I was expecting a clash btw Sarkozy and Erdoğan but that did not happen so far… Well we still have some to observe a scene:)
Turkish PM visits France amid EU rift < | Expatica France
BERİL DEDEOĞLU – After the ?Season of Turkey? in France
Erdoğan will find a wounded Sarkozy before him by ALİ YURTTAGÜL
When he meets with the French president, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will find a Nicolas Sarkozy who is still wounded, although he has restored his self-confidence after the election defeat.PM to join closing ceremony of Turkey events in France [ WORLD BULLETIN- TURKEY NEWS, WORLD NEWS ]
People upset over Armenia’s warming diplomatic relations with Turkey, protest in front of the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles. The United States on Friday welcomed Turkey’s decision to return its ambassador after a row over moves in Congress to brand the World War I massacres of Armenians as genocide.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Kevork Djansezian)
Turkey to send ambassador back to US
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) Turkey‘s prime minister says the country’s ambassador to Washington, who was recalled a month ago in protest at a U.S. move to declare the killing of Armenians by Ottoman
U.S., Turkey ease strains over Armenian “genocide” bill
Neo-Ottomanism and Iran’s Nuclear Program
Andrew Finkel has a good column in Sunday’s Today’s Zaman, looking at the much debated term “Neo Ottomanism,” often used to describe Turkey’s assertive new foreign policy, and how it relates to some of the thornier issues facing Ankara — particularly relations with Armenia and Iran’s nuclear program. From Finkel’s piece:
?Turkey first needs to make peace with Armenians in Turkey?
Hayko Bağdat, an Armenian who was born and raised in Turkey, says peace between Turkish and Armenian people is more important for him than Turkey’s normalization of relations with Armenia because he would like to have a ?normalized life? in Turkey, where he lives.Turkey Overtaking Germany No Wishful Thinking on Paradigm Shift
Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat, second from left, exits his campaign bus during his a stop in Sirinevler village, in the Turkish occupied area of the divided island of Cyprus, Friday, April 2, 2010. The leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots says talks to reunify ethnically divided Cyprus would collapse if he loses to a hardliner in elections this month. Cyprus was split in 1974 when Turkey invaded after a coup by supporters of a union with Greece. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
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