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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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Defying the odds in Yemen Syria and Turkey involves foresight
SANLIURFA, Turkey - I’ve been traveling to Yemen, Syria and Turkey to film a documentary on how environmental stresses contributed to the Arab awakening. As I looked back on the trip, it occurred to me that three of our main characters - the leaders of the two Yemeni villages that have been fighting over a single water well and the leader of the Free Syrian Army in Raqqa province, whose ...
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A Talk with Turkish Deputy PM Bekir Bozdağ
Ankara, Asharq Al-Awsat--Turkish deputy prime minister, Bekir Bozdag, emphasized that the visit paid by Saudi crown prince Salman bin Abdulaziz to Turkey "will contribute greatly in developing relations between the two countries." In an exclusive interview with Asharq Al-Awsat against the backdrop of the official Saudi delegation's visit to Ankara, Bozdag spoke about ...
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Chelsea ask Galatasaray if Turkey striker Burak Yilmaz is for sale
Chelsea are interested in signing Galatasaray's Burak Yilmaz, who scored eight goals in this season's Champions League. Photograph: Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty ...
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Turkish Airlines to expand in Russia
Turkish Airlines is planning to increase the number of Russian routes pending an agreement with Russian aviation authorities on destinations, the carrier’s Russia representative Mefail Deribas said. During negotiations between the two countries in April, a Turkish delegation proposed adding several points to the air service agreement, including Samara, Makhachkala, Mineralniye Vody, ...
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TRNC hosts an international sports event
The 1st Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) University Sports Games is taking place in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).Turkish Youth & Sports Minister Suat Kilic who attended the opening ceremony of the event in Lefkosa on Tuesday said that this event was a ray of hope for ending the embargoes on TRNC.Athletes from seven countries are participating in the first international ...
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Turkish-American relations to grow in trade
US Ambassador to Turkey: "Turkish-American relations to grow in trade, too" ISTANBUL - US Ambassador to Turkey, Francis Ricciardone pointed out on Tuesday that the accustomed strong Turkish-American relations will grow in the trade sector, too.Ricciardone, attending 11th International Defence Industry Fair (IDEF' 13) and opening the American booths there, stated that the booths ...
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Syrian Opposition Ponders Peace Meeting
ISTANBUL -- Syria's opposition coalition is to convene in Istanbul Thursday to decide whether to participate in talks next month on resolving the Syrian conflict that are being organized by Washington and Moscow. But the opposition has reservations about the role of the Syrian government in the planned talks. The Syrian National Coalition is due to meet over three days in Istanbul. The ...
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Soccer-Fenerbahce defeat Trabzonspor 1-0 to win Turkish Cup
Cristian Baroni which was pushed over the bar seconds before halftime and a saved effort by Sow in the 55th minute. Trabzonspor created their own opportunities, the best of which came in the 58th minute when a strike from Polish midfielder Adrian Mierzejewski went close. Fenerbahce, who finished 10 points behind Istanbul rivals Galatasaray in the league, reached the semi-finals of the Europa ...
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Turkey shuts border battle rages for Qusair
Turkey has shut its last border crossing near forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Syria's opposition has urged rebels to reinforce the town of Qusair near Lebanon as Assad's forces press a four-day ...
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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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