Pakistani leaders reject US allegations that its spy agency is supporting Haqqanis with a statement also calling for peace with Afghan militants. The move is likely to bring Pakistan to a crossroads with longtime allies the US and Afghanistan U.S. missile strike targeting a vehicle killed three suspected militants in a Pakistani tribal region near [...]
The local branch of ING Bank aims to acquire a medium or big-sized Turkish bank in three or five years time, according to its chief executive officer Pınar Abay ING, a Netherlands-based banking group, could buy a medium or large bank in Turkey in three to five years, according to the newly appointed chief executive [...]
The Turkish General Staff has denied news reports that a Turkish seismic research ship exploring gas near Cyprus was harassed by two low-flying Israeli warplanes and a helicopter on Thursday night. A written statement posted on the General Staff’s website on Friday said that the reports do not reflect the truth. Turkish Vatan daily published [...]
Greek Cyprus said its plans to explore for gas were non-negotiable, accusing its rival Turkey on Friday of stirring up controversy over Mediterranean hydrocarbon reserves as a pretext for “expansionist designs” on the island. Greek Cyprus is locked in a row with Turkey over its decision to explore for natural gas south of the ethnically-partitioned [...]
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has called on Turkey and Greek Cyprus to resolve a dispute over hydrocarbon drilling in the eastern Mediterranean peacefully. 30 September 2011, Friday / FATMA DEMIRELLI , BRUSSELS
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is continuing to stage attacks as the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) readies to end its boycott of Parliament and take the oath of office on the first day of the new legislative year on Saturday. Following a Party Council (PM) meeting held in the predominantly Kurdish province [...]
The European Union will declare that Turkey’s economic policies have proven successful during the crisis in her annual report, to be released on Oct. 12. The economic part of the progress report, seen by Today’s Zaman, will praise the performance of the Turkish economy while the EU, the world’s largest economy, is still struggling to [...]
Authorities have begun questioning 16 suspects, including 11 soldiers, in connection with the alleged disappearance of devices containing flight information in the wake of a 2009 helicopter crash that killed Great Union Party, or BBP, leader Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu. Three soldiers were brought to a courthouse in the eastern province of Malatya to testify Friday morning, [...]
China successfully launched an experimental craft on Thursday paving the way for its first space station amid a blaze of national pride, bringing the growing Asian power closer to matching the U.S. and Russia with a long-term manned outpost in space. The box car-sized Tiangong-1 module was shot into space from the Jiuquan launch center [...]
Russia is sending its northern fleet led by the country’s only aircraft carrier, the “Admiral Kuznetsov,” to the Mediterranean Sea for exercises, daily Hürriyet reported on its website Thursday. The Kuznetsov will sail the waters in the Barents Sea for a week and carry out drills there first, the report said. The carrier will then [...]
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