113 results for Ankara

29 April 2016

It might not be immediately apparent but the Turkish government has launched a charm offensive. Ties with the EU remain strained over German satire aimed at the president but Turkish diplomats are quietly patching things…

13 January 2017

It’s too often said that Turkey stands at a crossroads but this may well be a deciding day for its democracy. Ankara’s Grand National Assembly is debating the nuances of an executive presidency that provided it gets the…

4 July 2024

We take a view from Europe as the UK general election gets under way. Also in the programme: Victoria Craig joins us from Ankara to discuss Vladimir Putin’s meeting with Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Shanghai Co-operation…

17 March 2016

As the Kurdish militant group Tak claims responsibility for Sunday’s deadly attack in Ankara, we look at the implications of the announcement. Meanwhile in Brazil, the release of tapped phone calls between current president…

10 April 2024

We take the temperature of US-Japan relations as Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visits President Biden in Washington DC. Also on the programme: Ankara based journalist Victoria Craig on why Turkey is halting exports to Israel…

18 November 2015

Article Five of the North Atlantic Treaty is very clear: an attack on a member of Nato is an attack on all its members. The article has only been invoked once so far: in the days following September 11. In the aftermath of…

9 August 2016

There are many ways to interpret Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Russia today. Analysts posit a pivot to the East in Turkey’s foreign policy and see the trip as a bold statement to the West, which Ankara…

5 February 2025

As Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s transitional president, meets Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, we ask: what role is Turkey seeking to play when it comes to regional security? Then we discuss Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip…

16 February 2023

Daniella Peled and Jonn Elledge discuss Jens Stoltenberg, Nato’s secretary general, urging Ankara to approve Finland and Sweden’s membership bids, and Syrian president Assad’s ‘earthquake diplomacy’. Also in the show: city…

1 December 2015

What does “re-energise” actually mean? That’s the question many in Turkey are asking after the European Union negotiated with Ankara to stem the flow of refugees in return for €3bn and a promise to re-energise its long…

15 July 2016

Normalisation is the word of the moment in Ankara, as the Turkish government looks to mend fences with Israel, Russia and, albeit in vague terms, Syria. But talk of normalisation is also likely to linger at a cheese symp…

20 January 2017

There’s a pressing bit of business left in the in-tray at the Oval Office: should the US directly arm Kurdish forces in its assault on Isis-held Raqqa? It’s a question that President Trump will need to mull over carefully…

13 October 2015

Turkey is reeling after twin bomb blasts in Ankara over the weekend, the deadliest act of terror on its soil in recent history. As the country contemplates whether elections in November are still safe and viable, many are…

17 March 2017

The Netherlands’ spat with Turkey helped Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte see off a populist threat at the polls this week but the gloves are still off in this increasingly absurd diplomatic dispute. Some 40 Holstein cows…

14 March 2017

Turkey is in danger of shooting itself in the foot. Two of its ministers were barred from entering the Netherlands in the run-up to the country’s general election, with authorities citing security concerns over a planned…

18 July 2016

It was the ultimate political gamble. After a faction of the military occupied two bridges in Istanbul, with military aircraft flying low over Ankara, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged his country – via text…