The next holder of the EU presidency rejects a French bid to debate on Turkey's EU membership bid.
Turkey's Kasimpasaspor (of Istanbul), one of the new soccer teams of Turkcell Super League, has agreed on terms with the German goal keeper George Koch, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Thursday.
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, June 28 (Reuters) - Turkey's EPDK energy watchdog has approved an application by fuel retailer Petrol Ofisi and Austria's OMV to build an oil refinery, an EPDK official said on Thursday.
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.
BRUSSELS, June 28, 2007 (AFP) - Portugal, which becomes European Union president this weekend, rejected Thursday a request by France to hold a major debate this year on EU borders and Turkey's future membership.
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.
ANKARA, Turkey - A Kurdish militant hijacked a fuel truck and detonated it near a military outpost Sunday, killing only himself and the captive driver, Turkish media and army officials said.
Olli Rehn, the European commissioner for enlargement, has warned against creating another “nationalist or Islamist problem” on Europe’s doorstep if Turkey is blocked from joining the EU.
The head of Turkey's armed forces has again recommended a military incursion into Northern Iraq to crush Kurdish rebels. General Yasar Buyukanit was speaking at a media conference in Isparta in southwest Turkey.