Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday left for a three-day trip to Turkey where he is expected to affirm closer bilateral economic cooperation, including Japan's exports of nuclear power reactors, in a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The United States is "seriously concerned" about NATO ally Turkey's controversial decision to select a Chinese company for its long-range air and missile defence system, the US ambassador said on Thursday.
The rise of al Qaeda in parts of Syria's north has left Turkey facing a new security threat on its already vulnerable border and raised questions about its wholesale support for rebels battling President Bashar al-Assad.
Turkey is ready to buy entire Iraqi oil which this country supplies to world markets, Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yildiz said, Sabah newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Extremists from war-torn Syria are slipping into Turkey despite heightened security precautions, Turkish President Abdullah Gul was quoted as saying on Monday.
Tehran, YJC. Former Turk diplomats believe that Erdoğan’s insistence on attack on Syria has met failure against the Russian plan and the Justice and Development Party is at a dead end.
To tell the truth, hypocrisy is an undeniable aspect of liberal politics, as politics cannot be solely based on moral principles. At the same time, moral principles cannot altogether be disregarded - after all, human beings are neither totally moral beings, nor they can live without some sort of morality.
Turkey's ambassador is due to return to Egypt on Wednesday after he was recalled last month over the bloody crackdown on supporters of the country's ousted Islamist president, a foreign ministry diplomat said.
Tehran, YJC. International affairs consultant of the Majlis Speaker has said that Larijani’s Turk and Iraqi counterparts will visit Iran in the near future.
Tehran, YJC. -- Turkish army chief Necdet Özel joins his allied counterparts in Jordan to discuss the situation in Syria and possible ways to respond to allegations of chemical weapons use in a Damascus suburb on Wednesday.