Turkey and Iran said yesterday they would collaborate in their fight against Kurdish rebels, as thousands of Turkish troops continued an air and ground offensive against militants in northern Iraq for a third day.

By Anne Penketh You might think there is no connection between Georgia and Iran. But I think that America's humiliation in Georgia makes military strikes on Iran more likely. The US was never going to challenge Russia, a nuclear power,...

Turkey, a member of NATO issued a statement today that they will not allow their fellow NATO allies to use Turkish soil or facilities to attack Iran. The statement came from Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, according to RIA Novosti. Davutoglu ended by saying that the borders between Iran and Turkey have been borders of peace and will remain that way. This is the second time the Islamist r...

Taner Yildiz, Turkey’s energy minister, has said that Turkey does not consider itself covered by new US or EU measures against Iranian oil

Treason. There is simply no other word for it. Randy Scheunemann signed the Project for the New American Century letter to Bill Clinton demanding war against Iraq; that was four years before 9/11. He signed the PNAC ultimatum to Bush, nine days after 9/11, threatening him with political reprisal if he did not go to war against Iraq, which had undoubtedly had nothing to do with 9/11, and war agains...

Azerbaijan and Turkey yesterday (7 June) signed a deal to ship 11 billion cubic metres of Azeri gas per year to Turkey. Shipments would start in 2017 and some of the gas may be pumped into the EU's planned Nabucco pipeline. Meanwhile, Northern Iraq declared in Turkey that it stands ready to provide gas supplies "to make Nabucco work".

Turkey wants to help the EU to realise the Nabucco pipeline project by acting as a broker for securing natural gas supplies from Iraq and Qatar as well as Iran at a later stage, the country's foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, told EurActiv.

The Iraqi ministry of transportation announced yesterday that the Iraq-Turkey railroad will be opened September 1st.The railroad will serve as a link between Gulf and Mediterranean seaports.

Or Better Titled an Idiot at the Helm Associated Press Writer Suzan Fraser in Ankara contributed to this report ANKARA, Turkey &# Turkey was holding a suspicious shipment bound for Venezuela from Iran because it contained lab equipment capable of producing explosives, a customs official said Tuesday. Suleyman Tosun, a customs official at the Mediterranean port of Mersin, said military experts were...

The BBC documentary series on Iran and the West has been very interesting so far. One aspect of it that I thought I'd write a brief post on is about Iran and the UN. The Iran-Iraq War saw the Iraqis use chemical weapons against Iran. This is a breach of the Geneva Conventions and so of international law. The Iranian speakers on the programme said they had raised the matter at the UN. Nothing resul...