an idyllic mountain pass of impossibly green pastures and golden autumn trees is on the front lines of Turkey’s rapidly escalating guerrilla war. In ...