Latest Articles about Turkey

EU REPORT TO PRESS TURKEY ON MINORITY RIGHTS

The European Commission’s annual Progress Report on Turkey’s candidacy for EU membership, which will be published tomorrow, November 6, will press Ankara to grant greater rights to the country’s ethnic and religious minorities, including its sizeable Kurdish community. The report will be made public amid... MORE

ANKARA MOVES TO BECOME LESS DEPENDENT ON ENERGY IMPORTS

Amid the continuing tensions over a possible Turkish military incursion into northern Iraq, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is pushing ahead with its plans to establish a nuclear power program. On October 24 the Parliamentary Industry, Commerce, Energy, Natural Resources, Information, and Technology... MORE

ETHNIC TENSIONS IN TURKEY CONTINUING TO ESCALATE

Over a week after the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) killed 12 Turkish soldiers when they overran a military outpost in Daglaci, close to Turkey’s border with Iraq, (see EDM, October 22), nationalist anger inside Turkey not only shows no sign of abating but appears to... MORE

OIC COULD MEDIATE BETWEEN TURKEY AND KURDS IN IRAQ

Amid the escalating tension between Ankara and Baghdad over the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) staging guerrilla attacks into Turkey from their bases in northern Iraq, one international organization might prove to be an honest broker in defusing the situation through diplomatic means—the Organization of the... MORE