The Hamas Prime Minister, Ismail Haneya, has met with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, over the situation in Gaza. Haneya also met Turkey’s Foreign Minister in Istanbul. As well as addressing the Gaza issue, developments in the Middle East were also reportedly discussed. Haneya is on an official tour of Muslim-majority countries, especially those [...]
Debates that began when Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan underwent surgery last month and had to stay away from politics during his several-week recovery still continue today. These debates center on the questions of whether Erdogan will run for presidency in the near future, to whom he will entrust his ruling Justice and Development Party [...]
Turkey’s prime minister warned on Wednesday that his country’s relations with the European Union “will be completely frozen” if Cyprus assumes the bloc’s presidency before a deal reunifying the ethnically split island is reached. Cyprus has been split into a Turkish Cypriot north and a Greek Cypriot south since 1974, when Turkey invaded after a [...]
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday (February 6th) urged authorities in northern Cyprus to track down participants in the January 28th rally. The protest in the Turkish-dominated part of the divided island was against the government’s austerity policy, which stems from a protocol with Turkey. Some protesters held banners criticising Turkey’s particularly Erdogan’s intervention [...]
Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange blasted the extradition request against him in a London court on Monday, claiming Sweden would try Assange “behind closed doors in a flagrant denial of justice.” “The Swedish custom and practice of throwing the press and public out of court when rape trials begin is one that we say [...]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will travel to Libya next week to receive a human rights prize dedicated to Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, his office said on Friday. Erdogan will receive the Kadhafi International Prize for Human Rights on Wednesday at a ceremony in Tripoli, where he would also attend, as a guest, an Africa-EU [...]
