Tony Blair

The truth is the least important matter in politics. It is widely believed that "the truth is the first casualty of war," but it is also true in peacetime. 

The whole Syrian affair deserves to be defined as a "crime against humanity." The "intervention in Iraq" was another one, even if the chief conspirators, George W. Bush and Tony Blair, were able to get away with it given that they were the leaders of two powerful countries.

A day before the inauguration of a new museum-library bearing his name on Dec. 4, in his Central Anatolian hometown of Kayseri, former Turkish President Abdullah Gül gave an interesting interview to CNN Türk.

At a time when elected chairpersons and members of Turkey's Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) are locked in jail without indictments, at a time when almost all Kurdish newspapers and TV stations are shut down, at a time when anybody who spells the word "peace" is automatically named and shamed for harboring terrorists, intellectual efforts in the opposite direction might see

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is in no way implicated in the court file under which Romania's former Prime Minister Victor Ponta is being investigated, but Blair's name has been mentioned publicly by co-defendant Sebastian Ghita, chief prosecutor of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) Laura Codruta Kovesi said Friday.

British support for staying in the European Union in a June 23 referendum rose 3 percentage points to 38 percent, according to a TNS opinion poll published on April 20. 

Turkish citizen Osman Zeki Yalç?n has been appointed as director-general of the Jerusalem Arbitration Center (JAC), joining JAC co-chair Rifat Hisarc?kl?o?lu, who is also the head of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB).
 

The Albanian government has raised the compensation for legal advice offered by Omnia Strategy in the dispute with US company by 150,000 euros, bringing the payment to a total of 645,000 euros.

No reason was given for the increased payment in the government decision, which was taken on December 28 but published in the official gazette on Tuesday.

British Prime Minister David Cameron is to meet with Bulgaria's head of government Boyko Borisov and President Rosen Plevneliev upon his arrival to the country on Thursday afternoon, the government in Sofia has announced.

On Friday night, France suffered a hideous terror attack and deserves the sympathy and solidarity of everyone. Still, it should not be a reason to go to another war! We know the results of Sept. 11; at the time, the United States declared war, invaded Afghanistan and then Iraq to create more tragedy and turmoil.