The first flight, conducted by Turkish Aerospace Industries’ (TAI) test pilots, of the T129 “P6†prototype helicopter has timely and successfully been completed at TAI’s facilities in Akıncı, Ankara, the company said today  The ATAK Program was initiated with the aim to meet the Attack/Tactical Reconnaissance Helicopter requirements of the Turkish Land Forces Command (TLF) [...]
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Turkey will consider talks with countries other than Japan for a nuclear power plant to be built in Sinop, a ministry official says. A Finnish expert confirms nuclear operators from Finland might also be intersted Turkey has lost time with its negotiations with Japan on the plans to build a nuclear power plant in Sinop, [...]
Turkey stands firm on its demand for Israel to apologize to the families of nine people killed in a raid on a Gaza flotilla by Israeli soldiers last year. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu rejects any apology, according to an official Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayip ErdoÄŸan said Wednesday it was impossible for Turkish-Israeli relations to [...]
President Gül says Turkey not waiting for end of Ramadan to fight terror Commenting on the killing of eleven soldiers and a village guard in Turkey’s southeast by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists on Wednesday and recent remarks by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan, who said the country is set to adopt new tactics [...]
Alleged members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, shot dead one major and six Turkish soldiers in an ambush in the eastern province of Hakkari’s Çukurca district Wednesday morning. Eleven more soldiers were also injured in the attack. “They (the PKK) are trying to test our patience. We will defeat them by [...]
PM Erdoğan rages against the PKK as an attack in southeast Turkey kills 12 security forces, bringing the last month’s total death toll up to 34. At least 11 Turkish troops, including a major, were killed Wednesday in an ambush in southeast Turkey, Doğan news agency, or DHA, reported. The attack came just hours after [...]
Turkish F-16′s Turkish jets launched air raids on suspected bases belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in northern Iraq on Wednesday, Turkish media reported. The raids came hours after eight soldiers and a village guard were killed in an ambush by PKK members. Some 15 warplanes took off from a Turkish base to [...]
Israel has deployed drones to keep watch on gas fields off its northern coast, fearing attack by the Hezbollah militia from neighboring Lebanon, the Jerusalem Post daily reported on Aug. 9. Â The fields lie in a part of the Mediterranean that is claimed by Israel for gas exploration and production, but Lebanon says the fields [...]
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By Sami Kohen The meeting Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet DavutoÄŸlu had with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday constitutes a significant event in the international campaign focused on Syria lately. It is not a coincidence that as Turkey launches this latest diplomatic attempt, many countries and organizations have also expressed tough criticism of the Assad [...]
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Ever since the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government revealed that it will start a new initiative against terrorist groups using police special forces, who were trained to fight against the PKK, a new debate has opened up as to whether the police can really fight against the rural base of the PKK. Former [...]
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