Three days before the official end of the US combat mission in Iraq, US President Barack Obama said on Saturday Iraq was now a "sovereign" nation free to determine its own destiny. Read more »

What Arabs who look admiringly to Ankara do not understand is that Turkey's leaders act in concordance with Turkish public sentiment, not to save Arab dignity, writes Azmi Bishara Read more »

The shift in Turkey's foreign policy orientation towards the Middle East has raised fears that the country could turn away from the West. In his essay, Hüseyin Bagci, professor of international politics at the Technical University of Ankara, explains that despite appearances, the USA and the EU remain Turkey's most important partners Read more »

While the USA is increasing pressure for Turkey-Israeli relations to normalize, Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmet Davutoglu recently announced that Israel has yet to fulfill two conditions put forth by Turkey following the violent raid by Israeli forces on May 31st, resulting in the death of nine Turkish activists aboard an aid flotilla bound for Iraq. Read more »

Turkey has not been lost to the west. Not yet, anyway. What has happened is that the terms of engagement have changed. Turkey is no longer the pliant supplicant that many in the US and Europe imagined it would forever remain. Read more »

TROY, New York — The Dogans were a quiet family little noticed by their neighbors here in upstate New York. Ahmet Dogan had come to the area from Turkey to study accounting at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Read more »

ANKARA — I am the only Turkish politician who has visited Israel since Israel unleashed the Gaza War, and since the Davos incident between Israeli President Shimon Peres and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan highlighted the differences between our countries. Read more »

Turkey and Israel are at loggerheads again, and this should come as no surprise. Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon's staged rebuke of the Turkish ambassador in Tel Aviv will go down as yet another milestone in the ongoing tension between Turkey and Israel. Read more »

It is generally accepted that America's destruction of Iraq overturned the balance of power in the Gulf, opening the way for the Islamic Republic of Iran to emerge as a major regional power, able to challenge the dominance of Sunni Arab states and pose as a rival to both Israel and the United States. Read more »

An energy partnership agreement signed between Turkey and China while the Turkish President Abdullah Gül's visit to China. A new era has been started between Turkey - China relationship with the signing of this agreement which can be seen in the analysis of the agreement below. Read more »