Is prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan doing too much or not enough? Turkey's star power in the region could be put to the test as Ankara talks tough on Syria and gets set to host Iran nuclear talks.
Is Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan doing too much or not enough? Turkey's star power in the region could be put to the test as Ankara talks tough on Syria and gets set to host Iran nuclear talks.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (pictured) accused Damascus of infringing its border on Monday after Syrian forces fired into a refugee camp inside Turkey. Erdogan threatened “necessary measures” in response to the violation.
On the first official trip to China by a Turkish leader in 27 years, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan paved the way for more bilateral cooperation on nuclear energy and made a trip to Xinjiang, where China's Muslim Uighur population resides.
"A lose-lose situation" is how France’s former ambassador to Turkey sees the effect on Franco-Turkish relations of a bill to penalise genocide denial. François Picard’s panel looks at the timing and the trouble with politicians making laws about history.
"A lose-lose situation", is how France’s former ambassador to Turkey sees the effect on Franco-Turkish relations of a bill to penalise genocide denial. François Picard’s panel looks at the timing and the trouble with politicians making laws about history.
Former army chief Ilker Basbug (pictured) was arrested Friday in connection with a suspected plot to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Basbug is the highest-ranking officer yet to be implicated in the investigation.
Turkey has promised to pay damages to the families of 35 Kurdish villagers killed by air strikes last Wednesday but has ruled out an official apology for their deaths, which sparked outrage among locals of the separatist region.
Days after France passed a controversial genocide bill, an Israeli parliamentary committee debated Monday whether to recognise the Armenian genocide, a move that will likely worsen its already strained ties with Turkey.
French lawmakers have passed a bill making it illegal to deny a genocide, including the Ottoman Turks' 1915 massacre of Armenians. Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan responded Friday by accusing France of committing genocide in Algeria in the 1940s.
