Viktor Orbán hosted leaders from the Middle East and Central Asia on the sidelines of the World Athletics Championship to guarantee future energy supplies.
Plans by Turkish authorities to build a mosque at a historically significant Orthodox Christian monastery have rubbed salt in the island’s sectarian wounds, resulting in calls for the European Commission to protect the island’s Christian heritage.
Turkish authorities launched an investigation into Disney after the network pulled a dramatisation of the life of Kemal Atatürk following lobbying by the Armenian diaspora.
Following a Quran burning in January of this year, a Turkish court has issued an arrest warrant for Danish anti-Islam activist Rasmus Paludan who has been burning copies of the Islamic holy book for years, often sparking riots.
Closed-door negotiations between NATO and Ankara have irritated MEPs who rebuffed the likelihood of Turkish EU membership anytime soon in a report from the European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee this week.
Erdoğan’s AKP relies on the support of the nationalist MHP for parliamentary majority, but the party is not happy with the president’s agreement with Stockholm, looking to vote against the ratification.
The Turkish Parliament will not come back from recess until the start of the autumn legislative session. In the meantime, Erdoğan noted, Sweden has some homework to do, having left conservatives out of the loop.
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