Andrew Wilks

The Sochi sum­mit comes af­ter Ankara helped bro­ker a grain deal that has eased glob­al food cri­sis fears.

Deal last week saw Turkey back Fin­land and Swe­den’s NATO bids, avert­ing a po­ten­tial cri­sis, but dif­fer­ences re­main.

Amid com­plex ties are Is­rael’s warn­ings of an Iran­ian plot to kill or kid­nap Is­raeli tourists on Turk­ish soil.

Turkey views the PKK – and all its af­fil­i­ates – as se­cu­ri­ty threats, com­pli­cat­ing its re­la­tion­ship with Swe­den, Fin­land.

Akkuyu Nu­clear Pow­er Plant would be Turkey’s first, but Rus­sia’s in­va­sion of Ukraine may cause prob­lems.

Signs of warm­ing ties emerge amid Turk­ish diplo­mat­ic dri­ve that co­in­cides with ma­jor eco­nom­ic cri­sis.

Turkey has upped its STEM ed­u­ca­tion game, but ex­perts say more needs to be done.

Turkey hopes re­la­tions with the US, blight­ed by a litany of dis­putes, can be sal­vaged on Pres­i­dent Er­do­gan’s trip.

An­a­lysts say fresh round of talks be­tween Turkey and Egypt comes amid chang­ing dy­nam­ics in the Mid­dle East.

Turk­ish show­cas­es do­mes­ti­cal­ly-pro­duced stealth fight­er jet, drones at In­ter­na­tion­al De­fence In­dus­try Fair in Is­tan­bul.