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The EU's next steps on Syria should be about more than rewriting its own policy mistakes of the past. The Arab spring has yet to run its course. The unseating of Hosni...

World leaders have a real chance to improve conditions in the world's poorest countries. At a meeting in Istanbul next week (9 May), world leaders will have the chance to...

Turkish prime minister returns home to attend funeral of country's first Islamist prime minister. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey's prime minister, has cancelled a visit to...

Spain looks to open new chapters with Turkey, which implement food-safety reforms. Spain is pressing to overcome the resistance of other member states of the European Union...

Engagement in the western Balkans shows that Turkey is not turning towards a more Islamic agenda. Future historians of reconciliation in the western Balkans could do worse...

Success for Turkish diplomacy on eve of Armenian genocide anniversary. Bosnia and Herzegovina is tomorrow expected to get the green light to enter a NATO programme that...

The influence of the military has diminished, but that could allow the government to indulge its partisan tendencies. Turkey has undergone profound change since the...

Turkey withdraws its ambassador to Sweden in protest at Armenia vote. A diplomatic row is brewing between Sweden and Turkey after Sweden's parliament yesterday voted to...

Ahmet Davutoğlu has redrawn Turkey's foreign policy to put Istanbul at the centre of geopolitics. Ahmet Davutoğlu may have been Turkey's foreign minister only since 2 May,...

A roadmap for restoring relations between Armenia and Turkey could fundamentally change political alignments in the Caucasus region. On 22 April, the foreign ministries of...

New finance and foreign ministers appointed as part of government reorganisation. Ahmet Davutoğlu, a professor of international relations who served as chief foreign...

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...

Informal talks come amid concerns about state of enlargement policy. Middle East, Bosnia and Belarus also to be discussed in Gymnich The foreign ministers of Turkey and the...

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Andris Piebalgs says the gas pipeline is not the fundamental change that Europe needs The Nabucco gas pipeline will not solve the European Union's energy problems, Andris...

Turkish President Abdullah Gül's visit to Armenia signals a new beginning in relations between the two countries. September has already provided a textbook example of...

EU calls for “full normalisation” of relations as a process of ‘football diplomacy' begins. The EU has welcomed the first official visit to Armenia by a Turkish...

The EU must help Turkey discover its political destiny. The constitutional court case against Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling Justice and...

Turkey's constitutional court is hearing the final evidence in a case that could result in the banning of the country's ruling party. Turkey's constitutional court...

A court should not force women to choose between religious belief and educational aspirations. On 5 June, Turkey's constitutional court revoked government measures that...