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By Paul Taylor PARIS (Reuters) - Turkey`s achievement of investment-grade status crowns a decade of rapid growth, financial stability and political reform by a `tiger` economy on the seam of Europe and Asia, but the rising power still faces pitfalls in a dangerous neighborhood. Moody`s Investors Service raised its rating on Ankara`s sovereign bonds to Baa3, or investment grade, from Ba1 late on Thursday, following in the footsteps of Fitch credit ratings agency, which took that step last November. ...
Friday, May 17, 2013 17:39 |
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) Officials say a container of fuel being smuggled into Turkey from Syria has exploded, killing 10 people.
Friday, May 17, 2013 16:53 |
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police have detained a man they believe to be one of the main perpetrators of car bombings that killed more than 50 people near the Syrian border, officials said on Friday. Turkey has accused Syria of involvement in the two bombings last weekend in the town of Reyhanli in Hatay province, which fanned fears that Syria`s civil war is dragging in neighboring states. Damascus denies any role. Hatay governor Celalettin Lekesiz said police had detained a man identified only by the initials M.G. ...
Friday, May 17, 2013 13:30 |
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police have detained a man they believe to be one of the main perpetrators of car bombings that killed more than 50 people near the Syrian border, officials said on Friday. Turkey has accused Syria of involvement in the two bombings last weekend in the town of Reyhanli, which fanned fears that Syria`s civil war is dragging in neighboring states. Damascus denies any role. Local governor Celalettin Lekesiz said police had detained a man identified only by the initials M.G. ...
Friday, May 17, 2013 12:19 |
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish appeals court on Wednesday ruled that the killers of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink did not act alone but were part of a criminal conspiracy, paving the way for a retrial of the case that has gripped the nation for years. Judges in Ankara overturned a lower criminal court`s 2012 judgment that only two people, now serving prison sentences, were behind the 2007 murder, Fethiye Cetin, a lawyer for the Dink family, told Reuters. `We have strong evidence that state officials were involved in the conspiracy, and that evidence is even in the prosecutor`s report... ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 17:18 |
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By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan Taliban said on Tuesday it had freed the remaining four of eight Turkish civilians detained last month, the Islamist group said in a statement, adding it hoped the gesture would improve ties with Ankara. The eight were taken captive by the Taliban in Afghanistan`s eastern Logar province when their helicopter was forced to make a `hard landing` last month. The first four were freed earlier this week. ...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 16:22 |
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) A hospital says a Turkish woman who was the first to get pregnant with a transplanted donor womb has had her pregnancy terminated.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 16:00 |
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) Turkey`s prime minister says authorities have detained four more people in connection with two car bomb attacks in a Turkish town near the Syrian border, bringing the number of suspects in custody to 13.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 11:49 |
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ANKARA (Reuters) - The loss of a Turkish fighter jet near Turkey`s southern city of Osmaniye, 50 km (30 miles) from the Syrian border, is likely to have been an accident, Turkey`s NTV television cited military sources as saying on Monday. The military earlier said it had lost touch with an F-16 fighter on an operational flight near Osmaniye at around 1115 GMT after the pilot radioed to say he was ejecting. (Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
Monday, May 13, 2013 14:28 |
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) Turkish citizens believed to have links to the Syrian intelligence agency have been detained in connection with twin car bombings that shattered a Turkish border town, officials said Sunday. Turkey`s prime minister insisted the country wouldn`t fall for a `dirty scenario` and be dragged into its neighbor`s civil war.
Sunday, May 12, 2013 16:14 |
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