The EU ambassadors in Ankara are getting accustomed to having working lunches with Prime minster Erdogan, enjoying fine Turkish cuisine, where Mr Erdogan openly and with much politically correctness slams the Union’s activities related to Turkish Republic. Latest one of these lunches took place yesterday, where Erdogan bluntly put in simple terms for the EU [...]
Many speculations were made on why President Obama snubbed the annual US-EU submit; from EU’s the lack of commitment to a possible embargo on Iran, to lack of commitment to Afghanistan. Perhaps, all of the assumptions and speculations are in deed correct. Yet, one other reason is being ignored by ever savvy European media; the [...]
The dispute between the two NATO members began in early 2001 when Turkey threatened to block the EU from using NATO assets over fears about any possible future deployment in the Aegean region or in Cyprus. In late 2001, the US, the UK and Turkey agreed the Ankara Text, allowing Turkey a say in such [...]
