Turkey

Pope Francis will arrive in Turkey on a three-day official visit at the invitation of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Pope Francis is to visit the founder of the Turkish Republic Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's mausoleum in the capital Ankara, after which he will meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at his newly built extravagant presidential palace.

This columnist is often shocked when others are shocked when President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Islamist-self speaks like an Islamist. What’s so shocking about him saying that women cannot be treated equal to men – other than the irony that he said it at a feminist summit? He had said this before.

Turkish and foreign tourism representatives, banking executives, journalists and academics met yesterday to discuss future tourism trends at the International Resort Tourism Congress and the conference will continue today.

Turkish president slams "impertinence of U.S."

ANKARA -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday slammed the "impertinence" of the United States over the pressure it is exerting on his country.

Washington is pressuring Turkey to allow the use of the Incirlik airbase to U.S. war planes attacking extremists of the Islamic State.

Former General Levent Ersöz has been acquitted in a case investigating the death of Turkey’s eighth president, Turgut Özal, after an Ankara court ruled there was not sufficient and concrete evidence that he was complicit in the murder.

Some 65 percent of tourism facilities on Turkey’s coasts need to be renovated to compete with other facilities around the Mediterranean, even though nearly half of Turkey’s hotels are less than 10 years old, according to a recent report by the Touristic Hoteliers Association of the Mediterranean (AKTOB).

The triggerman who shot dead Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink almost eight years ago has finally decided to “speak up” about the murder, according to a news report.

More than 100 of the 600 Turkish citizens that have gone to fight for jihadist groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have perished in battle, according to intelligence estimates, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said late Nov. 24.

Syrian regime air raids on Raqa city, which the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has proclaimed as its capital, killed at least 23 civilians on Nov. 25, a monitoring group said.
      

Turkish President Erdoğan attacks a recent court ruling halting a contentious port privatization, arguing that the ruler - not necessarily the laws - ensures justice in a country The laws of a country are relatively unimportant provided that the ruler who applies them is just, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Nov.