![]() BBCSerbian.com | May Day protesters clash with police in Turkey, Greece and Germany guardian.co.uk, UK Photograph: Osman Orsal/Reuters May Day protesters clashed with riot police in Turkey, Greece and Germany yesterday while French unions led their biggest ever Labour Day demonstrations amid growing public anger in Europe at unemployment and the ... Video: May Day Rallies Turn Violent in Europe May Day sparks clashes in Germany, Turkey Riots across Europe fuelled by economic crisis |
![]() Earthtimes (press release) | Turkey: Erdogan Shakes Up Cabinet New York Times, United States - Sabrina Tavernise By SABRINA TAVERNISE In a major cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, Ahmet Davutoglu, the official who has shifted Turkish foreign policy toward a greater focus on the Middle East, was made foreign minister. ... Turkey's prime minister reshuffles his Cabinet Turkey announces major cabinet reshuffle, including new FM Davutoglu, the architect of Turkey's foreign policy activism |
![]() Aljazeera.net | Turkey blast kills nine soldiers BBC News, UK At least nine soldiers have been killed in a landmine explosion in south-eastern Turkey, officials say. Military sources blamed Kurdish rebels for the attack on a road linking the predominantly Kurdish cities of Diyarbakir and Bingol. ... Video: PKK 'ready for peace' with Turkey - 28 Apr 09 Ten soldiers killed in SE Turkey bomb-sources Army chief: Turkey calls for elimination of PKK |
![]() Telegraph.co.uk | Iraqi anti-US cleric Sadr resurfaces in Turkey AFP ANKARA (AFP) — Iraq's Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr -- not seen in public for nearly two years -- held face-to-face talks Friday with Turkey's top two leaders, Anatolia news agency reported. The anti-US cleric met with Prime Minister Recep ... Official: Iraqi cleric Al-Sadr in Turkey for talks Turkey's two directions Iraq's Sadr secretly came to Turkey, to meet PM Erdogan |
Turkey Launches $1.5B 10-Yr Bond To Yield 7.60% - Source Wall Street Journal NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Turkey has launched its $1.5 billion, 10-year bond to yield 7.60%, compared to earlier yield guidance around 7.75%, a source familiar with the deal said Thursday. The bonds price later Thursday in New York, the source said. ... Turkey says mandates US banks for 2019 eurobond Turkey launches $1.5 bln 10-yr bond-market source Turkey launches second dollar bond of 2008 |
![]() Spiegel Online | Letter From Europe Stakes High in Armenia-Turkey Talks New York Times, United States - Judy Dempsey By JUDY DEMPSEY BERLIN — For several months, the leaders of Turkey and Armenia have defied the nationalists of both countries by holding secret talks in Switzerland in a bid to end a conflict in a highly volatile region on the fringes of Europe. ... Russians think Armenia has damaged Azerbaijan-Turkey relations Turk-Armenian reconciliation key The Turkey-Armenia road map |
![]() Voice of America | Cyprus appeal to Turkey on missing persons Famagusta Gazette, Cyprus Relatives of Greek Cypriots, missing since the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, have appealed to Turkey to provide information about their whereabouts. President of the Committee of Relatives of Missing Persons and Undeclared Prisoners of War Nicos ... UN urges stepped up momentum in Cyprus talks Cyprus court decision to carry a steep cost Middle East flashback |
![]() Today's Zaman | ‘Religious freedoms in Turkey curbed by hard-line secularism' Today's Zaman, Turkey A report presented to US President Barack Obama has added Turkey to a watch list of countries where people's right to worship as they please or not to worship at all are at risk. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom said Turkey's ... Commission Names 13 Countries as Religious Freedom Violators More Countries Losing Religious Freedoms Commission lists threats to religious freedom |
![]() Hürriyet | Turkish police clash with May Day protesters Reuters - Thomas Grove Turkey's government declared it a public holiday this year under pressure from labour unions, at a time of heightened financial difficulties and record unemployment. "Those who are here are unemployed and need work. These are students who cannot pay ... 2009 becomes historic year for Turkey's troubled May Day past Police Clash with May Day Protesters in Several European Nations Police, protesters clash in Turkey May Day over square |
Old turkey call does the trick The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - D'Arcy Egan By noon, the closing bell for spring turkey hunting, my hunting partner and I were more than ready to lug our gear back to the truck. The next morning would be my last hurrah, at least for the second week of the spring turkey season. ... |