Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu condemned the Israeli strike on Gaza and criticized the indifferent approcah of the United Nations towards the conflict. Israel had conducted innumerable attacks on Gaza in the past as well putting the population there in an inhuman  situation. Davutoğlu spoke during his stay in Djibouti for a meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and was reported to comment as ...

Turkey has received strong criticism from UN human rights experts for unacceptable practices such as  often holding activists, lawyers and journalists for long pre-trial periods without access to a lawyer. The current government in power (AK Party) which has recently been warned by several int'l bodies in regards to incomplete/unfair legal practices as compared to EU standards had to face another criticism ...

Forming an international coalition to impose a partial no-fly zone over Syria, in order to provide protection for the Syrian population on the run from the civil war ongoing in the country, has been under discussion among Western allies for the last few weeks, Turkish official sources confirmed to the Hürriyet Daily News on Aug. 24. The confirmation came after French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian had ...

Turkey says it can take no more than 100,000 Syrian refugees Turkey cannot handle more than 100,000 Syrian refugees and instead proposes a UN buffer zone inside Syria to shelter them, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said in remarks published Monday. "If the number of refugees increases to 100,000, we will not be able to shelter them in Turkey. We have to welcome them in Syrian territory" under UN a ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu announces that the United Nations will soon be opening a center in Istanbul. Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu recently announced that the United Nations will be opening up a center in Istanbul and stated, "All of the U.N.'s regional offices will convene in Istanbul and Istanbul will become a U.N. city." Davutoğlu was commenting on Turkey's foreign policy miss ...

Qualifying the recent fire by Assad’s troops on Syrian refugees trying to cross into Turkey as a "Clear violation of the border", Prime Minister Erdoğan responded to the question of whether a buffer zone will be established by stating, “We don’t want to consider it and Syria should not force us to.” Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan spoke on the recent firing at refugees along the Syrian border, by stating, "Th ...

Turkey closed its embassy in Damascus on Monday because of deteriorating security conditions in Syria, a Turkish diplomatic source said. " Activities at the Turkish embassy have been suspended from this morning," the source said on condition of anonymity, adding that all diplomatic personnel have left the Syrian capital. Ankara has become increasingly strident in its criticism of its one-time ally over a br ...

Options will be considered if diplomacy fails in Syria: Turkish FM The international community will keep urging Damascus to allow in humanitarian aid into its violence-hit areas, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said today in Tunis, but added that if the country’s human tragedy continued, "other options" would be considered. "We’ll increase diplomatic efforts. But, if those efforts do not produce results, [ ...

The Turkish Ministry of Health will set up a second field hospital in Somalia within the scope of Turkey’s assistance to the famine-stricken country. The second hospital will be resistant to severe climate conditions and be set up near the former parliamentary building which now houses shelters. The Ministry of Health’s Somalia team’s head Dr. Akif Saatçioğlu said Nov. 5 the second hospital would be larger ...

The Arab world has been going through some turm-oil for a while. Many countries including USA, UK, France in the first place seem to have major interests in the recent events. This we know has to do with benefits such as getting a big share from the the oil reserves in said Arab countries, mainly. Turkey on the other hand has been giving the world the message it is only concerned in seeing to it that democr ...

The world’s response to the Somali crisis is a chance to prove that modern values are not empty, PM Erdoğan says in Mogadishu The deadly famine in Somalia presents a litmus test for the world to prove that it possesses the humanitarian values to aid a country in desperate need, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Friday during a news conference in the Somali capital Mogadishu. “The tragedy in S ...

Turkish and other world leaders participating at a high-level U.N. conference in Istanbul slammed developed nations Monday for their indifference to – and responsibility for – the conditions of the world’s least developed countries. “This conference aims to establish a vision on how the world will struggle against poverty and hunger. But I am sorry to say that the developed, rich countries have not shown sa ...