Metin Arditi was born in Ankara, Turkey, in 1945 and moved to Switzerland at the age of seven.
Bush traveled to Ankara, Turkey, on Saturday for advance meetings with Turkish leaders.
ANKARA, Turkey (CNN) -- Turkish military and government officials denied Saturday sending a large force of Turkish troops into northern Iraq.
Geoff Collier, spokesman for the British Embassy in Ankara, Turkey said officials have contacted other members of Mr Ross's ski party.
Mr. Abu Ghaith was in Ankara, Turkey, last month when he was taken into custody on suspicion of having entered the country illegally with a false passport.
ANKARA, Turkey (CNN) -- U.S. and Turkish officials are discussing the possibility of setting up a "coordination" center near the Iraqi border, a Turkish official told CNN Monday.
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.
At the same time, by consistently refusing to permit Turkey to join the EU, despite Ankara's moves to placate its political correctness, Brussels discredited still further Turkey's secularists.
The word in Ankara is that Turkey's soldiers are just as worried about war as its civilians.
Significantly, the military chiefs of Turkey and Kuwait met in Ankara this week, along with representatives from the main Kurdish factions in northern Iraq.
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The prime minister and other top officials have stressed that if the swell of Syrians seeking refuge in Turkey continues to rise, Ankara could be forced to take harsher steps, including opening a buffer zone on Syrian territory, to protect civilians and ensure national security.
"Some believe that now that relations (with Turkey) have deteriorated again, Syria may have reactivated the group to cause turmoil in Turkey, " said Nihat Ali Ozcan, a terrorism expert at the Ankara-based Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey.
The deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Stanley Fischer, has arrived in Ankara for talks on Turkey's continuing economic crisis.
The World Bank has about twenty projects in Turkey, and advises the government in Ankara on economic policy.
Ironically, the final resting place of Kemal Ataturk in Ankara invests the memory of Turkey's secular founder with more of the awe reserved for people of spiritual significance.
The number of Syrians who have crossed into Turkey has risen to 47, 500, Ankara says.
Greece's foreign minister, visiting Ankara, proposed that Greece and Turkey should both cut military spending.
Flying between Riyadh, Damascus and Ankara, he is trying to coax Turkey into lowering its belligerent tone.
Turkey reacted angrily to that criticism, saying the EU had undervalued Ankara's reforms, instead displaying "biased" attitudes.
Reports suggest he crossed into Turkey from Iran and was arrested by the authorities in the Turkish capital Ankara.
Professor DOHU ARGAIL (Ankara University): While there is a political friction between Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraqi Kurdistan's economy has become much more vibrant by Turkish and Kurdish investment from Turkey.
Ankara fears Kurdish independence in Iraq might stir up Kurdish nationalism in Turkey.
One person has been injured in explosions at Turkey's justice ministry and the headquarters of the governing AK Party in Ankara, officials say.
The project also highlights Turkey's growing involvement in the region, a marked change from just a few years ago when ties were strained over Ankara's battle against Kurdish insurgents seeking self-rule in Turkey.
Although Mr Sabanci regularly berates Ankara's bunglers, he has managed to keep in favour with Turkey's political elite for three decades.
Many commentators have argued that Turkey's anti-Assad stance indicates that the recent warming of ties between Tehran and Ankara, (which among other things saw Erdogan siding with Iran against the US at the UN Security Council), is over.
Turkey initially hesitated before accepting the demands imposed by EU governments, but agreed after Mr Solana travelled to Ankara on Friday.
After the US pullout from Iraq in December 2011, relations between Ankara and Baghdad have sharply deteriorated, with Nouri al-Maliki, Iraqi prime minister, pronouncing Turkey a "hostile state".
Turkey's agriculture ministry said earlier that the alcoholic drinks served on the yacht had been imported by an Ankara company from North Cyprus and distributed to Ankara, Mersin, Antalya and Mugla.
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Even more significantly, Ankara gave a green light to Iranian gas exports to Europe through the Nabucco gas pipeline which runs from Turkey to Austria.
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