TURKEY risks seeing its dream of European Union membership vanish unless it urgently pushes reforms, but to rebuild trust between the two sides EU members must send a clear message that Ankara's bid is not doomed.
An EU enlargement progress report (...)
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is widely expected to reshuffle his government, but political and economic analysts say big changes in economic policy are unlikely.
Although Turkish media suggest the finance and energy ministers could be (...)
TURKEY faces a delicate diplomatic balancing act between its old and new partners after reaching out to countries beyond its traditional Western allies and strengthening its status as a regional power.
Turkey, a NATO member which hopes to join the (...)
stalled reforms to join the EU now that a case to ban the ruling party is out of the way, but upcoming local elections and a slowing economy will lessen appetite for bold moves this year.
Ankara began accession talks with the European Union in 2005 (...)
THE conflict between Russia and Georgia threatens to undermine NATO member Turkey's ambitions to become an energy hub and could exacerbate misgivings among EU states about expanding the bloc right up to the Caucasus.
The fighting over the breakaway (...)
