The 14-year-old Istanbul-Armenian high school student Klara Yeteroglu who, with her composition entitled “Being Armenian in Turkey,” was declared winner of a composition contest, is at the focus of Turkish med […]

New York is the most enquired-about holiday destination among British buyers while Istanbul continues to see a demand surgeaccording to holiday home website holidaylettings.co.uk.

The Holiday Lettings Index has […]

(RTTNews) – Talks between Turkish President Abdullah Gul and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Chicago failed to make any progress on the sale of armed drones to Turkey.

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Turkey to raise trade exchange with Iran to 35 dlrs billion

Ankara, May 23, IRNA – Turkish Minister of Development Cevdet Yilmaz called his visit to Tehran ‘constructive’ and urged the raise of trade exchanges […]

The visit of the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, coincided with a period wherein, the gulf between the Pakistan’s government and the opposition has dangerously widened, and is compounding the […]

Turkish President Abdullah Gul meets Monday with the Tribune’s editorial board. (Heather Charles, Chicago Tribune / May 21, 2012)

His largely Islamic nation, so often misunderstood, ruled by […]

It is Monday evening in Diyarbakir, a city in Turkey’s southeast, and a weekly meeting of several local members of the so-called Gulen movement has begun with a book reading. […]

Turkish Minister of Development Cevdet Yilmaz has reiterated his country’s opposition to the US-led sanctions against Tehran, saying Turkey will not comply with anti-Iran embargoes.

“We voted against Iran’s […]

Interning at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey

By Dean Pohlman (Ankara, Turkey ’10)

Instead of staying in America for a prolonged period of time, I decided to return to Turkey for an extended period of t […]

Romance and “clandestine relationships” between ordinary Greeks and Turks is again the vehicle for another big-budget Turkish romantic comedy. The theme is far from uncommon in real life.
By Menekse Tokyay and HK […]

By Ariana Keyman on May 21, 2012

The nature of civil-military relations throughout the history of modern Turkey has been contentious to say the least. Since the founding of the Republic in 1923, the country […]

Turkey’s new course in the region and the world

By Abdullah Gül/Chicago

Turkey has recently been at the forefront of international economic and political debates. On the one hand, de […]

By Palash R. Ghosh

The central government of Iraq warned the Kurdish-ruled semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq that it must obtain Baghdad’s approval for any oil export deals signed with Turkey.

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The remainder of my trip to Turkey sparked some further thoughts, including some qualifications to my last post. To wit:

1. I previously described the conference I attended […]

I strongly believe that the time is right for Turkey and Israel to mend their critically important bilateral relationship which has suffered a precipitous decline since 2010. With the Middle East in turmoil as a […]

Dorian Jones

May 21, 2012

Protestors carry banner that reads “O Sultan, take your hands off theaters,” May Day rally, Ankara, Turkey, May 1, 2012.

ISTANBUL – Hundreds of actors and supporters of free […]

Preparing for the Worst, Turkish Navy Awards Contract for Submarine Rescue Mother Ship [VIDEO]

By Rob Almeida On May 21, 2012

Rolls-Royce and Istanbul Shipyard will be working together following their […]

Sochi, the site for the 2014 winter Olympics, just happens to be where the russians dispossessed an entire nation exactly 150 years earlier. the survivors’ descendants say it was genocide—and now they’re demanding […]

All countries have their unique qualities, and any one place might seem wonderful to some and a great deal less so to others. But it’s my guess that most people who have had a chance to spend some time in Turkey […]