Burdur Province

Government ready to sacrifice whatever it takes to end terror

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated that his government is determined to end terrorism no matter what the cost, and he also lashed out at the opposition for their accusations that the government was collaborating with...

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Keep the winter chills at bay with a warm cup of sahlep

Sahlep, a powder made from the dried tubers of certain species of orchid, is not only responsible for the famous drink that keeps us warm during the winter, but is also the secret behind Turkish Maraş ice cream.

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Forecast Turkey, weather Turkey, meteo Turkey

Weather Turkey, Ankara weather, weather weekend forecast season, the weather in the mountains, the weather on the coast, the weather on the beach, sea water temperature, weather in the capital, the weather in the mountains, the...

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Turkey: Kurdish Peace Initiative Builds Momentum

BY NICHOLAS BIRCH Turkey’s government is vowing to push forward with an initiative aimed at ending a 25-year Kurdish war. Changing geopolitical circumstances are helping to make Kurdish militants more open to a lasting peace deal.

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Mourners pay respects to Kurdish intellectual Fırat in modest funeral

Prominent Kurdish politician Abdülmelik Fırat, who died of leukemia in Ankara on Tuesday, was laid to rest yesterday in his hometown of Erzurum. The 75-year-old Fırat died in the intensive care unit of Güven Hospital in Ankara,...

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Holiday over, millions of children go back to school

The 2009-2010 school year starts today, with over a million children venturing into their new classrooms for the first time. Nearly 15 million children will go to school today, with 1,307,000 of them doing so for the first time.

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Turkish Student Wins Stockholm Junior Water Prize With Innovative Method Of Generating Energy...

The Stockholm Water Foundation and the Stockholm International Water Institute tonight announced that 18-year-old Ceren Burçak Dag of Nisantasi, Turkey has won the 2009 Stockholm Junior Water Prize. The announcement came...

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Arms lobby, drug warlords

Every internal conflict, if not fought through well thought out means, will create an arms lobby and drug warlords in addition to taking too many lives, as has been the case in Turkey. Turkey, resorting to military solutions...

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Ergenekon victim’s mother hopes to become co-plaintiff in case

The mother of a special operations officer who was killed in 2005 has announced that she would like to apply to become a co-plaintiff in the trial of Ergenekon, a clandestine gang charged with various crimes including murder,...

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Senior admiral forced to retire over suspected links with Ergenekon

Senior Naval Forces Adm. Feyyaz Öğütçü was forced to retire after Tuesday's Supreme Military Council (YAŞ) meeting, reportedly due to his suspected ties with Ergenekon, a clandestine criminal organization accused of plotting to...

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Bucak , Burdur