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Turkey says cancels first nuclear plant tender

ANKARA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Turkey cancelled a tender won by a Russian-led consortium last year to build the country's first nuclear power plant, Turkey's state-run power company Tetas said on Friday. A Turkish court previously...

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Retired colonel’s suicide found to be ‘suspicious’

A retired colonel committed suicide yesterday by jumping off the balcony of his apartment in İstanbul’s Kadıköy district while his wife and mother were at home. Belgütay Varımlı hit the concrete pavement below and died at the...

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Finish the executions before Atatürk arrives

When Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) Deputy Chairman Onur Öymen, who has a background in diplomacy, defended the tragic massacre in Dersim (now Tunceli) as he was listing his objections to the democratic initiative, this...

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UPDATE 2-Turkey cbank sees 2010 inflation below target

By Nevzat Devranoglu ISTANBUL, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Turkey's central bank expects 2010 inflation to be below the official 6.5 percent target, Governor Durmus Yilmaz told a conference on Friday, a day after the bank cut its...

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Garanti bank secures $700 mln syndicated loan

ISTANBUL, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Turkish lender Garanti Bank secured a one-year syndicated loan worth $700 million to be used in export financing, the bank said in a statement on Thursday. The bank said the loan was composed of two...

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Unique collection puts Turkish history on the agenda

A collection of Turkish diaries from over the last 100 years is currently on display at the original location of the Ece Ajandaları company in Asmalı Meydan, a site that has witnessed many of the most important changes in the...

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[Turkey through a traveler’s eyes] Across Anatolia with British traveler W.J. Childs in 1914 (II)

Childs chose the Central Anatolian town of Sivas to pay off Achmet, the loyal araba driver who had guided him from the Black Sea port of Samsun. During the first day’s journey from Sivas, Childs claimed to have been attacked by...

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ANKARA: "Turkey Following Ataturk's Foreign Policy, Not Pursuing Neo-Ottomanism"

"TURKEY FOLLOWING ATATURK'S FOREIGN POLICY, NOT PURSUING NEO-OTTOMANISM" Today's Zaman Nov 17 2009 Turkey Professor Ali Arslan, a lecturer at the department of history at Istanbul University who specializes in the history of...

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PKK leader Öcalan gets new prison mates in İmralı island

The leader of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, who has been serving a life sentence on an island in the Marmara Sea in solitary confinement since his capture in Kenya in 1999, will no longer be the...

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IMF agreement deemed unnecessary for Turkey’s reforms

Professor Steve Hanke of The Johns Hopkins University department of applied economics has stated that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was “smart” not to sign an International Monetary Fund (IMF) stand-by agreement.

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