BAGHDAD- Plans for Turkish troops to join a U.S.-led multinational force in Iraq have stalled in the teeth of Iraqi objections, maybe for good. If any Turkish troops do deploy, they may take on a low-key role such as securing arms dumps, rather than

www.yukselsoylemez.com yukselsoylemez@yukselsoylemez.com Question - May I congratulate you, however belatedly, that the motion [for Turkish troop deployment to Iraq] has been adopted by Parliament with a considerable majority, with 358 in favor, only

Latest death brings to 106 the number of American soldiers killed by hostile fire since Bush declared an end to major combat May 1 BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier was killed on Friday in the northern city of Mosul and 13 other troops were injured in a mortar

Yuksel Soylemezwww.yukselsoylemez.comyukselsoylemez@yukselsoylemez.com Question - May I congratulate you, however belatedly, that the motion [for Turkish troop deployment to Iraq] has been adopted by Parliament with a considerable majority, with 358 in

US officials have alleged that an influx of foreign fighters from neighboring Syria and Iran has moved into Iraq to join Saddam Hussein loyalists against coalition troops Sameer N. Yacoub BAGHDAD - A bomb exploded Thursday near a pipeline in northern

ANKARA - Claiming that Iraqi Arabs use Kurdish leader Barzani as their wedge to evoke faded memories of the Ottoman Empire and to look the Turkish gift horse in the mouth, New York Times columnist, William Safire stated that "The U.S.-British

Violence and sabotage hampering postwar reconstruction efforts provide a sobering backdrop to an international donors' two-day conference on Iraq that starts in Madrid today BAGHDAD - Guerrillas kept up attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq on Wednesday, as

"What the Turkish government did - at least my understanding of it - was they said that under certain circumstances they would be willing to offer forces, subject to finding a method" that satisfied all parties, including their own government

Turkey heads into another reception crisis underlining an old problem, the headscarf issue. Headscarved spouses are not allowed in the Cankaya Presidential Palace while those who are not wearing it are welcomed by Turkey's strictly secular President

Sabotage has hit efforts to revive the oil industry, while guerrillas have killed 104 US soldiers since Washington declared major combat over on May 1 BAGHDAD - A sniffer dog search sparked an anti-U.S. protest in Baghdad and pipelines blazed north of

Two American soldiers are killed as their patrol is attacked near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, and a US convoy comes under fire in the flashpoint town of Falluja, the US military and witnesses say Deep differences between two Shiite clerics

When they were set up in 1951 by Adnan Menderes, the former prime minister who was hanged by the military a decade later, the schools were meant for the training of imams, or Muslim preachers. In 1973 they were expanded to provide general education and

The "Sunni Triangle," as the region is known, claims attention because of the violence. It's violent because its people were the beneficiaries of Saddam's tyrannical rule, and because the heavy-handed response by U.S. troops there triggers

It is expected to resume pumping at a rate of 250,000 barrels per day (bpd), the source said. The pipeline to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan carried around 800,000 bpd before the war. BAGHDAD - Iraq's sabotaged crude oil export pipeline to

Opinion By Ferruh Demirmen 15 October 2003 , Sending Turkish troops to Iraq ill-conceived Last week Turkish Parliament approved a government motion to dispatch thousands of Turkish troops to Iraq to beef up the U.S.-led coalition in that war-torn

KARBALA - Rival Shiite Muslim factions clashed overnight in this holy city, and several people were killed or injured, witnesses said on Tuesday. Iraqi police surrounded the offices of one of the faction leaders. In Baghdad, two U.S. soldiers from the

Opinion 5 August 2002 ,   Abdulhamit Bilici From the first quarter of the last century, the Kurdish issue has been the problem that has deeply affected two neighboring countries -- Turkey and Iraq. Even though the imperialist powers' big desires

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It is of importance both for cultural tourism and for historical and cultural dialogue and understanding, as well as for Antalya's civic pride, that seven missing historical items receive their due prominance today, together with the serious

Editorial by Ilnur Cevik11 October 2003, The Americans hold the key whether we send our troops to Iraq or not. There is speculation these days that the government passed the motion in Parliament to be allowed to send troops to Iraq but in fact this