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Turkish President Tayyip Erdo?an convenes the board of ministers in his new Presidential Palace today on Jan. 19 for the first time since he was elected to his new post after the Aug. 10, 2014, election.

Paris is entirely happy with the level of cooperation it is receiving from Ankara on intelligence-sharing regarding extremist plots, according to France's envoy to Turkey.

He is a Muslim of Moroccan origin. He was 15 years old when his family migrated to Holland. He has a bachelor?s degree in engineering but he was first a journalist before going into politics. He has double-citizenship; Moroccan and Dutch. Ahmed Aboutaleb is 53 years old; he has been the mayor of Rotterdam for six years.

The year 2015 will provide more than one occasion for Turkey and neighboring Azerbaijan to show off the strength of their bilateral cooperation, not only in the global political arena but also in the global economic field.

The AKP has overseen a profound and fundamental shift in Turkey?s approach to the Middle East.

A day after the Cyprus government slammed a report by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as biased, President Nicos Anastasiades Friday said he was being pressured to restart peace negotiations unconditionally.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said he will soon rename his controversial new presidential palace, adopting the name of the complexes surrounding imperial mosques.
      

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has reiterated his long-established criticism of Turkey's Central Bank for not reducing interest rates despite a sharp decrease in oil prices, vowing to question the Bank's governor on the issue in person.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu has met with his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj during the latter's official visit to Ankara.

The two ministers held a closed door meeting on the afternoon of Jan. 16 at the Foreign Ministry building in the capital after briefly posing for photographers.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an lashed out at Charlie Hebdo for its "provocative" publications about Islam on Jan. 16, saying the French satirical weekly "incited hatred and racism."
      
"This magazine [is] notorious for its provocative publications about Muslims, about Christians, about everyone," Erdo?an told a meeting of businessmen in Ankara.