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The article reports on the foreign policy of Turkey. It mentions that Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan strikes a different tone when he speaks of America and the West, and accuses America of supporting terrorism by arming the PKK, which Turkey considers its mortal enemy. It also mentions that policy wonks and diplomats accuse Turkey of abandoning the West.

The article reports on foreign relations between Syria and Turkey. It mentions that With Russia's encouragement, Syria and Turkey are edging towards rapprochement, and the efforts of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in addressing issues of nuclear weapons and inflation.

The article reports on the developments in the relationship between Armenia, Turkey and Azerbaijan as of May 2021. Other topics include the alleged Armenian genocide by Ottoman troops in 1915-1917, how Turkey helped Azerbaijan in defeating Armenia and recapturing Nagorno-Karabakh, and the declaration by U.S. President Joe Biden that the killings and deportations of Armenians have been a genocide.

The article focuses on the strained relations between the U.S. and Turkey. A U.S. House resolution calling the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I "genocide" has infuriated the Turkish government. At the same time, Turkey's Parliament voted to authorize military incursions into northern Iraq against the Kurdish separatist militia PPK which stages attacks on Turkey from bases in that country. Both actions are needless provocations of allies with many mutual interests.

Speculates on the future membership of the European Union (EU), as of May, 2001. Role of religion in Europe; Discussion of Turkey's attempts to join the EU; Prospect of Russia joining the EU; Question of stability in the enlargement of the EU; Thought that the enlargement of the EU is about preserving and enhancing stability across Europe.

The article reports on the nationalist agenda of Turkey, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) with the biggest armed forces, citing it's geopolitical location. It cites on the promise of Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to strangle strong American-backed border security force. The article also reports on the agreement in which Turkey has to purchase two batteries of advanced s-400 surface-to-air missiles from Russia.

The article discusses the repercussions of Turkey's military offensive in northern Syria. America has reportedly has found itself caught in crossfire, with the U.S. army hoping to continue using the Kurds against Islamist militancy in Syria. The White House has reportedly given away plans to design a new Kurdish-led force.

The article discusses ways in which the European Union's (EU) relationship with Turkey is a test of how seriously it handles foreign policy. Topics covered include the leverage that the EU derives from its economic strength, EU sanctions imposed on Turkey for drilling for gas in waters around EU member state Cyprus, and concerns that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been used by Russian President Vladimir Putin against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

The article focuses on the move of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to distance himself from the U.S., the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU). Topics discussed include the test of relations between Turkey and the U.S. including the impact of the Syrian civil war and he presence of Fethullah Gulen in the U.S., the state of EU-Turkey relations amid the continent's immigration problems and issues between NATO and Erdogan.

The article discusses the terrorist organization the Islamic State's (IS's) conflict with Turkey, including IS's launching of missiles into the border town Kilis, Turkey, IS's suicide bombings in Turkey and Turkey's desire for a safe zone in northern Syria, amidst the country's civil war.

The article focuses on the government policy in Europe regarding refugee crisis. Topics mentioned include the refugees from Syria, the United Nations (UN) organization refugee agency, and the protection of refugee under international law. Also mentioned are the foreign relation of Europe and Greece and the deportation agreement by Turkey and Afghanistan.

The article looks at the civil war in Syria and the prospects of the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. It reports that both the Assad government and the anti-Assad Islamic State (IS) militant group have experienced military defeats and have lost control of previously-held territories in the country. Topics include Saudi Arabia and Turkey increasing their support for anti-government Sunni rebel groups, Iran's support for Assad, and wins by anti-government Kurdish militias.

The article looks at Turkey's foreign relations with the U.S. in the context of the international effort to defeat the Islamic State (IS) militant group operating in Iraq and Syria and of Turkey's ongoing conflict with its Kurdish minority. Topics include Turkey's agreement for the use of the North American Treaty Organization (NATO) airbase in Incirlik, Turkey, for anti-IS attacks, Turkey's air attacks against Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) forces in Iraq, and the Kurdish militia in Syria.

The article reports that the governments of Turkey and Jordan are independently planning to set up buffer zones along their borders with Syria. It is suggested that Turkish officials hope to prevent the creation of a separate Kurdish state in northern Syria, while Jordanian officials are concerned that jihadist violence will reach Turkey if the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad falls.

