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Turkish Airlines rejects unions pay proposal strike continues
ISTANBUL, May 22 (Reuters) - Turkish Airlines said on Wednesday it would raise employees' wages by less than union demands and would no longer engage in contract talks, potentially prolonging a strike that it says has so far had little impact on its operations. The civil aviation union Hava-Is, which represents 14,000 of the carrier's 15,800 workers, responded by saying its ...
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Turkish dollar euro debt to join some Barclays global indices June 1
LONDON | Wed May 22, 2013 12:32pm EDT LONDON May 22 (Reuters) - Turkish sovereign dollar- and euro-denominated bonds will join a group of Barclays global indices on June 1, following Moody's decision last week to award the country its second investment grade credit rating. Barclays will include 24 Turkish sovereign hard currency bonds with a market value of $57.2 billion in its ...
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Turkey passes asset amnesty law
Turkey's parliament passed an amnesty law on Wednesday aimed at reclaiming Turkish assets held abroad, estimated to be worth $100-130 billion.The amnesty reduces the taxes on Turkish citizens and companies declaring foreign-held assets to only 2 percent from 30-40 percent.Turkish individuals and companies are obliged to declare their assets abroad ranging from cash, gold and currencies to ...
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Russian tourists in 2011
*/ Four Turkish have been sentenced to nearly 90 years in prison each after they were found guilty of lethally poisoning five Russian tourists in 2011 with bootleg alcohol, a lawyer for the victims' families said Tuesday. A court in southwestern Turkey convicted the four on Monday on charges of "manslaughter" over their involvement in producing and selling counterfeit alcohol, ...
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Turkish Airlines Announces Participation in New E-Visa Program
Officially launched in April of 2013, this new program will allow foreign nationals to obtain Turkish visas online rather than at the Turkish consulates and embassies, or at the border gates upon arrival. Turkish Airlines announced its participation in the new e-Visa program – an exciting initiative intended to make the visa application process faster and easier for those traveling to ...
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Turkish-Armenian writer handed jail sentence for blasphemy
ISTANBUL, May 22 (Reuters) - An Istanbul court has sentenced a Turkish-Armenian author and blogger to more than a year in prison for insulting the Prophet Mohammad, local media reported on Wednesday, weeks after a similar case caused alarm among secularists. Sevan Nisanyan, who has authored several books and who runs a blog on what he describes as "history, religion and a (little) ...
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Turkey prosecutor seeks life sentences for generals over coup TV
ANKARA (Reuters) - More than 100 senior Turkish army officers face prosecution demands they spend the rest of their lives in jail for their alleged role in toppling Turkey's first Islamist-led government 16 years ago, a Turkish TV channel reported on ...
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Turkish court sentences 4 people to 83 years each over bootleg liquor deaths
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's state-run news agency says a Turkish court has sentenced four people to 83 years in prison each for the deaths of five Russians from bootleg alcohol poisoning. The Russians died in 2011 after consuming bootleg liquor during a yacht tour in the Aegean Sea. They were in Turkey training to be tour guides. The Anadolu Agency said Wednesday that a court convicted four ...
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Turkey says it foiled alleged plans to attack Syrian refugee camps
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish authorities have detained six people suspected of plotting to attack and kidnap Syrian refugees in Turkey, an official said Wednesday, as the country increased security measures along its frontier with Syria following a pair of deadly bombings in a border town. Celalettin Lekesiz, the governor for the border province of Hatay, said the six suspects -- all Turkish ...
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Syrian minister refutes Turkish claim that groups backing Assad are behind twin bombings that killed at least …
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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Turkey rejects Assad role in Syria peace talks
Turkish Foreign Minister Davutoglu said those who had blood in their hands could not join negotiation process in Syria issue ANKARA - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that those, who had blood in their hands and caused death of 100,000 people in Syria, could not join the negotiation process.Ongoing tyranny in Syria should stop immediately, and sufferings of Syrians should be ended, ...
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Davutoglu Turkey did not pursue sectarian politics
Turkish FM said Ankara was always ready to contribute to the peace and stability of Iraq ANKARA - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu received Sheikh Mahmoud al-Ani, President of Iraqi Council of Scholars composed of Iraqi Sunnites, and an accompanying delegation in Ankara on Wednesday.Davutoglu emphasized that they were following the developments in their neighboring country Iraq closely, ...
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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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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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