“Didn’t Cemal come today? I wonder if he’s sick,” asked the overweight man in a suit. “And then there’s Sevim, Veli’s daughter. Why didn’t she come?” asked the man, who was later revealed to be the neighborhood head.
U.S. President Donald Trump is alienating America’s allies while making new friends at the same time. Before the shock of Trump’s latest tariff threats at G-7 meeting had even dissipated, the president was off to Singapore for his historic meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un.
The upcoming elections represent a crucial turning point in Turkish politics. Switching from a parliamentary system to a presidential one, Turks will elect a new president and renew the parliament on June 24.
While U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the nuclear deal with Iran still echoes, the opening of the relocated U.S. embassy in Jerusalem came on top of the ongoing protests on the Gaza border, launched on March 30, provoking further unrest.
I’ve got some good news and some bad news: The good news is that South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will meet on April 27 in the border village of Panmunjom to discuss political reconciliation and perhaps – finally – formally end the Korean War, 65 years after a truce ended hostilities.
The United States, Britain and France launched strikes against chemical weapons facilities in Syria on April 14 in response to Bashar al-Assad’s alleged chemical attack in the Damascus suburb of Douma, which had been held by rebels for years.
The Israeli-Palestinian issue is back on the front pages, after 16 people were killed and more than 1,400 were wounded last Friday as Palestinians launched the “Great March of Return” on the Gaza border.
The long-awaited EU-Turkey leaders’ summit was held in Varna on March 26 under the auspices of Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, the current president of the EU Council.
The 13th edition of the German Marshall Fund’s (GMF) Brussels Forum convened in Brussels last week. This year’s focus was on strategies to restore trust in the transatlantic alliance.
