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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Sun Nov 22, 2:26 am ET
ISTANBUL -- Few here doubt that the case began with something threatening: in June 2007, 27 hand grenades and fuses were found in the attic of a house in an Istanbul slum. Investigators claimed they were stashed there by an ultranationalist retired officer and they were later linked to an elaborate coup plot.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 21, 8:47 am ET
Turkey is determined to build a nuclear power plant and will launch a new project to replace a failed tender, Energy Minister Taner Yildiz was quoted as saying Saturday.
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Backstage.com - Thu Nov 26, 1:28 pm ET
If you don't recognize the name Navid Negahban, you'll definitely recognize his work. Born in Mashhad, Iran, Navid fell in love with acting at an early age. He lived in Turkey and Germany before moving to the US, honing his acting chops along the way.
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Boston Globe - Thu Nov 26, 7:03 pm ET
Giant balloons, floats, marching bands and clowns with confetti brought smiles to hundreds of thousands of revelers eager to catch a glimpse of a parade as steeped in Thanksgiving Day tradition as turkey and pumpkin pie.
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MSNBC - Wed Nov 25, 12:35 pm ET
Which president started the tradition?
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The Glendale News-Press - Fri Nov 27, 1:34 am ET
LA CRESCENTA — An Armenian Thanksgiving menu hedges closely to the American tradition, especially the generous portions of turkey, mashed potatoes, corn and cranberry sauce.
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UPI - Mon Nov 16, 3:49 pm ET
ANKARA, Turkey, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- High-ranking members of Kurdish separatist groups in Iraq are expected to surrender to Turkish authorities in the coming days as part of a reconciliation plan.
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OfficialWire - Mon Nov 23, 11:42 am ET
The Turkish government announced plans to develop an economic stimulus package by 2011 to encourage the use of electric vehicles by the public. Nihat Ergun, the Turkish minister of trade and industry, said lawmakers would work on legislation that would lower the taxes for electric vehicle purchases.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 13, 2:06 pm ET
Turkish Interior Minister Besir Atalay announced Friday details of a plan to give wider rights to Kurds, including allowing them to restore Kurdish names to their towns.
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AP via Yahoo! Sports - Wed Nov 25, 4:11 pm ET
(Home teams listed first) Group Stage Group A Bordeaux (France) 2, Juventus (Italy) 0 Bayern Munich (Germany) 1, Maccabi Haifa (Israel) 0 Group B CSKA Moscow (Russia) 2, Wolfsburg (Germany) 1 Manchester United (England) 0, Besiktas (Turkey) 1 Group C Real Madrid (Spain) 1, FC Zurich (Switzerland) 0 AC Milan (Italy) 1, Marseille (France) 1 Group D FC Porto (Portugal) 0, Chelsea (England) 1 APOEL ...
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AP via Yahoo! Sports - Wed Nov 25, 4:11 pm ET
(Home teams listed first) Group Stage Group A Bordeaux (France) 2, Juventus (Italy) 0 Bayern Munich (Germany) 1, Maccabi Haifa (Israel) 0 Group B CSKA Moscow (Russia) 2, Wolfsburg (Germany) 1 Manchester United (England) 0, Besiktas (Turkey) 1 Group C Real Madrid (Spain) 1, FC Zurich (Switzerland) 0 AC Milan (Italy) 1, Marseille (France) 1 Group D FC Porto (Portugal) 0, Chelsea (England) 1 APOEL ...
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Jewish World Review - Wed Nov 25, 5:52 am ET
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | To borrow a computer term, if Ayatollah Khomeini, Osama bin Laden, and Nidal Hasan represent Islamism 1.0, Recep Tayyip Erdogan (the prime minister of Turkey), Tariq Ramadan (a Swiss intellectual), and Keith Ellison (a U.S. congressman) represent Islamism 2.0. The former kill more people but the latter pose a greater threat to Western ...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 20, 1:07 pm ET
Turkey on Friday scrapped a 2008 tender won by a Russian-led consortium to build the country's first nuclear power plant -- a process that had been under threat of being invalidated by a court decision.
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UPI - Fri Nov 20, 1:14 pm ET
DAMASCUS, Syria, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The border between Turkey and Syria is a bond that ties the two neighboring countries together, the Turkish speaker of Parliament said in Damascus.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 14, 1:04 pm ET
Turkey's plan to expand language rights for Kurds and prevent discrimination is unlikely to persuade armed rebels to lay down arms and risks heightening nationalist anger at the government for caving in to "terrorists", analysts said Saturday.