Tag: Turkey News

The West Bank's first Palestinian-designed planned city offers a window into the promises and perils of the current situation in the Middle East. But will it be a novelty, or ...

Now that President Obama has taken a public stand on the warlords and militia gangs tyrannizing DR Congo, there is a sense that the next chapter in the human tragedy ...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey was seriously considering becoming a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) as an alternative to joining the European Union. This ...

This Valentine’s Day, Americans will spend a record $1.05 billion on chocolate and candy, according to the National Confectioners Association. But while Mamert Kablan Angora helps keep sweethearts sweet by growing ...

Our beloved Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sal-lam’ states as follows in a hadîth-i-sherîf: “Human beings cannot free themselves from the following three things: ‘Sû‑i zan’, ‘Tayara’ and ‘Hasad’. When a ...

Israel’s Role in the Fatah-Hamas Rivalry Israel is supportive for a delay in the PLC elections for the same reason as Fatah: fear of a decisive victory for Hamas. Many ...

The once all-powerful Turkish armed forces are cowed, if not quite impotent. Imagine a country with NATO’s second-largest army that counts Iraq, Iran and Syria as neighbours and is encircled ...

The line snakes around the block, hundreds of people wrapped up against the early autumn chill. The crowd waits patiently as a sensibly-dressed, middle-aged woman wanders along the queue, handing ...

Following the recent arrest of reporters, we examine the deteriorating state of journalism in election year Iran.   On the Listening Post we track the treatment of media around the world. With the ...

Serious doubts are being cast on Iran's claim that it successfully sent a monkey into space and back earlier this week.  Several websites -- including the "Telegraph" and "The Times" ...