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Turkish FM to attend Iraq meeting in New York

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu will participate in a special meeting on Iraq in New York led by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

Italian company opens plant in northern town

Italian company opens plant in northern town

SUBOTICA -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić opened a new production facility of the Gordon company - apart of Italian Calzedonia Group - in Subotica on Thursday.

Vucic opens Italian factory in Subotica

SUBOTICA - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic opened a new production facility of 'Gordon', part of Italian 'Calzedonia Group', in Subotica on Thursday, stressing that Serbia will offer this company the best conditions in the region and noting that the company founder Sandro Veronesi should consider hiring 3,000 instead of the planned 2,000 new employees.

Hostage crisis limits Turkey’s ISIL action

Deputy PM Yalçın Akdoğan reiterates that Turkey is pursuing a cautious policy over ISIL because of the 49 Turkish hostages that the jihadists are still holding

EU head Juncker gives no mission statement for Turkey

Exactly last year, at around this time, just as the European Commission was about to release its progress report on Turkey, we found out that the Commission’s envoy in Ankara, Jean Maurice Ripert, had been appointed as France’s new ambassador to Moscow.

Democracy, identity and foreign policy in Turkey

FOLDED CORNER - ‘Democracy, Identity and Foreign Policy in Turkey: Hegemony Through Transformation’ by Fuat Keyman and Şebnem Gümüşçü (Palgrave Macmillan, $95, 224 pages)

ISIL and Turkey’s PKK quandary

The emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has left Turkey facing a series of quandaries. One of these is related to the fact that when faced with ugly choices, the usual thing to do is to opt for the lesser evil.

Turkey, US 'still close allies'

Turkey and US are close allies and the media is not an actor that forms Washington’s policies, Ambassador Wilson has said

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