The attack at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport is only the latest terrorist atrocity to be committed in Turkey. Our hearts go out to the injured and the families of those killed
Now that the referendum is over and the dust is beginning to settle, the true picture of what happened in Britain and the reasons for this are slowly beginning to emerge
Today Britons will be holding one of the most crucial referenda the EU has seen since its foundation
Turkey’s “precious loneliness,” a term coined by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s chief foreign policy advisor, İbrahim Kalın, to put a positive spin on Ankara’s growing international isolation under the Justice and Development Party (AKP), has started to weigh heavily on the government
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is emphatic that there will be no return to the dialogue process with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)
Much excitement was elicited by newly installed Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım when he said, in his first official remarks, that his government’s aim would be “to increase the number of friends Turkey has and reduce the number of its enemies.”
Turkey is the scarecrow for anti-EU campaigners in Britain as the Brexit referendum gets closer. The argument is a simple one: “If we remain in the EU, we will be flooded by 72 million Turks once Turkey becomes a member.”
The rationale provided by German deputies, including those of Turkish origin, for supporting the non-binding parliamentary resolution in the Bundestag that refers to the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 as “genocide,” is that this “will contribute to healing the wound between Turks and Armenians,” and “will also help normalize ties between Turkey and Armenia.”
It is not clear whether Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım was referring to his government or the “Erdoğan administration” when he said, after assuming office, that Turkey’s new foreign policy orientation would be “to increase the number of friends and reduce the number of enemies.”
