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- Explosion in Restaurant leave one dead foreigner while 11 injured.
- Gulfnews: EU cautions Turkey to respect democracy
- E.U. Project Will Be Best Inheritance To Turkish Children, Demiralp
- Rise In Gross Domestic Product In Turkey Will Encourage Investors To Look At Turkey Differently, Ekren
- New Persian & Kurdish TV in Turkey
- Democracy and Cola Dilemma in Turkey - ISTANBUL
- FT.com / World - Turkish tension
- Transport Means Vital for Iran-Turkey Trade
- JTW News - Drug Smuggling As Main Source of PKK Terrorism
- Erdogan: Kurds must denounce PKK - UPI.com
- Kazim-Richards: Fener Fans Will Unsettle Chelsea
- Barroso: EU ready to assist Cyprus reunification efforts
- COSMOWORLDS | Istanbul Jewelry Show 2008 - International Jewelry, Silver, Watch and Equipment Fair, Rotaforte - Istanbul, Turkey
- Quincentennial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews - Turkish Daily News Mar 15, 2008
- Turkey celebrates first ever Marie Curie Excellence Award laureate
- Germany to delete controversial schoolbook text
- Arm Yourself With The Weapons of Mass Education: USA to deploy another radar system in Turkey in addition to Poland and Czech Republic
- Global Energaz wins Ankara gas grid with $1.61 bln bid
- Turkey's rocks of ages: 'Fairy chimneys,' tunnel cities of Cappadocia
- Khaleej Times Online - Turkey's pains of modernisation
- The color purple: Filmmor Women’s Film Festival begins today
- Turkey changes, by the numbers - Los Angeles Times
- President: Cyprus' Greek, Turkish communities try to open new crossing
- JTW News - Union in the Mediterranean, Mediterranean in the Union
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"Explosion in Restaurant leave one dead foreigner while 11 injured. ISLAMABAD : An explosion in the posh restaurant located in renowned and bustling Super Market of Islamabad has caused massive damage, injuring 11 and killing one foreign(Turkish) woman. The explosion occurred in a house opposite main Super Market, housing the Italian restaurant, Luna Caprese at quarter to nine, when more than 20 persons, many of them foreigners were dining in the lawn." More: ONLINE - International News Network  "EU cautions Turkey to respect democracy Reuters Published: March 16, 2008, 00:02 Brussels: The European Union's enlargement chief warned yesterday that a Turkish prosecutor's move to seek a ban on the ruling AK party ran counter to European democratic principles required of candidate countries." More: Gulfnews: EU cautions Turkey to respect democracy  "E.U. Project Will Be Best Inheritance To Turkish Children, Demiralp Published: 3/15/2008 ANKARA - Oguz Demiralp, Turkey`s secretary general for the EU, said Wednesday EU project will be the best legacy Turkish people can leave to their children." More: E.U. Project Will Be Best Inheritance To Turkish Children, Demiralp  "Rise In Gross Domestic Product In Turkey Will Encourage Investors To Look At Turkey Differently, Ekren ANKARA - Turkish State Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Nazim Ekren said Wednesday the rise in gross domestic product in Turkey will encourage international investors` outlook on Turkey." More: Rise In Gross Domestic Product In Turkey Will Encourage Investors To Look At Turkey Differently, Ekren  "New Persian & Kurdish TV in Turkey Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:23:00 Turkey's public television TRT is preparing to launch a channel dedicated to the broadcast of programs in Kurdish, Persian and Arabic." More: Press TV - New Persian & Kurdish TV in Turkey  "Democracy and Cola Dilemma in Turkey By Ozi on Saturday, March 15 2008, 15:10 - Permalink Sadly and finally another cotroversial lawsuit filled in Turkey, Turkish Chief Prosecuter Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya, filed a lawsuit against the goverment party, Justice and Development Party (AKP) demanding its closure. Another lawsuit demanding closure of Democratical Society Party (DTP) is stil going on. Probably prosecuters which could demand the closure of AKP will be eager about closure of DTP. Prosecuters are accusing AKP with being center of anti secular movements and DTP being separatist. What a easy thing to demand closure 2 in 4 parties of Turkish parlementiary, so be it, lock the door of the AKP and close the DTP, nevertheless why don’t you close Turkish parliamentary. I can hear your murmurs, “No, you are exaggeratingâ€, but I assure you, these closures won’t be considered as exaggeration step by lots of arragont elits in Turkey." More: Democracy and Cola Dilemma in Turkey - ISTANBUL  "Turkish tension By Vincent Boland Published: March 15 2008 02:00 | Last updated: March 15 2008 02:00 Turkey's most senior prosecutor yesterday asked the constitutional court to shut