John Bass

The U.S. ambassador in Ankara, John Bass, will represent his country in the commemoration ceremonies for the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli, U.S. Embassy spokesperson Joe Wierichs told Hürriyet Daily News. 

On March 9, Iraqi Shiite militias intensified their attack against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant?s (ISIL) positions around Tikrit, around 150 kilometers north of Baghdad, to save Saddam Hussein?s hometown from the hands of jihadists.

U.S. Ambassador to Turkey John Bass has repeated that his country attaches importance and lends support to Turkey?s ongoing peace process aiming to end the three-decade old Kurdish insurgency.

?Peace will contribute to the region. We place importance on the peace process and lend support to it,? Anadolu Agency quoted Bass as saying on March 9.

Turkey and the United States will begin training and equipping moderate Syrian opposition fighters on March 1 within the framework of a Feb. 19 agreement signed by the two countries, Ankara has announced.

"I can say that it will begin as of March 1," Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç briefly told reporters at a press conference on Feb. 27.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu has refuted claims that Turkish soldiers protecting the Tomb of Süleyman ?ah in northern Syria have become trapped by nearby Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants.

"It's definitely not true," Çavu?o?lu said Feb. 20 at a joint press conference after a Reform Monitoring Group meeting.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu has refuted claims that Turkish soldiers protecting the Tomb of Süleyman ?ah in northern Syria have become trapped by nearby Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants.

"It's definitely not true," Çavu?o?lu said Feb. 20 at a joint press conference after a Reform Monitoring Group meeting.

The United States and Turkey on Feb. 19 signed a deal to train and equip thousands of moderate Syrian rebel forces after several weeks of talks, officials said.        

The American administrative system, composed of three separate but co-equal branches of government, is the result of 238 years of experimentation and refinement, with a rigorous set of checks and balances so power is distributed across all three branches, the U.S.

The leader of Turkey's main opposition party has claimed that all his family members and party officials are being eavesdropped on, without specifying who is responsible.

On the same day that the front pages of a number of Turkish newspapers were suggesting that, at long last, U.S. President Barack Obama had got closer to the Turkish leadership’s line that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must go first, the Hürriyet Daily News’ headline quoted the new U.S.