The furor over the Nobel Peace Prize has obscured what may stand as one of the Obama administration's first real diplomatic triumphs: clinching an accord to normalize relations between Turkey and Armenia.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf | Posted 05.21.2009 | World
The principles of Islam and the principles established in America's founding documents are not that far apart. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are Islamic principles, too.
Suat Kiniklioglu | Posted 05.14.2009 | World
My colleagues and I in the Turkish Parliament are rolling up our sleeves because we feel it is time to channel the excitement of our new beginning into a momentum for real partnership.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics
A Turkish news anchor wore dark face paint while he reported on President Obama's trip to the country. Watch: A rough translation: "Welcome, Mr. ...
AP | LEE KEATH | Posted 05.09.2009 | World
CAIRO — The Middle East is finding, to its amazement, that it may actually like America's new leader. Barack Obama has impressed many Arabs and ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics
Media Monitor Cathy Talbot tipped us off to an on-air smackdown that transpired today between Rush Limbaugh and one of his callers, who criticized the...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.08.2009 | Media
I'd call it hysterical, if it weren't simply more indicative of a lazy attempt at provocation. The idea that Obama caused these particular smears to come into being is nonsensical.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics
In its report on President Obama's trip to Turkey, the New York Times notes that the speech in Ankara was not the major speech in an Islamic capital h...
AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 05.08.2009 | World
ISTANBUL, Turkey — President Barack Obama heralded a "new chapter of American engagement" with the world on Tuesday and vowed to forge new relat...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics
At a press conference in Turkey, President Obama casually rebuked the old chestnut that the United States is a Judeo-Christian nation. "One of the gr...
Jerusalem Post | JPOST.COM STAFF | Posted 05.07.2009 | World
Turkish security services have arrested a Syrian man who was planning to assassinate US President Barack Obama during his current trip to Turkey, the ...
Council on Foreign Relations | Steven A. Cook | Posted 05.07.2009 | World
As President Obama arrives in Ankara, he will find a Turkish government eager to play an influential role in the Middle East. While Turkey has m...
AP | TOM RAUM and JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics
ANKARA, Turkey — Declaring the U.S. "is not and never will be at war with Islam," President Barack Obama worked Monday to mend frayed ties with ...
Washington Post | Kevin Sullivan | Posted 05.06.2009 | World
President Obama touched down in this Turkish capital Sunday night for a two-day visit at the tail end of a maiden overseas trip that has stretched fro...
Nathan Gardels | Posted 05.06.2009 | World
The new Obama administration has assigned such pivotal importance to Turkey because it is the great experiment in the world today of both non-Western and post-secular modernity.
AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics
UPDATE: LONDON - President Barack Obama has arrived in Europe, with a hefty economic and political agenda for his first journey across the Atlantic s...
Stephen Schlesinger | Posted 04.30.2009 | World
I have just returned from an eight day visit to Turkey and I can confirm that Barack Obama is now considered in Turkey to be the virtual president of our planet.
Salon | Posted 04.18.2009 | World
Trying to figure out what Barack Obama intends to do in the Middle East is like trying to read the leaves in a cup of tea stirred by Jackson Pollock. ...
AP | Posted 04.13.2009 | World
ANKARA, Turkey — President Barack Obama may be invited to address Turkey's Parliament in a rare honor reserved for the country's closest allies,...
CNN | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics
Paul Volcker, former chairman of Federal Reserve and an economic adviser to President-elect Barack Obama, knows a thing or two about turning out a tas...
Washington Post | Dana Milbank | Posted 12.28.2008 | Politics
President-elect Obama had nearly finished his third news conference in as many days yesterday when he decided to favor his audience with one more tast...
Jeffrey Mankoff | Posted 10.18.2009 | World