GÜBRETAŞ proceeds on its way with the vision to become "a giant and a leading company in Turkey and establish itself as a well-known brand in the world".  In order to reach this objective, it has adopted the investment strategy in the countries having raw material resources; and in 2008, the consortium, led by GÜBRETAŞ, has purchased Iran's Razi Petrochemical Company. Being the largest industrial investment ...

Hannes Swoboda, the head of the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, has condemned acts of terror in Turkey and accused the Iranian government of seeking to inflame tensions in its neighbor. "I condemn every act of terror and strongly believe that terror cannot be used as a means to attain your goals in today's world," Swoboda said in a recent speech in Vienna, delivered at the opening of th ...

The unrest in the Middle East and Syria in specific seems to escalating each and every day in spite of all the (useless) efforts spent by UN officials to put and end to it. Syria, on the contrary to many predictions as to Assad would leave the country to give way to a new administration and regime (certainly) to take over the country has been resisting all the pressure from the SYRIAN ARMY OF FREEDOM (rebel ...

Turkish Foreign Ministry strongly condemned comments by the top Iranian army officer blaming Ankara for the bloodshed in Syria and warning Turkey it would be next, as baseless and inappropriate, on the eve of Iranian foreign minister’s snap visit to Ankara for talks on 48 of its citizens taken hostage in Syria. “We strongly condemn statements of baseless accusations and inappropriate threats against our cou ...

Iran blasts Turkey, Saudi, Qatar over ally Syria A top military aide to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei today accused Ankara, Riyadh and Doha of serving US and Israeli interests in Syria, in a veiled warning to Turkey of worsening ties. "The Americans, Israelis, and some European and Persian Gulf nations, in particular Qatar and Saudi Arabia, have delegated to Turkey the task of achieving their goal t ...

CHICAGOIn Chicago, NATO launches the first phase of a missile shield for Europe, which puts the Turkey based radar system under NATO command. The alliance also initiates ‘Smart Defense’ with 20 joint projects NATO has declared the achievement of an interim capability for NATO ballistic missile defense at its Chicago summit, also renewing an invitation to cooperate with Russia, seeking to ease fears that the ...

The sanctions issued by the United States and Europe on Iran have resulted in transforming the public into introverts. Iran, which used to send 1.8 million tourists to Turkey a year, making them the fourth country with the highest number of tourists that travelled to our nation is now suffering a serious drop in currency value in comparison to the dollar. Due to the political instability, the riyal has deva ...

Istanbul to host Iran nuke talks: Press TVReuters Istanbul has been confirmed as the host city for nuclear talks between Iran and world powers. Iran's Press TV confirmed that Istanbul would host the talks. Turkey was still ready to host nuclear talks between Iran and Western countries, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu had told Iran’s chief negotiator in a phone conversation late April 5. Tensions b ...

Crucial nuclear talks due to take place next week between Iran and world powers have run into disagreement over the host city, with Tehran on Wednesday saying it no longer wants Istanbul as the venue. Instead, according to Iraq's foreign ministry, Iran has formally requested Baghdad hold the April 13-14 negotiations. That contradicts a declaration by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last weekend that t ...

The new round of Iran nuclear talks will be held in Istanbul on April 13, says US Secretary of State Clinton. The US wants concrete results from the talks U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton conferred with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan about his nuclear discussions with Iran, a day after she declared that nuclear talks between Iran and world powers will take place in Istanbul on April 13. ...

Turkey switches from Iranian to Libyan oil Turkey is planning to begin importing oil from Libya instead of Iran as it seeks to comply with U.S. demands that countries reduce their dependence on the Islamic republic’s natural resources, according to Energy Minister Taner Yıldız. “We will begin purchasing crude oil from Libya via the private Turkish Petroleum Refineries Company [TÜPRAŞ] in 2012. We believe th ...

Caglayan expresses hope to increase bilateral trade volume with Iran Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan, who is currently in Tehran as part of a delegation accompanying Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, made assessments yesterday with regard to Turkey's commercial ties with Iran following the welcoming ceremony at Sadabad Palace. "Besides preferential trade, we will be holding contacts about promoting and i ...

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan met Iran's leaders on Wednesday amid signs Tehran might soften its stance on Syria after steadfastly supporting its closest Arab ally over more than a year of violent unrest. Erdogan arrived in Tehran before dawn, accompanied by a large delegation of ministers and officials, for discussions on Syria, Iran's nuclear programme and closer economic ties. While Turkey has re ...

Concerns over Iran and Syria dominated a private meeting earlier today between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and U.S. President Barack Obama in Seoul, daily Hürriyet reported. Obama said Ankara and Washington would continue to work together on the crisis in Syria. "It was a very fruitful meeting," the Turkish prime minister told reporters. "We had a chance to evaluate the situation in Syria. I ...

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is scheduled to pay a visit to neighboring Iran to discuss the results of an international nuclear security summit set to take place in South Korea in late March, which will focus on Iran's disputed nuclear enrichment program. Erdogan will meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran during the week following the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit on March 26 ...

Iran announces that Istanbul will host expected nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 but there is no confirmation on the Turkish side, which previously feared that Tehran might use the talks to parry the West Salehi said yesterday that Istanbul will host talks between Iran and P5+1 on Islamic Republic’s nuclear program but Turkey did not confirm the next round of talks between Iran and six world powers o ...

Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi arrived in Turkey on Wednesday for talks with Turkish leaders expected to focus on Tehran's controversial nuclear programme, an embassy spokesman said. Salehi is due to meet with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Abdullah Gul in Ankara, the spokesman said, adding that political and economic issues would figure high on the agenda, without elobo ...

President Barack Obama spoke by telephone Friday with Turkey's Prime Minister Recip Erdogan about the situation in Syria and Iran's nuclear program, the White House said. "They agreed that the US and Turkey should continue to support the legitimate demands for democracy for the Syrian people and condemned the brutal action of the Assad regime," it said in a statement. "The two leaders discussed Iran's nucle ...

An early warning radar system deployed in the eastern Anatolian province of Malatya began its surveillance activities Jan. 1, the Hürriyet Daily News has learned from reliable sources. A small number of U.S. troops were deployed to the military base at Kürecik in Malatya in the last week of 2011 since the Turkish military has no qualified personnel to run the U.S. AN/TPY-2 (X-band) early warning radar syste ...

Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani will begin an official visit to Turkey late on Wednesday, Turkish diplomatic sources told AFP. Larijani will meet Thursday with Turkish parliament speaker Cemil Çiçek, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and possibly with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and President Abdullah Gül, they said. The talks with Larijani, a former nuclear negotiator, are expected to focus ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said Iran was ready to resume talks on its nuclear program today. "Iranian officials agreed to resume talks on nuclear program," Davutoğlu said in a press conference with Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba in Ankara. Turkey hosted the last round of talks on Iran's nuclear  program last January, Davutoğlu said, and added that the process had been pursued only by ...

Turkish lender Halkbank , little known outside Turkey, has gained a reputation in the oil market over the past 18 months for handling transactions that other banks fear to touch - trade deals with Iran.  Now a new law signed by President Barack Obama last Saturday, which imposes US sanctions on financial institutions dealing with Iran's central bank, has put the bank squarely in the spotlight. Halkbank's st ...

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is set to pay a two-day visit to the Iranian capital of Tehran today. In a statement issued yesterday, Turkish Foreign Ministry said Davutoglu will meet his Iranian counterpart Ali Akbar Salehi as part of consultations they agreed to hold twice a year. The statement recalled that Davutoglu paid a work visit to Tehran last July and Salehi came to Ankara last October. The two ...