Sentence examples for ankara from inspiring English sources

"A big responsibility falls on the shoulders of the national education ministry and YOK [higher education board] on this issue," Erdogan said at a ceremony in Ankara.

"We arranged with Turkey to act as a mediator and I flew to Ankara to meet with them.

Pinter and Miller were together in Ankara discussing the freedom that writers ought to enjoy in civilised communities.

It's become a symbol, like the palace in Ankara.

Speaking from the balcony of AKP headquarters in Ankara – the traditional venue for the party's victory speeches – the prime minister and party leader, Ahmet Davutoglu, sought to put a brave face on the results.

In a sign of that animosity, Akinci announced within days of his election that it was about time Ankara stopped treating Cyprus "as a child".

But the intervention by Ankara shows that an important neighbour is thinking seriously about a political transition that could in theory win wide international backing at a time of mounting alarm about the crisis.

Ankara provided a financial lifeline to Tehran when international sanctions cut off its banking system from the outside world by paying for Iranian natural gas in gold.

Despite this, Erdoğan was welcomed by Rouhani in the Iranian capital on Tuesday and, in an unusual departure from Tehran's diplomatic protocol, the Turkish leader's motorcade had a mounted escort as it made its way into the Saadabad palace, following a similar ceremony held for the Iranian president in Ankara.

Reports in Turkey on Sunday said the Vatican's ambassador to Ankara had been summoned to the foreign ministry to explain the pope's remarks.

Many blame the lack of progress on the ongoing peace process between the Turkish government and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK), whose guerrillas have been fighting Ankara for the past 30 years, as well as AK party blunders in Syria.