“Turkey will invest $12 billion on developing phases of South Pars offshore gas field in southern Iran and construction of gas pipeline from Assalouyeh to Turkish border,” Hilmi Guler said yesterday.

Washington is testing the Turkish government’s response to the permanent anchoring of US warships at either of the two Georgian ports of Poti or Batumi.

by Michael Rubin
National Review Online in Middle East Forum
Few U.S. policymakers have heard of Fethullah Gülen, perhaps Turkey’s most prominent theologian and political thinker. Self-exiled for more than a decade, Gülen lives a reclusive life outside Philadelphia, Pa. Within months, however, he may be as much a household a name in the United States as [...]

Background: On March 14 the Special Prosecutor of the Turkish High Constitutional Court, Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya, accused the AKP, Turkey’s Islamic (and West friendly) party of being the center of anti-secular activities, and ordered the party to be shut down and its elected members, including Prime Minister Erdogan, to step down from office. This is not [...]

Dr. Nimrod Raphaeli, Memri Economic Blog
Iran and Turkey are two large Middle Eastern neighboring countries with populations of around 65.4 million and 71 million, and GDP in purchasing power parity of over $599 billion and $640 billion, respectively.[1] (See Annex) While both countries are Muslim, Turkey has had a long tradition of a secular and [...]

TREATY OF PEACE WITH TURKEY SIGNED AT LAUSANNE
JULY 24, 1923
THE CONVENTION RESPECTING THE REGIME OF THE STRAITS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS SIGNED AT LAUSANNE
THE BRITISH EMPIRE, FRANCE, ITALY, JAPAN, GREECE, ROUMANIA and the SERB-CROAT-SLOVENE STATE,
of the one part,
and TURKEY,
of the other part; Being united in the desire to bring to a final close the state of [...]