Turkey: Prime Minister Davutoğlu Expected to Step down

Ahmet Davutoglu is expected to step down as Turkey’s Prime Minister at the ruling party’s congress to be held this May or early next month. Rift between Davutoglu and President Erdogan has become clear following a Wednesday 90-minute meeting between Read more

Turkey: AKP and HDP MPs Fight over Immunity Lifting, Draft Approved

After the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the opposition People’s Democratic Party (HDP) exchanged blows, kicks and throwing objects at each other during a constitutional parliamentary commission meeting to lift immunity of lawmakers, the draft was adopted and Read more

Turkey Closing the Gaps with Israel to Revive Ties, FM Statement

Ties between Ankara and Tel Aviv are seemingly warming up as the Turkish foreign ministry underlined in a statement that “progress” was made in the latest round of talks held in London and that an agreement could be materialized “very Read more

Riyadh Mending Fences between Turkey & Egypt

Riyadh is endeavoring to improve ties between Ankara and Cairo after three years of diplomatic hold-up due following the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi in 2013. “Saudi Arabia has put forward a number of suggestions on how to resolve the differences Read more

Turkey and Saudi to create strategic cooperation council

President Erdogan’s had a closed door meeting with King Salman in Riyadh to discuss issues of mutual interest which ended with the Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir announcing that the two countries have “produced a desire to set up a Read more

Turkey: Erdogan proposes Israel normalization, conditions to be fulfilled

President Erdogan hinted that his government is willing to mend ties with Tel Aviv because it will be in the interest of the region but he outlined that it will be based on the Jewish State fulfilling certain conditions. Turkey Read more