Turkey

PKK says it carried out Turkey suicide car bomb

ISTANBUL - The militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) claimed responsibility on Saturday for a suicide car bomb attack in central Turkey that killed one policeman, and media reports said the bombers had entered Turkey from Syria.

Clinton to visit Scandinavia, Caucasus, Turkey

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leaves next week on an eight-day trip to Scandinavia, the Caucasus and Turkey that will cover security issues such as Iran and Syria as well as the environment and health.

World, Syria 25 May 2012

Lebanese Syria hostage release delayed, massacre claimed

BEIRUT/AMMAN - Lebanon said on Friday that a group of Lebanese Shi'ites kidnapped in Syria had been freed and were safe in Turkey, but produced no sign of the hostages at the centre of a kidnap drama heightening tensions over the conflict in neighboring Syria. | Video

World, United Nations, Syria 25 May 2012

Car bomb in central Turkey kills 3, wounds 18

ISTANBUL - Two militants set off a bomb inside their car by a police headquarters in the central Turkish province of Kayseri on Friday, killing themselves and one policeman and wounding 18 others, Turkey's interior minister said.

World, 25 May 2012

Bulgaria, Turkey, Qatar agree to build highway

SOFIA - Bulgaria, Turkey and Qatar have agreed to form a common project company to build a highway on the Bulgarian territory, the construction ministry said after a trilateral meeting on Thursday.

World, 24 May 2012

Turkish civilian killed in attack by Kurdish rebels

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey - A construction worker was killed and three people were wounded when Kurdish militants attacked a military outpost in southeastern Turkey near the Iraqi border, security sources said on Saturday.

World, Iraq 19 May 2012

Syria accuses Lebanon of "incubating" terrorists

UNITED NATIONS - Damascus has sent a letter to the United Nations accusing some Lebanese areas of helping al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood to take root along the Syrian border, adding to its criticism of Turkey and Libya for allegedly providing arms to Syrian rebels. | Video

World, United Nations, Syria, 18 May 2012

Spat with Iraq bares Turk plunge into regional power game

ANKARA - A bitter rift with Iraq has exposed Turkey's role in a wider Middle East power struggle, with Ankara acting to protect its stability and prosperity from an Iranian-Iraqi "Shi'ite axis" it fears in the wake of the U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq.

World, Iraq 18 May 2012

Turkey says Israeli plane violates N.Cyprus airspace

ISTANBUL - Turkey said on Thursday it had scrambled military jets to intercept an Israeli plane that violated northern Cypriot airspace this week, and demanded an explanation for the incursion.

World, Israel, 17 May 2012

Three Turkish soldiers killed in PKK clash

ISTANBUL - Three Turkish soldiers were killed in clashes with Kurdish rebels near the Syrian border in southern Turkey on Thursday, the provincial governor's office said.

World, Syria 17 May 2012
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U.N. says over 92 killed in Syria, 32 of them children

BEIRUT - The United Nations said on Saturday that more than 92 people were killed in what activists described as an artillery barrage by government forces in the worst violence since the start of a U.N. peace plan to slow the flow of blood in Syria's uprising. | Video

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Greek debt – remember the goats

Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.