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Three people were killed and 16 wounded on Thursday in an explosion possibly caused by a suicide bomber in the eastern Turkish city of Van, officials said.Police said the blast was near the office of Van's governor. They said an investigation was under wa...
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Turkey's foreign minister said on Thursday U.S. troops should not quit neighbouring Iraq prematurely, but denied media reports suggesting he feared such a withdrawal might help Iran stir up militancy in the region."The Iraqis should be able to admini...
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Belgium refused to extradite Erdal when Turkey had the death penalty Turkey has demanded that Belgium find and extradite a convicted left-wing Turkish militant who has gone missing. A Belgian court on Tuesday sentenced Fehriye Erdal to four years in priso...
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Turkey's attempts to defuse sectarian tensions in neighbouring Iraq will include a visit to Ankara on Tuesday by Iraq's prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and the arrival later this week of radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Both men will hold me...
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The European Union is seeking to get candidate country Turkey actively involved as mediator in the Mohammed cartoon conflict, which has sharpened tensions between Europe and the Muslim world. The current Austrian EU presidency has invited Turkish foreign ...
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A senior Hamas leader is on a surprise visit to Ankara for talks with Turkish diplomats. Turkey said they would use the meeting with Khalid Mishaal, the exiled supreme leader of Hamas, on Thursday to put forward international demands for the resistance gr...
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Turkey and the European Term President, Austria, have issued a joint statement calling for "common sense" emphasizing the importance of "respect to religious beliefs". The statement underlined that "freedom of expression is a basi...
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A bomb blast at an Internet cafe in Istanbul killed a man and injured 16 other people, including seven police officers, on Thursday, and a hardline Kurdish group claimed responsibility.The Kurdistan Liberation Hawks, which has claimed to be behind a serie...
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Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the invitation of Turkish president Ahmet Necdet Sezer to visit the country on 28-29 November 2006, Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said Thursday. The official invitation came just a few days after the murder of an I...
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Turkish security forces detained a 16 years old boy on Tuesday in connection with the killing of an Italian Catholic priest which shocked the nation, the state Anatolian news agency said.It said the boy was carrying a 9 mm pistol when he was captured in t...
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Twelve Turkish tourists were killed in Rome on Monday when a bus careered off a steep road, plunged down a hill and into an apartment block's garden, police said.Another 18 people, most of them Turks, were injured in the crash, which occurred just after m...
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An Italian Roman Catholic priest was shot dead in his church in the Turkish Black Sea city of Trabzon on Sunday, triggering condemnation from Turkey's government and pledges to track down the killer."The priest was shot dead at his church this aftern...
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''We do not expect the financing of the current deficit to be a significant issue this year provided the global sentiment and liquidity conditions remain unchanged. But we expect oil prices to be one of the key risks in 2006,'' the Deutsche Bank, an inter...
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Turkish Institute of Statistics (TUIK) announced on Friday that consumer prices rose 0.75 percent while producer prices increased 1.96 percent in January 2006.Annual inflation was 7.93 percent in consumer prices and 5.11 percent in producer prices for the...
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Turkey denounced Saturday the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed as provocation but called on angry Muslims around the world to keep their protests within "legitimate limits".Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he penned an ope...
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Turkey may become a reliable gas transit partner of Russia, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said after Friday negotiations with Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler.“The negotiations gave us a chance of detailed consideration of Russian gas transit through...
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Courts of appeal will be established in Turkey within the scope of a EU-funded project and in cooperation with Turkish Justice Ministry, the Council for the Judiciary in the Netherlands and Swedish National Courts Administration, it was reported on Tuesda...
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Turkey's prime minister says his country is willing to be "some sort of intermediary" between Israel and the Palestinians.The Turkish leader (Recep Tayyip Erdogan) is also urging the Hamas militant group that won control of the Palestinian gover...
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Greek Cypriot Foreign Minister George Iacovou stated on Wednesday that they officially rejected Turkey’s 10-point action plan and asked British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to relay this decision to Ankara. Iacovou said that his meeting with Straw w...
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Canada-based Fronteer Development Group Inc., a miner of precious metals, on Thursday said an audit of its mines in Turkey estimated significantly higher gold and silver reserves than the company expected. Giroux Consultants Ltd. boosted estimates fourfol...