The USA emphasized Turkey’s growing role in the Middle East and beyond, in remarks at the opening dinner of the 2011 Annual Conference on U.S.-Turkey Relations. The event was hosted by the American-Turkish Council, and highlighted Turkey’s growing economic leadership. American government officials pointed out when talking to Turks – from students to entrepreneurs to [...]
Germany is earning property buyers’ trust, this month’s Top of the Props report from TheMoveChannel.com suggests. Germany has entered the top ten most popular property destinations for the first time ever, as the country offers a reassuringly stable market for investors. Germany jumped four places in the overseas property portal’s rankings to take the tenth [...]
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s tour of Arab Spring nations and the messages he gave during these visits continue to echo in the Turkish media. There is no doubt that these visits, which have further boosted Turkey’s international standing and Erdogan’s popularity, will play a major role in the shaping of the future of these [...]
Turkey, once Israel’s closest ally in the Muslim world, has abandoned its role as a Middle East intermediary and taken advantage of an Arab vacuum to forge a new role as a regional standard-bearer. As the only mainly Muslim member of NATO and the first country in the wider Middle East to forge relations with [...]
Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has handed all power to the country’s military after buckling under increasing public demand for his resignation. This follows three weeks of organised demonstration and protest in Cairo against the former leader – who has ruled for 30 years – and calls he immediately step down from his position. Mr Muburak [...]
The British have had a notorious love affair with holidaying on the Spanish Costa since the seventies. And as more and more flocked, the diversity of holidays available expanded. Spain now offers high end luxury holidays, other end of the scale bargain breaks and pretty much everything in between. But is the British love affair [...]
