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By NICHOLAS BIRCH ANKARA — Turkey’s government laid out long-awaited plans Friday to reconcile with the country’s large Kurdish minority and end a separatist war that has cost tens of thousands of lives, prompting the main opposition party to storm out of parliament in protest. The heated debate was symbolic of the sensitivities of the [...]
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey and Armenia sign a peace accord on Saturday to end a century of hostility stemming from the World War One mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman forces. But the accord, to be signed by the foreign ministers of the two neighbours in Zurich, still has to be approved by the Turkish [...]
Compiled by Daily Star staff Wednesday, September 16, 2009 – Powered by Officials from Iraq and Syria met Tuesday to discuss tensions stemming from Iraqi accusations that militants based in Syria are responsible for bomb attacks in Baghdad, Turkish and Iraqi officials said. The meeting in Ankara focused “on intelligence issues on a technical level,” a [...]