Closing your eyes and listening to his thoughts on Turkey's elections at the end of next week, you could almost mistake Cemil Bayik for a political analyst. He is not. In fact, he is one of the two most powerful figures in the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, whose 25-year war against the Turkish state has cost nearly 40,000 lives.
Turkey has sent aid to a northern Iraqi town where more than 150 people were killed by a suicide attack one day ago, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Sunday. Contacts are underway to send more doctors and medicine to th ...
As a long, dry summer sets in, this weekend firefighters and locals around Turkey have been battling what will surely only be among the first of the season's forest fires.
Heather Keck bagged her first wild turkey when she was a high school freshman, but her love affair with Americaʼs most popular game bird had been almost preordained many years before.
Attacks by Kurdish separatists have surged this year after several years of calm.
Turkey's government and military have agreed on detailed plans for a possible cross-border operation against Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq, the foreign minister said Friday.
When a group of analysts and economists at Garanti Securities in Turkey recently gathered for a regular meeting, talk turned to the country's looming general election. In a show of hands, three-quarters of those round the table said they would vote for the Republican People's party (CHP), the main opposition, which is strong on secularism but weak on the economy.
The Turkish foreign minister urged the United States to crack down on Kurdish separatist rebels, but he said Turkey was ready to act if necessary.
8 July 2007 - Cauterets, France - The 6th edition of the European Mountain Running Championships was held in the dramatic scenery of the French Pyrenees (Cauterets), which was enhanced by low lying mist from which the runners emerged into bright sunshine.
Depending on who you asked, my last column was on the money or out to lunch. That would hold true no matter how anyone called the last week of the season. Dog days of summer are now upon us, and the reports are coming in at many of the chat rooms and online forums.