The rock legend praised Ahmet Ertegun, who died in 2006, as a "soul man".
Mr Erdogan's foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, has a policy of no disputes with the neighbours.
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu vowed Turkey would spare no effort in protecting diplomatic facilities.
In a bold gesture he included the DTP's co-chairman, Ahmet Turk, among the opposition leaders whom he met.
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Clinton spoke by phone with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and with U.S. Ambassador Francis Ricciardone, Ms. Nuland said.
Ahmet Krasniqi, a leading proponent of independence for the province, was shot dead in Tirana, the capital of Albania.
Ahmet Turhan, the AK-appointed governor of Batman province, thinks some of them can.
So it was for the widowed sister-in-law of Ahmet Turk, leader of Turkey's largest pro-Kurdish party, the Democratic Society Party.
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The foreign minister of neighbouring Turkey, Ahmet Davutoglu, dismissed Mr Assad's remarks as "repetitions of what he's said all along".
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"We are fighting against terrorist groups, terrorist actions in a very multi-dimensional approach, " Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu tells the BBC.
"People who have been affected by this wrong decision are spread all over the world, " said Ahmet Yilmaz, 43, from Turkey.
Abdullah Gul, the foreign minister, had to withdraw his bid to replace President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, who was due to step down in May.
Landau admired musically savvy executives, like Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler, and he approved of musicians who understood the virtues of popularity.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said this month that the missile batteries will stay only as long as there is a threat.
The timing of the blasts comes as momentum toward a resolution of the Syrian issue has grown, said Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, AA reported.
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Hundreds of mourners watched as the wife and young son of 34-year-old Ahmet Tas, a Turkish citizen killed in the attack, screamed in despair.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said a "humanitarian tragedy" was taking place in Syria, and he called on the UN Security Council to act.
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Turkish-born Ahmet Ertegun founded Atlantic Records in 1947, providing an early platform for jazz, soul and blues musicians, including John Coltrane, Leadbelly and Dizzy Gillespie.
Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Turkey 's new president, overruled a military-inspired decree permitting the government to sack bureaucrats it considered not secular enough, or too pro-Kurdish.
Ahmet Necdet Sezer, a judge who has just become president with the support of all the big political parties, has called for reform of the constitution.
This plan came a few days after Turkey's foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, became the first Turkish minister to set foot in the Iraqi Kurds' semi-independent state.
This followed Mr Erdogan's decision to nominate his foreign minister, Abdullah Gul, to succeed the president, Ahmet Necdet Sezer, who was set to step down in May.
Mr Erdogan, who has long shunned the largest Kurdish party, the Democratic Society (DTP), for being the PKK's political front, met its leader, Ahmet Turk, in early August.
As Der Spiegel reported last week, veteran journalists Ahmet Sik from the far-left Radikal newspaper and Nedim Sener from the highbrow Milliyet journal were among those rounded up.
This dogged diplomatic pragmatism has been ardently pursued by the foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, an ebullient professor of international relations who had long advised Mr Erdogan before his appointment in May.
Those are second-term foreign policy priorities for President Barack Obama, and Kerry tried to advance them in meetings with Turkey's foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, and the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas.
Earlier, in Istanbul, Mr Kerry said after talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu that he saw Turkey as an "important contributor" to efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East.
Mrs Clinton met Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in New York and made it clear to him that this was not the time for more tension and volatility in the region.
Mr Gul was first nominated for the presidency earlier this year but his candidacy was attacked by Turkey's secular establishment - in particular, the powerful military and outgoing President Ahmet Necdet Sezer.
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