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World News tagged with turkey

Dafur & Armenian Genocide: PM Erdogan "A Muslim Can Never Commit Genocide."
World  (tags: world, genocide, Turkey, Armenia, politics, society, crime, government )

Cal
- 51 days ago - europenews.dk
The Turks still refuse to come to terms with their history of genocide of the Armenian people. Successive Turkish governments were responsible for the state murder of over 2 million Armenians and 300 000 Greeks.
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Turkey and Armenia Sign Historic Deal
World  (tags: world, turkey, armenia, goodnews, politics, diplomacy )

Cal
- 80 days ago - jpost.com
Turkey and Armenia signed an accord Saturday to establish diplomatic relations after a century of enmity, as US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton helped the two sides clear a last-minute snag.
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'Once in a Century' Storm Causes Flash Floods in Turkey, Kills 20
World  (tags: turkey, flood, death, weather )

Lone
- 112 days ago - nydailynews.com
ISTANBUL - Flash floods roared across a major highway and a commercial district in Istanbul on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and forcing dozens to scramble
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94th Anniversary of Armenian Genocide - Open Letter to US President Barac Obama
World  (tags: obama, Armenian Genocide, bloody massacre, genocide, crime, death, humanrights, Turkey, Armenia, 1.5 million innocent victims, humans )

Madalena
- 264 days ago - genocide1915.info
Dear Mr. Obama, April 24, 2009 will mark the 94th anniversary of a horrible tragedy in human history; the 1915 Armenian Genocide committed by the Turkish Ottoman Empire. How can we forget the cries of more than 1.5 million innocent victims of this bloo
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Turkey: Government Amendments Will Not Protect Free Speech
World  (tags: Turkey, Freedom of Speech, 'HUMANRIGHTS!' )

Ben
- 620 days ago - hrw.org
"Article 301 should have been abolished a long time ago. The revisions proposed by the government will not change the fundamental flaws in the law. The government's half-hearted revision is a real disappointment..." (Human Rights Watch)
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Turkish Prosecutors Seek to Ban Ruling Party
World  (tags: Turkey, church and state )


- 655 days ago - rawstory.com
Prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya's motion accused the AKP, an offshoot of a now banned Islamist movement...a party of conservative democrats, of infringing Turkey's strict official secularism, it said. (Can we ban our faith-based ruling parties too?)
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The War to Come
World  (tags: Bush, Iraq, Syria, Israel, Palestinians, Lebanon, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, war, middle-east, human rights, WMD, nuclear weapons )

Blue
- 658 days ago - weekly.ahram.org.eg
As you read these words, Gaza is being subjected to an onslaught that even top Israeli officials promised would be a "holocaust". Israel no longer even pretends to discriminate between resistant fighters and innocent civilians. Palestinians are being...
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Turkey Offers Oil Pipe Lifeline
World  (tags: Turkey, Israel, India, oil pipeline, war, Iraq )

Blue
- 672 days ago - atimes.com
Turkey is offering India access to its network of pipelines running from oil-rich Central Asia - with Israel serving as a key link in the chain. A deal would be attractive to New Delhi, if it could secure the oil to course through the pipes.
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Earthquake Hits Turkey - Ankara, Turkey
World  (tags: middle-east, violence, turkey, earthquakes, environment, Refugees&Relief )

Thunderr
- 734 days ago - my.earthlink.net
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 shook the Turkish capital early Thursday,rattling furniture and rousing residents from their sleep.The epicenter of the quake, which hit at 1:47 a.m., was in the town of Bala, some 50 miles south of Ankara
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'MY HOLOCAUST IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOURS....'
World  (tags: middle-east, israel, Turkey, Jewish, Armenian, genocide )

Madalena
- 801 days ago - desertpeace.blogspot.com
In not so many words, that's exactly what the Jewish community of Turkey had to say about the genocide commited against Armenians in the early 1900's.
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Gee, I Guess The George And Vlad Show Is Over
World  (tags: Gedorge Bush, Vladimir Putin, US, Russia, showdown, missiles, Europe, Turkey )

RC
- 801 days ago - mcclatchydc.com
Bush and his aides "grossly misjudged Putin," considering him "a good guy and one of us," said Michael McFaul of Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Must have been those voices George says he listens to.
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Passengers Escape Hijacked Plane
World  (tags: terrorism, crime, aircraft, hijacked, Turkey )

Ali
- 866 days ago - news.com.au
TWO men who said they were al-Qaeda members attempted to hijack a Turkish passenger plane to Iran or Syria, forcing the aircraft to land in the southern Turkish city of Antalya, passengers and officials said.
4 comments
Washington Discusses Plans for Covert Action Against Kurdish PKK in Iraq
World  (tags: turkey, kurds, energy, europe, iraq, middle-east, iran, bushadministration )


- 877 days ago - wsws.org
Plans for a US operation to "neutralise" the PKK will not only antagonise the Kurdish minority and increase the bloody toll of victims in Iraq--it also threatens to destabilise one of Washington's most important allies in the region.
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Turkey's Brothels Produce Two Election Candidates
World  (tags: government, HumanRights, middle-east, Turkey, elections, prostitution, politics, women )

Cynthia
- 894 days ago - womensenews.org
Two former prostitutes are running for seats in Turkey's July 22 election to raise awareness about the stigma sex workers face in the nation. With little chance for political victory, they say their goal is to change society instead.
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