by Samir Salha | Nov 28, 2013 | Opinion
For years we have called for Turkish–Egyptian rapprochement, speaking at every opportunity about the importance of cooperation and strategic openness between the two states. We have every right to express our opinion about the deterioration in relations between these...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 27, 2013 | World
Beijing, Reuters—China on Tuesday brushed aside calls from Japan to hold a leaders’ summit as “grandstanding”, while Japan’s finance minister said Tokyo should make clear it would use its navy to defend islands at the core of a dispute with...
by Amir Taheri | Apr 5, 2013 | Opinion
By all accounts Azerbaijan should be Iran’s closest ally. The tiny republic on the Caspian Sea is home to nine million people with strong ethnic, historic, and religious ties to the Iranian people. Almost 80 percent speak Azeri, an Altaic language with a...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 1, 2013 | World
ANKARA, Reuters—Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday the United States found a comment by Turkey’s prime minister, likening Zionism to crimes against humanity, “objectionable”, overshadowing their talks on the crisis in neighboring Syria....
by Waleed Abdul Rahman | Feb 21, 2013 | Middle East
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Statements by Ahmed Mousavi, Iranian presidential adviser and Director of the Haj and Pilgrimage Organization (HMO), on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent visit to Cairo provoked serious controversy in Egypt earlier this week. Mousavi...
