Rudaw | Spokesman Indicates Turkey Ready to Accept Kurdish State in Iraq Rudaw COPENHAGEN, Denmark – The spokesman for Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) told Britain's Financial Times newspaper that Ankara is ready to accept an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq, as Iraqi forces fought to turn the tide ... Çelik signals Turkey to welcome independent Kurdish state in Iraq Turkey ready to accept Kurdish state Turkey Ready To Accept Kurdish State in Northern Iraq |
Today's Zaman | Crisis in region may push Turkey to search for allies Today's Zaman While the Middle East is passing through critical times due to the conflict in Iraq, Turkey certainly needs to find partners in the region to cooperate with -- although it has harmed the very ground for such cooperation with some regional actors due to ... Turkey's Ties With ISIL Continue to Arouse Suspicions TAHA ÖZHAN > Turkey and the ISIL nonsense Crowded By Two Shaky States, Turkey Shifts Its Weight In Policy |
New York Times | After Opening Way to Rebels, Turkey Is Paying Heavy Price New York Times HABUR BORDER GATE, Turkey — In normal times, hauling 50,000 pounds of frozen chicken into Iraq is a routine job for Turfan Aydin, a Turkish trucker who has been working the route for years. But the cross-border trade has suddenly all but halted ... Our World: Turkey's high-risk power play Syrian Kurdish leader: Turkey turns blind eye to ISIS Turkey's pro-Kurdish party announces presidential candidate |
Turkey takes a U-turn and pivots back to West Al-Arabiya While the headlines have been screaming whether or not Turkey is totally turning its back to the Western world, Turkey has taken a U-turn in its foreign policy and decided to pivot back to West. We Turks love doing business and having close ... |
Turkey struggles to manage refugee influx CCTV Turkey has welcomed over 750,000 refugees since the crisis in Syria began three years ago, with 22 camps set up across 10 provinces. But life inside the camps isn't easy. And for those who can't get a place, even bigger challenges await. This four ... |
ABDÜLHAMİT BİLİCİ Today's Zaman 28 process: for the first time, Turkey was ranked by Freedom House as being among those countries whose media is "Not Free," due to bans on YouTube and Twitter and censorship practices in the country. There is pressure against businessmen. It is now ... |
BBC News | Turkey's Ramadan drummers BBC News During Ramadan in Turkey, Muslims are traditionally woken for their pre-dawn meal by drummers who take to the streets. This tradition is in danger of dying out, but in the city of Istanbul they are trying to find new ways to keep it alive. Drummer ... AID POURING IN FOR SYRIANS IN TURKEY DURING RAMADAN |
Middle East Eye | Turkey's secular parties endorse pious candidate for president Middle East Eye Turkey's two main secular opposition parties on Sunday formally backed a devout Muslim to challenge an expected bid for the presidency by the country's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who heads an Islamic-rooted party. The Republican People's ... Ihsanoglu: the devout intellectual hoping to de-throne Turkey leader Turkey's Erdogan expected to unveil presidential bid |
Ottawa Citizen | $1 million in Canadian navy gear in limbo in Turkey Ottawa Citizen An official with the company that built the system says the firm has repeatedly requested the Canadian military come and pick up the equipment, which is in Turkey. But the Department of National Defence says the time for talk is over and that legal ... |
NC Wildlife seeking help counting wild turkeys Asheville Citizen-Times The information gives an indication of annual wild turkey productivity, gobbler carryover and other population trends, Myers said, which all help the commission manage the state's turkey population. “We've always allowed anyone to participate in the ... State seeks help tracking turkeys |