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A recently announced peace initiative by the Turkish government has raised hopes that an end to the country's 25-year conflict with Kurdish rebels may be in sight. The BBC's Iain MacInnes travelled to the predominantly Kurdish...
CALL FOR TURKISH-ARMENIAN PEACE FROM THEATER STAGE Hurriyet Daily News Nov 17 2009 Turkey The Gulbenkyan Foundation, an Armenian organization in Lisbon, has given full support to the play 'Armenian Concert or Turkish Proverb'...
ANKARA, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- One Turk was killed and 25 people wounded in a boiler explosion in a southeastern province of Turkey on Tuesday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported. The explosion occurred in boiler room...
The Turkish Journalists Association announced that after the murder of Hasan Fehmi Bey in 1909, 61 journalists have been killed until today. The association organizes a memorial celebration, also inviting relatives of murdered...
A government initiative to solve the decades-old Kurdish issue through democratic reforms has been welcomed in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, the control of which is disputed among Kurds, Arabs and Turkmens.
Diyarbakir - A 125-year-old woman who could be the oldest person ever recorded has been found living in Turkey's remote Kurdish region, local authorities were quoted as saying on Friday. Halime Solmaz was born on July 1 1884,...
ANKARA, Turkey -- Eight members of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) based in Iraq have surrendered to authorities in southeast Turkey, in support of a government initiative to give more rights to Turkey's Kurdish...
ANKARA (AP) - Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals said yesterday that it was investigating whether the Islamic-oriented government may have illegally ordered the telephone tapping of judges on the court, a bastion of secularism....
Halim Solmaz, a resident of Diyarbakır’s Beşiri district, is purportedly 125 years old, which if true would make her the oldest known person on the face of the earth. İrfan Ertaş, the head of the local birth registry...
United Arab Emirates: A ground-breaking Indonesian film and three Japanese movies are among the highlights of the Cinema of AsiaAfrica segment of Dubai International Film Festival 2009, which will also showcase superb new films...
