Kerry in Turkey amid Zionism row…

Kerry in Turkey for talks on Syria from Hurriyet Daily News US Secretary of State John Kerry was due to discuss the Syria crisis with Turkey’s leaders. Zionism row risks overshadowing Kerry visit to Turkey from Yahoo news ANKARA (Reuters) – A row over Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s description of Zionism as a crime … Read more

Turkey vs. Israel. A fresh new round with Erdoğan’s statements on Zionism… A FP roundup…

  Israel: Turk?s Remarks Criticized from NYT > Turkey by By REUTERS; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey on Thursday of making a ?dark and false? statement. Israel, Turkey row over Zionism deepens rift between ex-allies from Yahoo news JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s prime minister accused his Turkish counterpart … Read more

Well, US State Department backs Ambassador Ricciardone’s comments… A FP roundup…

US State Department backs Ambassador Ricciardone’s comments from Hurriyet Daily News U.S. State Department Spokesperson Nuland argued that there was nothing new in Ricciardone?s comments on Turkey. Despite US opposition, oil trade with Iraq is legal, PM Erdoğan says from Hurriyet Daily News Turkey will continue its oil trade with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). … Read more

FBI at extra work in Turkey. Embassy attack in Ankara, American woman murdered in Istanbul…

Embassy attack has drawn US, Turkey closer: Envoy from Hurriyet Daily News The Revolutionary People?s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C).. US-Turkey Relations in The AK Party Decade by Acturca SETA Policy Brief, No. 62, January, 2013, 13 p. Kadir Üstün & Kılıç Buğra Kanat * Turkey?s relations with the United States over the last decade witnessed wild … Read more

Patriots in town… A foreign policy roundup…

A German military convoy heads to Kahramanmaras following their disembark at Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Iskenderun in Hatay province January 22, 2013. A contingent of German Patriot missile units German soldiers attacked during a protest against Patriots from Hurriyet Daily News German soldiers stationed as part of NATO?s mission to deploy Patriot air defense systems. … Read more

Turkish FP roundup: from the model country issues to Kurdish oil…

Assertive Turkey key to U.S. in shifting Middle East by Acturca Reuters (UK) Wednesday, December 12, 2012 by Nick Tattersall and Peter Apps (Washington/Istanbul) With its caustic rhetoric on Israel and its gold-for-gas trade with Iran, Turkey is not the deferential U.S. ally it once was as it carves out a growing role in the … Read more

In the mean time, Turkey is into a “show trial” on the Mavi Marmara case… a FP roundup…

  The Mavi Marmara was headed towards the Gaza coast when Israeli commandos boarded it Turkey seeks 18,000-year jail terms for flotilla raid from Yahoo news Turkey put four former Israeli military commanders, including the head of the army, on trial in absentia on Tuesday for the 2010 killing of nine Turks on a Gaza-bound … Read more

Wait for the American elections special program at Haydarpaşa! and an election roundup…

The historic Haydarpaşa Station will be used as a venue for the special program prepared by the American consulate and Institute of Creative Minds From the November 6 evening to November 7 morning (Istanbul Local time). Many new media tools will be used. I will be around to help the organization. Details will come soon;) … Read more

Nobody seems to have believed Al Arabiya claims… A FP roundup…

Turkish pilots killed by Syrian intelligence, Al Arabiya claims from Hurriyet Daily News ?Two Turkish pilots were captured by the Syrian Air Force Intelligence after their jet was shot down in coordination with the Russian naval base in [the Syrian city of] Tartus,? according to a document…   The stalemate in Turkish-Israeli relations Jerusalem Post … Read more

Clinton in Istanbul to probably fix Turkey’s chaotic positoning towards Syria due to Kurdish issue. A FP roundup…

Clinton heads to Turkey for meetings on Syrian rebellion – The Washington Post Clinton arrives in Turkey for key Syria talk from Hurriyet Daily News US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived Saturday in Istanbul for talks on the conflict in Syria with Turkish leaders after Washington slapped fresh sanctions on Bashar al-Assad’s regime and … Read more

Obama-Erdoğan talk subject to semiological analyses while Turkey’s Syria policy increasingly shaped by “Kurdish Phobia”…

Obama here talks to PM Erdoğan about the crisis in Syria. Turks try to understand what this pose means.   White House releases statement on ‘baseball bat’ photo from Hurriyet Daily News The White House released a statement today to end the debate on U.S. President Barack Obama’s pose holding a baseball bat while speaking … Read more

Turkey’s FP roundup: technical iran nuke talks, syria vs. turkey and probably a new crisis to happen between Turkey and France…

Hollande pushes new law to criminalise denial of Armenian genocide – FRANCE – FRANCE 24 Technical Iran nuke talks start in Istanbul from Hurriyet Daily News The negotiations between Iran and the world powers are to continue today in Istanbul at the level of technical experts. Iran reserved on technical talks’ results in Istanbul Iran … Read more

Turkish authorities continue to be silent on the Uludere/Roboski massacre..

Why does silence prevail on the Uludere massacre? from Hurriyet Daily News You must have read it. A story in the American daily Wall Street Journal has annoyed all of us. The topic is about the Uludere massacre .. The Uludere sham from Hurriyet Daily News Last year on December 28 squadrons of Turkish jets … Read more

Iran helps freeing the Turkish journalists, another symbolic blow to Turkey’s Mideast policies?

Freed Turkish journalists arrive from Iran from Hurriyet Daily News Two Turkish journalists who went missing while reporting on the uprising in Syria two months ago ************** France: a chance to restart from Today’s Zaman, your gateway to Turkish daily news :: Columnists by BERİL DEDEOĞLU The presidential elections in France were closely monitored in … Read more

Not without EU, says Financial Times… A foreign policy roundup…

Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul (L) admires paintings during a visit to the Amsterdam Museum in Amsterdam April 17, 2012. Gul is in the Netherlands for a three-day state visit. REUTERS/Peter Dejong Triumphalist Turkey can?t go it alone from FT.com – World, Europe For all the talk about Chinese rates of growth, the success of the … Read more