down the governing Justice and Development party (AKP), in a dramatic and unexpected heightening of tension between the socially conservative ruling party and the country's secularist establishment, Vincent Boland reports from Ankara ." More: FT.com / World - Turkish tension  "Transport Means Vital for Iran-Turkey Trade TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Transportation Minister Mohammad Rahmati and the visiting president of the Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB) and the Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK) explored avenues for consolidation of mutual trade ties in a meeting here on Tuesday." More: Fars News Agency :: Transport Means Vital for Iran-Turkey Trade  "Drug Smuggling As Main Source of PKK Terrorism By Sedat Laciner Some claim that Turkey is one of the transit countries of the drug trafficking, not a consumer; so the fight against narcotic should not be involved with in the priority struggels of Turkey. Even, within some conversations, it is possible to hear that narcotic money has an additional value for Turkey. Data on drug usage verifies the fact that Turkey is not a crucial drug consumption market, it is mostly a transit country. Due to drug smuggling, billions of dollar have entered to the country. However, these are not the whole part of the schema. To clarify Turkey just as a “transit country†is not sufficient. In the mean time, Turkey has become one of the crucial narcotic centers of the world. Every drug bags, pass through Istanbul and other Turkish cities to the Western Europe this turns back as a terror, crime organization, violence on the street and loss of government power in Turkey." More: JTW News - Drug Smuggling As Main Source of PKK Terrorism  "Erdogan: Kurds must denounce PKK ANKARA, Turkey, March 15 (UPI) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a Kurdish political party that he will meet with its leaders if they declare the PKK a terrorist organization." More: Erdogan: Kurds must denounce PKK - UPI.com  "Kazim-Richards: Fener Fans Will Unsettle Chelsea Colin Kazim-Richards has warned Chelsea to expect a rough ride on and off the pitch when they take on Fenerbahçe in Istanbul. The striker also spoke of his hopes of facing Arsenal, the club he supports, in the semi-finals." More: Goal.com - Champions League - Kazim-Richards: Fener Fans Will Unsettle Chelsea  "Barroso: EU ready to assist Cyprus reunification efforts 2008-03-14 17:33:46 - BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The European Union stands ready to assist in a revived effort to reunify the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Friday. Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat are scheduled to meet March 21 at the disused Nicosia airport inside the buffer zone that serves as the U.N. headquarters on the island." More: Barroso: EU ready to assist Cyprus reunification efforts  "Istanbul Jewelry Show 2008 Promising business opportunities to build sales and business contacts For 22 years, Istanbul Jewelry Show is used to be a comprehensive marketplace for international jewelry community and professionals. The ever growing number of participants and attendants accompanied with the value added trade show services have created a unique business environment in the one of the fastest developing regions of the world." More: COSMOWORLDS | Istanbul Jewelry Show 2008 - International Jewelry, Silver, Watch and Equipment Fair, Rotaforte - Istanbul, Turkey  "Quincentennial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews Saturday, March 15, 2008 [HH] … there never seems to have been any identifiable Jewish style. Synagogues throughout the ages have taken on the outer appearance of the architecture of the cultures in which the Jews lived / [HH] When one enters the Karaköy Museum and if one didn’t know it was originally a synagogue, one could be forgiven for feeling at first that one had walked into the 19th century mansion of some moderately wealthy Turkish businessman" More: Quincentennial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews - Turkish Daily News Mar 15, 2008  "Turkey celebrates first ever Marie Curie Excellence Award laureate [Date: 2008-03-14] Batu Erman has been awarded one of the Marie Curie Excellence Awards, the first Turk to receive one of the prestigious prizes since they were established in 2003. Professor Erman left Turkey for the United States after secondary school to pursue a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology at a university in upstate New York. He was drawn there by the prospect of a liberal arts style education, which allowed him to follow courses in subjects like sociology and anthropology alongside biology." More: CORDIS : News  "Germany to delete controversial schoolbook text A controversial