Tag: Turkey

Covered women working as public servants were able to enter their workplaces with their headscarves on yesterday for the first time ever after an amendment guaranteeing the freedom of dress ...

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu is the latest Turkish figure to chide US Secretary of State John Kerry for lauding Bashar al-Assad’s compliance with the UN over chemical weapons, saying the ...

US President Obama telephoned Speaker John Boehner from the Oval Office late on Tuesday morning, and reiterated his readiness to negotiate with Republicans over policies that Republicans think would strengthen ...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Khaled Mashal, leader of the Hamas political bureau, in the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Tuesday. The meeting that started at 7pm local ...

Currently Dolmabahçe Art Gallery hosts the exhibition ‘Sultan Abdülaziz with paintings’ with the support of the International Culture and Arts Association (UKSD), unveiling 12 unsigned portraits and paintings by Abdülaziz. ...

Social Democrats have signaled willingness to make compromise on increasing tax rates, but demanded introducing a blanket minimum wage. Merkel’s CDU said an agreement can be reached. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ...

Turkish President Abdullah Gul stressed on Friday the need of taking decisive steps to resolve the Syrian crisis and said that cleaning up the chemical weapons in the Middle East ...

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is implementing an agreement, reached by the US and Russia on 14 September, to destroy Syria's chemical weapons arsenal. The deal ...

While addressing members of the Parliament on the occasion of the opening of the new legislative year, Turkish President Abdullah Gül made very clear that nobody should dismiss him in ...

Turkish Standards Institution (TSE) aims to issue standardized halal food certificates in Europe to end confusion among Muslim-Turkish consumers. The Turkish Standards Institution (TSE) announced on Sunday plans to begin ...