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FEATURE-Turkey presents Prophets sayings for the 21st Century
By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor ANKARA | Wed May 22, 2013 10:19am EDT ANKARA May 22 (Reuters) - Scholars around the Muslim world were alarmed five years ago by news reports that Turkey planned a new, possibly heretical compilation of the Prophet Mohammad's sayings that might scrap those it thought were out of date. Turkish religious leaders and theologians received anxious calls ...
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Turkeys booming power market set for liberalisation
By Humeyra Pamuk and Karolin Schaps ISTANBUL | Wed May 22, 2013 10:10am EDT ISTANBUL May 22 (Reuters) - Turkey's bid to create a regional power market is moving forward with preparations to add electricity futures and derivatives trading yet the appeal of tapping the country's rapid growth is tempered by caution about how the market will work. "Turkey has the potential to ...
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Kurdish crude sales to rise as exports reach second Turkish port
Wed May 22, 2013 10:08am EDT * Taq Taq crude exports to reach about 60,000 bpd by end June * Kurdistan to start deliveries to second terminal in Turkey * Crude in steady stream to Northern Europe By Julia Payne and Peg Mackey LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdistan's crude oil sales to world markets, deemed illegal by Baghdad, are set to rise by nearly 50 percent next month as trucks ...
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What are the secrets of Hagia Sophia mentioned in Dan Brown’s latest novel Inferno Istanbul News
Dan Brown’s latest novel,sent to the protagonist Robert Langdon’s Inferno Istanbul for the Hagia Sophiawhich is an important place in world history, but do we realy know the Hagia ...
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Turkish-Armenian writer sentenced to 13 months in prison
PanARMENIAN.Net - An Istanbul court has sentenced Turkish-Armenian writer Sevan Nisanyan to 58 weeks in prison for an alleged insult to the Prophet Muhammad in a blog post, Hurriyet Daily News reported. The prosecutor had been seeking one and a half years of jail time for Nisanyan on charges of "insulting the religious beliefs held by a section of the society." The sentence cannot be ...
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Uganda Uganda Hot On Turkish Airlines List
Kampala - Turkish Airlines, the two time winner of Europe's Best Airline Award and the people behind the popular ad of Lionel Messi dueling with Kobe Bryant, say they are ready to work with Uganda's Ministry of Tourism and other stakeholders to promote the country's attractions. Speaking to the East African Business Week in an exclusive interview last week, Erbil Akgun, the ...
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Hot air balloons collide in Turkey
>Read a version of this story in Arabic. Istanbul (CNN) -- Three Brazilian tourists were killed when two hot air balloons collided in Turkey on Monday, the semiofficial Anadolu news agency reported, citing local officials. The accident, which also injured 22 people, occurred in Turkey's popular tourist destination of Cappadocia, the central Turkish region famous for its chimney rocks, cave ...
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New Issue-EIB adds 50 mln Turkish lira to 2017 bond
Wed May 22, 2013 8:21am EDT May 22 (Reuters) -Following are terms and conditions of a bond increased on Wednesday. Borrower European Investment Bank (EIB) Issue Amount 50 million Turkish ...
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Azerbaijani Turkish Ministers of Education make joint statement
The successful cooperation in education meeting the spirit of partnership between Azerbaijan and Turkey must be developed. The Ministers of Education of Azerbaijan and Turkey Mikail Jabbarov and Nabi Avji adopted a joint statement on results of talks in Baku. The statement notes that the parties attach special importance to exchange of experience and implementation of definite projects in ...
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Bulgarian Turkish Transport Ministers Mull Truck Problem
Bulgarian caretaker Transport Minister, Kristian Krastev, is to meet with Turkish counterpart, Binali Yildirim, in Leipzig, Germany, on Wednesday. The news was reported Valentin Bozhkov, Director of the Automobile Administration (Bulgaria), cited by the FOCUS News Agency. This is the first meeting of the two countries' transport ministers since January 2012. Krastev and Yildirim, who ...
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Turkeys TAV to bid for Kuwait Bahrain airport contracts
Middle East director Yusuf Akcayoglu told Construction Week the company is waiting for the release of tender documents for the new passenger terminal building project at Kuwait International Airport and for the Bahrain Airport expansion ...
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Turkey eyes oil gas deals with Iraqi Kurdistan in 2013
ANKARA | Wed May 22, 2013 2:51am EDT ANKARA May 22 (Reuters) - Turkey is looking to sign commercial contracts this year with Russian and U.S. companies operating in northern Iraq for joint oil and gas exploration, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz told Reuters. "We are likely to be involved with Russian and American companies in northern Iraq for different projects like oil and ...
