Tag: Turkey

Catalonia’s parliament voted Sept. 27 to hold a public consultation on greater self-determination for the rich but indebted Spanish region. Eighty-four of the 131 regional lawmakers voting backed the call ...

This week’s release of ‘Çanakkale Çocukları’ (The Children of Gallipoli) is just the beginning of a surge of films focusing on the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915. The Gallipoli Campaign, or ...

In his last convention speech as chairman of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vowed to deliver a brand new constitution based on ...

Israel's "go-it-alone" option to attack Iran's nuclear sites has set the Middle East on edge and unsettled its main ally at the height of a U.S. presidential election campaign. Prime ...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Ankara will stand firm by foreign-backed armed groups fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government, and will keep providing them logistical support. Erdogan ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday criticized Turkey for supporting the insurgents fighting the government in Damascus and sees that his neighbor has the ambitious dream of establishing "a new ...

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has said his ruling political party has become a model for others to follow in Muslim states. He was addressing a congress of ...

Hugo Chavez has said if he were American he would for Barack Obama, as he weighed in on the US presidential race. "If I were American, I'd vote for Obama," ...

Election forecasting services are starting to project an Electoral College majority for President Obama. The current Moody's Analytics presidential election model gives President Obama 303 electoral votes, saying that "weak ...

SOMETIMES modern political debates turn out to be ancient arguments. John Stuart Mill is generally considered to be the very epitome of the Victorian liberal, a proponent of free speech ...