Ankara - US President Barack Obama met religious leaders in Istanbul on Tuesday on the second day of his visit to Turkey where he has attempted to repair frayed ties with both Turkey and the wider Muslim world, ties that hit a low during the previous US administration of George W Bush.
Obama held a group meeting with Armenian Orthodox Archbishop Aran Stesyan, Chief Rabbi of Istanbul Isak Haleva, Grand Mufti of Istanbul Mustafa Cagrici and Syrian Orthodox Archbishop Yusuf Cetin before holding a private meeting with Greek Orthodox Patriach Bartholomew I.
Ankara - Two hotel workers have been arrested in connection with the deaths of three German tourists due to alcohol poisoning, Turkish media reported Tuesday.
The tourists, students at a vocational college in Germany, were on holiday at the Mediterranean resort of Kemer.
On the night of March 26, the group was in a hotel room drinking liquor purchased from the Anatolia Beach Hotel in the Mediterranean resort town of Kemer when they called for help after one of the group fell unconscious.
Ankara - Future NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Monday attempted to soothe Muslim antipathy to the role he played in 2005 as Danish prime minister when he failed to condemn cartoons of the Muslim prophet Mohammad published in a Danish newspaper.
Speaking at the Alliance of Civilizations in Istanbul, a meeting that promotes dialogue between leaders of the West and the Islamic world, Rasmussen did not directly apologise for his actions in 2005. But he did say that he respected all religions.
Ankara - US President Barack Obama arrived in Turkey on Sunday on
an official visit that would see him fulfilling a pledge to visit the
Muslim nation in his first 100 days in office.
Obama was expected to seek to emphasize his administration's new
approaches to regional problems in talks with Turkish leaders President
Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the capital
Ankara on Monday.
Discussions on withdrawing US troops from Iraq, stepping up
reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan and new US moves to engage Iran
Ankara - There were no concrete results from a trilateral summit in Ankara Wednesday between the presidents of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkey - but the summit was an example of Turkey attempting to play a new role in regional affairs.
Ankara - The presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday recommitted themselves to cooperate on fighting terrorism and drug trafficking.
At a trilateral summit hosted by Turkish President Abdullah Gul, Presidents Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan agreed to step up cooperation and to formalize their meetings.
Ankara - US President Barack Obama met religious leaders in Istanbul on Tuesday on the second day of his visit to Turkey where he has attempted to repair frayed ties with both Turkey and the wider Muslim world, ties that hit a low during the previous US administration of George W Bush.
Ankara - Two hotel workers have been arrested in connection with the deaths of three German tourists due to alcohol poisoning, Turkish media reported Tuesday.
Ankara - Future NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Monday attempted to soothe Muslim antipathy to the role he played in 2005 as Danish prime minister when he failed to condemn cartoons of the Muslim prophet Mohammad published in a Danish newspaper.
Ankara - US President Barack Obama arrived in Turkey on Sunday on
Ankara - There were no concrete results from a trilateral summit in Ankara Wednesday between the presidents of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkey - but the summit was an example of Turkey attempting to play a new role in regional affairs.
Ankara - The presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday recommitted themselves to cooperate on fighting terrorism and drug trafficking.
