International Business News - Turkey http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Turkish warplanes bombed suspected Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey early Tuesday in new airstrikes responding to an attack that killed 17 soldiers at a military outpost four days ago. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/turkish-jets-bomb-kurdish-targets-in-iraq-turkey.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:13:19 EDT Turkish warplanes bombed a Kurdish rebel hideout in northern Iraq on Monday--the third air strike in retaliation for an attack that killed 15 soldiers three days ago. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/turkish-planes-bomb-kurdish-hideout-in-north-iraq.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:00:25 EDT The Turkish stock market dropped 8.6 percent Monday following a slide in Asian markets and the failure of the U.S. bailout plan to ease fears over the global economy. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/turkish-stocks-fall-8-6-percent.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:53:26 EDT Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey on Monday in retaliation for the killing of 17 soldiers three days ago, the military said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/turkish-warplanes-again-bomb-northern-iraq.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:33:45 EDT Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq, the military said Sunday, two days after rebels killed 15 soldiers in an attack staged partly from Iraqi soil. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081005/turkey-buries-15-soldiers-slain-in-rebel-attack.htm Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:55:54 EDT A truck packed with illegal immigrants from Afghanistan and Myanmar overturned in western Turkey on Sunday, killing 18 people and injuring 23, authorities said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081005/18-illegal-immigrants-killed-in-turkey-road-crash.htm Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:44:25 EDT The Turkish army clashed with Kurdish rebels in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq in their deadliest battle in eight months, and the government vowed Saturday to fight the rebels at full force. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081004/kurdish-attack-kills-15-turkish-soldiers.htm Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:07:20 EDT Outside the Zekai Tahir Burak maternity hospital stands a bronze statue of a mother nursing a baby with an inscription from the Prophet Mohammed: "Paradise lies at the feet of the mother." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080927/hospital-deaths-of-40-newborns-shocks-turkey.htm Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:15:43 EDT Turkish warplanes successfully attacked 16 Kurdish rebel targets in a cross-border raid in northern Iraq, a military spokesman said Friday. The strikes late Thursday targeted rebel positions on Qandil mountain, Brig. Gen. Metin Gurak told reporters. The mountain on the Iranian-Iraqi border is where the rebel group's leaders are believed to be based. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080926/turkish-warplanes-hit-16-kurdish-targets-in-iraq.htm Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:29:25 EDT Turkish warplanes bombarded Kurdish rebel territory in northern Iraq, damaging a school and wounding three people, a rebel spokesman said Friday. The attack began at 10 p.m. Thursday and lasted some two hours, according to Ahmed Deniz, a spokesman for the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080926/kurdish-rebels-say-turkish-airstrikes-hit-n-iraq.htm Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:04:39 EDT A Turkish court, citing freedom of expression, on Thursday acquitted a British artist of insulting the prime minister by depicting him as a dog in his artwork. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/138503-turkey-british-artist.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080925/artist-acquitted-of-insulting-turkish-leader.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080925/artist-acquitted-of-insulting-turkish-leader.htm Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:24:07 EDT Officials with Nebraska's only turkey processing plant in Gibbon cite increasing costs, primarily feed and fuel, for a decision to shut down the plant. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/nebraskas-only-turkey-processing-plant-to-close.htm Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:29:57 EDT An infection spread by IV treatment led to the weekend deaths of 13 premature newborns at a hospital in western Turkey, a doctor investigating the deaths told the private Dogan news agency Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/13-babies-die-at-turkish-hospital-in-1-day.htm Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:18:23 EDT Military divers on Monday searched for five truck drivers reported missing after a ferry sank in the Sea of Marmara with about 100 people aboard. One person died. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080915/ferry-sinks-off-turkeys-coast-at-least-1-dead.htm Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:48:41 EDT The archaeological site of Knidos in Turkey was once a jewel of ancient Greek civilization. A major port that exported wine as far as India and Britain, it was also the religious center of a confederacy of Greek cities and the site of a medical school that rivaled the legendary Hippocratic clinic. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080914/excavations-stopped-at-ancient-city-in-turkey.htm Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:25:22 EDT A public spat between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a Turkish media mogul has provoked criticism that the government is trying to intimidate the press in this EU-candidate state. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080912/turkish-leader-accuses-media-mogul-of-defamation.htm Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:05:57 EDT Thousands of Armenians lined the streets of the capital Saturday to protest the first-ever visit by a Turkish leader and to demand that Turkey acknowledge the World War I massacres of Armenian civilians as genocide. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080906/protests-greet-turkish-president-in-armenia.htm Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:17:57 EDT Issues dividing neighbors Armenia and Turkey: ___ http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080905/issues-dividing-armenia-turkey.htm Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:42:32 EDT Turkey and Armenia are hoping soccer diplomacy will help them overcome decades of antagonism rooted in Ottoman-era massacres of Armenians that many historians call a genocide. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/123854-turkey-armenia-football-diplomacy.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080905/turkey-armenia-try-to-mend-ties-through-soccer.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080905/turkey-armenia-try-to-mend-ties-through-soccer.htm Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:42:13 EDT Turkish President Abdullah Gul will travel to Armenia to watch a soccer match between the countries' national teams, his office said Wednesday, in a sign of a thaw in relations between the two historic foes. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080903/turkish-president-to-travel-to-armenia.htm Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:52:33 EDT