Turkey condemns European parliament committee call to suspend accession
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON FEBRUARY 21, 2019 FILE PHOTO: European Union (R) and Turkish flags fly at the business and financial district of Levent in Istanbul, Turkey […]
Erdogan offers seminary exchange for Greek mosque minarets
Source: Arab News ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday suggested the mosque in Athens should open with minarets if the Greek premier wants to reopen a seminary in […]
Turkey seeks 1,112 suspects linked to failed coup
Source: Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says authorities have issued detention warrants for 1,112 people suspected of links to the U.S.-based Muslim cleric who is […]
Ex-Turkish prisoner Andrew Brunson calls for release of detained Americans
Source: Politico By Eli Okun Andrew Brunson, the American pastor whose two-year detention in Turkey became a diplomatic flashpoint, on Wednesday called on the international community not to forget the […]
Greece’s Tsipras visits Hagia Sophia on trip to boost Turkey ties
This content was published on February 6, 2019 By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras paid a symbolic visit to Istanbul’s former cathedral Hagia Sophia […]
A view from Turkey: Lost in the Middle East
MUHITTIN ATAMAN @MuhittinAtaman Since the beginning of the Arab uprisings and revolutions in 2011, Turkey has been targeted by Western states because it has been supporting the demands of regional […]
A view from Turkey: Destructive power of the West
İHSAN AKTAŞ @ihsanaktas Published January 25, 2019 Until the end of the Cold War, there had apparently been a critique of Western civilization. Although the controversy between the Western and […]
Turkey scrambles to draft a roadmap for post-US troop withdrawal
Jan 16,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN Turkey’s military has shifted its focus from north-eastern to north-western Syria since Al Qaeda’s Hayat Tahrir Al Sham defeated Ankara’s surrogate factions […]
A view from Turkey: Did Trump really threaten Turkey?
BURHANETTIN DURAN @burhanduran Published January 15, 2019 Despite threatening economic sanctions against the Turks on Twitter, U.S. President Donald Trump still remains committed to withdrawing from Syria and working together […]
Turkey-Russia cooperation key to rebuilding Syria after US leaves, Erdoğan says
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Turkey does not want to see the success of its cooperation with Russia as part of the Astana process depreciated, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in an […]
Turkey, US reached understanding of historical importance on Syria, Erdoğan says
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Turkey and the U.S. reached an understanding of historical importance regarding the establishment of a secure zone in Syria in a phone call held by the leaders […]
Senegal opens first stage of express railway line built by Turkish contractor
ANADOLU AGENCY DAKAR Senegal officially launched the longest section of the country’s first railway project Monday, which is being built in part by Turkish contractors. President Macky Sall attended the […]
Trump threatens to ‘devastate’ Turkish economy over Syrian Kurds
Source: BBC News US President Donald Trump has threatened to “devastate Turkey economically” if it attacks Kurdish forces in Syria following a planned pullout of US troops. In two tweets […]
Turkish chemist invents environmentally friendly deicing compound for roads
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Published January 13, 2019 After a six-year research and development process, a Turkish chemist invented a special chemical compound that is 10 times more effective than […]
Trump Threatens to ‘Devastate Turkey Economically’ if It Attacks Kurds
By THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF Mr. Trump’s tweets threatened to upend negotiations between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his Turkish counterpart, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. WASHINGTON — President Trump threatened […]
Ottoman Music Therapy
By: Nil Sari Music has been used as a mean of therapy through the centuries to counter all kinds of disorders by various peoples. Physicians and musicians in the […]
Turkey cannot accept US condition of protecting YPG terorrists, Erdoğan says
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL U.S. President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton’s remarks regarding the PKK’s Syrian offshoot People’s Protection Units (YPG) are unacceptable, and Turkey cannot accept the U.S.’ […]
Turkey’s Erdogan criticizes John Bolton as rift between NATO allies deepens
The national security adviser was accused of making a “serious mistake” in calling for a new condition for the U.S. exit from Syria. National Security Advisor John Bolton announces there […]
Who is Fethullah Gulen? And why is the US talking about extraditing him to Turkey?
Source: Religion News Service By Claire Sadar (RNS) — For the past 2½ years, the United States and its NATO ally, Turkey, have been at odds over the fate of […]
Britain and Islam – the real special relationship
This country is fully Quran-compliant. And it has been since the Elizabethan era Ed Husain In all the agonising about Islamism, and what to do about it, it would be […]