Instability could take root in Turkey’s Parliament after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan failed to retain his majority in Sunday’s general elections.
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/ 27 October 2011
Rain and snow on Thursday compounded difficulties for thousands rendered homeless after the powerful earthquake that hit eastern Turkey.
Turkey has escalated the pressure on Muammar Gaddafi despite its long-standing ties to the Libyan leader,
The UN’s Ban Ki-Moon told a conference on Somalia that if the global community does not redouble its efforts there will be little chance of peace.
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/ 3 February 2008
About 125 000 flag-waving Turks, mostly women, denounced the Islamic-rooted government on Saturday over its plans to lift a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves in universities — a move the foreign minister said would expand Turkish freedoms.
The Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 will be released on parole on Thursday, his laywer told The Associated Press on Sunday. A Turkish court on Thursday decided to free Mehmet Ali Agca ”on parole on January 12,” his lawyer, Mustafa Demirbag told The Associated Press by telephone.
A Turkish teenager whose brother died of bird flu also succumbed to the disease on Thursday, a Turkish doctor said, as authorities tried to determine if the siblings had contracted the worrisome H5N1 strain of the virus. If confirmed, the brother and sister would be the first people outside of Asia to die of the H5N1 strain in the latest outbreak.
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/ 8 September 2004
A fire that raged through a copper mine in northern Turkey killed 19 workers and injured 17 others on Wednesday. Rescuers were searching the smoke-clogged shafts to make sure that no one was left inside. The fire broke out inside the mine in the town of Kure in Kastamonu province, trapping about 30 workers.