Archive for September, 2008
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EU agrees on 4.5 bln euro aid for candidate states
Posted on September 30, 2008 | 1 CommentBRUSSELS, Sept 29 (Reuters) – The European Union’s executive arm agreed on Monday how to spend 4.5 billion euros ($6.5 billion) in aid to the bloc’s candidate countries in 2008-10,... -
Turkey Pushes for More Nagorno-Karabakh Talks amid Warming Ties with Armenia
Posted on September 30, 2008 | No CommentsTurkey is sponsoring additional Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations on the unresolved Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in an apparent effort to hasten the normalization of its historically strained ties with Armenia. Turkish Foreign Minister Ali... -
TURKEY’S FIRST MILGEM WARSHIP LAUNCHED IN ISTANBUL
Posted on September 29, 2008 | No CommentsOn September 27 the Turkish navy launched the corvette TCG Heybeliada, the first modern warship to be designed, built, and equipped primarily from local resources. The TCG Heybeliada is the... -
Drug Smuggling As Main Source of PKK Terrorism
Posted on September 29, 2008 | 1 CommentFriday, 26 September 2008 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sedat LACINER is director of USAK, Ankara-based Turkish think-tank and International Relations lecturer. BA (Ankara U., Turkiye), MA (Sheffield, UK), PhD (King’s College... -
U N I T E D N A T I O N S ; International Day of Older Persons – Message from the Secretary-General
Posted on September 29, 2008 | No CommentsPlease find attached a message of the Secretary-General on the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons. U N I T E D N A T... -
Is Real James Bond On Facebook?
Posted on September 29, 2008 | No CommentsBy Sky News SkyNews – Sunday, September 28 01:29 pm Spies are using social networking website Facebook to try to recruit real-life James Bonds. The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) has... -
Banking crisis claims Belgo-Dutch giant
Posted on September 29, 2008 | No CommentsLEIGH PHILLIPS Today @ 09:27 CET The global banking crisis, born across the Atlantic, again sent waves crashing into Europe on Sunday (29 September) as the Belgian, Dutch and Luxemburg... -
Istanbul skyline gets woman’s touch
Posted on September 29, 2008 | No CommentsWhen I met designer Zeynep Fadillioglu, she was giving instructions to her team of architects on the installation of a cutting-edge water feature. The design draws heavily on Turkey’s Islamic... -
‘Top Syrian officer among bomb victims’
Posted on September 29, 2008 | No CommentsA mysterious explosion near Damascus on Saturday claimed the lives of at least 17 people, including a brigadier-general, further destabilizing the Syrian regime. A car bomb carrying 200 kilograms of... -
Breakthrough reached in negotiations on U.S. bailout
Posted on September 29, 2008 | No CommentsNancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives, leaving a meeting on the bailout package in Washington. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) By David M. Herszenhorn and Carl Hulse Published: September 28,... -
Obama fights ‘Jewish problem’
Posted on September 29, 2008 | No CommentsBY CHRIS MEGERIAN Cox News Service Illinois Senator Barack Obama appears to have less support from Jews than previous Democratic candidates. WASHINGTON — Halie Soifer is building an army. Assembled... -
Police kill Kurdish politician in Iraq
Posted on September 29, 2008 | No CommentsBy Vanessa Gera ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD — Iraqi police fatally shot a Kurdish politician yesterday in one of Iraq’s most volatile provinces, a killing that underlines the growing tensions between Kurds and... -
Calming the Caucasus By Ali BABACAN
Posted on September 29, 2008 | No CommentsTURKISH INITIATIVES By Ali Babacan Published: September 23, 2008 The conflict between Russia and Georgia has once again demonstrated the volatile character of the Caucasus and why... -
Clyde sells systems for Turkish satellites
Posted on September 29, 2008 | No CommentsMARK SMITH DEPUTY BUSINESS EDITOR mark.smith@theherald.co.uk CLYDE Space, Scotland’s only space industry business, has struck a £150,000 deal to supply two flight model power systems to Turkey’s fledgling satellite programme. The deal... -
Azerbaijan H.E. M. Elmar Maharram oglu Mammadyarov, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Posted on September 28, 2008 | No CommentsStatement Summary © UN Photo ELMAR MAMMADYAROV, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, stated that the effectiveness of the international security system impacted on the authority of the United Nations. When... -
Message of the Kurdish Jews from Tel Aviv, Israel
Posted on September 28, 2008 | No CommentsTribute to Israel and Kurdistan [sic.] by Kurdish Jews Tel Aviv 1/2 Tribute to Israel and Kurdistan [sic.] by Kurdish Jews Tel Aviv 2/2 -
Deadly car bombs rock Baghdad
Posted on September 28, 2008 | No CommentsAt least 26 people have been killed and dozens wounded after two car bombs exploded in the west of Baghdad, the Iraqi capital. A dozen people died and 35 were... -
Tit-for-tat Kurds reverse Saddam’s ‘ethnic cleansing’
Posted on September 28, 2008 | No CommentsKHANAQIN, Iraq (AFP) — For Iraqi Kurdish mathematics teacher Mohammed Aziz, two wrongs can make a right. After decades of forced exile by the Baath party of Saddam Hussein, he... -
U.S. Ambassadorial nominee for Turkey doesn’t dispute Morgenthau’s record on Armenian Genocide
Posted on September 28, 2008 | No Comments/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Ambassador to Turkey designate James Jeffrey, in response to questions from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman and Vice-Presidential candidate Joe Biden (D-DE), affirmed that official U.S. diplomatic reports by... -
Opposition website: Syria blast may be ‘work accident’
Posted on September 28, 2008 | No CommentsSyrian opposition website suggests Damascus explosion may be result of security forces’ mishap; Lebanon PM condemns attack as ‘terror crime’ Roee Nahmias Published: 09.27.08, 22:05 / Israel News The Damascus...