textbook passage that critics said justified a tragic arson attack which killed a Turkish family 15 years ago in the western German town of Solingen will be deleted in the book’s new edition, the German Embassy in Ankara announced yesterday. Families of students at a high school in the German town of Schleswig-Holstein voiced concern earlier this week that schoolbooks for seventh graders include texts showing sympathy for one of the perpetrators of an arson attack that killed two Turkish women and three young girls from the same family on May 29, 1993." More: TODAY'S ZAMAN  "USA to deploy another radar system in Turkey in addition to Poland and Czech Republic The US administration has been conducting secret talks on the deployment of a mobile radar of its missile defense system in another European country â€" Turkey. The USA may start official negotiations on the matter during the NATO summit. For the time being it is known that US Defense Secretary Robert Gates touched upon the issue during his recent visit to Turkey. The new plans of the US administration may seriously aggravate its relations with Moscow." More: Arm Yourself With The Weapons of Mass Education: USA to deploy another radar system in Turkey in addition to Poland and Czech Republic  "Global Energaz wins Ankara gas grid with $1.61 bln bid Global Energaz was the highest bidder in an auction to buy Ankara's state-owned natural gas network, currently run by the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, after offering $1.61 billion for one of the most valuable assets in the country's privatization program. Seven firms had submitted sealed bids in the first phase of the tender." More: TODAY'S ZAMAN  "Turkey's rocks of ages: 'Fairy chimneys,' tunnel cities of Cappadocia (03-14) 04:00 PDT Ayvali , Turkey -- Night descends on this desolate valley as the yatsi - the final Muslim prayer call from the muezzin - ricochets across the gorge. A donkey brays, its hooves giving off a staccato clop-clop as it heads for home. Otherwise the village is serene except for the locals sharing a feast on a stone deck nearby, chattering away in what is, to our ears, indecipherable Turkish. The light casts eerie shadows upon holes in the cliff where villagers made their homes for thousands of years. " More: Turkey's rocks of ages: 'Fairy chimneys,' tunnel cities of Cappadocia  "Turkey's pains of modernisation By Kaya Arslan (Life) 15 March 2008 IT WAS a tense week for the Turkish parliament during the headscarf amendment debates. Despite massive demonstrations organised by secular Kemalist institutions, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) took action to resolve the deep-rooted headscarf dilemma in Turkey by ending the headscarf ban in universities." More: Khaleej Times Online - Turkey's pains of modernisation  "The color purple: Filmmor Women’s Film Festival begins today When Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan fervently announced on March 8, International Women's Day, that Turkish women should bear at least three children in their lifetime, many women -- and men -- did not disguise their revolt at his sagacious solution to the supposed population decrease in the country." More: TODAY'S ZAMAN  "Turkey changes, by the numbers A report card of the country under the AKP government since 2002. By Soner Cagaptay March 15, 2008 On Friday, Turkey's chief prosecutor filed a case in the Constitutional Court to shut down the Justice and Development Party, which controls the national government, and ban the president, prime minister and senior party officials from politics for five years. The party -- known by its Turkish initials AKP -- is accused of threatening Turkey's secular democracy, among other things, by using religion as a criterion in making appointments to top bureaucratic posts." More: Turkey changes, by the numbers - Los Angeles Times  "President: Cyprus' Greek, Turkish communities try to open new crossing The opening of the busy commercial street - Ledra Street, located in the heart of the old Walled City of Nicosia - will be regarded as a good-will gesture from both sides." More: President: Cyprus' Greek, Turkish communities try to open new crossing "Union in the Mediterranean, Mediterranean in the Union Print Saturday , 15 March 2008 * By Prof. Dr. Beril DEDEOGLU Most of Turkey's domestic debates no longer include the European Union membership process, but one can't say that nothing is being done about this issue. The debates over the headscarf in universities, compulsory military service, the law on minority and foreign foundations and the modifications in the penal code are part of Turkey's transformation pains." More: JTW News - Union in the Mediterranean, Mediterranean in the Union
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