Moderate Quake Shakes Southeast Turkey

A moderate earthquake shook the southeastern Turkish province of Bingol on Sunday, a seismology center said. There were no reports of any damage or injuries.

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Priest Stabbed in Turkey - 3rd Such Attack

A man stabbed a Roman Catholic priest Sunday in the Black Sea port of Samsun, a church official said, in the third attack against a Catholic cleric in Turkey in recent months.

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Thousands of Turks Protest Israeli Actions

Thousands of angry Turks burned an Israeli flag Friday and chanted "Murderer Israel, Get out of Palestine!" to protest Israel's offensive into the Gaza Strip.

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Turkish Urges Tolerance Toward Muslims

Turkey's prime minister urged the West on Wednesday to make a concerted effort to lessen tensions with Muslim societies, saying more tolerance is needed to mend a deepening rift with the Islamic world.

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Explosion in Turkish Resort Town Kills 3

An explosion in the Turkish Mediterranean resort town of Antalya on Sunday killed three foreign tourists and a Turk and injured about 25 people, a local official said.

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Ex-Turkey PM Signals Return to Politics

Turkey's top court indefinitely suspended the corruption trial of former Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz on technical grounds Friday, a move that amounts to the case being dropped.

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Turkey Plans to Build 3 Nuclear Plants

Turkey's prime minister announced plans Tuesday to build three nuclear power plants by 2015 to meet the country's growing energy needs.

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Bomb Explosion in Istanbul Injures 4

Suspected Kurdish rebels set off a small bomb inside a trash container in a busy Istanbul neighborhood Thursday, injuring at least four people, police and reports said.

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Turkish Official Arrested Over Fake Coins

The manager of a Turkish museum's storehouse was arrested Tuesday after 545 ancient coins were switched with fakes on his watch, officials said Tuesday.

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Iraq Resumes Oil Exports Through Turkey

Oil exports from Iraq's northern fields have resumed more than four months after insurgents sabotaged twin pipelines carrying Iraqi crude to Turkey, oil officials said Tuesday.

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Munitions Kill Woman in Turkey Scrap Yard

A woman was killed and two people were injured Monday when they handled munition they found at a military scrap yard close to barracks in northwestern Turkey, the Anatolia news agency reported.

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Explosion at Turkish Mine Leaves 17 Dead

The death toll from a methane gas explosion in a Turkish coal mine rose to 17 on Friday after firefighters, troops and miners worked through the night to recover the bodies.

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Blast Caused by Fire Injures 14 in Turkey

An explosion caused by a fire at a rifle range in Istanbul left 14 people injured on Thursday, Turkish media reported.

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King Croesus' Treasure Stolen in Turkey

Two pieces from the treasure of King Croesus that were returned to Turkey from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York after a long legal battle have been stolen and replaced with fakes, the culture and tourism minister said Sunday.

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34 Countries Take Part in WMD Drills

In a drill, Turkish commandos rappelled from military helicopters onto a merchant ship that mock intelligence said was carrying weapons of mass destruction. U.S. commandos raced to join them from a nearby warship.

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Former Turkish Premier Remains in Coma

Former Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, a political force for nearly 50 years, remained in a coma on life support for a second day Wednesday following treatment for a stroke, his hospital said.

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Fire Damages Section of Turkey Airport

A quick-spreading fire burned down most of the cargo section of Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport on Wednesday, forcing 2,000 workers to flee the thick black smoke that closed one runway to traffic and disrupted flights.

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Huge Fire Breaks Out at Istanbul Airport

A huge fire engulfed the cargo section of Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport on Wednesday, blocking air traffic and causing hundreds of panicked people to flee, television reports said. Authorities worked to evacuate thousands of people from nearby terminals.

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Turkish Court Cancels Sale of Oil Stake

A Turkish court on Tuesday canceled the sale of a 14.76 percent stake in formerly state-owned oil refiner Tupras.

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Greek, Turkish Jets Collide Over Aegean

Warplanes from Greece and Turkey collided over the Aegean Sea as they shadowed each other Tuesday in disputed airspace, and officials said the Turkish pilot was rescued unhurt.

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Greek, Turkish Jets Collide; Pilot Missing

Warplanes from Greece and Turkey collided over the Aegean Sea as they shadowed each other Tuesday in disputed airspace, and officials said the Turkish pilot was rescued unhurt.

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Turkey Truck Accident Kills at Least 40

A truck carrying illegal immigrants from Afghanistan and Bangladesh crashed into a parked transport truck Friday, killing at least 40 people, an official in southern Turkey said.

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Report: Former Turkish PM Suffers Stroke

Former Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit was in serious condition at an Ankara military hospital after suffering a stroke, the state-owned Anatolia news agency reported Thursday.

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Thousands March in Turkish Capital

More than 15,000 Turks, including judges, lawyers and students, marched in the Turkish capital Thursday to condemn an attack by a suspected Islamist gunman that killed a judge and wounded four others.

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Thousands March in Turkish Capital

More than 15,000 Turks, including judges and lawyers, marched in the Turkish capital Thursday to condemn an attack by a suspected Islamic gunman that killed a judge and wounded four others.

