Iran and Turkey signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to establish joint industrial estate on the border of the two countries, the state IRIB TV reported on Tuesday.
The MOU was signed by Iran’s Small-Scale Industries and Industrial Estates Organization Director Khodamorad Ahmadi and Turkey’s Artisanship and Small Industrial Sites General Director Ramazan Yildirim in the [...]
Tarkan Tevetoglu was released from detention yesterday after being arrested on 26 February and charged with using illicit drugs. Tarkan was released along with two other individuals.
Tarkan Tevetoglu was born on 17 October 1972 in Alzey, Germany and raised in Turkey. Popularly known as Tarkan, he is a World Music award winning singer. Known for [...]
The killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in January in his hotel room in Dubai by a professional hit squad has provided us with several clues about the shape of things to come in the Middle East. Al-Mabhouh was one of the founders of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing. There is no doubt that his [...]
Todays Zaman – A meeting with ambassadors of European Union member countries accredited to Ankara on Thursday offered Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan an opportunity to express his belief that the EU’s tendency to become an isolated body is discouraging for both the European and the Turkish public.
Erdoğan hosted a luncheon for the EU ambassadors [...]
Washington supports Ankara in its effort to tackle Kurdish PKK , but military action is not the only solution available, the U.S. defense secretary said. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates met with Turkish officials in Ankara during the weekend, saying he would propose a supporting role for the military effort against supporters with the Kurdistan [...]
Paris Hilton took part in an impromptu belly dance during the Miss Turkey 2008 contest in Istanbul yesterday. The heiress was a judge at the beauty pageant – but she clearly didn’t want to be left out of the limelight. Paris, 27, took to the stage to join a professional belly dancer and was seen [...]
Turkey will help the United States to operate and transport neighbouring Iraq’s oil as part of its drive to become an energy hub, Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler told CNN Turk on Friday. Guler visited the United States this week with President Abdullah Gul for talks with U.S. officials dominated by energy.
‘We have reached an [...]
U.S. President George Bush meets with Turkey’s president Tuesday before departing this evening on a trip to visit several U.S. allies in the Middle East. Mr. Bush and Turkish President Abdullah Gul are expected to discuss the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as Istanbul’s efforts to join the European Union.
The talks are expected [...]
For property investors looking to put their money into the Mediterranean, Turkey is a cheaper alternative, an expert has said. Paul Collins, BuyAssociation’s property editor, made his comments while predicting a growth in popularity for the country over the next year. “The prices are rising, so people are well advised to get in before it [...]
Turkish anti-terror police today detained 45 people on suspicion of belonging to the Al-Qaeda extremist network and planning attacks, Anatolia news agency reported. The suspects, rounded up in simultaneous operations in eight districts of Istanbul, were being questioned by police, the report said.
A court was to decide later whether they should be charged and jailed [...]
Turkey is restoring access to YouTube after the video-sharing website removed the videos that prompted the officials to block access in the first place. The website said that it has removed the videos a prosecutor deemed insulting to Turkey’s founding father, who established the country after collapse of the Ottoman Empire Turkey has blocked access [...]
More than 100 Kurdish demonstrators and 10 policemen have been injured and more than 160 Kurds detained across southeastern Turkey, when police broke up spring festival celebrations, security sources say. Turkish police firing water cannons, teargas and wielding batons clashed with demonstrators in the streets in the southeastern cities of Van and Siirt on Saturday.
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Nowruz, a joyful occasion marking the ending of winter and the reawakening of nature, is celebrated across a vast region from largely Kurdish areas of northern Iraq and Turkey to central Asian countries and western China. It also marks the beginning of a new calendar year in Iran, and is the biggest holiday on the [...]
The problems surrounding the wearing of the Islamic headscarf in Turkey can be resolved simply according to Devlet Bahceli, the leader of Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).In a written statement issued Thursday, Bahceli said the headscarf problem could be ended through an amendment to the current constitution.
The amendment in question would be made to the [...]
Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis is scheduled to pay an official three-day visit to Turkey on January 23-25, the first such visit of a Greek premier since 1959, the government announced Thursday.
Karamanlis is set to hold talks with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan during the trip, which will include visiting the capital Ankara [...]
Catholics in the majority-Muslim Turkey are preparing to celebrate the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of Saint Paul. Pope Benedict XVI has declared 2008 to be the year of St Paul and Catholics in Turkey are asking the government if they can use St Paul church in Tarsus, the famous missionary’s birthplace, as part of [...]