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Turkey will also host Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas, who will fly to Ankara on July 25.

Russia is widely believed to have agreed not to interfere with Israeli military action taken against Iranian forces and Iranian-backed Hezbollah fighters in Syria.

In July, when Turkish President Erdogan attacked Israel's security policy on the Temple Mount, Netanyahu issued a statement saying, "It would be interesting to see what Erdogan would say to ... the Kurds. Erdogan is the last one who can preach to Israel."

One hundred years after the last Turkish soldier was chased out of Jerusalem by the invading British Empire, Turkey's channeling of millions into eastern Jerusalem is gaining sympathy and support.

The Turks are afraid of any show of Kurdish might, because they are in the midst of a campaign to repress their own Kurdish citizens.

The suspect fired 5 times in the air with a shotgun outside the US Embassy.

Russian ambassador to Turkey shot dead.

Neither Republican nor Democratic candidate offered realistic solutions for the escalation of the Syrian civil war, just north of Israel's border.

Israel has reportedly transferred the agreed-on $20M compensation payment to Turkey.

Erdogan lectured Biden on how Gulen is operating a global terrorist network from his little home in Pennsylvania, and repeated his demand that the US immediately detain Gulen, so he won't give media interviews.

US-Turkey relations have so deteriorated after the coup that Washington no longer trusts Ankara with the nuclear weapons.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said earlier this month that Jerusalem had met all of Ankara’s preconditions for normalizing ties, which were degraded in 2010.

One MP said "the German government cannot publicly designate the godfather of terrorism Erdogan as a partner, while internally warning about Turkey as a hub for terrorism."

It isn't clear who is panicking more at the moment—Jerusalem or Washington—over the possibility that Turkey, a NATO member, would switch sides and coalesce with Russia and Iran.

Imagine that every conspiracy theory you've heard, from the Communists taking over America, to Obama conspiring with the deans of Al Azhar University to bring Islam to the US, to the CIA blowing up the World Trade Center, was, if not true, at least plausible.

“The confidence factor that Turkey projected abroad has eroded."

The current president of the İHH, Fehmi Bülent Yıldırım, has been under investigation by specially authorized prosecutors in Istanbul and Diyarbakır for financing al-Qaeda through his organization.

The Turkish government seized control of the country's biggest-selling newspaper this weekend.

Moscow's official reason for halting food imports from Turkey is that they suddenly do not meet "sanitary regulations."

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has announced it will cancel its Tel Aviv-Copenhagen, citing both “political instability” and ‘’increasing costs and competition." The service, which is offered...

Suicide bombers are suspected of setting off the bombs. The Islamic State (ISIS) is a suspect, but no group has take responsibility.

While Pres. Obama nurses a grudge and looks for new ways to pick a fight with Israel, a cataclysm is building in the Middle East.

Turkey's President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdogan is scoring major PR at home via Gaza, thru Israel.

Turkey is evacuating wounded Gazans to Ankara hospitals, in cooperation with Israel and Egypt.

Police clash with anti-Israel demonstrators in Cairo, Turkey, London. Protests expected to spread.

A referendum might be held on the future of Gezi Park in Istanbul.

Erdogan is sounding more like Assad and Mubarak every day. Protesters were vandals,. Now they are terrorists. He is making every mistake possible, fueling the protest movement by insulting it.

Turkey is burning. Nine days of riots. Three dead. Erdogan’s police arrest society’s enemy – Twitters. Now, a Turkish doctor charges police are using Condoleezza Rice gas, a chemical agent.

The AWACS Israel is selling to Turkey will potentially be used against Israel in the Mediterranean Sea.