The article offers information related to the Turkish governments is assertive policy towards Syria and the Turkish public response towards it. It mentions that public of turkey blaming that interventionist Syrian policy of Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for twin car-bomb explosions. It mentions that in Reyhanli, Turkey a twin car-bomb explosions took place on May 11, 2013 in which killed at least 51 people were killed.

The article focuses on how Turkey has become a model for moderate Islamist governmental rule. Information is provided on how the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) has contributed to Turkey's economic stability, good relations with the West and the Middle East, and presented a model for a non-repressive Islamist government.

The article presents an account of diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey, as of February 20, 2010.

The article focuses on Turkey's bankrolling of the construction of mosques in other nations to extend its prestige and power. It comments on the construction of a mosque in Tirana, Albania and mentions Albania's government only approve construction of new mosques for Muslims in 2013. It reports that the Turkish development agency TIKA has completed 248 projects in Albania and is building another mosque in Haiti. It talks about Turkish efforts to shut down schools run by the Gülen movement.

This article discusses negotiations between Turkey and Armenia that are intended to normalise diplomatic relations and open the border between the two countries. The possibility that these negotiations could strengthen Turkey as a regional power in the Southern Caucasus mountains and encourage supporters of its membership in the European Union is explored. The potential for Russian and Azerbaijani issues to disrupt this process is considered.

The article reports on the state of relations between Turkey and the United States and with the member countries of the European Union. The United States needs to stay on good terms with Turkey because of its influence in Iran, but Turks are unhappy with U.S. policies on Iraq and on the Kurdish independence movement. Relations with the E.U. are strained over Turkey's policy concerning control of Cyprus and the popular resentment against Pope Benedict XVI.

This article reports on Turkey's efforts to gain membership to the European Union (EU). People are already asking how long rapprochement with the EU can be sustained, in the face of opposition in Europe to Turkey, and in Turkey to Europe. The article discusses how much resistance there will be among the Turks to the legal, economic, and cultural changes that the EU is demanding. Legislators, who have endorsed the start of talks with the government in Ankara, have balked at ratifying Turkey's inclusion in a customs protocol on grounds that the ships and aircraft of Cyprus, an EU member, are still barred from Turkish ports. For Turks who want a European future, there was hope last weekend, when historians managed to hold a conference in Istanbul to discuss the fate of the Ottoman Armenians. It was the first time Turkish pundits were permitted to challenge publicly the official line, holding that the mass deportation of Armenians in 1915 did not amount to a conspiracy to kill them.

This article focuses on the continued efforts of Turkey to enter the European Union (EU), and what is preventing that from happening. It was only in December that European Union leaders agreed to open membership talks with Turkey on October 3rd. Yet as the date looms, doubts over whether the talks will start keep recurring. The Turks are arguing that, since late July, when they signed a protocol extending their customs union with the EU to the ten new members that joined last year, including Cyprus, there has been nothing more to discuss. The French president, Jacques Chirac, said that Turkey must recognise Cyprus before starting talks. Haggling over the words in the framework is likely to continue right up to October 3rd. "No one should expect Turkey to make any concessions this time," says Abdullah Gul, Turkey's foreign minister. "We have stuck to our side of the bargain, the EU should stick to theirs."

Reports on the Turkey government's decision to support the U.S. action against Iraq. Declaration of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell that Turkey will not be getting a $6 billion aid package; Discussion on a new motion that would allow the U.S. bombers to use Turkish airspace throughout the war; Suggestion that Turkey should keep out of the Kurdish enclave.

It has taken almost five years of tortuous negotiations to get to the point where the European Union's (EU) 15 current members are at last almost ready to strike a deal to admit ten new ones, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Cyprus and Malta. But the widespread assumption that the deal is all but signed has drained away much of the sense of occasion that would otherwise have attended the negotiations' final stages. Attention is already straying towards a country whose membership of the EU is still far from assured,Turkey. The fact that a deal on EU enlargement is now so close is a tribute to both the determination of the candidate countries and the grinding efficiency of the EU's negotiating machinery. In theory, the candidates are meant to implement all 80,000-plus pages of EU law immediately; and the EU is meant to grant the candidates all the rights of membership just as quickly. The EU's members have insisted on an interim of seven years before there is fully free movement of labor, and ten years before the new members are eligible for the full range of farm subsidies. For their part, the candidates have been granted extra time to phase in the EU's burdensome environmental legislation. The hardest concerned money and agriculture, subjects closely related in the EU, which still spends over 40% of its budget subsidising farmers. All the candidate countries were still insisting that the EU's offer on phasing in subsidies to farmers was not generous enough.

