Ankara, Turkey News

People hoping to boost their sex lives with the help of "mad" honey may find themselves in the emergency room instead, according to a new report.

Date : Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:26:26 +0400 TURKEY'S KURDISH AND ARMENIAN POLICY CONCERN RULING PARTY APA 15 Dec 2009 15:43 Ankara Ankara.

Why are an increasing number of Turkish women wearing veils in a secular country where the practice is banned in public buildings? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research says one factor is fashion.

A report out today points to yet another possible harmful effect of exposure to phthalates -- a controversial plastics chemical used widely in the manufacture of consumer products.

ANKARA, Turkey - Angry Kurds battled Turkish police with rocks and firebombs Saturday to protest a decision by the country's top court to shut down a pro-Kurdish political party on charges of ties to militants.

NTV television, citing Turkish labor minister, says 19 trapped workers killed in mine collapse.

ANKARA, Turkey a " A methane gas explosion collapsed an underground chamber of a Turkish coal mine, killing 19 workers, the government said Friday.Labor Minister Omer Dincer said Thursday night's blast buried the miners nearly 720 feet below the surface.'We lost all 19 workers.

Turkey's labor minister says 19 workers missing after a methane gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in western Turkey are all dead.

A prominent Brenham educator who died Sunday is being remembered. Dr. Bobbie Marie Dietrich, who was eighty-two, and the wife of Dr.

ANKARA, Turkey -- The government invited on Saturday a European organisation fighting inmate torture to visit Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan in prison to see his cell.

Cole, speaking Thursday at the Eastern Michigan University Student Center at the request of EMU's Muslim Students Association, said the character of U.S. policy and diplomacy in the Middle East is "night and day" different than it was under President George W. Bush.

ANKARA, Turkey -- Two days of demonstrations were held in cities across Turkey on Sunday and Monday to mark the 31st anniversary of the establishment of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party .

Turkey's government has approved a plan to open the country's first Kurdish-language department at a university as part of its efforts to reconcile with the Kurdish minority.

ANKARA, Turkey -- Prosecutors pressed charges Saturday against three army officers suspected of involvement in a plot to topple the government.

Turkey has pulled the plug on the country's first nuclear power plant by cancelling the contract with a Russian consortium led by Inter RAO UES and Atomstroyexport .

ANKARA, Turkey -- Police used tear gas Wednesday to disperse protesting state employees who rallied in the centre of Ankara, demanding higher wages and the right to go on strike.

Today, interspersed with the on-going chain of economic news features devoted to the governments of the world and their efforts to get the World's economic engine going again, was a report from some agency with an interest in the environment.

ANKARA, Turkey -- The Foreign Ministry announced on Friday it has signed an agreement with Albania to remove visas for citizens who spend up to 90 days on Turkish territory.

Date : Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:41:28 +0400 MURADYAN: TURKEY DOESN'T WANT TO PERFORM U.S. SCENARIO Aysor Nov 16 2009 Armenia Turkey will postpone the ratification for Armenian-Turkish protocols as long as possible to never perform the U.S. scenario, says at press-conference analyst Igor Muradyan.

DHAKA: Bangladesh and Turkey have agreed to introduce direct air-and-banking links between the two countries at the earliest possible time to promote bilateral trade and economic cooperation.