Syrian security forces have deployed heavily in a tense Damascus neighborhood, preventing a repeat of one of the largest anti-government rallies seen in the capital, as violence continued in protest hubs elsewhere in the country. Activists said Sunday th

Iran gave support to the Syrian regime, sending two warships to the country’s port Tartus over the weekend, while the United States is flying its unmanned reconnaissance planes over Syria, officials say. Iran’s move is the second time such support has be

The Tourism and Publicity Platform (TUTAP) have awarded international success awards to the Doğan Media Group and Metehan Demir, daily Hürriyet’s Ankara representative. The awards, which were given at a Feb. 17 ceremony in Ankara, aim to highlight indivi

Turkey restarted natural gas transfers to Greece over the weekend after Greek Energy Minister George Papaconstantinou called to request supplies. “My Greek colleague called to say they were in difficulty,” Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yıldız told journa

Turkey has dropped its support for a prestigious sailing race in the wake of France’s decision to approve a bill criminalizing denials of the “Armenian genocide.” Olay Nautic, the organizer of the Europa Race, has announced that Turkey will not financial

Masoud Barzani, the head of the Regional Kurdish Administration in north Iraq, said it was now high time for the Kurds to attain their rights, while speaking yesterday at a conference attended by Kurdish politicians from Turkey. “All the facts have revea

The next round of talks between Iran and six world powers on the Islamic republic’s nuclear program will be held in Istanbul, Iran’s foreign minister said yesterday in Tehran, the Associated Press reported. According to the semi-official Iranian Mehr new

Trade in Turkey’s free zones increased 21.9 percent to $22.6 billion in 2011, according to official figures gathered by Anatolia news agency. The Aegean Free Zone made the highest trade at $5.7 billion, the figures provided by the Economy Ministry indica

Turkey’s top institutions are not in a crisis but are instead working together in harmony, the prime minister said yesterday in his first comments on the fight over an attempt to probe top spy officials and his first remarks since emerging from follow-up

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping will seek to enhance bilateral political and economic cooperation when he arrives in Turkey today for talks while also possibly pursuing a nuclear power plant contract, according to a Turkish official. “Formal talks have

Turkey is in a very difficult situation vis-à-vis Syria since many Western countries are pushing it to intervene in its southern neighbor, a prominent Arab media scholar has said, adding that such an attack would not benefit Ankara. “A lot of countries a

GREECE’S participation in Nato has not managed to respond to the significant threat represented by Turkey, Foreign Minister Stavros Dimas told a special event held to mark the 60th anniversary of the country’s membership of the military bloc on February

AMMAN/BEIRUT - Police and militia patrols fanned out in the Syrian capital's Mezze district on Sunday to prevent a repeat of protests against President Bashar Assad that have threatened his grip on Damascus, opposition activists said. On the internationa

AMMAN: Iraq has agreed to allow Jordanian trucks to pass through Iraq en route to Turkey and some European countries to bypass crisis-hit Syria. Making the announcement, Iraqi Transport Minister Hadi Al Ameri underlined the need for special legislation t

[Turkey doesn't just stand geographically between East and West. Turkey's attitude towards problems ranging from the Armenia-Azerbaijani dispute to the Iranian nuclear program to the conflict in Syria and many others will have major implications for how

Turkey needs to step up to the Syrian crisis, if it wants to be a regional and global player to reckon with As the world watches the obliteration of the Syrian city of Homs and the crisis spills into neighbouring Lebanon, it is time to ask what separates

The deep static on the telephone line gave his voice a superhuman feel. I was in an unlit phone booth, in a small town found along the porous Syria-Turkey border, desperate to speak to Anthony Shadid, the seasoned, storied and celebrated Middle East War

FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2012 file photo, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and the Gaza Strip's Hamas premier Ismail Haniyeh salute lawmakers and supporters of Erdogan's Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party at the Parliament in

BEIRUT Gunmen have assassinated a senior prosecutor and a judge in a northwestern province, Syria's state-run news agency reported. SANA said gunmen opened fire Sunday morning on a car carrying Idlib provincial state prosecutor Nidal Ghazal and judge Mo