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European foreign ministers criticised Turkey on Tuesday for failing to deal normally with Cyprus and opted to keep the brakes on Ankara's attempt to join the European Union.
Brussels - Cyprus on Tuesday demanded a freeze on Turkey's European Union accession talks because of its blockade of Cypriot vessels, throwing a meeting of EU foreign ministers into disarray, diplomats in Brussels said. EU member states are keen to e...
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will press Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, one of NATO’s two Muslim members, for more support in curbing Iran’s nuclear program and rebuilding Afghanistan.
Background Briefing by Senior Administration Officials on Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan's Trip to D.C. Washington, DC December 4, 2009 STAFF: Well, this briefing is dedicated to Janine Zachria – (laughter) – the one person who really wants to talk about Turkey. But we – as you know, the Prime Minister Erdogan is coming to Washington on Monday, will be meeting with President Obama and Secretary ...
The five-member delegation representing the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Conference of European Churches (CEC) visited the Muslim-majority Republic of Turkey on 23-27 November.
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will press Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, NATO’s only Muslim member, for more support in curbing Iran’s nuclear program and rebuilding Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is looking for help in Afghanistan from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan even as tensions simmer between the two NATO allies on Iran and the Middle East. A White House meeting Monday between the two leaders comes at a time of rising Turkish influence in the Middle East and Central Europe. Before leaving for Washington, Erdogan said Turkey has ...
(Corrects in first paragraph that Turkey is one of two Muslim NATO members.) Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will press Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, one of NATO’s two Muslim members, for more support in curbing Iran’s nuclear program and rebuilding Afghanistan.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan may face probing questions about whether NATO member Turkey is tilting away from the West and toward Iran when he meets U.S. President Barack Obama next week.
Brussels - Cyprus is to put pressure on Turkey to improve relations and open its ports and airports to Cypriot vessels by attaching new conditions to European Union accession talks on six issues, the country's foreign minister said Tuesday. The move ...
Turkey's constitutional court will begin final deliberations next week on whether to outlaw the country's main Kurdish party on charges of links to separatist rebels.
Seven Turkish soldiers were killed Monday, and three others were wounded in an ambush near Tokat, in the north-central part of the country, the military said. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, the deadliest in the region in more than a decade, but the state-run Anatolian News Agency hinted at the possible involvement of the PKK, the separatist Kurdish rebel group.
Brussels - Turkey should end its blockade of Greek Cypriot vessels without delay if it wants to start European Union membership talks on key trade-related issues, EU foreign ministers said Tuesday. But ministers agreed to open talks on environmental ...
For decades, the overriding assumption in U.S. diplomacy was that the United States could do it all — or simply had to do it all. Other nations were pretty much assigned the roles of bit players. Or so the theory went. Case in point: Turkey.
Istanbul - Turkey's Constitutional Court is set to begin hearing Tuesday a case that could lead to the closing of the country's largest pro-Kurdish political party amid rising tension in the country's predominantly-Kurdish southeast. A university stu...
US President Barack Obama met Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House on Monday, with differing tacks on Iran in the spotlight as the nuclear crisis reaches a pivotal point.
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