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Opinion: The stars rarely align for Egypt and Turkey

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...

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A Japan Coast Guard boat (front) and vessel sail as Uotsuri island, one of the disputed islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, is pictured in the background, in the East China Sea August 18, 2013. (REUTERS/Ruairidh Villar)

China sees no basis for Japan talks

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...

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The Art of Turning Neighbors into Enemies

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...

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) speaks during a news conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (not pictured) at Ankara Palace in Ankara, March 1, 2013. REUTERS/Jacquelyn Martin/Pool

Turkish PM’s Zionism Comments “Objectionable:” Kerry

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....

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Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, attends a press conference with Egyptian Sunni clerics at Al-Azhar headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Ahmadinejad–Azhar Row Escalates

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...