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Hamas shifting away from Egypt to Turkish mediation in soldier crisis

The prime minister's chief foreign policy advisor, Ahmet Davutoğlu, reportedly met with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Syria, which is under fire for sheltering the leaders of Hamas that Israel holds responsible for the abduction of an Israeli soldier.

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US, Israel wanted Turk envoy's Damascus visit, Gül implies

Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül implied on Tuesday that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had sent an envoy to Syria regarding an ongoing standoff between Israel and the Palestinians upon requests by the United States and the Jewish state.

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Turkey, US unveil new strategy for partnership

Turkey and the United States yesterday unveiled a document outlining priorities in the Turkish-U.S. partnership, which deteriorated after Turkish refusal to cooperate militarily in the Iraq war.

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US urges Iraqi Kurds to cooperate with Turkey against PKK

The United States has urged Iraqi Kurds to cooperate with Turkey in the fight against the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) but did not confirm Turkish accusations that two key Kurdish parties, both American allies in northern Iraq, have been providing the PKK with arms a …

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Greece blocks UN Security Council statement on Cyprus

U.N. Security Council-member Greece and its allies last week blocked a U.S. and British-backed initiative for the release of a council statement encouraging the sides to the Cyprus question to step up efforts for a solution, diplomatic sources here said.

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Iraqi Foreign Minister Zebari fails to give promises on PKK

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, in Ankara yesterday, refrained from voicing flashy promises on his country's actions against members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) based in northern Iraq.

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Turkey ready to support all efforts under UN auspices regarding Cyprus

On the occasion of a senior-level visit from the United Nations to Ankara, the Turkish government has reiterated its willingness to extend support to all kinds of efforts conducted under the U.N. roof for reaching a resolution to the decades-old Cyprus issue.

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Finnish EU presidency to be preoccupied with Turkey

The key to breaking the deadlock could lie in progress on finding a settlement between northern and southern Cyprus, says Finnish Foreign Minister Tuomioja

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US downplays planned 'shared vision' document with Turkey

The United States warned against hyping the importance of a bilateral shared vision document planned to be announced when Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül visits here this week, saying the document would be a useful tool in efforts to boost the two nations' ties, but that it was n …

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Turkey to build 11 more schools in Afghanistan

Turkey is continuing its firm support for rebuilding Afghanistan in accordance with promises it made during an international conference held in London earlier this year.

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Catholic priest knifed in Turkey

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US hawks now take on Condi

During U.S. President George W.

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Erdoğan slams Israeli detention of Hamas officials

A clearly frustrated Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan denounced Israel's offensive in the Palestinian territories and the arrest of dozens of Palestinian politicians as a disproportionate and mistaken response to the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier.

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Neocons, Rice divided over Turkey

Then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was viewed during U.S. President George W. Bush's first term as a useful ally by both the neoconservatives and a group of officials and thinkers whom critics define as interventionist with hawkish views on foreign policy.

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European Leaders Focus on Muslim Conference

From the page: -- Istanbul is hosting a significant two-day conference that will address the problems facing Muslims in Europe that began today titled, “Muslims of Europe.” --

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10-Month-Sentence for US Army Officer

From the page: -- A US Army officer was sentenced to 10 months in prison for beating two Turkish youths in Incirlik, Adana. --

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Palestine asks for Turkey’s help

Palestine urged Turkey yesterday to take bigger steps for an end to the rising tension in the region after Israeli troops stormed into Gaza in an attempt to release an abducted soldier.

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Boeing ethics woes take toll on the bottom line

Best to get it out of the way in one hit: delays in the delivery of AEW platforms to Australia and Turkey combined with a fine for ethics failures with the Sears-Dryden scandal will more than eliminate Boeing's 2Q 2006 profit.

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US action against PKK not satisfactory for Wilson

An outlawed group that Turkey says is just a cover for the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) yesterday claimed responsibility for a deadly explosion on the same day U.S.

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The Rise of Anti-Semitism In Turkey

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Nation States 3.1 Pipelineistan; birth of a nation

Pepe Escobar, a recent visitor to Baku wrote “The only other flourishing industry in the Caucasus, apart from oil, is kidnapping. Not to mention Kristina, the top belly-dancer at the Karavanserai, the favorite restaurant of the oil oligarchy, who is in a class by herself.”

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EU supports new Caspian gas pipeline bypassing Russia

"It will end Russian state-owned natural gas monolith Gazprom OAO's (GSPBEX.RS) monopoly for supply to all of southern and eastern Europe." Five European Investors, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey, each have 20% stake.

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Exxon Mobil, Turkey's Tupras win oil tender for Kirkuk, Iraq

"Exxon Mobil and Turpras won 2 million barrels each of the tendered Kirkuk crude at the Turkish port of Ceyhan," Falah Alamri told Dow Jones Newswires by telephone from Baghdad.

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US neo-con group blasts Erdoğan, AKP

A group of U.S. neo-conservatives known for their earlier criticism of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused him and his ruling party of having a secret Islamist agenda and seeking to overthrow Turkey's secular regime.

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Ankara to host world VIPs for meeting of civilizations

Top representatives from world cities, religious leaders, businessmen, youth representatives and well-known musicians and singers will come together for a 'Meeting of Civilizations' this week in Ankara.

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