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Slogging through a drizzly Rose Garden news conference on Thursday with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Brack Obama took a break to ask for rain protection.

With the world's 4th largest flight network of 223 destinations in 99 countries, Turkish Airlines continues to grow with five new destinations being added this May.

Special to the Daily The Risvaniye Madressa in Golbasi Park the most sacred area of Sanliurfa, Turkey's most pious city.

Turkey, Iran, Syria Top List for Worst Journalism Countries http://www.greenprophet.com/2013/05/middle-east-reporters-syria-turkey-iran/ Posted on May 16, 2013 by Laurie Balbo The online `zine Foreign Policy posted its `worst countries for journalism' with the Middle East grabbing three of the Top Ten slots.

Rockers Depeche Mode cancelled their concert in Istanbul, Turkey on Friday after their production trucks were blocked from crossing a border into the country.

On Wednesday the United Nations General Assembly voted on a resolution condemning the Syrian government's forces while praising the opposition.

George Sabra speaks during a meeting on the situation in Syria, in Ankara, Turkey, on March 21.

Word is that both Israel and Turkey are seriously entertaining the notion of constructing an undersea pipeline to deliver Israeli natural gas to Turkey and, perhaps, hence to Europe.

Terrorist attacks on Turkish soil won't stop until the country's Prime Minister, Tayyip Erdogan, gives up on his support of rebel forces in Syria, British broadcaster, Neil Clark, told RT.

Turkey will cease cooperation with the companies operating in Cyprus, Turkey's Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yildiz said, Sabah newspaper reported on Saturday.

Protesters in a Turkish border town hit by a twin car-bombing a week ago clashed with police Saturday, as they voiced anger over the government's response to the attack.

A reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas is imperative to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday, AFP reported.

The Obama Administration is claiming that two "rogue employees" at the Cincinnati IRS facility were the apparent source of all IRS harassment of the TEA Party and other Conservative groups over the past three years.

Already wrestling with the flood of disclosures from three ongoing scandals, President Obama was hit yesterday with a damning new internal report that showed his administration gave witness-protection status to terrorists - and then didn't tell the agency that keeps dangerous people off US flights.

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday Turkey had already significantly reduced its oil imports from Iran, which is under the choke of Western sanctions, and further cutbacks would depend on his country's energy needs.

Moody's has lifted Turkey's investment grade to 'Baa3', indicating a stable outlook, with the government and business people evaluating it 'correct but late' Turkey earned its second investment-grade credit rating on May 16 with an upgrade to Baa3 by Moody's Investors Service, which has been awaited and accepted as "already deserved" by the country ... (more)

ISTANBUL: Turkey has arrested one of the prime suspects responsible for the twin car bombings that killed at least 51 people in a city near the Syrian border, said the city's governor on Friday.

Despite reassurances of the caretaker Cabinet, Bulgarian tractor trailers are still staging a blockade at the Kapitan Andreevo - Kapakule border crossing point between Bulgaria and Turkey on the Bulgarian side.

President Obama speaks as a Marine holds an umbrella for him during a joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, not pictured, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington on May 16.

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