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Turkey Grapples With Water Shortages (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
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Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:31:34 GMT

Turkey's two major cities are grappling with water shortages after record-low snow and rain falls in the winter and searing summer temperatures, officials said Thursday.


TransAtlantic Awarded Three Exploration Licenses in Turkey (Rigzone)
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Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:02:14 GMT

TransAtlantic has been awarded three exploration licenses in southeastern Turkey. This brings to six the number of exploration licenses the Company holds in Turkey.


Turkey: Illegal immigrants handed over to Iraqi Kurdistan (Adnkronos)
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Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:45:11 GMT

Turkey: Illegal immigrants handed over to Iraqi Kurdistan (AKI) - Turkish authorities have handed over 200 illegal immigrants to the authorities of the Kurdish autonomous region in Iraq, a security source on the border said on Thursday. The Kurds were reportedly trying to enter Turkey illegally through the Ibrahim Khalil border crossing, a source said.Turkey is a popular transit point ...


Turkey backs RWE for Nabucco, official says (Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News)
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Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:34:29 GMT

ANKARA/ISTANBUL, Aug 2 - Turkey favours German energy company RWE as the sixth partner in the Nabucco pipeline, which will carry Caspian and Middle Eastern gas to European markets, an energy ministry official said.


Start of Turkey-Greece pipeline delayed (EARTHtimes.org)
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Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:07:06 GMT

Greece has asked that a ceremony to inaugurate the Turkey-Greece gas pipeline be postponed from its scheduled date in August. The Anatolia news agency reported Tuesday that officials from the Turkish Energy & Natural Resources Ministry said that Greec...


Turkey favours RWE as Nabucco partner - official (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News)
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Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:24:34 GMT

ANKARA, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Turkey favours German energy firm RWE as the sixth partner in the Nabucco pipeline, which will carry Caspian and Middle Eastern gas to hungry European markets, an energy ministry official said late Wednesday.


• Turkey taking Austria complaint to United Nations (Turks.US)
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Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:30:29 GMT

Austria has so far failed to give "a satisfactory explanation" to Turkey concerning the recent escape of a senior leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) from Vienna to Iraq, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Levent Bilman announced on Wednesday.


Wild Turkey Chapter Sets Dinner, Membership Drive for August 10 (Ashley County Ledger)
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Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:14:02 GMT

The Tcheminahaut Spurs Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation will hold its annual membership drive, dinner and auction on Friday, August 10, in the Hamburg Junior High School cafeteria. The doors will open at 6 p.m. for a social hour before the meal.


One more Armenian church in Turkey to be turned into museum (PanARMENIAN.Net)
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Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:10:11 GMT

The European Union assigned €185 thousand to Turkey for reconstruction works, which launched June 6, 2007.


3 troops, 5 Kurdish rebels killed in southeast Turkey (KYIV Post)
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Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:37:09 GMT

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Three Turkish troops and five Kurdish rebels died in fighting in southeast Turkey, authorities said August 2. The clash erupted when troops came under fire on Mt. Mercan in Tunceli province on August 1, the provincial governor's office said.