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The Turkish electorate clearly did not penalise the ruling party for the failure to make progress on EU accession. Last Sunday, Turks gave Prime Minister Recep Tayyip...

Airline alliance British Airways, American Airlines and Iberia have offered to sell take-off and landing slots on transatlantic routes in a bid to win the European...

International agreement on construction of the Caspian-to-Europe pipeline has now been ratified by all five transit countries. The Turkish parliament yesterday completed the...

Opening the border between Turkey and Armenia would reduce tensions in the southern Caucasus, but it remains unclear if Turkey will move ahead. Relations between Turkey and...

US president tells Turkey's parliament that the EU would gain from ‘diversity of ethnicity, tradition and faith'. President Barack Obama has reiterated his call, first...

Turkish parliament amends but does not scrap controversial law on insults to national identity. In an eagerly anticipated move, the Turkish parliament late on 29 April...

Just three months after it took office, Turkey's new government has attracted the wrath of liberal commentators for its uncertain start. The absence of rapid action on...

Turkey is to open EU membership negotiations in three new areas in the coming weeks, despite the country's political crisis and the election of a French president who is...

Turkey today (26 April), begins the process of appointing its next president. In Ankara the Grand National Assembly – the Turkish parliament – will hold its first vote...

“I just went to Finland,” said the correspondent of a major Italian daily when I saw him in the Metro on Monday, “for no reason at all.” It was a comment that might...

Turkey's parliament came back to work early this week to deal with a ninth package of political reforms, to address EU concerns about a slowdown in the Turkish reform...

Turkey's chief negotiator with the EU, Ali Babacan, has warned that a bust-up over his country's application to join the Union will have knock-on effects for relations with...

Turkey's parliament is expected to adopt soon a series of reforms aimed at giving new impetus to the country's EU membership talks. The reforms will tackle issues such as...

"Love can turn to hate or something close to hate." Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister of Italy, on why shutting the door to Turkey would have been unpardonable."Turkey will...

The opening of accession negotiations with Turkey moved closer yesterday (28 September) after the European Parliament backed plans to start talks next week. But in a serious...

Ali Babacan is known in the Turkish media as 'Baby John' on account of his youthful looks. But the task facing him in his new role as his country's chief EU negotiator is...

Progress on Turkey's EU accession talks is seen as vital if there is to be an improvement in women's rights in the country. That is the message from a group of Turkish...

Opponents of Turkish accession to the EU often claim that it would damage the cohesiveness of the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). They argue that a country...

THE EU's leaders are on the brink of making a step that represents a major innovation in the Union's legal order. They are preparing to open accession negotiations with a...

THE Turkish government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan was praised in the European Parliament yesterday (6 October) for introducing more reforms in the past two years than previous...