Turkey steps up rhetoric on Syrian ‘massacre’ from World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Peter Beaumont Rescued journalist tells of being abandoned in tunnel as China urges government and rebel to end all acts of violence Turkey has called the violence in Syria “a crime against humanity” on the scale of the 1990s bloodshed in … Read more
MAIN FOCUS: Standard & Poor’s threatens bailout fund | 07/12/2011 from euro|topics The US rating agency Standard & Poor’s threatened on Tuesday to downgrade the credit rating of the EFSF bailout fund. Fifteen euro countries are now also having to worry that they may lose their top credit standings. With its move Standard & Poor’s … Read more
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with French President Nicolas Sarkozy during arrivals for a G20 summit in Cannes, France on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. French President Nicolas Sarkozy will welcome Barack Obama of the U.S., Hu Jintao of China as well as the leaders of India, Brazil, Russia and the other … Read more
Honestly, visa requirements are so annoying that I have given up goin’ to Europe (conferences etc…) **************** Turkey finds Israeli soldiers via Facebook by Fréderike Geerdink ISTANBUL ? The Turkish secret service made a list of 174 names of Israeli soldiers involved in the attack on the Mavi Marmara aid ship to Gaza last year, … Read more
Levantine Basin Drilling by M.A.M Mavi Boncuk | The Tamar natural gas discovery will supply the Israeli domestic market for decades. Currently appraised at 8.4 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) Tamar is expected to deliver its first sales in 2013.Lying to the north-west of Tamar, Leviathan holds around a further 16 Tcf, almost all of which … Read more
AFP/GETTY IMAGES- Last year, 2.7 million British citizens visited Turkey Turkey moved out of Europe ? by Post Office travel insurance by Acturca The Independent (UK) Wednesday, 31 August 2011, pages 12-13 By Simon Calder, Travel Editor at Large As Turkey moves closer to the EU, the Post Office in Britain has deemed that the … Read more
Recession Warning On Europe?s Periphery from A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros by Edward Hugh As Europe?s leaders struggle to convince markets that their Greek debt problem-resolution-proposals are actually viable, and will really do the trick, last week?s flash PMI readings seem to have attracted rather less attention than they might. Nonetheless, … Read more
After a little bit of warmer touch with Israel, Prime Minister Erdoğan reminded Turkey’s demand for apology… In the mean time, Turkey’s opposition to EU Cypriot Presidency continues… Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (L) makes his address as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (R) and ambassadors listen during the opening session of the Palestinian Ambassadors Conference … Read more
MAIN FOCUS: No stress for Europe's banks | 18/07/2011 from euro|topics Only eight out of ninety banks failed the bank stress test, the European Banking Authority announced in London on Friday. But the press says the test ignored the risk of a state going bankrupt and will therefore hardly calm Europe's financial markets. Why Europe … Read more
Hillary Rodham Clinton winks during the fourth Libya Contact Group Meeting in Istanbul, Friday, July 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool) Hillary Does istanbul by M.A.M More than 30 nations that have recognized Libya's main opposition group as the country's government declared on Friday that Muammar Gaddafi's regime had lost its legitimacy. The Libya Contact … Read more
Geçen hafta Türkiye?nin Lefkoşa?daki DPT kökenli sefiri Halil İbrahim Akça ?32 bin kamu çalışanı ve emeklisi bütçenin yüzde 85’ini çekiyor. Bunun geri çekilmesi lâzım. Bu hantal devlet yapısıyla ekonominin yürümesi mümkün değil. Siyasilerin ekonomik paketin bedelini ödemeyi göze almaları gerekiyor? diyerek aylardır süren tartışmaya son noktayı koydu. Akça?nın fermanına Kıbrıs Türk Öğretmenler Sendikası Genel Sekreteri … Read more
From the Bosphorus: Straight – Renewed death penalty no answer by HDN Turkey formally abolished the death penalty in 2002. It was the right decision then. It is the right decision today. The return of the death penalty by FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK The brutal killings of three children in Kayseri as well as one in … Read more
European Parliament adopts critical report on Turkey from Hurriyet Dailynews by ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News The European Parliament expressed serious doubts about press freedom in Turkey in a criticism-laden report it adopted Wednesday. (UPDATED) Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (C) and his counterparts, Franco Frattini (L) of Italy and Carl Bildt of … Read more
Turkish Cypriots wave flags and shout slogans during a protest against economic austerity measures they say Turkey is trying to impose on them in the Turkish occupied area at northern of capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Wednesday, March 2, 2011. The demonstration follows an earlier protest in January that rocked relations between Turkish Cypriots and Turkey after … Read more
EU visa concessions for Turkey not on the horizon, diplomats say from Mavi Boncuk by M.A.M EU visa concessions for Turkey not on the horizon, diplomats say Brussels – The European Union is unlikely to respond to Italian-led calls for the bloc to start talks on easing visa restrictions for Turkey, diplomats said on Tuesday. … Read more