German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s meeting with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu on Feb. 8 produced a joint understanding in further coordinating and dealing with growing refugee problem under a 10-article statement
PM Davutoğlu unveiled on Feb. 5 a 10-article action plan aiming to provide public order on one hand and boost socio-economic conditions in Turkey’s eastern and southeastern provinces on the other, meaning the government will try to deal with the economic and social root causes of violence in the country while security forces continue to fight against the outlawed PKK
Doubtlessly, Turkey’s number-one agenda item is – still – its fight against the outlawed PKK despite visions that the government would launch a new reconciliation process in the aftermath of the November 2015 elections
Speaking to a group reporters travelling with him to Saudi Arabia on the last day of 2015, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan surprised many with his statements on Israel. “Israel is in need of a country like Turkey in the region
One of the questions most frequently being asked in the Turkish capital is when the government will announce the end of current intense operations against the outlawed PKK in southeastern Anatolia
It’s clear that U.S. Vice President Joe Biden deliberately decided to spare his Friday for issues of serious concerns abroad on the future of Turkish democracy, the rule of law and human rights
Iran’s ambassador to Turkey, Ali Reza Bikdeli, has given his assessment on both the Iranian economy and the future of Turkey-Iran cooperation in the fields of economy, energy and trade after the removal of U.N.-led sanctions on the country, in an interview with the Hürriyet Daily News
One of the conclusions in the aftermath of the suicide bomb attack in Istanbul last week, which claimed the lives of 10 German nationals, was that the perpetrators, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in this case, was aiming at targeting the image of Turkey as a safe touristic country
Yesterday’s attack perpetrated by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has important differences from the jihadist organization’s two previous suicide bombings on Turkish territory, the Oct. 10 twin suicide attack in Ankara and the July 22 bombing in Suruç in Şanlıurfa province