Nearly two weeks after the Justice and Development (AK) party swept to victory in a general election, millions of Turks who voted for it discovered who their prime minister was to be: Abdullah Gul, a former banker who is the number two in the Islamic-tinged party, which he helped found last year. Turkey's western allies and creditors are pleased. Gul immediately affirmed that two of his main goals are to maintain Turkey's strategic partnership with the United States and to put his country firmly on the path towards joining the European Union. Born into a humble family in the conservative Anatolian province of Kayseri, Gul, 52, spent part of his career in academia and as an economist at the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, before following Necmettin Erbakan, the erratic founder of Turkey's Islamist movement. But he soon became one of Erbakan's fiercest critics during the latter's brief stint as Turkey's first Islamic prime minister, which ended when the generals ousted him after a year, in 1997, on the grounds that he was seeking to steer the country towards Sharia rule.

The article examines relations between Greece and Turkey in light of a history of antagonism between the two countries. Millions of families in each country adorn their walls with sepia photographs of relatives who died in Greek-Turkish wars. The two countries, intertwined more closely by heritage and history than either cares to acknowledge, can never be indifferent to one another. In the end, what changed the atmosphere between the two countries was something no Balkan-watcher could have predicted: severe earthquakes in both countries in which the two nations offered one another humanitarian aid and the two societies remembered, in an outpouring of emotion, how much they had in common. Since then, although none of the more serious differences has been resolved or even eased, there have been signs of a rapprochement between the two peoples.

Discusses the candidacy of Turkey for the European Union (EU). Influence of the Turkish armed forces on politics; Opposition to joining the EU from General Tuncer Kilinc; Way that the armed forces are opposed to Islamists; Question of whether Turkey will continue to seek membership.

Discusses the support of Turkey for the campaign of the United States against terrorism. Use of Turkish airspace by American planes; Outlook for the cooperation of Turkey in a ground war in Afghanistan; Discussion of the Turkish economy.

Reports that Greece's Prime Minister Costas Simitis announced in spring 2001 that the purchase of new air-force planes, the Eurofighter, would be postponed. Need of the funds to overhaul Greece's pension and welfare system; Opposition to the decision from Simitis' Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok); Expectations for the economy; Details of Greek and Turkish relations.

Discusses the diplomatic relationship between Turkey and Greece. Decision of Greece which pulled its forces out of a joint North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) exercise, Operation Destined Glory 2000, in the Aegean Sea; Hope of Turkey to become a member of the European Union; Dispute of the two countries over the island of Cyprus.

The article argues that Turks should make an effort to mend their relationships with Armenians instead of arguing over the term genocide in relation to various massacres and forced labour incidents involving Armenians in Anatolia (Turkey) in the twentieth century. According to the article, the Turkish government was upset when Roman Catholic Pope Francis referred to an Armenian genocide in 1915. U.S. President Barack Obama's views are examined, along with Turkish-Armenian relations.

The article looks at the deterioration of Turkey's relations with Western countries in the context of the struggle over the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group in Syria and Iraq, reporting on a dispute over Turkey's failure to extradite attempted murder suspect Basil Hassan to Denmark.

Focuses on the initiation of negotiations to resolve Greek and Turkish claims to Cyprus. Role of United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in communications between Turkish-Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash and Greek-Cypriot leader Glafcos Clerides; Relations between Greece and Turkey; European Union status of the island and of Turkey.

Discusses relations between the European Union, Russia, Ukraine, and Turkey. EU rejection of Turkey from the first round of membership consideration; Political fallout from the rejection; Effect of the earthquake in Turkey on its relations with the EU; Russia and its distance from membership in the EU; Relations between EU and Ukraine; Effect of those relations of Russia; Outlook on Ukrainian membership in the EU.

Focuses on relations between the Turkish government and Kurdish rebels following statements made by Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan. His call for the Kurds to withdraw from Turkish territority; The weakness of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has led many Turks to consider the merits of a deal with the Kurds, and better conditions for them; Position of the United States on the status of the Kurds.

Comments on relations between Turkey and Syria in 1998. Dispatch of troops to the Syrian border; Syria's call for a unified Arab stand against Turkey; Turkey's alliance with Israel; Reasons for the strife between the nations; Syria's support of the Kurdish Worker's Party guerrilla group in Turkey; Fear that the conflict could spread throughout the Middle East.

