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This is almost as funny as Prince Andrew's analysis of anorexia and his paean to British geography teachers Prime Minister Recep Tayyi...

An article published today in Hurriyet , one of Turkey's biggest newspapers, strengthens some of the accounts provided by IDF soldiers ...

I've mapped out the home provinces of each of the activists who were killed and placed a marker in each province's capital. The dat...

Here is the timeline of events that the Israeli navy arrived at in its investigation, as reported by Ha'aretz : Monday, 4:30 AM operat...

An article published today in Ha'aretz (no English version available yet) by Fadi Ayadat indicates that almost all of the hundreds of a...

Highlights use of paintball guns and speculates about tactics used by commandos boarding the Marmara.

From Ha'aretz: Israel gave the following breakdown of countries and numbers of those activists ordered expelled, excluding the nine k...

Everyone involved in this blog probably had the same initial reaction of disbelief, shock and sadness when they heard about the deaths (so f...

On Wednesday, FT contained a special insert called "Istanbul as a Financial Centre." The headline read, "Ambition yet to be ...

BY AMOS In the past two years, we have seen repeated crises in Turkish-Israeli relations. Most of these were set off by Turkish condemnation...

Turkey and Armenia announced today that they would establish diplomatic relations. If the protocols are formally ratified by the two countr...

Turkish PM Erdogan Israel's "Operation Cast Lead" has generated a number of interesting diplomatic moves and rifts that give u...

Two issues are currently occupying a great deal of public attention in Turkey: the Armenian genocide resolution in the US Congress, and PKK ...

I am fairly confident that the recent incident on the Turkish-Syrian border, where Syria alleges it repulsed an Israeli fighter jet from its...

Pinhas Avivi (Photo: Israel MFA ) Pinhas Avivi , the outgoing Israeli ambassador to Turkey, told the Turkish Daily News that while "a ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül (Photo: Wikipedia ) Citing sources in the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Ha'aretz reports that Turkey i...

A Jewcy Banner in a petition that calls on the ADL to recognize the Armenian Genocide UPDATE: There have been some very interesting new de...

The dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire ( Perry Castaneda , click to magnify) Hazbani's questions about U.S. policy toward the Ottoman ...

Southeastern Turkey, Syria, and northern Iraq ( Perry-Castaneda ) There is currently a media blackout on Turkey's military operation in ...

Allenby Park in Beer Sheva (June 2006) Salim Tamari, a faculty member of Birzeit University and a visiting professor in the history departm...