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 [...]
Massacre from Israel is like to be never going to end, today Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas have reached a tentative agreement to free several hundred Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the release of captured Israeli army Sgt. Gilad Shalit, according to officials on both sides and many media reports. Israeli Prime Minister [...]
Palestinian officials are going public with long-whispered complaints that international Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, is biased toward Israel. Unofficial suggestions that Blair should now be replaced coincide with a Palestinian drive to secure membership of the United Nations, establishing statehood in the face of strong opposition from Israel and [...]
A mosque in northern Israel was torched overnight with slogans scrawled on its outside walls, in what police on Monday denounced as “a very severe price tag incident.” Police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld told AFP that a number of suspects entered the mosque in the Bedouin village of Tuba Zangaria in the Upper Galilee and set [...]
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 [...]
Turkey has dismissed claims that it will agree to extending the release date of an already much-delayed United Nations’ Mavi Marmara report to give Israeli-Turkish reconciliation a chance and said the deadline for an Israeli apology is the release date of the flotilla report. The Israeli media reported earlier this week that Israeli Prime Minister [...]
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has renewed its call on Israel to apologize for its raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla that left nine Turkish peace activists dead. Erdogan says Ankara will not talk with Tel Aviv unless it apologizes and pays compensations for its “savage attack” on the aid ships in international waters on [...]
Israel goverment has rejected a proposal from UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon to establish a multinational commission to investigate a deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told cabinet ministers Sunday that he had informed Mr. Ban of his decision. He said he told the U.N. chief an investigation of facts [...]
