Ahmet Davutoglu

The new Israeli Ambassador to Ankara, Eitan Na'eh, arrived to Ankara on Dec. 1 to start duties in his new post. Turkey's newly appointed ambassador to Israel, Kemal Ökem, is expected to be in Tel Aviv in the first week of December, according to sources. 

Eitan Na'eh, the new Israeli ambassador to Ankara, will start his duty on Dec. 1, while Turkey's Ambassador to Israel, Kemal Ökem, will be in Tel Aviv in the first week of December, according to sources. 

Turkey and Israel decided to appoint the ambassadors' mutually, following the resolution of a major diplomatic crisis. 

It was one year ago - November 2015 - when Alexis Tsipras, freshly re-elected as prime minister, paid a two-day official visit to Istanbul and Ankara.  Perhaps many of us remember the pictures of a Greek prime minister sitting next to the then-prime minister of Turkey, Ahmet Davutoğlu.

A former lawmaker from Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has said former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu visited the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen at his home in Pennsylvania with his family and stayed with him for more than four hours. 

An indictment prepared by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has demanded a total of 18 aggravated life sentences for five Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants related to the deadly suicide attack on İstiklal Avenue in central Istanbul on March 19.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has praised Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım for his commitment to changing Turkey's political system to an executive presidency, implicitly criticizing the lack of conviction on the issue from former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu.

It is not a secret that Turkey's own narrative of "Turkish affairs" is probably Turkey's worst enemy. Its inconsistency, unrealism and inflammatory rhetoric-based policy actions are the other suicidal features of Turkish policy calculus. Turkish leadership and diplomacy, inevitably, suffers from a serious problem about being convincing.

The optimists were optimistic that former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu's forced de-parture in May and his replacement with the pragmatic Binali Yıldırım would recalibrate Turkey's Sunni Islamist-based foreign (and domestic) policy. This columnist voiced hope that the optimists were right but predicted they were not. Call it blind faith in President Re-cep Tayyip Erdoğan's political codes.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan clearly hoped for a new direction in foreign policy when he fired Ahmet Davutoğlu and replaced him with Binali Yıldırım as Prime Minister. He hoped that this would end the international isolation that Davutoğlu's policies gradually led Turkey into. 

A delegation of DOST party, led by its chair Lyutvi Mestan, held a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara, the party's press office has said.

Key DOST members accompanying Mestan included Shabanali Ahmed, Hyusein Hafazov and Aydoan Alo.