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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.
Obama in Ghana with little change
ACCRA, Chana - While Ghanaians await Barack Obama with a festive mood, the USpresident does not attribute a top priority to the impoverished continent in his foreign policy agenda, with no deep change from the policies of the Bush era. There has been no decisive shift in Africa policy of US, says an expert
Turkey expects to receive €450 mln annually from Nabucco
ANKARA - Some 2,000 kilometers of the 3,300-kilometer Nabucco pipeline will run through Turkish territory. That is why Ankara expects to receive about 400 million to 450 million euros annually under an intergovernmental agreement to be signed Monday
Obama in Ghana with little change
ACCRA, Chana - While Ghanaians await Barack Obama with a festive mood, the USpresident does not attribute a top priority to the impoverished continent in his foreign policy agenda, with no deep change from the policies of the Bush era. There has been no decisive shift in Africa policy of US, says an expert
'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.
Landmines being swept for rail link
KİLİS - An area in the southern province of Kilis that will be used for creating a rail link with neighboring Syria will be cleared of landmines in the next month, says the governor of the province. He also says this de-mining effort is not related to a recently passed law on de-mining.
Ceylan gets medal symbolizing Paris
PARIS - Events promoting Turkey are organized in France as part of ’Turkey Season.’ This year Turkey is the guest of honor in the 7th International Paris Film Festival. Renowned Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan was presented a medal symbolizing Paris at a ceremony Monday.
US, Turkey discuss Karabakh issue
Washington - The normalization talks between Turkey and Armenia and efforts to solve the Karabakh conflict are the focus of a telephone conversation between the presidents of Turkey and the US. Ankara and Washington will continue to work together on common problems, the White House says.
The role of the diaspora on Ankara-Yerevan rapprochement
It has been more than two months since Turkey and Armenia have announced their agreement on a road map, a key document that was not yet made public but is supposed to detail the modalities and timetable of the much-expected normalization process between the two countries.
Stringing together classical pieces in historical settings
ISTANBUL - Two weeks ago, renowned violinist Ellen Jewett’s budding festival project featured her group, the Audubon String Quartet, playing in a candlelit cave in Cappadocia, followed by concerts in a Greek church in Şirince and a castle in Bodrum. July 20-25 she and another all-star group return to Cappadocia and its special medieval setting
Honoring Kemal Sunal on 9th anniversary of his death
ISTANBUL - Friends and family gathered Friday to celebrate the most famous underdog in Turkish cinema, Kemal Sunal. Here’s a look at Sunal and his larger than life screen persona Şaban, the simple and awkward underdog in the face of changing middle class sensibilities
The unclosed Iran dossier and us
The "Iran dossier" is not closed. Protests shaking the fundamentals of the oppression regime are on hold, for now. The Iranian Constitutional Court, half of its 12 members were appointed by Ayatollah Khamenei, ruled the recount of 10 percent of total votes cast. And the June 12 election results were approved once again. The case is closed but not the "Iran dossier".
EU considers pulling ambassadors from Iran
STOCKHOLM - The European Union on Thursday was considering Britain's request to pull the bloc's ambassadors from Iran, an extraordinary move that would send a powerful signal of EU unity in the wake of Tehran's postelection crackdown. The issue was expected to be given high priority in a two-day meeting of EU foreign policy directors in Stockholm as Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review went to press Thursday afternoon.
Placard of equality
Last weekend, while I was watching the Gazi Koşusu, the horserace dedicated to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, at the Istanbul Hippodrome, I felt both happy and sad. I was happy because I felt that we owe a word of appreciation to the Turkish Jockey Club, which has been organizing the show for 85 years, and to all the horse-breeders and employees of the club.