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Russia Offers Turkey S-300 Project
MOSCOW [MENL] -- Russia has offered to develop an advanced variant of theS-300 long-range air defense system. Officials said the Kremlin has been discussing defense and militarycooperation that would include a partnership in the development of advancedair defense systems. They said the state-owned Rosoboronexport submitted aproposal for a joint project to produce an enhanced variant of the ...
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Turkey Temporarily Closes Checkpoint On Syrian Border
BAKU (Azerbaijan), May 22 (Bernama) -- Turkey has temporarily closed the Yayladagy checkpoint on the border with Syria in the Hatay province, Azerbaijan's Trend news agency reported, quoting Turkish Minister of Customs and Trade, Hayati Yazici, as saying in an online newspaper, Sabah. According to the Minister, Turkey temporarily closes the checkpoint to prevent the departure of ...
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Allahabad HC bans import of Khas Khas from Turkey
Allahabad High Court on Wednesday banned the import of Khas Khas from Turkey, which has emerged as a conduit for large-scale smuggling of these ...
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At least 40 killed 100 injured in blasts on Turkish-Syrian border
Photo taken on May 11, 2013 shows the site of an explosion in the town of Reyhanli, in the southern Turkish province of Hatay. At least 40 people were killed and 100 others injured after explosions shook a Turkish town on Saturday near the border with Syria, Turkish Interior Minister Muammer Guler said. (Xinhua/NTV) At least 40 people were killed and 100 others injured after explosions shook a ...
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Shangri-La marks Istanbul opening
To celebrate the opening of Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts’ new landmark hotel in the city of Istanbul, 2,000 lanterns were launched on the Bosphorus Strait. Located on the European side of the Bosphorus, the crossing point between two continents for centuries, Shangri-La Bosphorus, Istanbul is the second hotel in Europe for the Asian luxury hotel brand. More than 200 guests witnessed the ...
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Saudi-Turkey rapport bodes well for global influence
The current political rapport between Riyadh and Ankara is an exciting development. If harmonized, it could completely result in the two countries achieving significant influence at regional and international levels. The economies of the two countries stand at $ 5.1 trillion, with high growth rates. This will surely make their collective voice heard loud and clear. In addition, the special ...
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Jive Looks Like A Turkey Here
Jive is looking to get businesses use its software to increase collaboration, content movement and enterprise portals / intranets. Jive's mission is to change the way work gets done, but with nearly 1 ...
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Turkey Ankara Reluctantly Warms Up to US-led Syria Diplomacy
came to Washington last week hoping to get Washington to commit to taking a more assertive stance on Syria, but in the end left with very little of what he wanted. In fact, if anyone changed their positions during the visit, it was the normally strong-headed Erdogan, who came away from his meeting with President Barack Obama in support of Washington's efforts to put together an ...
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KSA Turkey boost ties
President Abdullah Gul of Turkey watches as Crown Prince Salman, left, shakes hands with Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz before their talks at the Cankaya Palace in Ankara, Turkey, on ...
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Turkish Airlines mistake lands couple on the wrong continent
A geographical mix-up that lead an American couple to wake up on the wrong continent has the pair vowing to double-, even triple-check their airline codes from now on. A report in ...
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Turkey Seeks to Benefit From Islamic Banking Sector
ISTANBUL -- With the international economic crisis continuing to bite, the Turkish government has announced it will be seeking to tap into the $1 trillion Islamic financial industry. Although Turkey is a secular state, it is overwhelmingly Muslim. Under the decade-long rule of the country's Islamist rooted AK Party, Muslim-compliant businesses have flourished. Thee government move ...
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Greek Cypriot leader meets Israeli minister
Anastasiadis and Netanyahu discussed cooperation in field of energy, bilateral relations and developments in eastern Mediterranean JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday met with leader of the Greek Cypriot administration Nicos Anastasiadis in Jerusalem.Cooperation in the field of energy, bilateral relations and developments in eastern Mediterranean were discussed during ...
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South Africa Turkey stocks outperform
London - South African and Turkish equities outperformed both emerging market and global share indices on Tuesday, with Johannesburg's main index hitting a record high as the rand fell more against the ...
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Turkey remains bridge between civilisations in railway plans
Turkey is often described as the gateway between two great civilisations, this is a theme employed commonly in our promotional material to encourage tourism and it has been invoked as part of the rhetoric used in ongoing efforts to join the EU, but the fact remains that Turkey is a key player in the world of geopolitics and this is seen most clearly in two major railway projects currently being planned between three regions of the world.
Turkey’s largest city, Istanbul, is famous for being the only metropolitan region in the world that spans two continents, sitting as it does in both between Asia and Europe. This idiosyncrasy of the city has made it a popular tourist destination due to the diversity of culture and architecture, but on a wider scale, the geopolitical significance of Turkey is growing and will indeed grow further if two major infrastructure plans in the Middle East and Asia take shape in the next few decades. Read more
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