Tag: Turkey

Peppered with fun facts and cheeky asides, actor Roger Moore’s book looking back on the golden anniversary of James Bond on-screen is a treat for 007 fans. He takes us ...

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 Muslim ...

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 party ...

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 will ...

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 yesterday ...

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 to ...

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 on ...

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 of ...

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 Republican ...

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 its ...