Channel News Asia | An internal power-struggle further dents Turkey's hopes of joining the ... The Economist IN ANOTHER era, tanks might now be on the streets of Ankara and Istanbul. Over the past year Turkey has seen a crackdown on protests, corruption scandals, a purge of the police and judiciary, paranoid talk of foreign plots and fifth columns, an ... Prosecutors Removed From Turkey's Corruption Probe Turkey purges top prosecutors amid corruption scandal Turkey Removes Prosecutors Behind Probe of Erdogan Allies |
Wounded Syrians pour into Turkey after bombing CNN Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- Wounded Syrians streamed across the Turkish border seeking first aid Wednesday after a car bombing in a border town that's become a battleground in the fight between Syrian rebel factions. The blast in the Syrian town of ... |
Turkey Political Turmoil Seen Hitting Mergers Amid Elections Bloomberg The value of deals in Turkey announced this year may fall by half from 2013, when companies led $17.5 billion of takeovers, Kerim Kotan, managing director of Pragma Corporate Finance, which worked on 11 transactions last year, said in an interview. |
BBC News | Turkey: Jail sought over 'woman in red' police case BBC News Turkish prosecutors want a policeman to go to jail for three years for tear-gassing a protester who became known as the "woman in red", reports say. Fatih Zengin is accused of using excessive force against Ceyda Sungur, who was standing a short ... Turkey 'lady in red' tear gas policeman faces up to 3 years jail Turkey Police Officer Faces Prosecution for Teargas Attack on Woman In Turkey's ancient capital, developers put profits before preservation |
Daily Beast | Turkey's Crackdown On Arms Shipments To Syria Could Help Al Qaeda And ... Daily Beast Several arms shipments from Turkey to rebel groups in Syria have been stopped in recent months. In one case, 1,200 Turkish-made mortar shells were discovered inside a Syria-bound truck in November. As fighting between al-Qaeda linked groups and other ... |
CNN International | 6 Turkish adventures beyond the beaches and bazaars CNN International (CNN) -- So many visitors to Turkey see little more than the beautiful but crowded Mediterranean coast or the great mosques and palaces of Istanbul. But the country is huge, and there are many more attractions away from the tourist hotspots. Relics of ... |
Sassounian: Armenians Should Counteract Countless Congressional Trips to ... Armenian Weekly The Turkish government, its lobbying firms, and Turkish-American organizations have spent millions of dollars to take members of Congress and their staff on all-expenses-paid trips to Turkey with the intent of buying their allegiance. This is standard ... |
Dennis Hastert Defends Turkey Trip as 'Exclusively Within the Rules ' National Journal Lobbyist and former House Speaker Dennis Hastert defended the all-expenses-paid trip for eight lawmakers to Turkey last year that he attended and his firm helped arrange. "What we did was exclusively within the rules—meticulously," Hastert said on ... |
One conversation at a time The Economist (blog) The Assassin from Apricot City. By Witold Szablowski, translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Stork Press; 210 pages; £8.99. A WEEK before Christmas all hell broke loose in Turkey. A country, that most foreigners had thought was gradually ... |
Turkey reassured that NATO shield not designed for Israel Reuters Addressing an Israeli security forum, Vershbow said there had been "a lot of confusion" in Turkey, including over the similarity between its NATO radar and a U.S. radar posted in Israel to help it spot any ballistic missile launches by Iran. "I think ... |