KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - Foreign ministers of energy-rich Gulf monarchies and Turkey on Sunday opened a new round of talks aimed at boosting economic and political ties and signing a free trade agreement.
Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad al-Sabah, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) alliance, said trade between the two sides has been [...]
DAMASCUS (AFP) - Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said on Sunday that only Turkey can act as an intermediary in any indirect peace negotiations between Syria and Israel.
"Turkey has shown itself to be an honest intermediary. Indirect talks must therefore be under Turkish mediation, and begin in Turkey at the point where they stopped" in December 2008 when Israel attacked the Gaza Strip, h [...]
KOMOTINI, Greece (AFP) - A convoy of aid vehicles carrying 40 activists from the group Viva Palestina left the Greek town of Alexandroupolis headed for Gaza on Monday, police said.
Made up of passenger cars, vans and ambulances, the convoy was decked out in Palestinian flags as it headed for Istanbul in Turkey where it is expected to arrive later Monday, police said. It will then go via the Mid [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - President Shimon Peres said Israel will "seek friendship with Turkey" despite fallout over a deadly flotilla raid, while Turkish President Abdullah Gul said normalizing soured ties would be up to Israel.
The leaders appeared independently on a US Sunday talk show, and while the two insisted that they remain on friendly personal terms, there appeared to be tension over [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli trade with Turkey rose by almost one third during the first seven months of 2010 -- despite heightened political tensions -- Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics reported on Thursday.
Exports from January to July totalled 811.8 million dollars, 32 percent up on the same period in 2009.
Israeli imports from Turkey rose 30 percent to 1.04 billion dollars during the sam [...]
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