Istanbul (CNN) -- Kurdish rebels handed over eight Turkish hostages to a Turkish delegation in northern Iraq on Wednesday, a lawmaker from the delegation told CNN.
On Wednesday, pirates hijacked a Turkish-flagged ship carrying 4, 500 tons of chemicals off Yemen's coast, a Turkish news agency reported, citing the Turkish Maritime Agency.
This new approach was branded by Turkish columnists as a revision of "laicism", a Turkish term for separation of state from religion.
Since Sierra's disappearance, Turkish police detained a Turkish man she had been in contact with who was identified only by the first name Talan, according to CNN Turk.
On a smaller but romantic scale, a young Turkish-Greek couple is having a striking success with the first Turkish-music bar in Athens.
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The Oramses are a British couple who bought land in the north from a Turkish-Cypriot and built a holiday home.
In 1994, 53 people were killed when a Turkish Airlines aircraft crashed in a snowstorm while trying to land in eastern Turkey.
The defections included a Syrian general and at least four other officers, according to a Turkish Foreign Ministry official and a commander in the Free Syrian Army camp in Turkey.
The Turkish military says at least a dozen soldiers were killed after these rebels from the Kurdish Workers Party - it's called the PKK - ambushed a Turkish Army patrol yesterday.
Ocalan was snatched by Turkish commandos a few months later while seeking asylum in Kenya.
The Turkish government issued a security warning to Turkish diplomatic missions in France and throughout Europe.
The Turkish government issued a security warning to Turkish diplomatic missions throughout Europe.
The judges found him guilty and this month, he lost his appeal to a high Turkish court to overturn a 20-month suspended jail sentence.
But even if he meets all of them it is not clear that the violence will cease, says a senior Turkish security official in a border province.
Artik Kuzmin, a Turkish entrepreneur, will soon launch Salamworld, a Facebook for Muslims.
But Lycett crowns his design with a majestic domed cover whose pierced and ramified lily-pad repeat and overall shape closely reproduce the shape and ornament of a Turkish incense burner that had been illustrated in a French treatise on ceramic history published in 1873.
" Daly said the Turkish aviation industry has a "pretty good record" of safety, and that Turkish Airlines, the national carrier, has a "very good record.
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's defense minister says 17 Turkish soldiers were killed after Kurdish separatist rebels ambushed a Turkish military convoy, and then clashed with Turkish troops throughout the day.
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.
Ankara has tried not to escalate tensions over the past year in response to events that have included the deaths of Turkish citizens in cross-border artillery fire, a car bomb in February that killed 14 people on the border and the shooting down of a Turkish jet by Syrian antiaircraft guns.
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.
On Wednesday, a Turkish police officer was killed in "an armed attack on a police car, " according to the office of the governor of the southeastern province of Mardin.
CNN: Mourners in Turkey protest killings of Kurdish activists
Turkish warplanes routinely strike bases of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, a Turkish rebel group operating from the Qandil mountains of Iraq's Kurdish region.
After all that running around you will deserve a scrub and soak at a Turkish bath house, an experience introduced in detail in Rose Mulready's "A guide to Istanbul bath houses".
Last month, a Turkish court sentenced three former army generals to 20 years in jail each for plotting a coup, convicting nearly 330 officers of involvement in the plot.
Sabah, a Turkish newspaper close to the government, reported Sunday that authorities suspect the leader of a former Marxist group, Mirhac Ural, now believed to be based in Syria, may have revived his group and ordered the attack.
Turkey's interior minister, Muammer Guler, said law enforcement authorities had information the bomber was a member was a Turkish man in his 30s who had been previously jailed on terrorism charges and was a known member of the outlawed leftist group, the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, or DHKP-C.
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Meanwhile, a Turkish foreign ministry official told CNN that two children were killed and six Syrian refugees were injured when a gas canister exploded Friday at the Yayladagi refugee camp in southeastern Turkey.
Kurdish officials and representatives from Genel Enerji, a Turkish company working in Taq Taq, said initially only 40, 000 barrels of oil would be exported a day.
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