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• Turkish PM talking Syria with Obama at White House

  Erdogan is looking for stepped-up action on Syria as he meets with President Barack Obama at the White House. But the U.S. and Turkey remain far apart on how to handle Syria's bloody civil war. Erdogan is visiting Washington just days after two car bombs in   Read more »

• Turkey: oil search deal reached in northern Iraq

  without Baghdad's approval. They fear that could threaten Iraq's unity and stability.It was unclear whether Baghdad had approved Turkey's deal.Turkey, which is eager to expand its energy supply, backs the Kurds' position that the Iraqi constitution gives its   Read more »

• Turkey: would not refrain from responding to Syria

  incident is, with certainty, an incident connected to the regime," Erdogan said. "Their world is based on lies."He said Turkey would not refrain from "giving the necessary response" but also indicated that the government wanted to act with restraint."We must   Read more »

• Turkey: 9 detained in connection with car bombings

  a Turkish border town, officials said Sunday, as Syria rejected allegations it was behind one of the deadliest attacks in Turkey in years.The bombings left 46 people dead and marked the biggest incident of violence across the border since the start of Syria's   Read more »

• Kosovo: 3 get jail time in organ trafficking case

  and recipients were foreign nationals.Seven donors who testified were from Israel, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan , Belarus and Turkey . They described how they were flown into Kosovo from Istanbul and then quickly wheeled into surgery in a medical facility named   Read more »

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• Tell Me How This Ends

  Turkey — I’ve been traveling to Yemen, Syria and Turkey to film a documentary on how environmental stresses contributed to the Arab awakening. As I looked back on the trip, it occurred to me that three of our main characters — the leaders of the two Yemeni 11 m ago from The New York Times Read more »

• Turkish soft power: More soft than powerful

  would fall very shortly and that there’ll be a very nice Islamist government in power in Damascus that’ll be very friendly to Turkey. It backfired.” I very much hope Mr. Clark is wrong in his guess about more bombings, although common wisdom says he is probably 5:33 PM from Hurriet Daily News Read more »

• The CHP’s disgusting stance on Syria

  to criticize or condemn Erdoğan’s Syria policy. But one had to be mad to call him a “murderer” for a terrorist attack that hit Turkey. Kılıçdaroğlu’s rage created a scandal in Brussels as well. After a press briefing with EU Socialist group leader Hannes Swoboda, 5:33 PM from Hurriet Daily News Read more »

• The Obama-Erdoğan meeting and economic conduct

  was no element about this in other leaked information either. Meanwhile, it cannot be said that during the talks in Washington, Turkey was able to get what it wanted either in political issues, primarily Syria. It needs to be noted that this situation might 5:33 PM from Hurriet Daily News Read more »

• Harun Yahya: Turkey and Russia: Key Countries to a Solution in Syria

  relations, "the idea of a solution without Russia" is of course technically impossible. In addition, no country, and Turkey in particular, has demanded that Russia abandon its presence and interests in Syria and withdraw from the country or close its military 3:17 PM from The Huffington Post Read more »