RT (blog) | Turkey to Expand Food Exports to Russia Wall Street Journal ISTANBUL—Turkey is preparing to ramp up food exports to Russia, hoping to benefit from Moscow's ban on Western produce amid the conflict in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision last week to block certain food imports from the European ... Turkey: 'We're ready to increase food exports to Russia' AMANDA PAUL Turkey to Boost Food Exports to Russia (and Greece Objects) |
Aljazeera.com | Turkey: Voting out founding ideology Aljazeera.com As widely expected, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan emerged victorious in the first round of Turkey's presidential elections with about 52 percent of the votes. This is his ninth consecutive election victory (3 general and 3 local ... It would be better for Turkey if the presidency remained mainly ceremonial Turkey needs to turn away from Mr. Erdogan's repression After Erdogan, Turkey's Future Will Be Liberal |
Investors Cautious on Turkey Barron's Term limits are a quaint notion in Turkey. And so it was that voters extended the 12-year reign of Islamist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. This time he will be president. The result was expected, despite the divide between Turkey's secularists ... |
BBC News | Kurdish women in Turkey move away from independence BBC News Iraq's Kurds are battling an invasion from the militant group Islamic State (IS). Together with the Kurds of Iran, Syria and Turkey, they make up the world's biggest nation without a state. But while Kurds in northern Iraq are planning a referendum ... |
RT | Spiegel: BND focus on Turkey nets Kerry, Clinton Deutsche Welle Spiegel: BND focus on Turkey nets Kerry, Clinton. The magazine Der Spiegel says Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency tapped a satellite phone call made by US Secretary of State John Kerry last year. It resulted from BND spying on Turkey, begun in ... Germany tapped John Kerry's phone, spied on Turkey for years - report German media says Berlin spies on NATO ally Turkey German intelligence 'spied on John Kerry, Turkey' |
Turkey: An economy at a crossroads Aljazeera.com Turkey, the strategically-located $800bn economy which straddles East and West, has elected a new president. In the presidential poll, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erodgan won outright with 52 percent of the vote. But his success is rooted in past ... |
The Daily Star | Turkey calls for help with Syria refugees as tensions rise The Daily Star ISTANBUL: Turkey's relief agency said Friday that it was time for the world to start "sharing the burden" of the 1.2 million Syrian refugees it is hosting, after tensions between Turks and refugees again turned violent. The latest clashes in the ... TURKEY REQUESTS MORE HELP FROM INT'L COMMUNITY TO HOST ... Turkey urges int'l solution to Syrian refugees Syrian refugees under attack in Turkey |
CNBC | In Turkey, a late crackdown on Islamist fighters Washington Post REYHANLI, Turkey — Before their blitz into Iraq earned them the title of the Middle East's most feared insurgency, the jihadists of the Islamic State treated this Turkish town near the Syrian border as their own personal shopping mall. And eager to ... The US ally supporting Islamic State fighters Turkey's Border Towns, Once Islamic State Allies, Struggle to Keep Out Jihadists US operation against ISIL, Turkey's silence |
The Daily Star | PKK conflict with Turkey 'coming to an end': Ocalan The Daily Star ISTANBUL: The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party's 30-year conflict with Turkey is coming to an end, the group's jailed leader said Saturday, hailing the start of a new democratic process in the country. The PKK, which for three decades fought the ... Conflict with Turkey nears end: Jailed Kurd leader |
Newsweek | Turkey's New President Was Elected on a Platform of Hatred Newsweek This harsh comparison, as well as attacks on other “outsiders,” became a staple of Erdogan's campaign rhetoric in the weeks before his convincing victory on August 3 in Turkey's first nationwide presidential election. Comparing Israeli actions in Gaza ... |