Outgoing President Ahmet Necdet Sezer warned Friday that Turkey's secular system is under "unprecedented threat" from foreign and local forces who also want to weaken the staunchly secularist military.
The European Commission urged EU candidate Turkey and Iraq on Friday to settle differences peacefully after Turkey's top general called for a military operation to quash Turkish Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.
Turkey's outgoing President Ahmet Necdet Sezer warns the country's secular system is under threat.
The European Commission called on Friday for differences between Turkey and Iraq to be solved peacefully after Turkey's top general called for a military operation to quash Turkish Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.
TURKEY AND THE KURDS....A couple of people have been bugging me recently to pay more attention to Turkey and the Kurds, and they have a point. The background is pretty straightforward: There are Kurds in northern Iraq and Kurds in...
WASHINGTON - Apr 13/07 - SNS -- Turkey hatchery activity picked up in March, according to the USDA. Turkey eggs in incubators in the United States on April 1, 2007 totaled 31.5 million, up 4% from April 1, 2006. Eggs in incubators were up 1% from the March 1, 2007 total of 31.2 million eggs.
Turkey's staunchly pro-secular president said yesterday that the threat Islamic fundamentalism poses to the country's secular establishment has reached its highest level - a warning directed at the Islamic-rooted prime minister, who may stand to replace him in May.
“What’s all the fuss about this turkey hunting?,” some of you who are not addicted might understandably ask. A turkey hunter’s behavior for six weeks every spring stretches acceptable social conduct to the very outer limits.
Blood stirring and primitive, the distinctive staccato gobble of the eastern wild turkey is a sound like no other. For Iowa’s 50,000-plus spring turkey hunting enthusiasts, the resonate predawn rattling is a summons that cannot be denied.
DIYARBAKIR - Five Kurdish terrorists were killed Friday in clashes with the army in southeast Turkey, security sources said.