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'Turkey should change bridge rhetoric'
ISTANBUL -Turkey is not a bridge and I think we should forget using this rhetoric. We should drop this rhetoric from Turkish foreign policy. We are a kind of melting pot, a hub, a political, cultural, strategic hub, whatever you would like to call it. A center where people can meet together, talk together, and where they can interact together.
'Turkey should change bridge rhetoric'
ISTANBUL -Turkey is not a bridge and I think we should forget using this rhetoric. We should drop this rhetoric from Turkish foreign policy. We are a kind of melting pot, a hub, a political, cultural, strategic hub, whatever you would like to call it. A center where people can meet together, talk together, and where they can interact together.
Discovering a culture to dissipate prejudices
ANKARA - In a survey carried out to determine the attitudes of university students toward Armenians, it is found that for 44 percent of 3,095 students surveyed the word ’Armenian’ has negative connotations. However, the majority would prefer opportunities to interact more with them
Prime Minister objects to ’moderate Islam’ label
ANKARA - Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rejected attempts to call Turkey the representative of moderate Islam. "It is unacceptable for us to agree with such a definition. Turkey has never been a country to represent such a concept. Moreover, Islam cannot be classified as moderate or not," Erdoğan said, speaking at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies late Thursday.
Israeli right-wing parties poised for victory in election
ISTANBUL - The Israeli right-wing political parties are set to emerge as the star performer in the Feb. 10 general elections largely due to growing security concerns, agree experts and academics. The new Israeli government will have a tougher stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, they say.