Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is set to begin active duty in Ankara today after spending nearly three weeks recovering from abdominal surgery at his residence in Istanbul. “The prime minister’s health is very good. He completed the period of convalescence and is back to work. He will return to Ankara normally and begin [...]
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday dismissed opposition allegations that fraud had helped his ruling party win a parliamentary election and signaled he would not bow to calls at mass protests for the poll to be rerun. In his annual televised call-in question-and-answer session he brushed off the importance of the biggest opposition protests [...]
A French court found former President Jacques Chirac guilty in a historic verdict Thursday of embezzling public funds to illegally finance the conservative party he long led, and handed him a suspended prison sentence. Chirac, a savvy world diplomat and icon of France’s political establishment for decades, is the first former French head of state [...]
Turkey’s unemployment dropped to 8.8 percent in September from 11.3 percent in the same month of the preceding year, hitting the lowest level since a 2001 domestic financial crisis, data from the Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat) revealed on Thursday. The lowest unemployment rate Turkey experienced in the past decade was 7.8 percent in the third [...]
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said Turkey’s recent polices in the Middle East “have made Israel kneel down” in front of Turkey and isolated the Jewish country in the region. Speaking during budget talks in the Turkish Parliament on Wednesday, Davutoğlu responded to claims by the opposition that Turkey’s foreign policy is dependent on [...]
Top Turkish military council has said it reviewed Turkish military’s preparedness for war following a key meeting. A statement released by General Staff in its web-site on Thursday said Supreme Military Council (YAŞ) discussed activities of Turkish military in domestic and border security, adding that it reviewed Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) preparedness for war. The [...]
Cyprus government services and airports came to a halt on Thursday as thousands of civil servants went on strike over austerity measures to reduce a bloated fiscal deficit. Thousands of civil servants backed by air traffic controllers are angry over parliament approving on Wednesday a two-year wage freeze in the public sector to avert an [...]
US forces formally marked the end of their mission in Iraq with a low-key ceremony near Baghdad on Thursday, after nearly nine years of war that began with the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein. There are a little more than 4,000 US soldiers in Iraq, but they will depart in the coming days, at which [...]
Turkey will recall its ambassador and freeze ties with Paris if French lawmakers approve a bill banning the denial of the genocide regarding the 1915 killings next week, he told AFP on Thursday. “There will be irreparable consequences in all bilateral relations,” ambassador Engin Solakoğlu said, adding he expected to be called back to Ankara [...]
Turkish security forces killed eight alleged members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party during clashes in the southeastern province of Bingöl today. Bingöl Gov. Hakan Güvencer said the militants were killed in a clash near Yayladere town of the province. Güvencer said security forces were conducting an operation on a house where suspected PKK members were [...]
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