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Turkey Looks To Curb Abortion, C-Sections

AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 05.29.2012

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ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey's health minister said Tuesday that the government wants to reduce the number of abortions, days after the prime minister lik...

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Turkish PM To Syrian Refugees: 'Your Victory Is Close'

AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 05.06.2012

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ANKARA, Turkey -- Treated to a hero's welcome, Turkey's prime minister met Syrian refugees Sunday for the first time since his country opened its door...

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Politics and Policies: Dealing With Ankara No Turkey Trot for Damascus

Claude Salhani | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Damascus, Arabs, Turkey, Ankara-Turkey, Middle East Politics, Middle East, Arab World, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Bashar Assad, Ankara, Syria, World News

Turkey is a real force to be reckoned with in the Levant. And if memories serve well, upsetting the Ottoman Turks never proved to be a very intelligent policy. Upsetting modern-day Turks may not differ.

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Syria Claims To Be Pulling Back Troops, But Activists Report New Attacks

AP | Associated Press | Posted 04.11.2012

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BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian troops shelled and raided opposition strongholds nationwide on Tuesday, activists said, prompting an urgent appeal by internation...

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Turkish PM In Iran For Talks On Nuclear Program

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 05.28.2012

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TEHRAN, Iran -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other Iranian officials were to discuss Tehran's disputed nuclear program and the crisis in Syria wi...

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Turkey's Vision for 2012 and Beyond: Davutoglu's Washington Visit

Joshua W. Walker | Posted 04.18.2012

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It is too soon to tell whether Davutoğlu's promising rhetoric may become a reality, but at least Washington has experienced first-hand Turkey's approach and vision for 2012 and beyond.

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Syria Crisis: Turkey Inches, Somewhat Reluctantly, To The Forefront

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 02.13.2012

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WASHINGTON -- When Turkey's Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, arrived in Washington late last week, he came with a clear and direct message about the...

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Turkey's Dangerous Diplomacy

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Ismail Haniyeh, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Turkey, Anti-Defamation League, Erdogan, Turkish Government, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Hamas, Israel, Turkey Diplomacy, Turkey Israel Relations, World News

I greatly fear that Turkey's fraying democracy and new foreign policy approach will lead the country on a dangerous collision course with its allies in the West.

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Turkey, Where Islam Seeks Balance With Western World

AP | CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 04.06.2012

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ISTANBUL (AP) — For adversaries in a long-distance spat, they made an odd couple. Turkey's leader, a brash visionary who propelled his country to re...

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Paris's Folly

Yavuz Baydar | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Armenian Genocide Bill, Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Armenian Genocide, Nicolas Sarkozy, World News

The French Senate's passing of the bill which criminalizes the denial of the mass deportations and massacres of the Ottoman Armenians in 1915 is simply an act of folly.

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Can Assad's "Iron Fist" Be Broken?

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Syria, Turkey, Libya, Nato, Avaaz, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Free Syrian Army, Iran, Syrian National Council, Bashar Al-Assad, World News

Is there any way to "break" the regime's so-called "iron hand" short of outside Libya-style military intervention, which is just not in the cards for both practical military and diplomatic reasons? So far, there really is no light at the end of this tunnel.

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Turkey's 2012 Re-Adjustment to Post-"Zero Problems" in the Aftermath of the Arab Awakenings

Joshua W. Walker | Posted 01.05.2012

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Turkey's newfound swagger and Prime Minister Erdoğan's emergence as an international leader should be welcomed as signs of a more responsible stakeholder in regional stability and long-term democratization.

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Thousands Mourn Civilians Killed In Botched Air Raid

AP | CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 02.29.2012

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ISTANBUL — Turkish Kurds vented their rage Friday over a botched military airstrike aimed at Kurdish rebels that instead killed 35 civilians, wi...

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Turkish PM: France Should Investigate Its Own 'Dirty And Bloody History'

AP | By SUZAN FRASER | Posted 02.16.2012

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ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey's prime minister on Saturday sharply criticized France for a bill that would make it a crime to deny the World War I-era mass...

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Turkey: The Center of Everything

Eric Margolis | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Turkish-Egyptian Axis, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey, Egypt, Ahmet Davutoglu, Syria, Politics News

The US, France, Israel and Britain are so blinded by their anti-Iran passion, they are ready to destroy Syria to get at Great Satan Iranian. That's like burning down your house to get rid of mice.

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Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers

Foreign Policy | Posted 11.28.2011

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Foreign Policy presents a unique portrait of 2011's global marketplace of ideas and the thinkers who make them....

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Turkish PM Apologizes For Thousands Of Kurdish Deaths

AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 11.23.2011

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ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey's prime minister apologized Wednesday for the first time for the killings of nearly 14,000 people in a bombing and strafing c...

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Turkish PM: Assad Must Go, Look At What Happened To Hitler

AP | ZEINA KARAM and SUZAN FRASER | Posted 01.22.2012

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BEIRUT — Turkey's prime minister said Tuesday that Syria's president must step down over the country's crackdown on dissent, ratcheting up the p...

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Erdogan of Turkey's Blood Libel Against the Jewish State

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 12.03.2011

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Just as it is proper for Jews to try and overlook Turkey's current leader and remember the age-old friendship between the two peoples, it behooves the Turks themselves to rein in their prime minister from his character assassination of the Jewish state.

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Despite Fallout With Turkey, Israel Forms Strategic Alliance With Greece and Cyprus

Sigurd Neubauer | Posted 11.30.2011

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Improved relations with Athens and Nicosia should be considered a victory for Netanyahu, but it's unclear whether an alliance with Cyprus and the Balkan states can substitute for Israel's former partnership with Turkey.

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The Land of Liberty Says No to Palestine

Eric Margolis | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Turkey, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Statehood, UN General Assembly, Israel, Palestine, Likud, Hillary Clinton, UN Security Council, Barack Obama, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, US Domestic Politics, World News

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has arrived in New York to ask the UN Security Council to turn his territory into a real nation. Consideri...

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U.S. To Turkey: Mend Ties With Israel

AP | By BRADLEY KLAPPER | Posted 11.19.2011

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NEW YORK -- The U.S. wants Turkey to "keep the door open" to improved ties with Israel. U.S. officials say Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ...

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Turkish PM Receives Hero's Welcome In Egypt

AP | By MAGGIE MICHAEL and LEE KEATH | Posted 11.13.2011

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CAIRO -- Turkey's prime minister presented his country as a model for an Arab world in turmoil, giving advice on everything from balancing secularism ...

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Erdogan in Cairo: Not a New Nasser

Dr. Josef Olmert | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Turkey, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Erdogan, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Middle East, World News

This is the season of hot air in the Middle East and PM Erdogan of Turkey has more of his fair share of it.

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Turkish Pride

Shai Baitel | Posted 11.09.2011

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While Erdoğan calls Israel a "spoiled child" it seems that he is actually the spoiled child, throwing tantrums when his strategies don't work out as planned, he doesn't get his will or is actually blamed for his actions.

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