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Turkey placed 95th among 153 countries in Islamic values, with non-Muslim countries nabbing the top 40 spots, according to an annual study by two academics at George Washington University. New Zealand topped the list of ...
Sedat Peker, the convicted leader of a criminal organisation, met with leaders of football club fans at an iftar meal after fans cheered for the main opposition Istanbul mayoral candidate, left-wing daily Evrensel reported on Friday. Ekrem İmamoğlu, ...
The country was removed from the United States’ unilateral trade preferences program, and tariffs on steel from Turkey were lowered from 50% to 25%. The Trump administration in March said it planned to remove Turkey ...
ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey took more unorthodox steps on Friday to protect its beleaguered lira, including scrapping a recently-hatched plan to tap the central bank’s legal reserves to boost its budget and urging banks to ...
French prosecutors have reopened an investigation into the 2013 murder of three Kurdish militants, a judicial source and lawyer for the families of the dead activists said on Thursday, a case that could impact France’s ...
Immediately before and after the municipal elections in Turkey on March 31, there remained a slim hope that the U.S. and Turkey could begin to rebuild their damaged relationship. Such hopes were seemingly dashed with ...
Istanbul, a view from the Pera District (Source: Raymond H. Kévorkian/Paul B. Paboudjian, Les Arméniens dans l’Empire Ottoman à la veille du Génocide, Paris, 1992). (Courtesy of Houshamadyan) LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Over hundreds of years, ...
If ethnic tensions in Turkey are reflected on the football pitch, then Amedspor and their Kurdish following are at the very centre of the field. The club represents the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir in south-eastern ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. House of Representatives committee on Tuesday released an early version of a spending bill that seeks to prevent the shipment of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, as U.S. officials press ...
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Photo Credit: via Anadolu Agency Editor’s Note: Turkey has emerged as an important, but confusing, actor in the greater Middle East and beyond. Its policies have oscillated as its role has expanded, and ...