ISTANBUL: Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has taken on a daunting challenge. After participating in the nuclear-security summit in South Korea at the end of March, he went to Tehran to urge Iran's leaders to make a deal during the next (...)
ISTANBUL: It was good while it lasted. Designed by Turkey's newly elected government in 2002, the country's “zero problems with neighbors” policy helped it to climb into the league of influential regional powers. The policy's goal — to build strong (...)
ISTANBUL: Turkey joined NATO at the beginning of the Cold War to gain United States protection in the event of a Soviet attack. Back then, Turkey was clearly on the frontline; today, however, its leaders are assertively pursuing an independent (...)
