Air Force One touched down at Ankara's Esenboga airport on Apr.5, as Mr. Obama marked his first trip to a majority Muslim nation since becoming the United States President in January. "Mr. Obama's visit, on the...
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Today in London, the Kurdish community gathered to celebrate Newroz, the Kurdish New Year, a tradition going across countries in Middle East and Central Asia. It coincides with the spring equinox of 21st of March...
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" The Turkish military bombed Kurdish rebel targets on Saturday in northern Iraq in response to clashes that left at least 15 Turkish troops dead in the Turkey-Iraq border region, the PKK and the military said...
STOREY OF CONTINUENCE IF VIOLANCE has become the regulation storey every day some casualty is geting reported from somewhere So it is the Turkey turn to give the News." ANKARA (Reuters) - Fifteen Turkish...
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" At least 10 Turkish fighter jets bombed suspected Kurdish guerrilla positions in northern Iraq on Thursday, senior security sources said on Friday. The sources, who declined to be named, told Reuters the...
"Jambi, June 29 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the activities of integrated public health service clinics (Posyandu) and empowerment of family welfare (PKK) whose activities were slowing down early in the reforms era, should be reactivated. According to...
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There was a big protest near Taksim Square in Istanbul yesterday in the early afternoon.; I was wandering up up the main pedestrian throughfare - Istiklal Caddesi - with my friend Dan when it became clear that...
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I'm not sure what to make of this. From Drudge, via MyWay:
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. military commanders in Iraq didn't know Turkey was sending warplanes to bomb in northern Iraq until the planes had already crossed the border, said defense and diplomatic officials, who were...
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US embassy in Iraq said commanders had not
approved the attacks, but had been informed before they took
place.Turkish military earlier said the US had given tacit approval by
opening Iraqi airspace for the...
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This is the second UPDATE to this broadsheet article. Thanks to moonwolf, here is a video interview with seperatist PKK leader Murat Karayilan IN Northern Iraq. My imbedding skills are not...
Kurdish fighters have killed 13 Turkish soldiers in a clash in Turkey's southeast, and troops responded by shelling an area near the Iraqi border, according to the military.
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ISTANBUL: Turkey is in the midst of a coup process. That is if you take, as a general consensus, the analyses of certain sections of the Turkish press over the last two months. If the meaning of a coup...
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ISTANBUL: After two years of living on Turkish soil and witnessing the unprecedented series of events unfold here in recent months, not to mention the scarily irresponsible and seriously uninformed...
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"Justice Minister Cemil Cicek expressed outrage yesterday at France's decision to release eight suspected members of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) detained in a major security operation earlier this month, saying Turkish cynicism toward European...
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