Dubmin: Russia's leading internet search engine, Yandex, will take the fight to Google in emerging markets like Turkey in a bid to offset the inroads made by the US giant in its home market. Yandex founder and chief executive Arkady Volozh told Reuters on Friday the firm was likely to use its own experts to expand into new countries, but would not rule out acquisitions or partnership deals. "We are...
01:37 PM, Oct 20, 2012
Beirut/Amman: Turkey has banned all Syrian aircraft from its air space as it takes an increasingly firm stance against President Bashar al-Assad, while Syrian rebels said on Sunday they had made more gains in a key province near the Turkish border. Human Rights Watch said Syrian government forces had dropped Russian-made cluster bombs over civilian areas in the past week as they battled to reverse rebel advances, an act which...
01:21 AM, Oct 15, 2012
Istanbul: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday a Syrian passenger plane forced to land in Ankara was carrying Russian-made munitions destined for Syria's armed forces, ratcheting up tension with his country's war-torn neighbour. Damascus said the plane had been carrying legitimate cargo and described Turkey's actions as an act of "air piracy", while Moscow accused Ankara of endangering the lives of Russian passengers when it intercepted the jet...
02:31 AM, Oct 12, 2012
Turkey: Turkey stepped up retaliatory artillery strikes on a Syrian border town on Thursday, killing several Syrian soldiers, while its parliament approved further military action in the event of another spillover of the Syrian conflict. Seeking to unwind the most serious cross-border escalation in its 18-month-old crackdown on dissent, Damascus apologised through the United Nations for shelling which killed five civilians in southeast Turkey on Wednesday and said it would...
01:33 AM, Oct 05, 2012
There is a crisis brewing for those who have survived the fighting in Syria. The United Nations' refugee agency says up to 7,00,000 Syrian refugees could leave the country by the end of this year, nearly 4 times its original estimate. However, as CNN's Ivan Watson found out, it's recently become much harder to get out of Syria and across the border into Turkey. Watson found refugees waiting - in ...
12:44 PM, Sep 28, 2012
New York: A Turkish couple has shown that they need far less than 140 characters to express eternal love for each other, after exchanging wedding vows via Twitter on their iPads. Cengizhan Celik, the Groom, and his bride Candan Canik got married by tweeting the Turkish word "Evet," or "Yes," on their iPads. Their officiant Mustafa Kara, a local mayor, had prompted them before to say "I do" with a...
03:35 PM, Sep 07, 2012
London: Servet Tazegul of Turkey has won the Olympic taekwondo gold medal in the men's 68-kilogram division on Thursday. The 23-year-old Tazegul is the world No. 1 and defeated Mohammad Bagheri Motamed of Iran by a score of 6 to 5 in a closely fought final where he was often in attack mode, throwing several combinations of spinning or jumping kicks. But despite the acrobatics, Tazegul rarely scored " unlike...
03:34 AM, Aug 10, 2012
Minneapolis: Jim Tonjes was high above North America when he bit into a hot turkey sandwich aboard a Delta Airlines flight and felt a sudden jab in his mouth. Glancing down, he noticed what looked like a sewing needle in the food. Another passenger on the plane reported the same thing. At first, he thought a toothpick meant to hold the sandwich together had punctured the roof of his mouth....
10:35 AM, Jul 18, 2012
Atlanta: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating after needles were found in turkey sandwiches on Delta Airlines flights from Amsterdam to the United States. Delta says what appear to be sewing needles were found in five sandwiches on Sunday. One passenger on a flight to Minneapolis was injured. The other needles were on two flights to Atlanta and one to Seattle. FBI Special Agent Stephen Emmett in Atlanta...
08:14 AM, Jul 18, 2012
Ankara: Turkey has accused Syria of shooting down one of its military reconnaissance jets in international airspace without warning and summoned a NATO meeting for Tuesday to agree a response to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Turkey's cabinet was due to meet on Monday to discuss Friday's incident, which lent a more threatening international dimension to the 16-month-old uprising against Assad. Britain called the attack over the eastern Mediterranean outrageous and...
12:33 PM, Jun 25, 2012
Ankara/Amman: Turkey accused Syria on Sunday of shooting down a military reconnaissance jet in international airspace without warning and called a NATO meeting to discuss a response to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Amid growing acrimony between the once-friendly neighbours, Syria said its forces had shot dead "terrorists" infiltrating its territory from Turkey, which along with Western and Arab nations has backed the cause of Syrians fighting Assad. Turkey's Foreign Minister...
10:10 PM, Jun 24, 2012
Ankara: A Syrian official has said the downing of a Turkish military plane that Syria said was operating in its airspace was an accident, and not a hostile act against its neighbour. Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdisi told Turkish news channel A Haber on Saturday that Syria had exerted its "sovereign right" against an "unknown" aircraft violating its air space. Makdisi was quoted as telling the channel that Syria...
10:16 PM, Jun 23, 2012
Ankara: Turkey will take retaliatory steps against Syria for the downing of one of its military jets, President Abdullah Gul said on Saturday, even as he suggested that the aircraft may have violated Syrian airspace. It was not clear if Gul was suggesting military retaliation, increased sanctions against Syria or other possible steps, including demands for an apology, and his aide would not comment on his words. But Faruk Celik,...
08:48 PM, Jun 23, 2012
Ankara: Syria shot down a Turkish warplane over the Mediterranean on Friday and Ankara warned it would respond decisively to the incident that threatened to open a new international dimension in the 16-month revolt against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Syria said the Turkish aircraft was flying low, well inside Syrian territorial waters when it was shot down. With the second biggest army in NATO, a force hardened by nearly 30...
09:20 AM, Jun 23, 2012
Athens: An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 shook southwest Turkey on Sunday and at least six people were injured after jumping from their balconies or windows in panic, observatory data showed and local media reported. The quake struck off the coast of the Mediterranean province of Mugla, a popular destination for foreign tourists. A few buildings were damaged, the province's Deputy Governor Necmi Kurt told NTV news channel. Six or seven...
08:27 AM, Jun 11, 2012
Athens: A powerful earthquake shook Greece's island of Rhodes and southwestern Turkey on Sunday, but no deaths or damage were immediately reported. The Athens Geodynamic Institute says the quake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 struck at a depth of 37 kilometers (23 miles) in the Aegean Sea at 3.44 pm (1244 GMT) on Sunday. That is between the Greek island of Rhodes and western Turkey. Turkey's Kandilli Observatory gave...
09:13 PM, Jun 10, 2012
Beirut: Syria labelled 17 diplomats, most of them American or European, as "persona non grata" (unwelcome) in response to a mass expulsion of Syrian envoys by Western capitals last week. But the foreign ministry said the government was still open to re-establishing ties with the diplomats, almost all of whom had already been recalled by their governments. "The Syrian Arab Republic still believes in the importance of dialogue based on...
11:48 AM, Jun 06, 2012
Ankara: Thousands of demonstrators on Monday staged the largest protest yet against plans by Turkey's Islamic-rooted government to curb abortion, which critics say will amount to a virtual ban. Around 3,000 women, their ages ranging from 20 to 60 years old, gathered at a square in Istanbul's Kadikoy district carrying banners that read "my body, my choice," while shouting anti-government slogans. Many were accompanied by husbands and boyfriends. One man...
11:00 AM, Jun 04, 2012
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
