A Turkish frigate which received a distress signal from a Danish ship Wednesday night 200 nautical miles offshore Oman, rushed to rescue the ship. An information note posted on the official web site of the Turkish General Staff Thursday, said TCG-Gaziantep rushed to the aid of the Danish flagged LEOPARD which sent a distress signal [...]
The United States has banned a range of advanced weapons for export to Turkey. Officials said the administration of President Barack Obama has rejected a Turkish request for combat unmanned aerial vehicles as well as advanced munitions. They said the administration’s decision came after consultations with Congress late last year. “There has been deep suspicion [...]
Web sites hawking pirated software and other digital goods are luring in about 53 billion visits each year. That’s according to a report (PDF) released yesterday by MarkMonitor, a company that protects online brands for its corporate customers. Piracy sites made up the majority of the 53 billion visits, while those selling counterfeit goods such [...]
2010 has tied with 2005 as the hottest year on record, according to two new studies. On January 12 NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released their independent analyses of global surface temperature data for last year. Both found that 2010 was ever-so-slightly warmer than 2005. But the difference was not statistically large [...]
A Turkish energy company on Thursday signed a deal with the Iraqi government to build a power plant for a cost of $445.5 million. The deal between Turkey’s Calik Energy and the Iraqi Electricity Ministry for the construction of the 1,250 megawatt al-Hayrat plant in Karbala. Calik Holding CEO Ahmet Calik and Iraq’s Deputy Electricity [...]
Two active duty members of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) were arrested on Wednesday as part of an ongoing investigation into a gang in the Naval Forces Command that had provided prostitutes to senior members of the military, police officers and bureaucrats for the purposes of using recorded footage to blackmail their victims. More officers [...]
Documents confiscated last month at the Gölcük Navy Base have resulted in the arrest of several active soldiers, with several arrestees being sent to the court on Wednesday and Thursday as part of the “Balyoz” (Sledgehammer) case. Nine sacks of documents were confiscated from a secret cache at the Gölcük Navy Base on Dec. 6, [...]
The P5+1 talks with Iran will resume Jan. 21-22. For those not tuned into the obscure jargon of the diplomatic world, these are the talks between the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council (the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia), plus Germany — hence, P5+1. These six countries will be negotiating with [...]
According to the January edition of the Global Economic Prospects 2011 report prepared by the World Bank, Turkey’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth is expected to register 8.1 percent for this past year. The growth of the world’s output in 2010 is estimated to be around 3.9 percent, while the growth figures for Organization for [...]
The implementation of the EU’s integrated maritime policy carries elements that may develop in the eastern Mediterranean against Turkey but in favor of Greece and the Greek Cypriot administration, both of which are EU members.  This policy encourages the Greek Cypriots to go ahead with agreements that it has recently signed with Israel for [...]
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