A multinational military drill has reportedly been cancelled due to Turkey's unwillingness to allow the Israel Air Force to participate in the exercise.
"Turkey has blocked two of its largest LGBT websites. Users of sites such as hadigayri.com and gabile.com are finding that instead of regular homepages, they are seeing messages stating that the site has been blocked by the Telecommunication Directorate.
"The newly-installed president of the United Nations General Assembly, Ali Abdussalam Treki, has said that homosexuality is "not really acceptable"
Here is an interview with some firemen in Sweden talking about how they cope with a hostile Muslim population that sets fires, then attacks them when they come to put them out and save anyone who may be in danger from them.
Turkish hopes of joining the EU appeared to be all but over after Germany gave warning it was ready to join France and Italy in outright opposition to the country's membership.
The recent tragic synagogue bombings in Istanbul, targeting the small remnant Jewish community there, have been accompanied, somewhat understandably, by hagiographic assessments of Jewish existence under Turkish suzerainty, dating back for over half a millennium 1-4.
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To paraphrase Christopher Caldwell, Turkey is a magnificent country that has also been, at times over the centuries, a glorious and generous culture. But, all cant to the contrary, it is in no sense European.
Members of a nationalist campaign to overthrow the Turkish Government planned to attack the Nato headquarters in Turkey and assassinate 12 prominent figures, including the Prime Minister.
Turkey has never been punished for the genocide of the millions of Greeks and Armenians in Asia Minor, during the last two centuries. Turkey has never been punished for the invasion and occupation of Cyprus .
Istanbul to Constantinople has not initiated any private discussions.