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Turkish Cypriots Want Peace
CYPRUS - Turkish Cypriots turned out to vote en masse at the parliamentary elections Sunday, demonstrating strong will and determination to create a new much wanted peace on the divided island. The turn out was reported to be at 74 percent. A strong indicator that island residents are happy and willing to participate in the democratic process of reunifying the island. |
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Feith warns against anti-Americanism in Turkey
A discussion on anti-Americanism sparked by a Robert Pollock article in The Wall Street Journal last week dominated the headlines in the Turkish press. Dailies also featured the political failure to effectively oppose to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). |
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Ankara Plan Media Auction
The Turkish government plans to sell of its media companies, which were gained back in the banking crisis four years ago. The auction is expected to go ahead in March and include some of the biggest: television and radio stations, newspapers and magazines. |
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Injured striker Nihat out for rest of season
Real Sociedad's Turkish international striker Nihat Kahveci will miss the rest of the season after tearing the cruciate ligament in his left knee, the Primera Liga club said on Sunday. The 25-year-old, who will have surgery, will be out for around six months and will be unavailable for Turkey's World Cup qualifiers against Albania, Georgia, Greece and Kazakhstan. |
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Denktas Acts in TV Series to Get his Point Across
Turkish Cypriot President Rauf Denktas is acting in a TV series in order to get high profile media coverage with regards to the struggle by Turkish Cypriots days before the 1974 Peace Operations. "What can I do? I always publicly explained the Cyprus problem but the Turkish media didn't cover this as news. I found this opportunity with the TV series." |
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Turkey Invests in Aviation Technology
Turkey is set to buy ten A400M military transportation airplanes, 180 planes will be produced in total and it is being hyped as the airplane of the future in terms of its flight range and carrying capacity. The draft law comprising Turkey's responsibility of 1.5 billion Euros in return for 10 airplanes was approved yesterday at the Foreign Affairs Commission of Parliament. |
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Baktat Removes the Controversial Soup Ad
Mustafa Baklan the owner of Baktat, a Turkish food company established in Germany, decided to stop broadcasting the controversial soup ad that has had the media and diplomats in a frenzy. The soup commercial prompted a diplomatic response from Bulgaria under the claims that it presented a negative image of Bulgarian policemen. |
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