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Erdogan Syrian regime behind Reyhanli blasts
Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan stated that Syrian regime was behind blasts in Turkey`s south border town ANKARA - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday said, "The incident is definitely related with the (Syrian) regime. The regime is behind it for sure," in regards to the recent blasts at Turkey`s southern Hatay province`s Reyhanli district. Erdogan responded to the ...
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Turkey is determined to expand its fight against money laundering and financing …
Turkey is determined to expand its fight against money laundering and financing of terrorism. ANKARA - Turkey is determined to expand its fight against money laundering and financing of terrorism.Turkey's Financial Crimes Investigation Board (MASAK) will increase the number of countries it cooperates regarding financial intelligence sharing on money laundering and financing of terror. ...
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A Turkish military plane crashed on Monday in southern Turkey the Turkish General Staff said…
A Turkish military plane crashed on Monday in southern Turkey, the Turkish General Staff said ANKARA - A Turkish military plane crashed on Monday in southern Turkey, the Turkish General Staff said.The General Staff said radio contact was lost with an F-16 warplane flying in the southern province of Osmaniye moments after the pilot radioed he was bailing out.A search and rescue mission was under ...
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Turkeys investment gradebond market
We wrote here yesterday on howTurkish hard currency bonds have been given the nod to join some Barclays global indices as a result of the country's elevation to investment grade.Turkish dollar bondswill alsomove to the Investment grade sub-index of JPMorgan's flagship EMBI Global on June 28. Local lira debt meanwhile will enter JPM's GBI-EM Global Diversified IG 15 percent Cap Index ...
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New Issue-EBRD prices 50 mln Turkish lira 2018 bond
Thu May 23, 2013 10:05am EDT May 23 (Reuters) -Following are terms and conditions of a bond priced on Thursday. Borrower European Bank for Reconstruction and ...
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Self-proclaimed honorary consul of Chechnya shot dead in Ankara
ANKARA, May 23 (Itar-Tass) - A Medet Unlu, who proclaimed himself as a honorary consul of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, has been killed in the Turkish capital, Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesman Levent Gumrukcu told Itar-Tass on ...
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Turkey pro-Chechen businessman shot dead
ANKARA: Turkey's state-run agency says a pro-Chechen businessman has been shot dead in the Turkish capital, the latest victim in a wave of assassinations of Chechens in ...
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Bulgarian Ethnic Turks to Back Socialist-Led Hybrid Govt
Bulgaria's predominantly ethnic Turkish party Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) will endorse a cabinet that is both expert-based and political, DPS leader Lyutvi Mestan has declared. Mestan met with Bulgarian Socialist Party PM candidate Plamen Oresharski on Thursday. While emphasizing the important role experts will have in a future government backed by DPS and BSP, Mestan noted that ...
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IPC Paralympic Shooting World Cup in Antalya Turkey concludes
Sports News: Male and female athletes competed in five categories over three days in the IPC Shooting World Cup in Antalya, Turkey this week. Turkey's Muharrem Korhan Yama took gold on home turf in the Men's 10m Air ...
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Syrian opposition mulls stance in Geneva conference in Istanbul
Syria's main opposition group held talks Thursday in Turkey's Istanbul to discuss its stance in the upcoming Geneva international conference.The fresh round of talks are set to run for three days, during which Syria's exiled National Coalition is set to elect a new president to replace the resigned chief, Moaz al-Khatib.Some senior members of the coalition earlier said the ...
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Chechen Diaspora Figure Killed in Turkey - Reports
ANKARA, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – Medet Unlu, a businessman and prominent figure in Turkey's Chechen diaspora, has been killed in Ankara, according to media reports. Local media reported that Unlu, a Turkish citizen of Chechen origin, was shot dead in his office shortly after 7 pm local time on Wednesday. Unlu was a critic of the Chechen government, and the Anatolia News Agency cites ...
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Syrias main opposition group opens key talks in Istanbul
A Syrian man walks in the rubble of the city of Qusayr, in Syria's Central Homs province, following airstrikes by government forces, in this handout picture released by Al-Qusayr Media Centre on May 22, 2013. Syria's main opposition group opened key talks on Thursday in Istanbul to debate whether to negotiate with the regime on ending the bloody two-year civil war, as proposed by the ...
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Turkish Airlines open flight to Lankaran
Turkish Airlines plans to expand cooperation with Azerbaijan opening the Istanbul-Lankaran air flight. "We are negotiating with the Azerbaijani side on the opening of a flight to Lankaran. It will presumably open in summer of 2014", head of the company Temel Kotil told Azerbaijani journalists as part of the International Transport Forum in Leipzig. Lankaran will be the fourth ...
