The European Union has just opened another membership negotiation chapter with Turkey, after a five-year lull in relations as Ankara struggles with serious foreign and domestic problems
Aziz Sancar is a Turkish-American scientist who received the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which he shared with two other scientists, on Dec. 10. He was awarded for his work on human DNA
German Tornado jets, together with some 550 troopers, began to arrive at Turkey’s strategic Incirlik Airbase on Dec. 10 in order to join the U.S.-led coalition campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
It may be too early to comment on, but the picture has started to get clearer about who benefited and who suffered as a consequence of Turkey’s downing of a Russian war plane on Nov. 24 for violating its border with Syria
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has reportedly sent a letter to Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, promising progress in the opening of five negotiation chapters between Turkey and the EU in the first quarter of 2016
The Turkish military training base near the Bashiqa district of Mosul, north of Iraq, was first established with the final aim of liberating Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL)
The military build-up over the Syrian civil war has spread to a wider area covering the East Mediterranean and now the Black Sea, as the tension between Ankara and Moscow over the downing of the Russian jet on Nov. 24 grows into wider Russia-NATO tension
Despite the Turkish and Russian foreign ministers, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Sergey Lavrov, meeting in Belgrade on Dec. 3 - marking the first high-level contact between the two countries since the downing of a Russian jet for violating Turkish air space on Nov. 24 - tension keeps escalating
The downing of the Russian jet by Turkey on the Syrian border on Nov. 24 has not only turned up the heat amid political tension around the Syrian crisis, it has also accelerated developments about the future of the country, removing certain scenarios from the table
