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Wednesday, March 10 2010 @ 08:21 AM Central Standard Time
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| Vesile Tadik, a 49-year-old illiterate woman, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for carrying a banner in favor of the outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s Party, or PKK. |
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Monday, March 08 2010 @ 08:04 AM Central Standard Time
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The death toll from a 6.0-magnitude earthquake that shook eastern Turkey on Monday reached 57, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet Daily News reported.
Fifty-seven people had been killed by the quake, which caused the most deaths in six villages around the epicenter in the Karakocan town of the eastern province of Elazig, the newspaper quoted Karakocan mayor as saying. |
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Thursday, November 12 2009 @ 03:45 AM Central Standard Time
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| In Turkey, a colonel has been remanded in custody, which should have been involved in a conspiracy against the government. The officer denies the allegations and points to the military in the background. It is believed that the general stands behind the "Action Plan". |
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Thursday, November 12 2009 @ 03:42 AM Central Standard Time
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| Near the Turkish city of Antalya 18 German tourists were injured in a bus accident. The passengers were on their way home from a day trip to Cappadocia. The injured were treated by a physician in a hospital. |
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Thursday, November 12 2009 @ 03:33 AM Central Standard Time
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| The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan submit to parliament a controversial plan to end the Kurdish conflict. In talks with political parties, associations and human rights groups Erdogan has in recent months to explore, how to shape a new approach. |
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Thursday, November 12 2009 @ 03:31 AM Central Standard Time
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 After the murder of eight-year Kardelen from Paderborn now has to the alleged perpetrator in Turkey are brought to justice. The 29-year-old defendant said to have Kardelen sexually abused and then killed. |
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Thursday, October 22 2009 @ 09:07 AM Central Daylight Time
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| Speaking at a meeting held in his hometown of Kayseri on Sunday, President Abdullah Gül said now is the time to end terrorism in the country. Addressing business, he said the economy has faced tough times but that important business opportunities are developing for the future. |
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Wednesday, September 09 2009 @ 07:48 AM Central Daylight Time
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 Torrents of rain stampeding across northwestern Turkey strike up flash floods and leave chaos in their wake. At least nine people are left dead and many more are still missing. Collapsed bridges, road closures and overflowing waterways bring Istanbul to a crawl.
Heavy rains in the northwestern region of Marmara that started late Monday intensified yesterday, directly causing the deaths of nine people and wreaking havoc on the traffic.
Four people from the same family were found dead, and one other member was still missing, in the Saray region of the Tekirdağ province, the Anatolia news agency reported late Tuesday. In Istanbul’s Silivri region, an elderly disabled man drowned after floods inundated his house. Also, a woman who tried to cross rail tracks after the underpass was flooded on the Pendik-Kartal line on Istanbul’s Asian side was hit by a train and died, the Doğan news agency reported Tuesday.
Floods covered a large part of the region overnight in Saray, where a family of five was swept away. Emergency personnel found the bodies of the three children and the mother yesterday. The father is still missing. The bodies of an elderly couple, aged 81 and 79, were also found yesterday.
Zeki Kaya, a local administrator in Saray, said some 25 houses were damaged and 50 animals were lost in the flood. Two of the bridges in the Saray district have collapsed due to the flooding. |
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Wednesday, September 09 2009 @ 07:46 AM Central Daylight Time
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| Twenty people were killed in flash floods that gushed across a major highway and a factory district in Istanbul on Wednesday, the governor said, bringing the total death toll in the city to 23 over two days. |
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Monday, August 17 2009 @ 07:56 AM Central Daylight Time
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| As the rate of unemployment dropped in Turkey in May compared to April, it also increased in comparison to last year’s figures for the month of May. |
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