Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, is expected to sign a landmark trade deal with Syria in Damascus later on Wednesday.
Five years after the two conutries signed a free trade agreement, trade volume has reached nearly $2bn a year. Officials are now aiming to double that figure.
Rula Amin reports on the growing presence of Turkish business in Syria.
There has been growing alarm in Turkey over the huge increase in the number of missing children.
More than 1,000 children have vanished so far this year. Nobody seems to know why, or have any idea where they may have gone.
Al Jazeera talks to Nilufer Narli, a sociology professor in Istanbul, about the shocking sttaistics after a report from our correspondent, Anita McNaught.
Is Turkey making new freinds and maybe foes and re-defining its position in the region?
As a result of Tukrish persecution and a diaspora early in teh 20th century, only one-in-five people of Armenian descent worldwide lives in their ancestral homeland.
The large Armenian-American community has grave doubts about the thawing of relations with Turkey. Cath Turner reports.
After more than a century of hostility, Armenia and Turkey are about to normalise relations with the signing of historic accords on aimed at re-estabishing diplomatic ties and opening their common land border.
But the prospect of an agreement is causing concern among some Armenians.
Matthew Collin reports from the Armenian border town of Gyumri.