DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AFP) - Turkish armed forces killed five Kurdish rebels in clashes in Turkey's southeast Batman province that also left two soldiers wounded, the provincial government said Monday.
The clashes between the army and members of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) took place late Sunday near the town of Besiri in a rural area of Batman province, the local government's s [...]
ANKARA (AFP) - The Turkish ferry which was at the centre of a deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla arrived back in Turkey on Saturday, media reports said.
Footage broadcast on the NTV news channel showed The Mavi Marmara being towed into the port of Iskenderun on Turkey's Mediterranean coast.
Authorities imposed strict security measures for the ship's arrival, barring reporters fro [...]
ANKARA (AFP) - The lawyer of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery is in Turkey and has requested asylum, the UN refugee agency said Wednesday.
The lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaie, had been missing since July 24 when Iranian police went to his office to execute an arrest warrant and failed to find him.
"He is in custody in Turkey. We have met him and he has lodged an asy [...]
ANKARA (AFP) - Turkey's foreign ministry summoned the Israeli ambassador to protest after Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak described its new spy chief as a "supporter" of Iran, a Turkish diplomat said Tuesday.
Ambassador Gaby Levy was called in Monday to a meeting where Deputy Undersecretary Halit Cevik conveyed Ankara's displeasure over the comments, the diplomat told AFP on condition of a [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel's decision to join a UN probe of its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship should help patch up ties with Turkey, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said on Tuesday.
But he insisted that the Israeli commando raid in international waters was "legitimate" and "very measured," and that the nine Turks killed in the May 31 operation were armed, violent and "somehow linked t [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has expressed concern over Turkey's appointment of a new spy chief he called a "supporter" of the Jewish state's archfoe Iran, army radio reported Sunday.
"Turkey is a friendly country, a strategic ally, but the nomination in recent weeks of a new chief of the Turkish secret services who is a supporter of Iran worries us," he told a meet [...]
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ANKARA (AFP) - Demonstrators gathered here for a second day Sunday to protest an Israeli team playing in a volleyball tournament in Turkey after the Jewish state's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship.
A group of about 50 to 60 protestors converged near the sports hall in Ankara where Turkey beat Israel 3-0 in a third-place match in the Women's European League, an AFP photograph [...]
ISTANBUL (AFP) - Foreign ministers of Turkey and Brazil urged Iran Sunday to be flexible and open in dealings with the West over its atomic programme as Iran renewed its readiness to resume frozen nuclear talks.
The call came as Turkey's Ahmet Davutoglu and Brazil's Celso Amorim met their Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki over a luncheon in Istanbul, the first such gathering since [...]
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ANKARA (AFP) - Dozens of protestors gathered here Saturday to protest an Israeli team playing in a volleyball tournament in Turkey after the Jewish state's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship.
Amid a heavy police presence, about 150 to 200 people converged near the sports hall in capital Ankara where the Israeli team played Serbia in a semi-final for the Women's European League t [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - The top diplomats of Iran, Brazil and Turkey will discuss nuclear fuel supplies for Tehran in Istanbul on Sunday, in the first such gathering since the Islamic republic was slapped with new sanctions.
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was to meet his Brazilian and Turkish counterparts, Celso Amorim and Ahmet Davutoglu, "to discuss... the Tehran Declaration about th [...]
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