Turkey

Turkey urges aid for Homs, Syria conference

8 Feb 2012

ANKARA (Reuters) - The international community must send a strong message of support to Syrians under artillery attack from government forces, particularly the opposition bastion of Homs, Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told Reuters. Turkey was ready to host an international conference to support the Syrian people, and to send a message to President Bashar al-Assad to halt an 11-month ...

Turkey Debates Role in Possible Syria Intervention

8 Feb 2012

Turkey is hardening its stance against the Syrian leadership and its Western allies are increasingly looking to Ankara for efforts to help unseat Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. There is debate in Turkey over whether international sanctions and diplomatic pressure on Syria could lead to military intervention and what role Ankara should play. -Dorian Jones, VOA

Turkey's AKP is no role model for Arab countries

8 Feb 2012

Many in Washington have been debating whether Turkey's governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) could be a model for the Arab Spring, as our neighbors in the Middle East aspire to get rid of totalitarian regimes and become true democracies. But the reality in Turkey makes clear that the AKP model does not hold. On Nov. 9, I visited the Silivri prison where hundreds of journalists ...