Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to embark on a five-day official visit to India Thursday, his office said. Erdogan will meet his counterpart Manmohan Singh, President Pratibha Patil and other senior officials in New Delhi in an effort...
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Wednesday for the joint exploration and development of oil and natural gas off its Black Sea coast. Turkey imports almost all of its oil and has turned to a policy of prospecting for offshore oil in the Mediterranean and the...
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Former Russian military leaders are warning that a Kremlin plan to let go two-thirds of Russia's officer corps would destroy the country's armed forces. The warnings mark the strongest criticism to date of a sweeping plan to streamline the 1.1...
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Türk, addressing his party's parliamentary group meeting on Tuesday, said his party's main purpose was to ensure the existence of an environment in which all of Turkey's peoples embrace one another with love. He also said Turkey's flag is "a...
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Chairwoman Arzuhan Dogan Yalcindag and top official Mustafa Koc suggesting the government could do more to protect Turkey from the global economic crisis. "Turkey isn't feeling the crisis like the US and Europe are," he said. "We're giving this our...
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Presenting the Commission's annual progress reports on EU candidate countries to MEPs, Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn criticised the "limited" scope of recent reform and called for a more constructive approach to the Cyprus question. Cyprus question is key "Good neighbourly...
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TDN Parliament Bureau While debate continues over the possible effects of the global economic crisis on Turkey, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has ordered a closed session where Minister of State for Economic Affairs Mehmet Şimşek will brief lawmakers of...
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Five Turkish soldiers died Thursday in an ambush by Kurdish rebels on a mini-bus with troops aboard in southern Turkey, Turkish military officials said. The Turkish Army Command said local forces in the Hakkari, where the attack occurred, were searching...
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Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani left for Turkey on Monday on 5-day visit to attend the meeting of World Economic Forum and meet world leaders, economic experts and heads of international organizations, officials said. This is Prime Minister Gilani's...
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Forget the moles who leak cosmic material and embarrass our military. We have no precise means to judge how real-time intelligence sharing between the Turkish and U.S. militaries has evolved since the Nov. 5, 2007 meeting of President George W...But...
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