Tag: Turkey

Turkish PM Erdogan condemned those who killed non-Muslims in a shopping mall in Kenya, adding that Islam is a religion of peace. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned those ...

Unidentified foreign forces have launched a night-time raid on a militant base in the south Somali town of Barawe from the sea, reports say. A spokesman for the al-Shabab Islamist ...

Turkey and South Africa are rasing in the same group for attracting foreign capital and both of them aim to become regional power. However, South Africa seems to be closer ...

As the country goes into the weekend with the government shut down and neither side talking, there seems to be little hope for breaking the impasse any time soon. And ...

When you mention cats in Middle Eastern history, one first thinks of the Egyptians and the regard in which they held cats, deifying and mummifying them. No other ancient civilization ...

Kadir Topbas re-elected as the president of the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) until 2016. Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Kadir Topbas was re-elected as the president of the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) ...

Details of the Turkish alternative to the Eurovision Song Contest, Turkvision, have been announced by Turksoy secretary general Dusen Kaseinov.  The project, branded as an alternative to Eurovision after Turkey ...

Stakes were high before Erdogan's press conference on 30 September. So were expectations, albeit conflicting, as there was no social consensus on the basis of a new constitution. Each group ...

Israel's population registry lists a slew of "nationalities" and ethnicities, among them Jew, Arab, Druse and more. But one word is conspicuously absent from the list: Israeli. Residents cannot identify ...

Recovery efforts have resumed off southern Italy after a boat carrying about 500 African migrants sank off the island of Lampedusa. The vessel foundered less than 1km (half a mile) ...