Right after publication of the United Nations-authorized Palmer report on the Mavi Marmara incident last week, Turkey took a very bold step against Israel. On Friday, Sept. 2, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu faced the cameras to announce (...)
Among the dozens of tweets that I received from fellow Turks following the breaking news of Osama Bin Laden's death, one was a bit uncommon. While most others expressed relief when confronted with the demise of a man "who brought only trouble to the (...)
ISTANBUL: Since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in Turkey in late 2002, the media have had a hard time finding an apt word to define it. While the AKP insists on calling itself "conservative" and emphatically underlines that it (...)
ANKARA: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of the Orthodox Church recently said on American TV that he feels "crucified in Turkey, upsetting many Turks. Sadly, his Holiness is right. Yet his complaint is not with Islam but with the secular Turkish (...)
ISTANBUL, Turkey: Alas, it happened again. An extremist Muslim attacked a Westerner to punish him for mocking Islam. This time, the victim was the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, whose controversial caricature of the Prophet Muhammad had sparked (...)
ISTANBUL: The trip to Turkey by US President Barack Hussein Obama, as people loved to emphasize here, was a big success. Except for a few hundred "anti-imperialist , lefty protestors who hit the streets chanting, "Yankee go home , most Turks (...)