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BAKU: Topical: Another Scandalous Visit To Karabakh By Turkish Journalists

TOPICAL: ANOTHER SCANDALOUS VISIT TO KARABAKH BY TURKISH JOURNALISTS Yeni Musavat Nov 17 2009 Azerbaijan Has a correspondent of Aksam newspaper described Nagornyy Karabakh an `Armenian land for one hundred per cent?' In...

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New EU president raises fears in aspirant Turkey

ANKARA (Reuters) - Herman Van Rompuy's appointment as the first European Union president provoked fears in Turkey that he might hinder Ankara's hopes of joining the bloc, with some media declaring outright that he is anti-Turkish.

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Ankara weighs human rights bill for Kurds

ANKARA, Turkey, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Measures under consideration in the Turkish government deal with discrimination and human rights for the Kurdish minority community, the interior minister said. Ankara is considering a series of...

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Baku, Ankara needed for Nabucco, U.S. says

BRUSSELS, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Ankara and Baku should resolve issues related to the price for natural gas in order to move forward with the Nabucco gas pipeline, U.S. officials said. Richard Morningstar, the U.S. special envoy for...

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Ankara and Damascus form stronger ties

DAMASCUS, Syria, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The border between Turkey and Syria is a bond that ties the two neighboring countries together, the Turkish speaker of Parliament said in Damascus. Mehmet Ali Sahin met with his Syrian...

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Turkey scraps nuclear power plant tender

ANKARA (AFP) - Turkey on Friday scrapped a 2008 tender won by a Russian-led consortium to build the country's first nuclear power plant -- a process that had been under threat of being invalidated by a court decision.

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‘On the Way to School,’ ‘Bornova’ to hit the road for Festival on Wheels

“İki Dil Bir Bavul” (On the Way to School) and “Bornova Bornova,” two triumphs from last month’s Altın Portakal (Golden Orange) International Film Festival, are set to hit the road for this year’s Festival on Wheels traveling...

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Rescue teams find one missing child alive in snow

Five-year-old Sebahi Tosun, one of a group of youtg people who were lost on Wednesday morning in Ankara’s Bala district, was found alive yesterday. Cousins Gökmen (4) and Sebahi Tosun went missing in the village of Büyük...

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Turks react with concern to EU presidency appointment - Summary

Istanbul - The appointment of Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy as president of the European Union was met with concern in Turkey because of the Belgian's previous comments against Ankara's joining the EU. The headlines...

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Mediating role wins kudos for Ankara among Arabs

Saturday, November 21, 2009 Listen to the Article - Powered by Ayla Jean Yackley Reuters ISTANBUL: Turkey’s efforts to solve regional problems such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program...

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