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Sheikh Abdulkadir Mumin, a senior officer in Al-Shabaab, the radical Islamist group opposing the Transitional Federal Government in Somalia has criticised the role of Turkey in Somalia.

PanARMENIAN.Net – Considering the fact that the final court ruling in the murder case of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in 2007 has not fulfilled the public’s sense of justice, Bugn daily Ankara representative Adem Yavuz Arslan said the investigation into the murder case of Dink should be taken back to square one and this time handled with … (more)

For adversaries in a long-distance spat, they made an odd couple. Turkey’s leader, a brash visionary who propelled his country to regional prominence, tangled with an American author who dwells on the existential in his work.

For adversaries in a long-distance spat, they made an odd couple. Turkey’s leader, a brash visionary who propelled his country to regional prominence, tangled with an American author who dwells on the existential in his work.

ANKARA: Intense gunfire rang out overnight at the Syria-Turkey frontier as Damascus moved to root out the opposition in a Syrian border village, a local source said Sunday.

The NATO missile shiled program, whose radars were installed at the KA1 4recik Air Base in Malatya, southeastern Turkey, will be commanded from the Alliance’s Ramstein Air Base, according to U.S. Defense Minister Leon Panetta, who briefed journalists on the sidelines of the international security conference in Munich.

Journal of Turkish Weekly Feb 4 2012 Civil Society Groups Keep Turkey-Armenia Rapprochement Alive Saturday, 4 February 2012 Following official attempts at rapprochement between Turkey and Armenia in 2008 with so-called “Football diplomacy”, civil society groups on both sides of the border began to engage more each other more actively.

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak called Saturday for closer economic ties with Turkey befitting the “brotherhood” relationship between the wartime allies, saying a free trade deal would be a good way to lift economic relations.

TURKEY BANS FRANCE FROM USING ITS AIRSPACE AND TERRITORIAL WATERS PanARMENIAN.Net February 3, 2012 – 16:37 AMT French state aircraft and warships are no longer using Turkish airspace and territorial waters after permission requests in three different cases were rejected by the Turkish government, France’s top diplomat inAnkarasaid, amid the ongoing … (more)

TEHRAN Hundreds of people converged on Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, on Saturday protesting the hostile moves against Iran by the United States, the Zionist regime, and a number of European countries.

Syrians living in Turkey and human right activists stage a protest outside the Syrian consulate to condemn the latest killings in Syria, in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Feb.

The last devastating earthquake Turkey experienced was in 1999, back when it was still largely an analogue world, email was in its infancy and Mark Zuckerberg was just another high school dreamer.

A park “Azerbaijan” and monument erected to Azerbaijani martyrs have been opened in the city of Elazig, Turkey.

Sahit Muja: Turkey’s economy and tourism is one of the fastest growing in the world.

ARE TURKEY AND ISRAEL GETTING CLOSER? by Asli Aydintasbas Milliyet Jan 30 2012 Turkey [translated from Turkish] There is no normalization or secret agreement between Turkey and Israel.

It’s time for Tyler Junior College’s annual trip to Turkey and reservations still are being accepted.

TURKISH AMBASSADOR IN PARIS SAYS EXPECTS FRENCH HIGH COUNCIL TO ANNUL DENIAL BILL Anadolu Agency Feb 1 2012 Turkey PARIS -Turkey’s ambassador in Paris on Tuesday [31 January] said he expected the French Constitutional Council to annul a legislation that makes it a crime to deny Armenian allegations on Ottoman era incidents of 1915.

Iraq’s Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi speaks at a news conference in in Arbil, about 350 km north of Baghdad, December 20, 2011.

The former head of the Turkish military faces charges of trying to foment a coup against the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan .

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses lawmakers and supporters of his party at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, January 24, 2012.

PanARMENIAN.Net – Officials from the Malatya Municipality have demolished three buildings, including a place of worship that was under renovation, located inside an Armenian cemetery, Today’s Zaman reported.

A Turkish military helicopter near the Iraqi border where thousands of Turkish troops have launched a ground and air offensive against PKK fighters, October 21 2011.

Istanbul, Turkey is best known in the shopping world for a maze of merchandise in its Grand Bazaar – which really is grand and dangerous for those with a limited budget .

