Current borders in the Middle East are far from perfect
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan has said on March 16 that the “iron fist of the state in a velvet glove” would crush the heads of the terrorists
The visit by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to Ankara on March 15 served as a welcome gesture of solidarity for President Tayyip Erdoğan, who had postponed his visit to Baku after the bomb attack in the Turkish capital on March 13 that killed 37 people
Sometimes finding excuses is easier than finding answers
With the approval of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, a motion to lift the parliamentary immunities of five MPs from the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has been submitted to the Turkish Parliament by the PM’s office
The migrant trafficking chain into the EU between Turkey and Greece could be broken within “10 days at most” if a final deal can be reached between Ankara and Brussels, a ranking government official told the Hürriyet Daily News on March 11
Some historians give credit for the original idea of carving zones of influence out of the “sick man of Europe,” the Ottoman Empire, to Sergey Sazanov, who was the Russian foreign minister before and during the First World War
In a pre-emptive move to counter possible pressure from European Union leaders during meetings in Brussels on March 7, Turkey has raised its offers and demands regarding the plan to secure control over the migration from Syria (and elsewhere) into the EU, thus reactivating Ankara’s relations with the EU
Despite the fact that it is generally now romanticized into just another commercial day like Mother’s Day or Valentine’s Day, March 8 “Women’s Day” was originally called “International Working Women’s Day”
