Tag: Turkey

BDP co-leader Demirtaş says Turkey should be administered with 15 or 20 autonomous regions that have their own parliaments during the party’s congress. The Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) revealed ...

Trade volume of free zones in Turkey was up by 9.1 percent to 13.5 billion U.S. dollars year-on-year between January and July 2012. According to the figures by the Ministry ...

Turkey plans to open new EUmembership accession chapters during the term presidency of Ireland starting in January 2013, Turkish European Union Minister Egemen Bağış said yesterday. “We are voicing our demands on the opening ...

Reassuring Turkey over its fears of a sovereign Kurdish state on its southeastern frontier in northern Iraq, a leading Kurdish official says any independent Kurdistan will still be dependent on ...

Ankara has placed a ban on Syrian Airlines flying into Turkish airspace, after a diplomatic row that began when Turkey seized cargo from a Syrian civilian plane it forced to ...

A recent opinion poll has revealed that more than 75 percent of the Turkish people are against a war with neighboring Syria. The opinion poll was conducted by Metropol, an ...

Watchdog claims video evidence shows government forces dropped Soviet-era cluster bombs in bid to halt rebel advances. Syrian government forces have used Russian-made cluster bombs on populated areas in their ...

Contributing MEI Scholars and Guests: Geneive Abdo, Reza Akbari, Roby Barrett, Charles Dunne,Philip Frayne, George Harris, Mark N. Katz (George Mason University), Allen Keiswetter, David Mack, Melissa Mahle (C&O Resources), ...

Originally posted January 2009 Understanding Iran’s foreign policy is the key to crafting sensible and effective policies toward Iran and requires, above all, a close analysis of the profound cultural ...

Prophet Rasûlullah (sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam) said that îmân was to believe in six certain facts. He declared that “First of all, to believe in Allâhu ta’âlâ,” And he ...