Russian TV: Deployment of Patriot air defense missiles on the Syrian-Turkish border may be a prologue to a global conflict, warned Iran’s top brass on Saturday. The very future of […]
RIYADH: ABDUL HANNAN TAGO Saturday 8 December 2012 Turkey is planning to exempt 50 countries from visa entry, which is already applied to many Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, as […]
Source: Dawn.com MYRIAD problems afflicting Muslims today are of our own making. The combined GDP of a billion plus Muslims living in some 56 sovereign Muslim states is less than that of Japan. Barring a few countries like Malaysia and Turkey, most Muslim states are underdeveloped. Pakistan has seven million […]
(CNN) — NATO foreign ministers have approved Turkey’s request for Patriot missiles to defend its borders, a statement of “solidarity” with its fellow alliance member. “Today NATO agreed to augment Turkey’s air defense by deploying Patriot missiles to Turkey. Turkey has asked for NATO’s support and we stand with Turkey […]
Source: Asia Times. By Spengler The United States is shocked – shocked – to discover that Turkey, a notional American ally, has done more to help Iran skirt sanctions than any other country. Turkey’s precious metals exports, almost all of which went directly or indirectly to Iran, quintupled this year […]
The head of Turkish human rights association, the Organization of Human Rights and Solidarity for Oppressed People, known as Mazlumder, says the country’s Hijab ban is a violation of human […]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen have placed among the top 10 on The World’s Most Influential Muslims list Read more
THE ECONOMIST, Beirut. A MOB attacked Alexander Aan even before an Indonesian court in June jailed him for two and a half years for “inciting religious hatred”. His crime was to write “God does not exist” on a Facebook group he had founded for atheists in Minang, a province of […]
Source: ANTARA News Islamabad – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said here on Thursday that he and other leaders of the Group of Eight Developing (D8) countries agreed that violence and […]
Turkey does not really offer a useful template of democratic values and institution-building and thus cannot become a role model for the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Arab states […]
Source: Yahoo News ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan decried Israeli’s air strikes on Gaza on Friday as a pre-election stunt and said he would discuss the crisis […]
Story Summary Aware of the danger but drawn by curiosity, men huddled on a rooftop and gawped as artillery rounds crashed into the earth, yards from the flimsy fence that separates this Turkish border town from Syria. In the 20 months since the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad began, one […]
Source: Spiegel: L Eylem and Jörg Huber’s case was filed on behalf of Eylem’s teenage daughter, who was denied a visa to visit her mother in Germany. Germans can travel […]
(Reuters) – Turkey will imminently lodge an official request with NATO asking the military alliance to deploy Patriot missiles along its border with Syria to guard against violence spilling over, a senior […]
Patrick Markey | Reuters ARABNEWS IN the northeast corner of Syria a power struggle is developing over the promise of oil riches in the remote Kurdish region, threatening to drag […]
by Conn Hallinan, November 02, 2012 Source: AntiWar.com Two years ago, Turkey was on its way to being a player in Central Asia, a major power broker in the Middle East, and a driving force in international politics. It had made peace with its regional rivals, partnered with Brazil to […]
Hurriyyat Daily: I really was not expecting to eat the best lahmacun of my life on the western coast of the United States. (Lahmacun, a sort of thin pizza with […]
by Alexander Kuenzle, swissinfo.ch For Swiss exporters and investors, an emerging market is opening. Foreign trade booster Osec will open its 20th Swiss Business Hub in Istanbul next spring. Also […]
In an effort to bring stability amid the ongoing finger-pointing between the Syrian rebels and government over blame for disrupting a truce, UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is in Moscow […]
by Renat Kuenzi, swissinfo.ch For Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan, joining the European Union is no longer a priority. Instead he is pursuing a course of industrialisation and Islamisation, says […]