Congratulations on Florida. Now that you are again the front-runner, and your campaign focus is returning to President Obama, I’d like to call attention to a line you have used repeatedly: “This is a president who fundamentally believes that this next century is the post-American century.” I leave it to the president to describe what he believes, … (more)

Auster, author of the acclaimed New York Trilogy, told Turkish paper Hurriyet earlier this week that he refused to visit Turkey because of imprisoned journalists and writers.

The Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation released the results of a survey yesterday in Istanbul, about how Turkey was perceived across the Middle East and North Africa.

TURKEY HAS EFFECTIVE ROLE Anadolu Agency February 1, 2012 Wednesday Turkey Appeal of French denial law step to protect freedom of expression Turkish Parliament Speaker Cemil Cicek said Turkey had effective roles in several international organizations.

The National Court has rejected the case against the Military saying that the crew were to blame for the crash.

Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb.3 / Trend A. Taghiyeva /

The Ecology and Urban Planning Ministry of Turkey gave a permission to build a new container port in the territory of a major petrochemical complex Petkim, the Hurriyet newspaper reported on Friday.

Polymet teams up with its Turkish distributor Sinerji Metal Ltd to display at the WIN Fair part 1 this year CINCINNATI, OH February 2, 2012 – Polymet Corporation, a leading manufacturer of high performance hardfacing wire, welding wire and thermal spray wire located in Cincinnati, will exhibit at the World Of Industry Fair in Istanbul, Turkey on … (more)

FARCICAL FRENCH MOVE ON ARMENIAN VOTES OVER TURKS by Murat Yetkin Hurriyet Daily News Feb 2 2012 Turkey Generally speaking the Turkish media was in a joyous mood yesterday, following a motion by a group of French legislators to annul the French Senate’s approval of a law criminalizing denial that the Armenian killings of 1915 in the last years of … (more)

The subject of Istanbul and its booming growth appears to be in the air these days.

Wednesday’s action sanctioning four people and three companies for their drug trafficking ties to the PKK is the first use of the Kingpin Act in Europe targeting the organisation.

Peter Price, an architect who had an office on Newtown Lane in East Hampton for more than 30 years, died of heart disease on Jan.

Turkey may consider offering asylum to the family of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose country was shaken by a bloody protest since March 2011, Turkish President Abdullah Gul, was quoted Thursday as saying by the press Turkish.

Those who hoped that the IAEA visit to Iran would open the door to resuming talks on Tehran’s nuclear programs must be disappointed.

ERDOGAN SPEAKS AGAINST RACISM, XENOPHOBIA AND ISLAMOPHOBIA IN EUROPE Anadolu Agency Feb 1 2012 Turkey Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Turkey would not remain silent towards racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia which was insidiously escalating in Europe.

Renault SA, which makes seven models of passenger cars in Turkey, may look at building commercial vans at its plant in the country as competitors expand in the segment, the head of the company’s local joint venture said.

A series of events on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of Azerbaijan`s independence will open on Thursday in Elazig.

PanARMENIAN.Net – Some 18,000 Russian women who are married to Turkish men reside in Turkey’s resort province of Antalya, Today’s Zaman reports.

TURKEY CANNOT PLAY A STABILIZING ROLE IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS Artak Barseghyan “Radiolur” 31.01.2012 18:50 As a result of the recent meeting in Moscow the Foreign Ministers of Russia and Turkey adopted a statement, in which they stressed their interest in the resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

Ties between Turkey, NATO‘s biggest Muslim member, and Hamas, the Islamic militant group that says Israel should not exist, are blossoming.

The Prime Minister of Bosnia’s Republic of Srpska, Mr. Aleksandar Dzombic, in his Office received the Ambassador of Republic of Turkey to B&H, H.E. Mr.

TURKISH FIRST LADY SNUBS FRENCH AMBASSADOR’S WIFE Trend Jan 27 2012 Azerbaijan In reaction to the French Senate’s approval of a bill that criminalizes denying the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman forces in the early 20th century, first lady Hayrunnisa Gul has not invited Sabine Bili, the wife of the French ambassador to Turkey, Laurent Bili, to … (more)

Upheaval in the Middle East and mutual economic interests are drawing together two unlikely partners; rising powerhouse Turkey and an entity whose name Turkish leaders hardly dare mention – Kurdistan, the semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq.

Iran has not received any official request on the gas price lowering from Turkish Botas company, the spokesman of National Iranian Gas Company said here on Wednesday.

The publication in Turkey of a new work by Paul Auster – even before it is released in the United States – would seem to be a cause for celebration there.