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Fenerbahce win Turkish Cup final
The Europa League semi-finalists had ended the league season 10 points behind champions Galatasaray but took the cup for a second straight year. The only goal came when Senegalese striker Sow ran on to a pass from Mehmet Topal and fired in a low shot. Sow went close to adding a second while Adrian Mierzejewski had Trabzonspor's best effort with a shot that went wide. ...
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Pro-Chechen Turkish businessman shot dead in Ankara
ANKARA (Turkey) (AP) - Turkey's state-run agency said a pro-Chechen businessman has been shot dead in the Turkish capital, the latest victim in a wave of assassinations of Chechens in Turkey. The Anadolu Agency said Mr Medet Unlu, a Turkish businessman of Chechen origin, was found dead in his office in Ankara late on Wednesday. Anadolu reported on Thursday that Mr Unlu had provided ...
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Iraqs state-owned Trade Bank eyes Lebanon Turkey - president
By Stanley Carvalho ABU DHABI | Thu May 23, 2013 7:20am EDT ABU DHABI May 23 (Reuters) - State-owned Trade Bank of Iraq (TBI) plans to expand its domestic presence as well as open branches in Lebanon and Turkey to tap growing trade between the countries, the bank's top executive said on Thursday. The bank, set up in 2003, operates as a commercial bank with a virtual monopoly on ...
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As centenary of Armenian killings in Turkey approaches progress toward reckoning creaks on
Human rights activists sit behind pictures of Armenian victims at Taksim Square in central Istanbul last month during a demonstration to commemorate the 1915 mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire. The annual demonstrations that began in 2010 are part of a larger transformation in Turkey. Osman Orsal / ...
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Turkish competition board probes Turk Telekom over charge cards
ISTANBUL, May 23 (Reuters) - Turkey's Competition Board said on Thursday it would open a formal investigation into Turk Telekom after an initial probe of allegations that it had sold telephone charge cards to dealers at below cost levels. Turk Telekom's "TT Card" enables users to make calls within Turkey and abroad at preferential rates. Selling the cards to dealers at ...
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Turkey expects 400000 Saudi tourists in 2013
Turkey is seeking to attract 400,000 Saudi tourists this year, according to a Turkish diplomat in the Kingdom. Hussein Aas, media and cultural adviser at the consulate, said that 120,000 Saudis visited Turkey in 2011 and 200,000 in 2012. Aas said Turkey has a solid tourism infrastructure to accommodate and meet all the requirements and wishes of Saudi tourists. "We are keen to build a ...
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Turkcell AGM cancelled due to shareholder dispute
By Evren Ballim ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish mobile phone company Turkcell cancelled its annual general meeting on Wednesday because an ongoing dispute between major shareholders prevented the approval of accounts and distribution of dividends. The row between Russia's Altimo and Turkey's Cukurova and has stopped them from appointing a representative for a joint shareholding, ...
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Turkey to Loosen Grip of State Energy Explorer With New Law
Turkey , which gets almost all of its energy from abroad, will debate a bill today that seeks to lure foreign companies to explore for oil and gas by ending the preferential treatment of state-run TPAO Turkiye Petrolleri AO. The draft legislation eases rules for hiring foreign workers, extends license periods and cuts the top tax on profit from 55 percent to 40 percent. Turkey wants to ...
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Turkey to decide on new sukuk issue types this week
(Adds quotes, background) ISTANBUL, May 22 (Reuters) - Turkey will decide this week on regulations which could permit new types of sukuk issues, the chairman of its Capital Markets Board said on Wednesday, as the country seeks to become a major issuer of Islamic debt. Turkish institutions and the Treasury currently only issue the ijara type of sukuk, which is among the most widely used ...
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Turkey translates Prophets sayings for 21st Century
ANKARA - 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 asking about Western media reports they would edit a "radical" new set of hadiths, ...
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Salman Erdogan discuss Mideast
Crown Prince Salman, deputy premier and minister of defense, held talks here with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the latest developments in the Middle East. The talks, which were attended by Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal, focused on ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said. Erdogan hosted a luncheon in honor of Prince Salman and his ...
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People on the move Greek police beat a tortured Turkish woman
I understood that they were swearing at me. The female police officer was holding my hair.One of the male officers punched me in my face.My beating went on for approximately five minutes. Then the guard from the Exarheia police station heard my screams, entered the room and tried to take me away from [them]..I was then transferred again to the Exarheia police station where I spent ...
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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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