Turkey's top military commander urged his government's political leaders to make the guidelines clear if his forces are ordered across the Iraqi border to battle rebels with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a prospect he suggested would be helpful.
Turkey's military chief asked the government on Wednesday to set political guidelines for an incursion into northern Iraq to fight Kurdish guerrillas targeting Turkey.
Turkey is a crucial transit country for the world's oil and natural gas market, and a top Foreign Ministry official says its role will increase as the industry brings more sources to market and demand continues to rise.
A total of eight militants of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) were killed in a clash with Turkish security forces in southeastern Turkey, a local official statement said on Wednesday.
The head of Turkey's armed forces has again recommended a military incursion into Northern Iraq to crush Kurdish rebels.
Ali Babacan, Turkey's top negotiator with the European Union, said he was not satisfied with French moves to block the expansion of membership talks to vital economic and monetary policy issues.
The Mount Graham Regional Medical Center Foundation Board hosted its Barnyard Turkey Trot on Saturday with all proceeds going to the Mount Graham Home Health and Hospice.
Ankara - Eight Kurdish rebels were killed in fighting with Turkish security forces in south-east Turkey on Wednesday. According to a statement released by the governor's office of the province of Sirnak, the clash took place in a mountainous part of ...
A plan by Gazprom and Italian company Eni for a pipeline taking Russian gas to western Europe threatens the Nabucco scheme that would link Caspian fields to Europe via Turkey, a Turkish energy official said.
The Trans-Caspian corridor, extending the natural gas pipeline between Turkey and Azerbaijan to Turkmenistan across the Caspian Sea, is Turkey's ideal route, and the country will take advantage of every opportunity to reach it, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Hilmi Guler has said.