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Obama raises press freedom concerns against Erdo?an

U.S. President Barack Obama raised April 1 criticism over press freedom in Turkey, saying that he had expressed these sentiments directly to President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.

"It's no secret that there are some trends within Turkey that I have been troubled with," Obama said, when asked whether he considers the Turkish leader an authoritarian.

Zarrab declines to seek bail, will be transferred to New York

Reza Zarrab, the controversial Turkish-Iranian businessman who was arrested in the U.S. last month on charges that he and others conspired to conduct hundreds of millions of dollars in financial transactions for the Iranian government or other entities to evade U.S. sanctions, waived a right to a bond hearing in Miami, Florida.

Islam rejects terrorism, head of Turkish Religious Affairs tells American Muslims

American Muslims should not apologize for terrorists who claim affiliation with Islam, Turkey's head of Religious Affairs, Mehmet Görmez said March 1 at a sermon in the newly built Diyanet Center of America in Maryland, some 21 kilometers from Washington D.C.

Ousted Leader of Bulgaria's DPS Meets Turkish PM in Ankara

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has received Lyutvi Mestan, who was expelled as head of Bulgaria's third-largest DPS party.

At the government residency in the Cankaya district in Ankara, the two have discussed Bulgarian politics, members of Mestan's future party DOST have said in a press statement.

Parliamentary panel adopts protocol on fight against foreign fighters

A parliamentary commission has approved a protocol of the Council of Europe (CoE) aimed at addressing the issue of foreign terrorist fighters.

Turkey was among first seventeen signatory states of the Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism, which was opened for signatures in October 2015. 

Marriage of convenience between Turkey and US

It was not clear a few days ago whether Turkish President Tayyip Erdo?an would meet U.S. President Barack Obama during his stay in Washington DC for the Nuclear Security Summit on March 31-April 1. It was underlined that Obama had no scheduled official bilateral contact with any of the 52 leaders attending the summit, and Erdo?an would instead be meeting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.

Is the liberal order falling apart?

 I came to the "capital of the world" for a panel at Columbia University on a new and highly interesting book: "The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions." Penned by the prominent academic Michael Walzer, it is a book that explains how the secular parties that founded most post-colonial states were soon challenged and even defeated by a religious revival.

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