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Turkey’s visa ordeal and Europe’s refugee deal

Although visa-free travel is the right of Turkish citizens, widespread Turcophobia in Europe might prevent it.

Mevlut Cavusoglu

Refugee crisis and Turkey-EU relations

The sudden interest of both parties in each other is entirely due to the refugee crisis.

Thousands of refugees massing in Idomeni to enter FYROM

Turkey with Erdogan is heading to havoc

The president has become an anxious man trying to ensure his future at all costs.

Turkey coalition deadlock

Turkey’s June 7 revolution

Political progress may still occur and healing may start between the people and their government.

Selahattin Demirtas, co-chairman of the Pro-Kurdish Peoples'' Democratic Party (HDP), cheers with his party''s members during a gathering to celebrate the party''s victory in Istanbul [REUTERS]

Towards the Federal Republic of Cyprus

The election of a pro-unification leader in Northern Cyprus may pave the way for the tiny island to finally be reunited.

Turkish Cypriot newly elected leader Mustafa Akinci with his wife Miral wave to his supporters after he won the leadership election in the Turkish Cypriot breakaway north [AP]

Ankara’s trigger button: Armenian ‘genocide’

As the centenary of the mass killings nears, Turkish officials will lambast anyone who dares uses the ‘G-word’.

People visiting the Armenian ''Genocide'' Memorial in Yerevan [AFP]

The spectre of Suleyman Shah

Turkey’s military operation in Syria was an act of compulsion rather than free will.

Ceremony in Sanliurfa for coffins brought temporarily from Tomb of Suleyman Shah

Will Turkey pass the Charlie test?

The Charlie Hebdo controversy may put an end to whatever press freedom is left in Turkey.

Even the publication of four pages is a bold move in the Muslim world, writes Aktar [AFP]

Is Erdogan rewriting history?

Rewriting history according to one’s own religious beliefs is a highly controversial and perilous enterprise.

Erdogan would have done better to recall the anti-Islamic zeal of Spanish conquerors of America, writes Aktar [AFP]

Turkey’s clumsy politics and the Kurdish question

Inconsistent Turkish policies and fear of the birth of a Kurdish nation-state are bungling regional

Female members of the PKK near the frontline of the fight against ISIL in Makhmur [Reuters]