Ankara: Turkey has submitted a bid to UEFA to host the 2020 European Championships, the head of the country's football federation announced on Tuesday. Turkey is also bidding to stage the 2020 Olympics in Istanbul. UEFA president Michel Platini has previously said he would back the country to host Euro 2020 only if it loses the Olympic bid. The International Olympic Committee will vote on the 2020 Games in September...
11:18 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Damascus is reportedly trying to stop its nationals from fleeing to southern Turkey by planting landmines along its border. ...
10:35 AM, Mar 30, 2012
A look at the world's strongest earthquakes and tsunamis: March 20, 2012: A 7.4-magnitude quake with an epicenter in Guerrero state shakes central southern Mexico, swaying buildings in Mexico City. March 11, 2011: A magnitude 8.9 quake strikes off the northeast coast of Japan, sending a tsunami across the Pacific and killing a still-undetermined number of people. October 2011: A 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Turkey claims at least 582 lives, most...
01:51 AM, Mar 21, 2012
Washington: The United States is having "very intense and very blunt" conversations with India, China and Turkey on reducing their dependence on Iranian oil, the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told lawmakers. Clinton, testifying before a Congressional committee on Tuesday, said the US is asking these countries to take specific measures that would reduce their dependence on Iranian oil adding. But, without naming one, she did acknowledge that this...
11:19 AM, Feb 29, 2012
Geneva: India has launched a trade complaint against Turkey's policies on imports of cotton yarn, the World Trade Organization (WTO) said on its website on Tuesday. India is objecting to Turkey's use of "safeguard measures" to help its cotton industry, which one Indian official said could affect Indian exports worth around $600 million per year. Safeguard measures are temporary protectionist tariffs, permitted by WTO rules, to help a specific industry...
02:19 AM, Feb 15, 2012
Ankara: Turkish warplanes mistakenly killed 35 smugglers and other villagers in an operation targeting Kurdish rebels in Iraq, a senior official said Thursday, one of the largest one-day civilian death tolls during Turkey's 27-year drive against the guerrillas. The killings spurred angry demonstrations in Istanbul and several cities in the mostly Kurdish southeast, and were the latest incident of violence to undermine the Turkish government's efforts to appease the aggrieved...
02:50 AM, Dec 30, 2011
Beirut: Turkey warned Syria on Friday it would act to protect itself if a Syrian government crackdown on protesters threatened regional security and unleashed a tide of refugees on its borders. At least 14 Syrians were shot dead as protesters took the streets following Friday prayers and ahead of a general strike called for Sunday, according to a network of anti-government activists reporting events to a website based in Britain....
01:39 AM, Dec 10, 2011
Beirut: Syrian President Bashar al Assad has denied ordering his troops to kill peaceful demonstrators, telling the US television channel ABC that only a "crazy" leader kills his own people. Assad is under growing international pressure, including a threat of sanctions from the Arab League, over a crackdown on nationwide anti-government protests in which the United Nations says more than 4,000 people have been killed. "We don't kill our people...
02:02 AM, Dec 08, 2011
Tehran: Iran will target NATO's missile defense installations in Turkey if the US or Israel attacks the Islamic Republic, a senior commander of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard said on Saturday. General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the Guards' aerospace division, said the warning is part of a new defense strategy to counter what he described as an increase in threats from the US and Israel. Tensions have been rising...
01:52 AM, Nov 27, 2011
Ankara: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan called on Tuesday for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down for the sake of peace in the region and said Turkey could not turn its back on the Syrian people. Erdogan said Assad should learn a lesson from the fate of Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader toppled by rebels in August and killed after his capture last month, and that criticism of the...
01:02 AM, Nov 23, 2011
Ankara: A magnitude-5.2 quake early on Tuesday shook eastern Turkey, already devastated by two powerful tremors, the Kandilli observatory said. It was not clear whether the latest quake in Van province caused any damage or injuries. Its epicentre was in the village of Mollakasim, the observatory said in a statement. Previous quakes have turned Van, the provincial capital of half a million, into a virtual ghost town, Governor Munir Karaloglu...
05:12 AM, Nov 15, 2011
Istanbul: Last week's earthquake in southeast Turkey killed 40 people, bringing the death toll in two tremors over the last three weeks to 644, the state Disaster and Emergency Administration (AFAD) said on Sunday. Tens of thousands of people have been left homeless by the quakes in Van province, bordering Iran, and their plight has been worsened by freezing temperatures after the first heavy snowfall of winter. Prime Minister Tayyip...
07:54 PM, Nov 13, 2011
Van: Rescuers on Friday recovered the dead body of one of the two journalists missing underneath the rubble of an earthquake-shattered hotel as the death toll in the second earthquake to hit eastern Turkey in about two weeks rose to at least 25. A colleague identified a body found in the rubble of the collapsed hotel in the eastern city of Van as that of Cem Emir, a reporter for...
06:46 AM, Nov 12, 2011
Ankara: A group of Kurdish militants on Friday hijacked a ferry with 19 passengers near Istanbul, the country's transport minister said. The minister, Binali Yildirim, said "four or five" hijackers claiming to be members of the armed wing of the Kurdish rebel group Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, commandeered the ship after it set sail from the northwestern port city of Izmit. The rebels have been fighting for autonomy in...
02:13 AM, Nov 12, 2011
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