ECONOMY MINISTER MEETS EXECUTIVES OF FRENCH COMPANIES IN TURKEY. IntelliNews Jan 30 2012 Economy minister Zafer Caglayan had a meeting with the executives of more than 30 French companies doing business in Turkey over a recent French law which makes it a crime to deny the killing of Armenians under Ottoman rule is genocide.

Turkey’s prime minister has hit back at American writer Paul Auster who was quoted as saying that he would not visit the country to protest its jailing of journalists and writers.

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s prime minister has hit back at American writer Paul Auster who was quoted as saying that he would not visit the country to protest its jailing of journalists and writers.

TURKEY HAILS FRENCH SENATORS’ MOVE TO BLOCK GENOCIDE BILL Ahram Online http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/9/33354/World/International/Turkey-hails-French-senators-move-to-block-genocid.aspx Jan 31 2012 Egypt Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan praises move by group of French senators to block law banning Armenian genocide ‘denial’ … (more)

FRANCE’S SARKOZY SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO LEGISLATE TURKEY’S HISTORY: VIEW Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-30/sarkozy-should-not-attempt-to-legislate-turkey-s-history-view.html Jan 30 2012 The president of France is getting ready to sign a bill making it a crime in his country to deny that a century ago, the Ottoman Empire committed … (more)

ANALYSTS SAY TURKEY ON WRONG TRACK OVER ARMENIA GENOCIDE Agence France Presse January 27, 2012 Friday 11:50 AM GMT Turkey’s attempts to intimidate France and other countries over the question of the Armenian genocide are bound to backfire, analysts said as the 100th anniversary of the bloodshed approaches.

Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb.1 / Trend M.Aliyev /

Today, Feb 1, at the first spring meeting session, the Azerbaijani Parliament discussed the law criminalising the denial of the so-called “Armenian genocide”.

SOCAR, Azerbaijan`s state oil company has become a leading company not only of the country, but also the entire region thanks to application of modern management mechanism and technological novelties.

WAM Dubai, 31 Jan 2012 : Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansoori, UAE Minister of Economy, and Mehmet ?im?ek, Minister of Finance of the Republic of Turkey, today in a joint statement stressed the importance of the visit by Abdullah Gul, President of the Republic of Turkey, to the UAE, which contributes to the strengthening of bilateral relations, … (more)

“People with bad intentions under the guidance and direction of others want to harm relations between the two countries” Kilic said.

PanARMENIAN.Net – A total of 102 domestic and international Turkish Airways flights have been canceled to and from the Istanbul Atatrk airport as continued snowfall continues to disrupt transportation systems across the country, Today’s Zaman reported citing the state-run Anatolia news agency.

Turkey will reschedule the sale of an electricity distribution grid covering the European side of Istanbul after the companies winning an original auction failed to make downpayments.

U.S. intelligence is concerned about the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh and the possible emergence of new terror hot spots in Eurasia, the U.S. director of national intelligence James Clapper’s report, presented at the hearing in the Senate Committee of U.S. Congress, said, ITAR-TASS reported.

Azerbaijan, Baku, Jan. 31 / Trend /

Trend news agency expert Seymur Aliyev

As the period when Azerbaijan will choose one of the routes for its gas supplies to Europe approaches, some projects participating in the competition, lose their benefits, while others, conversely, get them. But new proposals, including Trans-Anatolia Gas Pipeline (TANAP) and South East Europe Pipeline (SEEP) amid the long discussed routes have great importance.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday he stood behind the idea of negotiations with “political representatives” of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party , but vowed that military measures against the group would not be let up.

LUEBECK, Germany – On a recent rainy night in this northern German port city, Sultan Palast is coming to life at the 5 o’clock rush.

French parliamentarians appealed to the country’s supreme Constitutional Council to overturn a bill that penalizes denial of “Armenian genocide” claims, a development that raised prospects of annulment of the controversial legislation which has angered Turkey, Today’s Zaman reported.

Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb.1 / Trend S.Isayev, T. Jafarov/

Iran has not received any official request on the gas price lowering from Turkish Botas company, press secretary of Iran’s State Gas Company Majid Burjazadeh said, Mehr reported.

