Turkish voters will go to the polls in a snap election on June 24th, more than a year ahead of schedule. The elections will lead to the introduction of a presidential form of government in Turkey.

Guests:

Selim Atalay

Journalist, 24 TV

Mehmet Celik

Columnist, the Daily Sabah

Turkey and Greece haven't always met eye to eye. The two countries have had alternating periods of hostility and reconciliation ever since Greece won its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

Guests:

Faruk Logoglu

Former Turkish ambassador to the USA

Pavlos Eleftheriadis

Professor, Oxford University

Turkey to hold snap elections on June 24th. We'll tell you what it might mean for the country's future.

And Turkey and Greece at loggerheads. Could recent tensions destabilise the region?

Tens of thousand of civilians have been killed in the war on terror in Afghanistan since 2001.

The situation in the country has worsened in those years - with all sides sharing the blame.

A government airstrike this month in Kunduz killed dozens of people, including children. The bloodshed has led to an exodus of mostly young men trying to flee the violence. More than a million remain stranded in Europe, Iran, Pakistan and Turkey. Some are now being deported back to the country they fled as Omar Kablan reports.

A suspected chemical attack and a global standoff. US and Russia exchange threats as the situation in Syria worsens. Plus stuck in limbo. We head to northeast Turkey where thousands of Afghan migrants are stranded. And the historic city of Van has become a tourist hot-spot for Iranians.

The US and Russia are pulling back from what seemed to be the brink of war after a suspected chemical attack in Syria.

US President Donald Trump had warned the Russians to expect a US response against the Assad regime. But Moscow has now come out and said the immediate priority was to avert the danger of war. Courtney Kealy reports

Turkey's Van province is experiencing a boom in tourism. Thousands of visitors from Iran have arrived in the area.

It reached a point where local businesses are innovating to keep up with demand as Aadel Haleem reports.

There are around 170,000 Afghan migrants in Turkey.

Turkey is also home to three-and-a-half million Syrian refugees. Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has said Turkey will build a refugee camp on its Iran border to deal with the influx but reassured that only those with links to terror groups will be deported.

Guest:

Mr.Zekria Barakzai

Consul General of Afghanistan in Istanbul

The UN Security Council had an emergency meeting on Syria over the escalating crisis after the suspected chemical attack in Syria, while Russia alleges that it was staged by a foreign intelligence agency.

Guests:

Dima Moussa

Member of the Syrian Coalition

Sean Michael Cox

Director for International Academic Affairs

Bahcesehir University

Thousands of Palestinians protested in Gaza near its border with Israel as part of a "Great March of return". They demanded the right of return for Palestinians who have been forced off their land by Israel. Over the past week, Israeli forces killed at least 20 Palestinians and injured 1400 others in Gaza.

Guests:

Murat Bilhan

Deputy President of the Turkish Asian Center for Strategic Studies

Chaim Levinson

Political Correspondent at Haaretz.