Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has been quite busy with immediate foreign policy issues in recent days, which resulted in accomplishing long-lasting negotiations with Israel to normalize their relationship and launching a reconciliation process with Russia
It’s too early to make sound and comprehensive forecasts on how Brexit will affect the Turkey-EU relationship, but it appears likely that Turkey’s accession will be delayed amid the processes associated with the U.K.’s departure
Ironically enough, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım cited improving the state of democracy and the rule of law in Turkey among the top priorities of his government in his weekly address to his parliamentary group on July 21
The tragic attack that left 49 death and more than 50 wounded behind in one of gay clubs of Orlando, Florida came as the United States-backed local Syrian forces have engaged into a massive operation against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) around Manbij area of northern Syria
Turkey’s new EU Minister Ömer Çelik was in the Netherlands, the EU’s term president, on June 9 and 10. This visit followed his trip to Brussels last week, when he held talks with senior EU officials aimed at overcoming the impasse on the migrant deal amid ongoing disagreements on the definition of terrorism
The first decade of the 21st century highlighted Turkey’s rise as an emerging power in an always unstable region from Eurasia to the Balkans and the Middle East to North Africa
One of the most important questions frequently posed after the departure of former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and the formation of a new government under new Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım was whether the newcomer would make a foreign policy shift
A picture showing U.S. troops wearing the emblem of the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the armed wing of the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD), on their uniforms in a joint military action inside Syria has been regarded by Ankara as the straw that broke the camel’s back
Turkey last held a general election on Nov. 1, 2015, granting the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) a good majority to form a stable government