YEREVAN WANTS TURKEY OUT OF KARABAKH SOLUTION PROCESS Today’s Zaman Jan 30 2012 Turkey If Turkey wants to help, it should stay out of the process to solve the Karabakh issue, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan has said, in response to Turkish officials’ remarks that France should drop its leadership of the Minsk Group, a panel that has … (more)

MODERN TURKEY HAS NOT CHANGED SINCE OTTOMAN TIMES Karine Ter-Sahakyan PanARMENIAN.Net January 20, 2012 Assassination of Hrant Dink, intimidation of AAC Patriarch of Constantinople Mesrob Mutafyan to an extent that deprived him from aptitude to continue his activity, and threatening of migrant workers from Armenia are all the links of one chain.

PRESIDENTIAL BODY TO SHED LIGHT ON DINK MURDER CASE Hurriyet Daily News http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/presidential-body-to-shed-light-on-dink-murder-case.aspx?pageID=238&nID=12485&NewsCatID=338 Jan 28 2012 Turkey Certain documents went missing while others were tampered with in the case of murdered journalist Hrant Dink, an upcoming report by … (more)

In this Intelligence Report: The first pictures of an accused terrorist arrested at O’Hare Airport and a fascinating back-story being told about how the refugee from Uzbekistan ended up in America.

A man walks past parked trains at the main station in the Turkish capital of Ankara.

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkish Coast Guard boats were searching for nine crew members after a Cambodia-flagged freighter ship sank in stormy seas off Turkey’s Black Sea coast on Tuesday, officials said.

Over the course of the 20th Century, Turkey’s world became increasingly Eurocentric.

US intelligence chief says he doesn’t see how Syrian president can sustain rule, question of time before he falls a Russian Dep.

The government of Cyprus expressed on Sunday its appreciation for the clear positions of principles expressed once more by the Russian Federation on the Cyprus problem in the light of the outcome of the New York meeting, which took place earlier this week, between the UN Secretary General and the leaders of the two communities in Cyprus.

Daytime highs in Bulgaria on January 31 were pitifully low: Sofia minus 7 degrees Celsius , Plovdiv minus eight degrees and Rousse minus nine.

Members of Workers Party shout slogans as they gather to protest France in front of the French embassy in Ankara PARIS – French lawmakers appealed to the country’s highest court Tuesday to overturn a law that makes it illegal to deny the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago was genocide.

EXPERT: TALKS ON TURKEY’S MEDIATING ROLE IN NK ISSUE IN VAIN Panorama.am 31/01/2012 “Turkish and Russian Foreign Ministers’ statement to assume a firm role in Karabakh conflict is aimed at balancing French Senate decision,” expert of Turkish studies Levon Hovsepyan said in a news conference adding that by those steps Ankara targets some active … (more)

Azerbaijan, Baku, Jan.31 / Trend A.Taghiyeva /

President of Turkey Abdullah Gul hopes that the French court will make a right decision, TRT Haber TV Channel reported on Tuesday.

Azerbaijan, Baku, Jan.31 / Trend A.Badalova/

A Supreme Court of France will make a decision on a law criminalizing denial of the so-called “Armenian genocide” in a week, member of the Senate Commission for International Affairs Nathalie Goulet told Trend on Tuesday.

TURKEY’S RESIDENCE LAW TO AFFECT ARMENIAN STUDENTS Tert.am 31.01.12 Children of Armenian workers that are enrolled in Turkish minority schools are waiting apprehensively for a new foreigners’ residence law as the new regulations could result in many foreigners being expelled from the country, Hurriyet Daily News reported.

TURKEY IS WAITING, WHILE COLLECTING SIGNATURES CONTINUES IN FRENCH SENATE epress.am 01.31.2012 There are positive developments on collecting the 60 signatures required to challenge the law recently approved by the French Senate that criminalizes denial of genocide , a Turkish politician said, although the sufficient number had not yet been reached, … (more)

Now, jumping back to the end of November where I left off. One night during the week, a group of seven or so exchange students met at Agora and went to the movie theater to see the newest edition of the Twilight saga, Breaking Dawn: Part 1. Before I go any further, let me say that I did not see this movie because I am a diehard fan of the Twilight … (more)

Azerbaijan, Baku, Jan.30/ Trend A. Taghiyeva /

French Senators collected the required number of signatures demanding repeal of a law criminalizing denial of the so-called “Armenian genocide”, TRT Haber TV channel reported.

Turkey is a traditional partner, and even more traditional rival at Russia’s southern borders.

Turkish cement maker Afyon Cimento’s sale is expected to be completed in February and 3-4 binding offers have been received, a source close to the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.