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- Bookstore finds in Istanbul
- NPR: Turkish Singer Stokes Debate About Iraq Incursion
- Cyprus leader warns Turks not to stick to U.N. plan - International Herald Tribune
- Turkey wins Caribbean support for its UN, EXPO bids
- Germany's State-Run Schools to Teach Islam | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 13.03.2008
- Turkey blocks YouTube access - CNN.com
- Turkey considers all year day-light saving
- Monorail project to ease Ä°stanbul traffic congestion
- Turkey Set to Invest in Better Relations With Kurds - New York Times
- Turkish PM under fire for urging to have more children
- Turkey warns against new Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem
- Turkish high court’s property ruling could hurt FDI
- Turkish unions set to launch 2 hours strike on Friday
- Troops kill 11 Kurdish separatists in Turkey- Hindustan Times
- US report: Religious orders influential in Turkey - Turkish Daily News Mar 13, 2008
- More needed to uphold children's rights in Turkey - Turkish Daily News Mar 13, 2008
- Fashion laboratory for Turkish design - Turkish Daily News Mar 13, 2008
- Turkey and Iraq take a step at a time
- UPDATE 2-Turkish assets fall on global slide | Industries | Financial Services & Real Estate | Reuters
- Turkey to partner at leading travel trade show
- Erdogan says German Turks scared, knocks Merkel | International | Reuters
- Murat IV opera in offing
- Where's the Welcome Mat?: Turks Feel Unwanted in Germany - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
- Turkey's first shopping center for wedding needs - Turkish Daily News Mar 13, 2008
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"Bookstore finds in Istanbul Here in this sprawling Turkish city on the Bosphorus Strait is a wide hilltop boulevard full of pedestrians and trams and lined with bright shops, both local and international. Between the fashion and the food found along this street, Istiklal Caddesi, there are also many bookstores. They sell Turkish- and English-language books, and even Turkish translations of literary classics." More: Jacket Copy : Los Angeles Times : Bookstore finds in Istanbul  "Turkish Singer Stokes Debate About Iraq Incursion by Ivan Watson All Things Considered, March 13, 2008 · An angry public debate is under way in Turkey over last month's military incursion against Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq. At least 24 Turkish soldiers were killed during the eight-day operation. Turkish nationalists accuse the military of prematurely ending the offensive under pressure from the United States, and some in Turkey criticize the operation altogether." More: NPR: Turkish Singer Stokes Debate About Iraq Incursion  "Cyprus leader warns Turks not to stick to U.N. plan BRUSSELS: Cyprus's new President Demetris Christofias said on Friday it would not be possible to make progress this month on restarting reunification talks if the Turkish side stuck to a U.N. settlement blueprint." More: Cyprus leader warns Turks not to stick to U.N. plan - International Herald Tribune  "Turkey wins Caribbean support for its UN, EXPO bids The visiting prime minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines yesterday voiced clear support for Turkey’s bid for a temporary seat on the UN Security Council as well as for Ä°zmir’s bid to host the EXPO 2015 fair." More: TODAY'S ZAMAN  "Germany's State-Run Schools to Teach Islam A government-sponsored Islam Conference aimed at fostering the integration of Germany's Muslims agreed to allow public schools to introduce religion classes on Islam in German." More: Germany's State-Run Schools to Teach Islam | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 13.03.2008  "Turkey blocks YouTube access ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey blocked access to the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube on Thursday in response to a video clip deemed insulting to the country's revered founding father, state-run media said." More: Turkey blocks YouTube access - CNN.com  "Turkey considers all year day-light saving Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler said on Thursday the government is considering whether the day-light saving could be implemented in the country all year round, Anatolian Agency reported." More: Turkey considers all year day-light saving  "Monorail project to ease Ä°stanbul traffic congestion The Ä°stanbul Metropolitan Municipality will soon begin work on a 55-kilometer monorail project aimed at easing traffic problems in the city." More: TODAY'S ZAMAN  "Turkey Set to Invest in Better Relations With Kurds ANKARA, Turkey â€" Turkey’s government is planning a broad series of investments worth as much as $12 billion in the country’s largely Kurdish southeast, in a new economic effort intended to create jobs and draw young men away from militancy, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said." More: Turkey Set to Invest in Better Relations With Kurds - New York Times  "Turkish PM under fire for urging to have more children Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan came under fire Thursday for urging families to have more children at a time when government's efforts to reduce poverty and unemployment are already faltering. Erdogan last week urged women to have at least three children." More: Turkish PM under fire for urging to have more children  "Turkey warns against new Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem The New Anatolian 13 March 2008 A Foreign Ministry statement said Turkey is concerned