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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.

A sense of humor is innate in all human beings; in situations of hardship, it serves as a mechanism to cope with it.

Syrian rebels withdrew from a prison in the northern city of Aleppo Thursday after heavy fighting with government troops, an activist group said, as it more than doubled its tally of deaths from sectarian killings in a coastal city earlier this month.

Chicago Tribune, IL May 15 2013 Turkish court sees conspiracy behind Armenian editor's murder Reuters 11:07 a.m. CDT, May 15, 2013 ISTANBUL - A Turkish appeals court on Wednesday ruled that the killers of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink did not act alone but were part of a criminal conspiracy, paving the way for a retrial of the case that has ... (more)

Four suspects were arrested in Turkey late on Wednesday in connection with car bombings that killed 51 people in a town near the Syrian border at the weekend, state-run Anatolian news agency reported.

The ongoing conflict in neighbouring Syria has tested the leadership of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama.

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Under mounting pressure, President Barack Obama on Wednesday released a trove of documents related to the Benghazi attack and forced out the top official at the Internal Revenue Service following revelations that the agency targeted conservative political groups.

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The Turkish head of the Turkey-Azerbaijan Parliamentary Friendship Group, MP of Turkey from the Justice and Development Party Necdet Unuvar was involved in a car crash in Ankara, the Sabah newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Interior Minister Muammer Guler has said four new suspects have been detained in connection with twin car bombs in Hatay's Reyhanl district, bringing the total number of those under custody to 13, and drawing Turkey closer to fully illuminating the bombings Today`s Zaman reported.