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Turkey did not buy Patriots deployed in the country
Turkish foreign minister said system's arrival, deployment and operation costs were paid by the provider ally under NATO rules ANKARA - Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkey did not buy the Patriots which had been deployed in Turkey's southern provinces. Answering a written parliamentary question, Davutoglu said a total of six Patriot batteries -two each from the ...
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No bargaining in solution process
EU Minister Bagis said solution process was not oriented towards a certain section and there was no bargaining with any side within the process ISTANBUL - Turkey's Minister for EU and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis has said solution process was not a bargaining process and it was not oriented towards a certain section in Turkey.Speaking in Istanbul Bagis said terror was Turkey's biggest ...
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UPDATE 1-Investment grade Turkey hopes for and fears more investment
Fri May 17, 2013 12:43pm EDT By Sujata Rao LONDON May 17 (Reuters) - The coveted investment grade rating has arrived in Turkey and foreign capital may follow - possibly a lot of it. But here's the multi-million lira question: What kind of cash will it be? What Turkey desperately wants is long-term bricks-and-mortar investment into factories and infrastructure. What it is more likely to get ...
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Spring hunt figures show steady turkey population
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency says reports on the spring turkey hunt show the wild turkey population in Tennessee is stable. With reports still coming in from the hunt that ended May 12, the harvest has surpassed 300,000 birds for the 11th straight year. As of a report Wednesday, the number stood at 32,489. TWRA Turkey Program Coordinator Chris Hunter ...
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Hagel Discusses Defense Relationship With Turkish Officials
American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, May 17, 2013 Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel discussed the defense relationship between the United States and Turkey with Turkish officials in a Pentagon meeting today, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said. In a statement summarizing the meeting, Little said Hagel met with Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz, Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmet Davutoglu ...
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Readout of Secretary Hagels Meeting With Turkish Leaders
Pentagon Press Secretary George Little provided the following readout: Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel met with Turkish Minister of National Defense Ismet Yilmaz, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoglu, and Undersecretary of the National Intelligence Organization Hakan Fidan today at the Pentagon. Secretary Hagel and the ministers discussed the U.S. and Turkey bilateral defense ...
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Fi Istanbuls Success Demonstrates Unlimited Market Opportunities in Turkey the Middle East North Africa
Staggering 3,000 Visitors + 150 Exhibiting Brands and Record Re-Booking Volumes for the 2014 Event Yes, we've got a lot to shout about and so we would like to start with a huge thank you to all of our exhibitors who helped to make Food ingredients Istanbul such a great success. As the only dedicated food ingredients event in the region, last week's highly successful show demonstrates ...
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Amid Ethnic Tension in Turkey Some Syrian Refugees Return to a War Zone
The Al Mar family. (Jonathan Krohn) REYHANLI, Turkey--"We are afraid to go back to Aleppo--Aleppo is dangerous!--but we can't stay here because the people of Reyhanli kicked us out," said Muhamed al-Mar, a Syrian refugee, as he and his family waited to be allowed back into Syria through the Bab al Hawa gate Tuesday. In the wake of two car bombs that rocked the border town of ...
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‘Turkey’ List Part Of Intense Lobbying On Fla. Budget
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) — With speculation mounting that Gov. Rick Scott could sign the Legislature’s proposed $74.5 billion budget as early as Friday, a research organization released its annual list of ';turkeys'; that it said the governor should consider striking with his line-item veto. But the group, Florida TaxWatch, quickly came under withering assault from ...
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Depeche Mode Postpone Istanbul Concert over Bulgarian Truck Blockade
Depeche Mode, (L-R) Martin Lee Gore, Dave Gahan and Andrew Fletcher pose during a photocall before a press conference on their 2013 European Tour at the Gaite Lyrique venue in Paris. ...
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Syria denies link for Turkey blasts
Turkey has accused groups supporting the Syrian regime of carrying out two car bombings that killed at least 46 people and injured dozens in a border town, the interior minister said.The blast occurred on Saturday in a crowded area of the small town of Reyhanli in the southern Turkish province of Hatay, just a few kilometres from the main border crossing into Syria.The interior minister told Al ...
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Turkish interior minister said a `terrorist group linked to the Syrian intellige…
Turkish interior minister said a `terrorist group linked to the Syrian intelligence` carried out the attacks REYHANLI/HATAY - Turkish interior minister said nine people have been detained in connection with two powerful car bomb blasts in a Turkish town near the Syrian border that killed at least 46 people and wounded more than 100 others on Saturday. Speaking in a press conference on Sunday, ...
