Turkey ranks 31st among European states in purchasing power

European Parliament to host Kurdish conference

PKK sets terms for renouncing violence, demands Turkey's recognition of the Kurds identity

İlnur Çevik AK Party's Kurdish campaign is wrong

ANALYSIS-Soccer-Group A-Swiss and Turks play down revenge fears

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Tournament co-hosts Switzerland were joined in Group A by Fatih Terim's Turkey, reviving memories of the post-match brawl in Istanbul that marred ...

Şahin Alpay Is official recognition of Alevism impending?

[MONDAY TALK] Jörg Dehnert: EU should help Turkey more in its fight against terrorism

by YONCA POYRAZ DOĞAN

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is a problem in Europe and Europeans must support the Turkish government more in its fight against terrorism, said Jörg Dehnert, resident representative and project director of Germany's Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF) in Turkey, promoting individual freedom and liberalism.

 

Turks see US as global threat

A staggering 66 percent of the Turkish population consider the United States as the largest global threat,

Rights to be preserved in Constitution

by HAYRETTİN KARAMAN, YENİ ŞAFAK

Hürriyet Editor-in-Chief Ertuğrul Özkök wrote in one of his columns that if the Constitution foresees removal of the headscarf ban, it will pave the way for pressure against female university students who do not wear the Islamic headscarf and that the Constitution should first of all protect the rights of those who do not cover their hair or fast.

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Six-week-old Ceren Ceylan was the youngest victim of the plane crash that killed 57 people on Friday and was laid to rest along with her mother and grandmother in the southwestern province of Isparta on Saturday.

 

You can’t insult Turks, Mohammad, Spanish royalty - NEW EUROPE

"You can’t insult Turks, Mohammad, Spanish royalty 1 December 2007 - Issue : 758 Europeans think Muslim humour is an oxymoron, and many jumped to the defence of a Danish newspaper two years ago when it printed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that were, let’s say, rather unflattering, setting off jihadic jitters in the Muslim world and threats against the cartoonists, the newspaper, and the whole country of Denmark."

 Domestic violence cases will be taken under record - Turkish Daily News Dec 03, 2007

 

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Milliyet Police to control his anger thanks to Aristotle Turkish Security General Directorate distributed to police officers a booklet called “Anger Control” that quotes from Aristotle a passage conveying that anger and aggressive behavior will not help them to validate themselves, reported daily Milliyet yesterday. The booklet prepared by the Directorate's Personnel Chamber Presidency's human resources office includes the following quote from the famous philosopher Aristotle in its preface: “One can be angry. This is easy. However, being angry at the right person, at the right level, at the right time, with a right aim, and in a right way; this is difficult.” Person

Babacan's visit to Greece to awake dormant questions

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Using Britain’s experience in Turkey’s fight against terrorism Can the DTP find its own Gerry Adams?by BEKİR ÇINAR

Why are Democratic Society Party (DTP) and its leaders destroying an historic opportunity? Is it that they don’t really like Turkey and the Kurds? Or is it instead that they are just far, far removed from the knowledge of what it means to be and to lead a political party?