TURKISH PRIME MINISTER ERDOGAN ARRIVES TO IRAN
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan looks on as he listens to Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki (not shown) after arriving at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran on Decemeber 2, 2006. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)
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A Turkish writer has been charged with insulting Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan by making a pun about his middle name, officials say.
The Turkish government told lawmakers Friday it wanted an extension to a mandate for cross-border operations to fight members of the PKK in northern Iraq.
The pace of the supposed rapprochement between onetime strategic allies Israel and Turkey is almost glacial, casting doubts on the prospect the Jewish state may build a $2 billion gas pipeline under the eastern Mediterranean to feed the European market.
The U.N. rights commission said Tuesday it was encouraged by Turkish efforts to resolve a simmering conflict with members of the Kurdish minority.
Headscarves will be allowed in public institutions and rights for ethnic minorities improved in a package of reforms revealed Monday by Turkey's prime minister.
Israelis are still trying to figure out how to export natural gas from their big offshore fields under the eastern Mediterranean, and their thinking these days seems to be moving along radical lines -- like playing peacemaker.
Eighteen members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party escaped from a Turkish prison by digging a 230-foot tunnel, police said Wednesday.
A Turkish prosecutor requested that six-year prison sentences be given to 45 students involved in a violent protest last year .
Kurdish lawmakers in Turkey say they are hopeful going into continued talks with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on a democratization package.
The Egyptian army has taught the Muslim Brotherhood the meaning of putting the cart before the horse.
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