By Orhan Coskun. ANKARA, June 19 (Reuters) - Turkey's Prime MinisterBinali Yildirim has spent the last few weeks talking himself out of a job ... "These titles are meaningful for a certain period of time ... Yildirim, from Erzincan in eastern Turkey, was a founding member of Erdogan's ruling AK Party and took the mantle of prime minister in May 2016, replacing AhmetDavutoglu who stepped down following weeks of public tension with Erdogan ... ....
The US-Turkish tensions continue to grow over the so-called Manbij issue in northern Syria. On May 30, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Davutoglu said that a roadmap for cooperation on Manbij had been reached by Ankara and Washington. He said that … ... ....
By Gilles Pargneaux, Alon Ben-Meir, and Arbana Xharra- Mareeg.com-The summit held in Ankara on April 4 between Putin, Erdogan, and Rouhani provides an eye-opening depiction of the rapidly changing discourse of 2018’s geostrategic international rivalry ... Here, the case of Turkey is worrisome ... The policy of “zero problems with neighbors”, envisioned by former Foreign MinisterAhmetDavutoglu, was thrown out of the window ... ____________. Dr ... ....
ANKARA. Rumors are rife in Turkey that former PresidentAbdullah Gul could emerge as a possible contender against his once close political ally President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the June elections ... Gul held talks with the leader of the Islamist Felicity Party (SP), Temel Karamollaoglu, on Wednesday and met former Prime MinisterAhmetDavutoglu in Ankara a day earlier, according to Turkey’s pro-government daily HaberTurk ... Main category....
Turkey’s military offensive in Afrin is also an example of how refugees are instrumentalized to gain domestic support for foreign policy ambitions ... NurPhoto/Press Associations ... 2015 ... 2015 ... On September 4, 2015, in the wake of the death of three-year-old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi in an Aegean Sea crossing, Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu said that “Turkey tried to convince the international community to establish a safety zone in Syria....
Switzerland -- Turkish Foreign MinisterAhmetDavutoglu and his Armenian counterpart Eduard Nalbandiana shake hands after signing landmark Turkish-Armenian agreements in Zurich, 10Oct2009 Armenia on Thursday formally annulled U.S.-backed 2009 agreements to normalize its relations with neighboring Turkey, citing Ankara's continuing refusal to implement them unconditionally ... ....
World News. Fri, 05 Jan 2018. AFP. Istanbul... He said that Erdogan had already "seen the plot" and the row over the immunity decree was "only tip of an iceberg" ... The nationalist Aydinlik newspaper added that Gul had been engaged in "election traffic" with an intensive travel schedule that included trips to Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Britain as well as keeping in close touch with ex-premier AhmetDavutoglu who was ousted in 2016 ... ....