CBS News | Germany offers Turkey $3.4 billion to stem migrant tide CBS News ANKARA, Turkey - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday held talks with Turkish leaders in Istanbul to promote a European Union plan that would offer aid and concessions to Turkey in exchange for measures to stem the mass movement of migrants ... Merkel Links Turkey's EU Hopes to Stemming Flow of Refugees EU Should Offer Turkey a Better Deal After Its Elections Turkey: progress made on EU migrant plan but issues remain |
Wall Street Journal | Turkey's Syrian Migrants Worry as Their Hosts Are Strained Wall Street Journal But Turkish hospitality for refugees like Abdurrahman is limited. He isn't allowed to buy any property in Turkey. He would face high hurdles if he wanted to become a Turkish citizen. And he worries that the Turkish government isn't doing enough to make ... Ronan Dockery: Underneath the violence something good is taking root in Turkey I Was in Turkey During the Ankara Attack The Kurdish town that hosts Turkey's deadliest terror cell |
Voice of America (blog) | Report Shows Distrust and Division in Turkey Voice of America (blog) Fifty-eight percent see the U.S. negatively and 64 percent see Russia the same way. Forty-nine percent see the European Union negatively. But, 55 percent still want Turkey to become a member of the EU. Turkey is a member of NATO. However, 47 percent ... |
Politico | Turkey gets EU concessions in return for refugee help Politico Turkey is viewed in Berlin as the linchpin to resolving the crisis because it is the entry point to Europe for most refugees and the only country in the region with the resources to do more for those fleeing. “The sharing of the refugee burden should ... |
The Inquisitr | World War 3 Fears Increase After Turkey Vows To Shoot Down Any Russian Or US ... The Inquisitr Davutoglu's comments came just a few days after Turkey shot down a drone that had flown just two miles into its airspace. It's believed that the drone was Russian. An investigation into where the drone came from and the path that it took to arrive in ... Turkey Would Shoot Down Planes Violating Its Air Space: PM WORLD WAR 3 PANIC: Defiant Turkey says it will 'shoot down Russian or US jets' Turkey threatens to SHOOT DOWN Putin's planes as it drags West closer to war ... |
STLtoday.com | Eastern Turkey's history unfolds in its architecture, beauty STLtoday.com Fast forward to the present. In more recent years, eastern Turkey has been something of a tourist backwater, largely because of terrorist violence, so it has lacked the sophisticated tourism infrastructure that you find readily in Istanbul and western ... |
Irish Times | Baby, two children drown trying to reach Greece from Turkey Irish Times Five people, including a baby and two children, drowned and one was missing in two separate incidents of migrants trying to reach Greece from nearby Turkey on Sunday, the Greek coastguard said. The service said a sail boat early on Sunday reported it ... LOCAL >Twelve migrants drown as boat sinks off Turkey Baby and two boys die trying to cross Aegean Sea from Turkey Iraqi relatives weep for refugee who drowned during crossing from Turkey to Lesbos |
Yahoo News | Turkey starts delivering water to Cyprus' breakaway north Yahoo News CAMLIBEL, Cyprus (AP) — Turkey's president expressed hope Saturday that an undersea pipeline carrying fresh water from Turkey to the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north of ethnically split Cyprus could help reunify the island amid Greek Cypriot protests ... |
Irish Times | Pressure on Merkel for refugee deal with Turkey Irish Times The German leader held talks in Ankara on Sunday to nail down terms of an agreement with Turkey to ease flows of refugees to Europe. Last week, EU leaders meeting in Brussels offered €3 billion in aid, an easing of visa restrictions, and the prospect ... Merkel hails refugee progress with Turkey, vows to push EU bid |
Hurriyet Daily News | AKP is behind instability in Turkey: MHP head Hurriyet Daily News It is clear, in the current environment and conditions, the reason for instability [in Turkey] is the AKP,” Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) head Devlet Bahçeli said on Oct. 18, during his party's election rally in Istanbul's Yenikapı neighborhood ... Bahçeli says Turkey 'turned into Syria, Iraq' |