Turkey

The ruling party’s Kurdish initiative heats up Parliament as the debate comes packed with plenty of criticism of the Justice and Development Party’s efforts and what many opposition leaders are calling intentionally bad timing. Tuesday was also the anniversary of the death of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern …

Turkish President Abdullah Gül formally inaugurated the 25th session of the Organization of Islamic States, or OIC, meeting of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation, COMCEC, Saturday morning in Istanbul. The 56 member organization is meeting in Istanbul this weekend to discuss greater cooperation in response to the …

Turkey and the European Union (EU) agreed to intensify cooperation to overcome the common problem on migration flow and to fight irregular migration, said a joint statement on Thursday.

Turkey expects to finish talks with Russia’s Atomstroiexport by next month on building its first nuclear power plant and will accelerate plans to construct more, Energy Minister Taner Yıldız said on Wednesday. Turkey has repeatedly pushed back a deadline to finish the tender, held in September 2008, at which Atomstroiexport …

Turkey is still anchored to the West and closer ties with neighboring Iran do not indicate a change of course in foreign policy, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Tuesday, brushing aside criticism of his recent trip to the Islamic Republic. Erdoğan’s visit to Iran in late October and his …

Current situation with Armenia-Turkey relations can’t last forever, so the perspective of rapprochement and border opening should be accepted. Scenarios of protecting regional interests should be developed, EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Ambassador Peter Semneby stated. According to him, the war in Georgia has shown everybody there are …

President Barack Obama will meet with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the White House on Dec. 7. The White House announced the meeting Thursday. Press secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama looks forward to discussing a broad range of issues with Erdoğan, including strategies for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Middle …

In an interview broadcast yesterday by Qatari TV channel Al Jazeera Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejected the accusations that by signing agreements with Syria, Iraq and Russia he is actually seeking an alternative to the EU. 

Nothing will change in the South Caucasus region after opening borders between Turkey and Armenia, since the routes of energy supplies will not change without solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, said Georgia’s former minister of economy, a senior fellow at the Fund for Strategic and International Studies of Georgia, Professor …

Russia has been trying to create a new pressure lever to use upon Kiev by mimicking a wide international support to the South Stream pipeline project. This is what Ukraine’s ambassador to Turkey Sergei Korsunsky said.