Discusses the failure of U.S. President George Bush's goal in his visit to Cyprus in July 1991. Failure to produce a breakthrough in the relations between the Turks and the Greeks; Bush's efforts to project himself as impartial; Call made by Greek Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis to the U.S. government to put pressure to Turkey to be more flexible.

Focuses on the relationship between Greece and Turkey. Greece's concern that the Gulf War would enhance Turkey's status as a buffer against Middle East instability; Greek governments' reliance on the U.S. Congress to impose a ratio in military aid to Greece and Turkey; American administrators' favorable attitude towards Turkey.

Focuses on Turkey's active foreign policy. Arguments about the erosion of cabinet rule and the plan of joining in a war with Iraq unless provoked; Application in United Nation embargo; Internal struggle to reform its state industries, conquer inflation and eradicate institutional disrespect for basic freedoms.

Presents information on the relations between Turkey and Israel in 1998. The meeting between their prime ministers; Their efforts to establish a relationship, if not an alliance; The involvement of Jordan to defray accusations of anti-Arab activity; Reactions of Syria and Egypt to the joint air and sea maneuvers the two countries conducted.

Reports on Turkey's fears that a military attack on Iraq may lead to the formation of a Kurdish state in northern Iraq. Why this is viewed as a negative possibility by the Turks; The efforts of the Turks to be accomodating to the United States by supporting military action despite its fears.

Probes why Europe needs to repair relations with Turkey. Europe needlessly offending Turkey as the European Union summit in Luxembourg in December 1997; The European Union opening talks with prospective new members; Turkey becoming last on the priority list for membership; Why Turkey is not as eligible as other countries in vying for membership.

Discusses relations between Greece and Turkey regarding Cyprus and other islands in the Aegean in 1997. A meeting on Crete between Costas Simitis, prime minister of Greece, and Mesut Yilmaz, prime minister of Turkey; The efforts of United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; Agreement over the role of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the Aegean; Outlook for successful negotiations.

Consider relations between Turkey and the European Union as of October 1997. The value of a strong relationship to both governments; The need for Turkey to grant some autonomy to the so the south-eastern part of the country that is home to the bulk of its large Kurdish minority; The need of Western Europe to be convinced that Turkey is a genuine democracy before serious commitments can be made.

Examines the status of Germany's foreign policies as of April 1997. The ruling of a German court that Iran's political and religious leaders were responsible for the murder of four Kurdish dissidents in a Berlin bar five years ago; The options that Chancellor Helmut Kohl would like to exercise; Iran's reactions; Germany's troubles with Turkey.

Reports on Turkey's allegations against German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Reasons for the allegation against the Chancellor; Efforts of the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Charlemagne to convert Europe into a single Christian empire; Comparison between Kohl and Charlemagne in the "Turkiye" newspaper; Information on the invitation received by Turkey's Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan to visit Bonn, Germany.

Opinion. Discusses politics in Greece concerning the island of Cyprus, focusing on Turkey's military presence there. The Greek-Cypriotdecision to purchase Russian anti-aircraft missiles; Greek attempts to reduce Turkey's military superiority; The continued debate over Cyprus; Percentage of Cyprus under Greek control; Possibility of pre-emptive strikes from either side.

Looks at the struggle in Turkey between pro-European and pro-Islamist factions. Desire of pro-Western Turks to have Turkey join the European Union (EU); Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan's pro-Islamic and anti-European policies; Controversy surrounding former Prime Minister Tansu Ciller, who has become Erbakan's deputy, because of her dampened zeal for integration with Europe.

Declares that the West has nothing to fear from the Islamist government of Turkish Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan, despite Erbakan's dealings with other Islamic nations. The natural-gas deal between Turkey and Iran; His tentative feelers toward Iraq and Syria; Concerns in the West, that these actions may threaten the stability of the region.

Examines Turkey's allied relationship with Israel and how it has stirred up the Arabs. Turkey's uneasiness with the Arab summit; That Turkey signed up its new relationship with Israel while peace negotiations with the Palestinians were still firmly engaged; Reasons why Turkey risked siding with Israel; How there is a case for closer relationships with Israel in non-military matters; The growing strength of the Welfare Party and its affect on Turkey's foreign policy with Israel.