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French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday conditioned the continuation of Turkey's membership talks with the European Union on a high-level effort to define the bloc's future borders.Sarkozy, an outspoken opponent of Turkey's entry into the E...
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Ferrari's Felipe Massa captured Sunday's Grand Prix of Turkey Formula One race at the Istanbul Autodrom. The No.5 Ferrari driver crossed the finish line 2.275 seconds ahead of Kimi Raikkonen.The victory was Massa's third of the season and fift...
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Teenagers are rarely prosecuted for having sex, but a 13-year-old British girl has managed to put a 17-year old-German boy behind bars in Turkey. The case has become a thorn in German-Turkish relations.Turkey's Antalya coast is enormously popular amon...
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Two men hijacked a Turkish passenger plane bound for Istanbul on Saturday, holding several people hostage for more than four hours before surrendering.Six crew members and 136 passengers were on board the Atlasjet flight from Ercan airport in northern Cyp...
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Turkey was on Monday night facing the prospect of a renewed clash between the government and the country's powerful secular and military elite after media reports that Abdullah Gul, foreign minister, had been selected as the government's candidate...
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Thousands of aviation workers voted in favor of a strike over a pay dispute with national carrier Turkish Airlines, the company said Thursday.Crew, ground staff and technical workers across Turkey voted in favor of a strike action, following the collapse ...
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Lawmakers Thursday elected Justice and Development Party member Koksal Toptan by a large majority of 450 votes in the 550-seat chamber. He received strong backing from opposition deputies and easily defeated his only rival, a far-right lawmaker.Toptan doe...
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Alpha Bank's purchase of a 47 pct stake of Turkey's Alternatif Bank (Abank) from the Anadolou group has been blocked by the Turkish Banking Regulation and Supervisory Agency (BRSA).BRSA spokeswoman Tulay Bayash said the board has published the dec...
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Turkey and Iraq agreed to try to root out a Kurdish rebel group from northern Iraq, but Iraq's prime minister said he could not sign an agreement implementing the promise until it was put to his parliament."We have reached an agreement to spend a...
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Guler Sabanci is riding the wave of foreign interest in Turkey. In the past year, the 52-year old chief executive of one of Turkey’s largest conglomerates has struck one deal after another with investors eager to cash in on Turkey’s fast growi...
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Turkey's newly elected government is prepared to turn its back on its long-standing alliance with the United States to counter the threat of Kurdish terrorism, one of the closest allies of the prime minister has warned.Egemen Bagis, foreign policy adv...
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Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul hinted Wednesday that he would resume his bid to become president, despite fierce opposition from Turkey's military-backed, secular establishment.Gul's party won a strong parliamentary majority in weekend general elec...
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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's election victory cracked the foundation of Turkey's 84-year-old republic, pushing Islam into the political mainstream and reshaping the legacy of the country's father figure, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.Erdogan&...
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Turkey's ruling AK Party won a resounding election victory on Sunday, giving the pro-business, Islamist-rooted party a mandate for reform but potentially setting the stage for renewed tensions with the secular elite.The result will be a moral triumph ...
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Accusing European allies of undermining the fight against terrorism, the Turkish foreign minister criticized Austria on Thursday for allowing Kurdish rebel sought by Turkey to fly to northern Iraq instead of returning him to Turkey.Foreign Minister Abdull...
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Iran and Turkey have signed a deal on energy cooperation and agreed to develop part of the giant South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf on buyback basis, state-run radio reported Saturday."It was agreed that Turkey would develop three phases - 22, ...
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Turkey's ambassador to Washington said Wednesday that U.S. weapons have been turning up in the hands of Kurdish guerrillas staging attacks in Turkey.Nabi Sensoy said that the United States is not doing enough to influence Kurdish politicians in key po...
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Turkey's top court on Thursday sided with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Islamic-rooted government and opened the way for a referendum to be held on whether the president should be elected by popular vote instead of by Parliament.The Consti...
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A court Tuesday backed Turkey's long-held position that the Istanbul-based Orthodox Patriarch is only the head of the city's tiny Greek Orthodox community and not the spiritual leader of the world's 300 million Orthodox Christians.The decision...
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Billy Hayes, the American whose ordeal in a Turkish jail provided the basis for the 1978 classic "Midnight Express," has returned to Turkey in a bid to mend fences over the damage the movie caused to the country's image abroad, newspapers re...