Ahmet Davutoglu

Turkey will not accept orders from Iraq regarding the Bashiqa military base, stated Turkish Presidet Recep Erdogan, cited by the Anadolu Agency.

"The Americans will always do the right thing, after they've exhausted all the alternatives." That quotation is impossible not to recall after hearing U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speak in the U.N. Security Council meetings on Sept.

Turkey is its own worst enemy when it comes to public diplomacy. Ankara was angered, for example, by the slow way the United States and Europe reacted to the July 15 coup attempt. It showed little interest, however, in questioning why this was so. 

The Eid al-Adha (Feat of the Sacrifice) bayram holiday should be a period of amity, sharing and rejoicing. It is hard to say this year's bayram is such. 

A new head to Turkey's law enforcement was announced on Sept. 10 as Selami Altınok, who served as interior minister in 2015 during the government under former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, took over the role of Turkish police chief.

Altınok, who was serving as undersecretary at the interior ministry, was Istanbul's police chief between 2013 and 2015.      

The first passenger plane in 13 months has landed at Selahaddin Eyyubi Airport in the Yüksekova district of the eastern province of Hakkari, following a long hiatus due to clashes between the Turkish state and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Turkey's prolonged "Davutoğlu moment," which was based on a misplaced confidence in Turkey's international strength and role, and driven by a tangibly Islamist orientation, ended in May with the dismissal of the former prime minister. 

BELGRADE- Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic on Wednesday described as utterly hypocritical the statements by Bosniak and Turkish politicians about Srebrenica that were aimed at Serbia, noting it was high time everyone realised Belgrade was ready for reconciliation, peace and building a common future, but that it would never let anyone humiliate Serbia.

Really, what is the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) obsession with marriage?

The Kaos Gay and Lesbian Cultural Research and Solidarity Association (Kaos GL) has published an annual report monitoring human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity, calling on the Turkish state to adopt anti-discriminatory measures to prevent hate crimes against LGBT individuals that remain largely unreported by media and security authorities.