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Turkish officials blame `pro-Assad groups intelligence organizations`…
Turkish officials blame `pro-Assad groups, intelligence organizations` REYHANLI/HATAY- Two powerful car bomb explosions just minutes apart in a Turkish town near the Syrian border on Saturday killed at least 43 people and wounded more than 100 others. Turkish officials pointed at `groups and intelligence services loyal to the Assad regime` for the deadly blasts as fears mounted that Syria`s more ...
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Syria denies role in Turkish border bomb blast
NBC's Richard Engel reports from Turkey where two car bomb explosions in the town of Reyhanli near the Syria border killed at least 40 people and injured at least 100, raising fears Syria's civil war may be crossing the ...
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German legal office smeared with feces
German far-rightists used feces to smear the outside of the office of a Turkish attorney involved in a Munich terrorism trial, witnesses said. A group of unidentified members of a German group fled the scene after vandalizing the office of the attorney, whose name was not ...
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UPDATE 1-Azeri SOCAR to borrow $4 bln to build refinery in Turkey
Fri May 17, 2013 10:06am EDT (Adds quotes, details, background) By Lada Evgrashina BAKU May 17 (Reuters) - Azeri state energy firm SOCAR plans to borrow about $4 billion from foreign banks to finance construction of a refinery in Turkey, an company official said, a project that could provide a profitable outlet for its crude. "According to a financing scheme, 65 percent of financing of the ...
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The Netherlands Immigrants tangled up with Turkish gangs
Are Bulgarian immigrants abusing the welfare system? Several cases of benefit fraud have sparked controversy. But often, the suspected fraudsters are themselves simply victims of organised crime ...
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Turkey extends visa free stay for Russians to 60 days
MOSCOW, May 17 (Itar-Tass) - Turkey extended a visa free stay for Russian citizens on its territory to 60 days, the official journal of the Turkish government, T. C. Resmi Gazete, said on ...
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Amid U.S. Uproar Over AP Phone Records Turkeys PM Gets a Pass on Press Freedom
President Barack Obama, accompanied by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan checks for rain during a Rose Garden news conference at the White House, Thursday, May 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (CNSNews.com) - Campaigners urged President Obama to raise press freedom concerns with visiting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Thursday, but the only media freedom issue ...
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Turkey booms but where are the Brits
"Welcome to Europe", says the taxi driver as we cross the Bosporus river from one side of Istanbul to the other. But the capital of Turkey could not feel less like many parts of the recession-hit continent. While many European countries have seen their international credit ratings cut, Turkey has just been upgraded. The severe slowdown affecting the construction industry in ...
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Turkey arrests prime suspect in Hatay blasts
View Photo AFP/AFP/File - Turkish officials repair a street in Hatay that was damaged by car bombs which went off on May 11. Turkey has arrested one of the prime suspects responsible for the twin car bombings that ...
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How Iran Benefits From an Illicit Gold Trade With Turkey
A customer buys Iranian gold coins at a currency exchange office in Tehran's business district on October 24, 2011. (Raheb Homavandi/Reuters) Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has arrived in Washington, D.C. for a much-anticipated summit with President Barack Obama. The timing of the visit -- amid reports of chemical weapons usage in Syria and an attack against a Turkish border ...
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Turkey gains investment grading from Moodys
17/07/2012 18:13 CET Turkey’s economy has been given a boost with an upgrade by the Moody’s ratings agency. Shares rose in Istanbul on Friday and the country’s cost of borrowing fell. Fitch had lifted Turkey to investment-grade in November, while Standard & Poor’s is expected to follow suit. Ankara sees this a seal of approval from international markets for a ...
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Turkish police arrest suspect in bombings that killed 51
Turkish police said they arrested a man who allegedly bought two cars used in two bombings that killed at least 51 people on the Syrian border last week. Mehmet Genc was arrested and police sought to detain two other suspects who attempted to escape to Syria but failed because of increased security at the ...
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BASF Supplies Basecoats and Clearcoats to Ford Otosan Plant in Kocaeli Turkey
BASF has acquired new business with Ford Otosan and has supplied basecoats and clearcoats for the company’s plant in Kocaeli, Turkey, since the beginning of this year. Ford Otosan, the leader of Turkish automotive industry, is positioned as the commercial vehicles production hub of Ford ...
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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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