Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

A municipality in the northwestern province of Düzce has erected a statue of the famous Rabia sign at an intersection of roads, Doğan News Agency reported on June 21. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has blasted main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu over his criticism of Erdoğan's use of the "Rabia" four-finger hand gesture, which has become popular among Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers around the world. 

Turkey's parliament on June 7 approved a draft bill allowing its troops to be deployed to a Turkish military base in Qatar.

The move appears to support the Gulf Arab country as it faces diplomatic and trade isolation from some of the biggest Middle Eastern powers. 

Turkey's parliament is expected to fast-track on June 7 a draft bill allowing its troops to be deployed to a Turkish military base in Qatar, officials from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) said.

With the latest news of human tragedies coming from Aleppo, one phase of the Syrian civil war is about to be closed.

Ambassador Feridun Sinirlioğlu, a former Undersecretary at the Foreign Ministry who is Turkey's new "point man" at the U.N., believes the Middle East has to move toward a secular and democratic future.

In his speeches to Turkish audiences but addressing world leaders, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an often says that "there should be no good terrorists and bad terrorists" and that "terrorists are terrorists." He's right. But he is not realistic at all if he is seriously expecting the entire world to agree on his own definition of who is a terrorist and who is not. 

In the past, the nature of regimes in Turkey and Iran pitted the two countries against each other, but that was before the advent of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). 

Turkey will establish a military base in Qatar as part of a defence agreement aimed at helping them confront "common enemies," Turkey's ambassador to Qatar said on Dec. 16. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has called on the international community and the European Union to impose sanctions on Egypt after the death penalty given to former President Mohamed Morsi, blasting them for remaining silent toward Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.