In 1994 he was elected mayor of Istanbul, Turkey's grandest city, on the fulcrum between Europe and Asia.
He spoke to CNN's Ivan Watson on the sidelines of a ministerial meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, on Tuesday.
Sources at the Pentagon said Bowers flew from Istanbul, Turkey, to Kabul, Afghanistan, called his wife and said he had been kidnapped.
Ki-moon arrived in Istanbul, Turkey, at noon on Saturday, 7 May.
The second conference in November in Istanbul, Turkey, was largely overshadowed by an increase in fighting between Turkish forces and Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq.
ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) -- The chief of Turkey's army said Thursday that Iran and Turkey are coordinating efforts against Kurdish militants, including the sharing of intelligence.
Speaking at the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO) conference in Istanbul, Turkey, on Tuesday Professor Bartelink said the results showed the treatment was worthwhile.
The results of the conference represent an important contribution to the V World Water Forum (Istanbul, Turkey, March, 2009), and to the consolidation of the region??s water education programs.
UNESCO: Programa Hidrol��gico Internacional: Water and Education
Seven time zones away from the TD Garden, the Boston Celtics will hit the court tonight in Istanbul, Turkey for the first preseason game of the 2012-13 NBA season.
ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) -- A moderate aftershock sparked fresh panic among residents in quake-ravaged northwestern Turkey on Thursday, as government officials urged people to stay outside for fear of more tremors.
CNN: Aftershock raises fears as Turkey quake toll reaches 7,000
Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hailed the passage of a wide-ranging package of constitutional amendments as a "milestone for democracy" after voters approved the measures in a Sunday referendum.
Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- Officials from dozens of countries gathered in Turkey on Sunday to discuss the dire situation in neighboring Syria, where months of violence has been compounded by a humanitarian crisis.
Pentagon sources said the man -- Clark Russell Bowers -- flew from Istanbul, Turkey, to Kabul, Afghanistan, and called his wife to tell her he had been kidnapped and was being held for ransom.
Reforms undertaken partly to meet demands for EU membership have shifted power from threat-obsessed generals to civilian institutions, and to a new, more self-consciously Muslim elite rooted in Anatolia rather than Istanbul, Turkey's Western-looking commercial and intellectual capital.
This preseason, the NBA is hosting NBA Europe Live presented by BBVA, during which the Boston Celtics will play Fenerbahce Ulker in Istanbul, Turkey and EA7 Emporio Armani in Milan, Italy and the Dallas Mavericks will play Alba Berlin in Berlin, Germany and FC Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain.
The Regional Conference of Water and Education of the International Hydrological Programme (IHP) for Europe and The United States placed in the preparatory process for the World Conference of Education for the Sustainable Development (Bonn, Germany, March, 2009) and the World V Forum of the Water (Istanbul, Turkey, March, 2009).
"I condemn in the strongest possible terms the terrorist attacks today in Istanbul, where Turkey's diverse religious communities of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian believers have flourished together for centuries, " he said.
Also Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was in Istanbul, where he urged Turkey to speed up and cement an American-brokered rapprochement with Israel.
Associated Press writers Ezgi Akin in Ankara, Turkey, Christopher Torchia in Istanbul, Nedra Pickler and Bradley Klapper in Washington, Raf Casert in Brussels, and Cassandra Vinograd in London contributed to this report.
There was the game against Italy in Rome and the draw with Turkey in Istanbul, while I remember playing in a crucial game against Poland.
Meeting in Istanbul on January 23rd, the foreign ministers of Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria (also currently a non-voting member of the Security Council) and Iran issued a blunt warning to Iraq to comply with the council's disarmament demand or face the consequences.
ECONOMIST: Time for Iraq to disarm peacefully is fast running out
AK, they fear, might favour the more ostentatiously religious sort of businessmen in the Anatolian hinterland, who have been chipping away at Istanbul's economic dominance since the time of the late Turgut Ozal, Turkey's visionary leader in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
He pointed out that at a recent academic conference at one of Turkey's most progressive universities in Istanbul, he witnessed audience members give a five-minute standing ovation to a Turkish speaker who "slammed America" in front of a panel of visiting U.S. officials.
Whether or not Turkey finds its way into the EU, Istanbul has secured its place among the continent's party capitals.
Six world powers - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany - and Iran are meeting in Istanbul in Turkey.
In Turkey, thousands of protesters demonstrated against Israel in Istanbul, while several countries have summoned Israeli ambassadors to seek an explanation as to what happened.
Educated at Turkey's top school, Robert College in Istanbul, Mr Cem studied law in Lausanne and politics in Paris before becoming a columnist for the left-leaning daily newspaper, Cumhuriyet (the Republic).
Among its projects: the Mecca-to-Medina high-speed railway in Saudi Arabia, the Marmaray railway linking the European and Asian sides of Istanbul in Turkey and the Ural Polar railway project in Russia.
For decades, the islands on the Sea of Marmara outside Istanbul have been home to Turkey's most dangerous exiles and prisoners.
Her disappearance attracted a lot of interest in Turkey, where the disappearance of tourists is rare, and Istanbul police had set up a special unit to find her.
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