Turkey's opposition calls for dismissal of labor minister
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the Republican People’s Party, called for Labor Minister Faruk Celik to be sacked over the deaths of 10 construction workers. Turkey’s opposition has called on Labor Minister Faruk Celik to be sacked over an elevator ...
Turkey now a 'frenemy'
Turkey has not signed on to allowing the U.S. to launch strikes against the Islamic State and one reason is that the enemy holds 50 Turkish diplomats in Mosul. “Turkey—which has opposed allowing the U.S. to use bases on its territory for airstrikes ...
Analysis of the Presidential Election in Turkey. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Historic Victory. Failure of the Centre-Left
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan became the first publicly elected President of Turkey in the history of the Republic, winning 52 per cent of the votes at the presidential elections of August 10. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, joint candidate of the CHP (secularist, so ...
US: Turkey’s ties to Hamas no obstacle in war on Islamic State
Turkey’s ties to Hamas do not prevent it from serving as an ally in the fight against a different terrorist group — the Islamic State, the US said Friday. At the daily press briefing in Washington, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf acknowledged ...
