By all accounts, the Israeli-Syrian indirect negotiations through Turkish mediation are going well, and the fact that a fourth round of talks is scheduled for the end of July suggests that both sides expect to make further progress. The reports from Damascus and Ankara, however, indicating that Syria will not enter into direct negotiations with Israel before the advent of new American administration show an obstructive apprehension on the part of the Syrian government.

Officials in Turkey say a shootout between armed men and police officers near the U.S. consulate in Istanbul has killed three policemen and three attackers.

President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan published an article in the Wall Street Journal, where he expressed his willingness to take steps in the direction of normalizing the relations with Turkey. The full text of the article is presented below:

Turkish scholars are researching the traditional stories passed down through the ages about the Prophet Muhammad. Will their conclusions have a practical message for Muslims searching for God?

Three times Turkey appeared to be down and out at Euro 2008, only to stage a last-minute comeback and pull off a miracle victory.

Losers on the opening day four years ago, Portugal made a sure-footed start to UEFA EURO 2008 as second-half strikes from Pepe and substitute Raul Meireles secured all three points against Turkey at the Stade de Genève.

Turkey's ruling party has denounced a court's upholding of a ban on the Islamic headscarf in universities, after an emergency meeting of the Islamist-rooted group that itself risks being outlawed.

On 28 May a monument commemorating the victims of Armenia Genocide in 1915 in Turkey took place in Larnaka, Cyprus, reported the press service of the Foreign Affairs Ministry.

YEREVAN (Armenpress)-Despite strong opposition from its Turkish members, the Council of Communities of the Bulgarian city of Varna overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to adopt a special decision recognizing the Armenian Genocide.

GLENDALE--Turkey's recent claims that the Armenian Revolutionary archives are closed are false, said the ARF archivist Tatul Sonentz-Papazian Friday, who managed the archives until 2000.