Many ex army officer & several others including a journalist have been charged for coup plot in Turkey. "A top Turkish prosecutor has brought charges against 86 people allegedly involved in a coup plot. Aykut Cengiz Engin did not name those charged, but the indictment...
Emulating the European Union model 43 countries in Middle east have come together and formed a Mediterranean Union. Although unlike European countries many of these countries don't have great relations with each other. "French President Nicolas Sarkozy launched a...
Turkish Airlines opened its Viet nam representative office in Ha noi Monday and named the Huong Giang Aviation Service Company as its general agent in the country."The carrier will joint Vietnam airlines and Thai...
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The French city of Avignon holds a cultural festival every year that rivals Edinburgh's famous festival in terms of quality. This year will be no exception and a highlight will be Tango Hotel that celebrates the life...
President Ahmadinejad stated Iran position in nuclear negotiations has improved as Western Powers agreed to sit and talk. " 'Situation in favor of Iran N. issue' Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:50:00 The Iranian President says the situation has turned in favor of...
25 people have been arrested in Turkey in connection with an alleged anti-government plot. Amongst the arrests are retired generals and journalists. Meanwhile, the opposition party is calling the exercise a "witch hunt"."A senior Turkish general has called for calm after a...
Once again the security of online content has been comprimised by a challenged hacker. Thus, showing that any site is vulnerable to attack despite so called security measures. In order to keep user confidence it is important to keep users well informed. Since a lot of people...
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Turkey are in the semi-finals of Euro 2008 after a dogged, at times cagey, and ultimately thrilling victory on penalties against Croatia in Vienna. Again the Turks have proved themselves masters of the long game. Dominated for periods in normal time, they just kept coming -...
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Singing and singers would appear to be taking up a lot of court time in Turkey at the moment. After the postponement of the trial of one of the country's biggest singers, Bulent Ersoy, for speaking out against the futility of sending soldiers to die in the country's conflict...
Bulent Ersoy is one of Turkey's biggest singers and the country's own "war on terror" which has killed around 40,000 people in the past two decades gets very little international coverage."One of Turkey's best known...
Turkey make it through and a good result for the Swiss even though it's academic."Turkey 3-2 Czech R & Switzerland 2-0 Portugal Basel/Geneva, 15 June 2008 606 debate | Blog ...
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An understandably touchy topic is raised by a new genocide course being offered in some Toronto high schools: how do we determine which atrocities are 'significant' enough to include in a curriculum? Is that even a fair question?"A high-school course on genocide that has...
"Released from Guantánamo on 24 August 2006, German-born Turkish national Murat Kurnaz had been held for four years and eight months without charge or trial, despite little evidence to link him to "terrorist" activities. Both US and German intelligence services secretly...
A cosntitutional court has blocked a law passed by Turkey's new ruling party, which has a religious bent, allowing women to wear headscarves in public schools. The ruling party, AK, is now holding an emergency meeting to decide its next move. Turkey, a historically fiercely...
"Turkey's top court has annulled a reform that would allow students to wear Muslim headscarves at university.The decision is a blow to the ruling party's efforts to avert being shut down for Islamist...