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General Safety Director explains six precautions to make the streets safer
A conference has been organized in Ankara by the General Safety Director, who is in charge of 81 provinces, to address the dramatic increase in crime recently seen throughout Turkey, particularly in Istanbul. The conference will run for three days. |
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Israel to hand over Jericho to Palestine
Israel public radio reported yesterday that Israel will hand over jericho to Palestinian control, Wednesday. The hand over seen as a largely symbolic gesture, because Israeli soldiers are not operating in the city, will allow palestinian security forces to be armed and finally control the city. |
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The U.S. pressure Turkey to support Syrian's pullout from Lebanon
U.S ambassador to Turkey, Eric Edelman said that he hoped Turkey would join the international community in supporting the UN Security Council's Resolution 1559 which calls on Syria to immediately pullout troops from Lebanon. |
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Foreign ministry: the issue of IDPs
is a national one
The government responded yesterday to a report issued by the New York based "Human Rights Watch" last week, that claimed "Turkey wasn't doing enough to help the internally displaced kurds in Turkey". The foreign ministry said that the report had addressed it as an international problem but that it was an internal problem and that with such a report the issues could be solved inside Turkey. |
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Aydın denies claims about damage to Gelibolu graves in roadwork
Turkish State Minister Mehmet Aydin has rejected claims that unmarked graves of soldiers were damaged during the improvement of the coastal road on the Anzac Cove on the Gelibolu (Gallipoli) Peninsula.Speaking to reporters, Aydin, who is currently in Australia, asked ustralia to show proof for those allegations, and said, ''in case these claims are proven, I will help a deep investigation into this matter.'' |
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Gul: Turkey is an example of stability and democracy in the region
At a luncheon yesterday hosted by the Bloomberg organization in London, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said that Turkey defends universal values such as democracy, supremacy of law, good administration, human rights, stressing that economic opportunities were blossoming because of the democratic values of the Turkish state. |
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High Tribunal to listen to witnesses
in Ersumer& Cakan case
The High Tribunal will start on Wednesday to listen to witnesses in the lawsuit in which Cumhur Ersumer and Zeki Cakan, former energy and natural resources ministers,are being tried. Ersumer and Cakan may face up to ten years in prison if convicted. |
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Turkey press scan
These are some of the major headlines and their summaries in Turkish press on March 15th, 2005. The Anadolu Agency does not verify these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. |
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Turkish parliamentarians meet
U.S. congressmen
Turkish parliamentarians headed by Agah Kafkas, chairman of the Parliamentary Democracy Commission, visited U.S. local and federal congresses in Washington and Maryland and met U.S. officials on Monday. Kafkas told that they would also visit European capitals and the reason of their visits was to follow parliamentary works and affairs in these countries. |
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