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Before about a year, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited the Büyükada island, next to Istanbul. He became the first Turkish prime minister who went there in order to visit the famous Orphanage. Mr Erdogan met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, in a move that proved to be something more ...
At the moment I am on a press trip in Turkey which is supposed to show journalists the progress made in applying EU accession criteria. Believing in the goodwill and sincerity of this attempt, I had yet to discover that the Turkish court banned recently British scientist Richard Dawkins’ Web ...
The events of Turkey's 2008 edition of May Day passed in a predictable fashion. Roughly 500 protesters were reportedly arrested, Turkish police exploded tear gas bombs in front of hospital entrances, protesters were pulverized by water cannons and beaten by batons. As is typically the case during such crack ...