over the declarations of Israeli authorities to build 750 housing units in Givat Zeev settlement located to the north of East Jerusalem." More: The New Anatolian  "Turkish high court’s property ruling could hurt FDI Turkish Constitutional Court's decision to cancel the provision of a law that allows sales of real estate to foreign companies and joint ventures involving foreign firms could rattle the potential investors, officials and analysts warned on Thursday." More: Turkish high court’s property ruling could hurt FDI  "Turkish unions set to launch 2 hours strike on Friday The Labor Platform of Turkey will suspend work for two hours on Friday to protest the social security and general health insurance bill. The protest is expected to stop transportation, street cleaning, education and health services from 10 a.m. (GMT 1200) to noon." More: Turkish unions set to launch 2 hours strike on Friday  "Troops kill 11 Kurdish separatists in Turkey Eleven Kurdish guerrillas have been killed in clashes with troops in southeast Turkey, media reports said. CNN-Turk television reported that the fighting took place in the mountain ranges of Gabar, Kupeli and Kato in the southeast province of Sirnak near the border with Iraq." More: Troops kill 11 Kurdish separatists in Turkey- Hindustan Times  "US report: Religious orders influential in Turkey Thursday, March 13, 2008 Religious orders, although prohibited, continue to be influential in Turkey, having many administrators and politicians as members, revealed the U.S. State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2007. According to the report published Monday, the Turkish government generally respected the human rights of its citizens; however, serious problems remained in several areas. It listed restrictions on freedom of speech as one of the major setback to civil liberties, also listing a wide range of issues including constitutional restrictions, honor killings and the impact of religious orders as problem areas." More: US report: Religious orders influential in Turkey - Turkish Daily News Mar 13, 2008  "More needed to uphold children's rights in Turkey Thursday, March 13, 2008 The establishment of a more effective national child protection system as well as a Children’s Ombudsman system are vital, according to participants at a seminar" More: More needed to uphold children's rights in Turkey - Turkish Daily News Mar 13, 2008  "Fashion laboratory for Turkish design Thursday, March 13, 2008 Istanbul Fashion Lab, organized by Turkey's Fashion Designers' Association, starts today in Tophane-i Amire. The project, which will be organized twice a year, aims to find resources for industrializing Turkish design culture" More: Fashion laboratory for Turkish design - Turkish Daily News Mar 13, 2008  "Turkey and Iraq take a step at a time Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - After eight days, Turkey this month ended its ground operation in the Kurdish territory in northern Iraq without achieving its stated goal of uprooting the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) presence. However, the professional military in Turkey must have known how difficult that would be; more likely, they agreed with politicians' wish to use force to focus others' attention on the issue." More: Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs  "Turkish assets fall on global slide ISTANBUL, March 13 (Reuters) - Turkey's lira currency and shares, particularly banking stocks, fell sharply on Thursday, tracking losses in overseas markets amid revived fears over a U.S. recession." More: UPDATE 2-Turkish assets fall on global slide | Industries | Financial Services & Real Estate | Reuters  "Turkey to partner at leading travel trade show Turkey has received a boost from the ITB Berlin, the worlds leading travel trade show who has announced that in 2010 they will be focusing on Turkey as the partner company. They have chosen Turkey as the increase in tourism here is very apparent with more than 23 million visitors in 2007 and feel they have shown consistent improvements in quality and value for money." More: Turkey to partner at leading travel trade show  "Erdogan says German Turks scared, knocks Merkel BERLIN (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said in a newspaper on Thursday that his relatives in Germany fear for their safety and criticized Chancellor Angela Merkel for backing out of an event with Turks last month." More: Erdogan says German Turks scared, knocks Merkel | International | Reuters  "Murat IV opera in offing The New Anatolian / Ankara 13 March 2008 Preparations are underway in State Opera and Ballet in Ankara to put on the stage the 'Murat IV ' opera, depicting that period of the Ottoman Empire. Workshops are trying to prepare costumes and accessories for the opera to bring majesty of the Sultan Murat period to the stage." More: The New Anatolian "WHERE'S THE WELCOME MAT? Turks Feel Unwanted in Germany A new poll finds that the majority of people of Turkish descent living in the country feel unwelcomed by Germans. A full 78 percent say that Angela Merkel is not their chancellor." More: Where's the Welcome Mat?: Turks Feel Unwanted in Germany - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News "Turkey's first shopping center for wedding needs Thursday, March 13, 2008 Marry Mall, Turkey's first shopping center especially designed to cater for wedding needs, will open on April 30. " More: Turkey's first shopping center for wedding needs - Turkish Daily News Mar 13, 2008
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