Major quake shakes eastern city of Van
24 Oct 2011: A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey yesterday, triggering the collapse of buildings and killing many people, according to officials and experts. At least 50 people were taken to the single hospital in the city of Van, Anatolia news agency said,Erdoğan to visit US, envoy to return after ‘genocide’ row
03 Apr 2010: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced on Friday he would attend an international nuclear summit hosted by President Barack Obama in Washington on April 12-13 and would also return the country’s ambassador to the United States, around a monthTurkey committed to Armenia peace despite US vote
05 Mar 2010: Turkey said on Friday it was determined to press ahead with efforts to normalize ties with Armenia despite a U.S. congressional panel vote terming as genocide the 1915 mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks. "We are determined to press ahead withAbdullah Gul welcomes BRJ to Turkey
07 Nov 2009: JEDDAH: Turkish President Abdullah Gul recently received Mohammed Jameel, president of Abdul Latif Jameel Group and chief job creation officer of the Bab Rizq Jameel (BRJ), at the Presidential Palace in Ankara and commended BRJ’s efforts in fightingTurkey urges France not to block EU bid
06 Nov 2009: PARIS - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu urged France on Friday not to block Turkey’s bid to join the European Union, saying his country holds the key to a new relationship with the Muslim world. In Paris for meetings with senior officials,We Need More Erdogans
06 Nov 2009: Turkey’s Ottoman Empire died an unwept death nearly a century ago. But the country continues to enjoy a unique eminence of leadership across the Middle East and in much of the Muslim world. And Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedlyAleppo's lessons for Arab states
14 Oct 2009: The boost in ties between Turkey and Syria announced on Tuesday following the meeting of high level officials from both countries in Aleppo marks a milestone in relations between the two countries, a remarkable achievement for two parties who in the notArmenia and Turkey to restore ties
01 Sep 2009: Armenia and Turkey have agreed to establish diplomatic ties and reopen their border under a plan to end nearly a century of hostility. The neighbours, whose history of animosity stems from the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during the firstTurkey agreed to NATO chief after Obama pledges
04 Apr 2009: ANKARA, April 4 - Turkey said on Saturday it had dropped its objections to Dane Anders Fogh Rasmussen becoming the next head of NATO after U.S. President Barack Obama offered promises that one of Rasmussen's deputies would be a Turk. Prime Minister TayyipWhy is Palestine a big deal for Turkish diplomacy?
16 Feb 2009: From a Turkish perspective, Israel could not have committed a worse mistake than attacking Gaza and thereby blocking hopes for peace in the Middle East. Like many observers, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed Israel for the human tragedyInterest payments further down with fiscal discipline
07 Jan 2009: Despite the adverse impact of the ongoing global financial crisis, interest expenses will decline in 2009 thanks to the government's commitment to pursuing a policy of fiscal discipline. The government has allocated TL 57.5 billion for interest paymentsTurkey plans to issue debut sovereign Sukuk
06 Jan 2009: (Sukuk.net - Arab News) Turkey in its own unique way is bumbling into Islamic capital markets through the planned issuance of its debut sovereign Sukuk (Islamic bond). In any other country including the UK, Japan, Hong Kong, the U.S. and Germany, theTurkey bombs PKK bases after deadly ambush
25 Oct 2007: Turkish aircraft have bombed Kurdish rebel bases in the mountainous border regions of Iraq following a deadly weekend ambush on a group of Turkish soldiers, security sources confirmed yesterday. The raids step up Turkish pressure on Iraq to act againstUS-Turkey alliance shaken by vote on Armenia 'genocide'
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16 Jun 2007: A Washington-based think tank is reported to have had participants at a closed-door meeting, including Turkish military officials and civilian experts, discuss various crisis scenarios for Turkey in a brainstorming session. Assassi-nation of the recentlyslashnews
Major quake shakes eastern city of Van
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey yesterday, triggering the collapse of buildings and killing many people, according
to officials and experts. At least 50 people were taken to the single hospital in the city of Van, Anatolia news agency said,
The wretched scandal of Gaza
Past bombed suburbs and scrubland stands the house on the frontier of hell. Once, Abdullah Wahdem's home was a pleasant villa set
in the citrus groves of northern Gaza. Now its cream stucco frontage is pitted by the bullets and artillery salvos that
From Hate to Love -
Story of Adiy ibn Hatim
In the ninth year of the Hijrah, an 'Arab king made the first positive moves to Islam after years of feeling hatred for it. He
drew closer to faith (iman) after opposing arid combating it. And he finally pledged allegiance to the Prophet, peace be on him,
Microsoft Bing in search deal with China’s
Baidu
Microsoft has signed a deal with China’s top search engine, Baidu, to provide the site with censored web search services in
English. Baidu, which dominates 83 per cent of the local market and whose success is built on its Chinese language services, said
