The idea of a Turkish manufacturer competing successfully in the world market seemed to impress Wolfowitz.
They all belonged to Alevis, a Turkish and Kurdish-speaking Shiite offshoot who vastly outnumber Arabic-speaking Alawis.
Ocalan is being held in a Turkish jail on an island in the Marmara Sea.
The Mavi Marmara incident is seen as further proof of such a Turkish shift.
In 2007 Abraaj took a stake in Acibadem Saglik Yatirimlari, a Turkish health care services company.
But in places far from home, the movement has rather a Turkish nationalist flavour.
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One from Kirkuk to Ceyhan, a Turkish port, could be expanded but with difficulty.
From North Africa to the Gulf, the region seems to be going through a Turkish moment.
And in June, Syrian anti-aircraft fire brought down a Turkish military reconnaissance jet over the Mediterranean Sea.
Ewert had bought the shell, which was once owned by Hakki Yaman Namli , a Turkish financier.
Sister ship HMS Invincible was also sold for scrap last year to a Turkish scrap metal firm.
EU's commissioner for enlargement met Orhan Pamuk, a Turkish novelist, to discuss Turkey's record on free speech.
But that premise could turn out to be false if a Turkish peace deal with the PKK holds.
Organizers said amid threats of a Turkish cross border invasion, many Iraqis were simply too scared to come.
Atilla Toptas, a Turkish-born Swiss legislator, said the campaign stirred up feelings that were as much anti-Turkish as anti-Muslim.
The Meqdad clan said it kidnapped a Turkish citizen in Beirut on Wednesday.
Artik Kuzmin, a Turkish entrepreneur, will soon launch Salamworld, a Facebook for Muslims.
The Oramses are a British couple who bought land in the north from a Turkish-Cypriot and built a holiday home.
The final blow came when Israeli commandos raided a Turkish-led aid convoy bound for Gaza last year, killing nine civilians.
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Previously the worst accident in aviation history was a Turkish airlines crash near Paris with the loss of 346 lives.
Turkey, for one thing, has again implied that the Kurdish acquisition of Kirkuk could spark civil war and even a Turkish intervention.
Melis Birder, a Turkish film-maker who is co-producing a documentary on the team, believes its success can shatter prejudices against Kurds.
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Turkey is still a nation where unless you are a Turkish Sunni Muslim, you are not considered as one of them.
Two other guards were "shaken up" in Friday's attack, the U.S. official said, and a Turkish visitor was in serious condition.
So he ended up working illegally on a construction site run by a Turkish company and living in an on-site barracks.
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Six years ago, another 14-year-old British girl, Sarah Cook, made headlines by converting to Islam and marrying a Turkish waiter, Musa Komeagac.
The PKK supporter is a Kurd who served some 10 years in a Turkish prison, where he says he was periodically tortured.
Such a Turkish invasion would of course destabilize Kurdistan and severely complicate relations between the United States and Turkey, two NATO allies.
Turkey began massing troops along the frontier in June last year after Syria shot down a Turkish reconnaissance jet off its coast.
Squeezed between Turkey and Israel, Syria had to boot out the PKK leader, Abdullah Ocalan, who now languishes in a Turkish jail.
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