Western Businesses Embrace Turkey as E.U.'s Resistance Grows
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ISTANBUL -- Markus Lehto's Turkey is a futuristic shopping complex with aerial bridges linking skinny-jeans shops to designer bag boutiques. In the attached apartment building, a pied-?-terre designed for the global jet-setter can cost up to $2 million.
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Ankara can not understand French fears over Turkeyâs bid to enter the EU, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told a newspaper. Opposition to Turkey is running high in France and among the Paris political elite - fears Erdogan does not comprehend.
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Thousands of cheering supporters showered Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan with ticker tape Saturday as he returned to Ankara from a European summit, vowing to press forward with reforms and the country&#39;s bid to join the bloc.
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The EU's historic deal with Turkey to  open entry talks with the vast Muslim country was hailed by  supporters as a bridge builder between Europe and the Islamic  world.
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The White House on Friday warmly welcomed a hard-fought deal between the European Union and Turkey that sets the stage for Ankara to start EU entry talks next year.
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The EU's historic deal with Turkey to open entry talks with the vast Muslim country was hailed by supporters as a bridge builder between Europe and the Islamic world.
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Turkey is to issue its second international bond in a month in a fund-raising programme that has been boosted by expectations that the European Union will sanction the start of membership discussions.
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The European Union's decision to hold entry talks with Turkey receives a widespread welcome.
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The prospects for progress in Turkey's EU membership talks are now brighter than at the start of the year, writes Kirsty Hughes.
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Yeliz Bakir sees herself as the personification of Turkey's European future &#151; a Muslim woman of 25 who grew up in rural conservative surroundings but now wears trendy clothes and works in a posh neighborhood of Istanbul.
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Growing demand for resources in Asia is being served by a group of big Western companies.
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Turkey, rattled by growing signs of  resistance in the European Union to its entry bid, said on  Monday it would seek changes in the wording of a key report on  its candidacy before EU leaders debate it on Dec. 17.
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Western technology firms are increasingly seeking talent in Eastern Europe.
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Supporters found plenty of reasons to cheer the EU&#39;s recommendation Wednesday that talks begin on making Muslim-majority Turkey a member.
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An ad campaign for the new MTV Turkey network highlights the sometimes bittersweet relationship between Turkey and the West.
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Turkey has been knocking on the EUâs door for more than 40 years, watching in frustration as other countries leapfrogged Ankara in the queue to join the Union.
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The war drums are getting louder in Turkey, and they can be heard next door in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, and across the globe in Washington as well.