Turkey on Tuesday began constructing a new oil pipeline that is expected to carry Russian and Kazakh oil from its Black Sea coast to the Mediterranean, another move toward making Turkey a global energy corridor.
Turkey and the United States are approaching a critical strategic crossroad that will determine both the shape and the content of their relationship for the foreseeable future. The pressures forcing change on this long-standing alliance -- which has endured since the Truman Doctrine in 1947 -- are powerful. Neither Turkish nor American policymakers seem to grasp the emerging reality that this ...
Turkey's Islamist-rooted Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday named Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul as the ruling party candidate for president, following harsh secularist objections to his own reported ambitions.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday named Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul as the ruling party's candidate for president, ending speculation that Erdogan would stand himself.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday named Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul as the ruling party's candidate for president, ending speculation that Erdogan, a former Islamist, would stand himself.
