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Time for “Change” for Iraq’s Kurds? A new, independent candidate is taking up the slogan to woo Iraqi Kurds disenchanted over the two-party political divide in their oil-rich semiautonomous region in northern Iraq.
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In Penitents Compete (Tovbekarlar Yarisiyor in Turkish), religious leaders will seek to convert at least one of the 10 atheists in each episode to their faith. Those...
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The Sakarya University Advanced Technologies Implementation Group (SAITEM) sets a record in fuel efficiency. Having been adjudged the third best fuel-efficient car in...
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Turkey’s secular elite often likes to pose to outsiders as the defenders of a democratic and secular order in Turkey against a creeping Islamism they claim is the...
made popular Jul 3 2009
Each day, police vans deliver batches of illegal migrants to the Gaziosmanpasha detention center, an hour’s drive north of Istanbul. The migrants have been...
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The results of European Parliament election have caused deep concern in European Union candidate Turkey, where gains made by conservatives and some far-right parties...
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Think of a hotel where champagne costs £25 a glass, bathrooms have gold plated mirrors on the floor, toilets are remote controlled and the private beach has been...
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Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked an engagement ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people. Two girls survived after the...
made popular May 5 2009
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Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
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Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Turkey’s NTV television, citing authorities, says 41 people have been killed and three have been wounded in an attack on a wedding in the southeast.
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing at least 16 people and wounding 20 others, new organizations...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Turkish media say at least 16 people have been killed and 20 others wounded in an attack on a wedding ceremony in the southeastern part of the country.
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Istanbul
An Iraqi cleric who led bloody rebellions against U.S. troops but stayed out of public view in the last two years has made an unusually visible appearance in Turkey,...
made popular May 2 2009
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Turkey’s prime minister reshuffled the bulk of his Cabinet Friday, appointing an official who has mediated indirect talks between Syria and Israel as foreign...
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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reshuffled his entire Cabinet, and his new foreign minister is an official who has mediated indirect talks between Syria and...
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Turkey’s military says its warplanes struck Kurdish rebel targets overnight in northern Iraq.
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A roadside bomb killed nine Turkish soldiers in an armored personnel carrier Wednesday in southeastern Turkey, making it the deadliest attack by suspected Kurdish...
made popular Apr 29 2009
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Suspected Kurdish rebels detonated a roadside bomb that killed nine soldiers Wednesday in a U.S.-made armored personnel carrier in southeastern Turkey, the Turkish...
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A roadside bomb believed to have been planted by Kurdish rebels killed at least nine soldiers Wednesday in southeastern Turkey, the state-run Anatolia news agency...
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Turkey’s military says its warplanes struck Kurdish rebel targets overnight in northern Iraq.
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AP, Istanbul
A roadside bomb killed nine Turkish soldiers in an armored personnel carrier Wednesday in southeastern Turkey, making it the deadliest attack by suspected Kurdish...
made popular Apr 29 2009
AP, Ankara
A roadside bomb believed to have been planted by Kurdish rebels killed at least nine soldiers Wednesday in southeastern Turkey, the state-run Anatolia news agency...
made popular Apr 29 2009
AP, Istanbul
A five-hour police shootout with a leftist militant in Istanbul left three people dead, including the militant described as a top member of a group tied to the Kurdish...
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Openly defying the law, a Kurdish politician spoke to lawmakers in Turkey’s parliament in the Kurdish language on Tuesday to celebrate UNESCO world languages...
made popular Feb 24 2009
AP, Baghdad
A Kurdish politician whose list won nearly a third of the vote in a volatile northern province in last month’s local elections said Saturday that his group will...
made popular Feb 21 2009
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A Kurdish politician whose electoral list won nearly a third of the vote in a volatile, ethnically mixed province in Iraq said Saturday his group will cooperate with...
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A Kurdish politician whose list won nearly a third of the vote in a volatile, ethnically mixed Iraqi province says his group will work with rival Sunni Arabs if they...
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Police clashed with stone-throwing demonstrators across the country’s predominantly Kurdish southeast Sunday during protests marking the 10th anniversary of a...
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Turkey’s military says its warplanes have struck Kurdish rebel targets inside northern Iraq.
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Iraqi officials say 12 people have been killed in a suicide bombing in a Kurdish city near the Iranian border where tensions have been high since last weekend’s...
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A Kurdish official says hundreds of Iraqi Kurds have stormed an election office in a disputed city after claiming many Kurds were not on voting lists for provincial...
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A car bomb exploded near a Kurdish party’s office Tuesday in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least three Iraqi soldiers only days before pivotal elections,...
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Iraqi police say attackers have decapitated the leader of the women’s league of the Kurdish Communist Party.
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Turkey’s military says its air force has attacked Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq.
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AP, Baghdad
A suicide bomber killed at least 55 people Thursday in a packed restaurant near the northern city of Kirkuk where Kurdish officials and Arab tribal leaders were trying...
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A suicide bomber struck a crowded restaurant in northern Iraq on Thursday where Kurdish officials were meeting with Arab tribal leaders to negotiate longstanding ethnic...
made popular Dec 11 2008
AP, Sulaimaniyah
A Kurdish rebel group on Sunday declared a nine-day holiday cease-fire in their fight against Turkey, a spokesman said, calling it a “first step toward...
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AP, Ankara
Turkey’s military says its air force has attacked Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq.
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In this Jan. 2008 file photo, Kurdish politician Aysel Tugluk of Democratic Society Party, is seen during a party meeting in Ankara, Turkey. A Turkish court in Ankara on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009 convicted Tugluk for promoting the Kurdish rebel cause by...
