Ankara - A senior Turkish foreign policymaker on Tuesday said Turkey does not look kindly on the prospect of Danish Prime Minister Fogh Rasmussen becoming NATO secretary-general, the Anadolu news agency reported.
"We cannot accept a man who does not respect our religious faith and our holy values, who has shown disrespect in the past, to become the head of NATO," said Suat Kiniklioglu, deputy chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party's Foreign Affairs Committee.
Ankara - A serving colonel in Turkey's military police was on Monday taken into custody on suspicion of involvement in the extrajudicial executions of sympathizers of the rebel Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in south-east Turkey in the 1990s, the NTV private television station reported.
Colonel Cemal Temizoz, head of the military police, or gendarmes, responsible for security in rural areas in the central Anatolia province of Kayseri was taken to the city of Diyarbakir for questioning over the deaths of scores of people.
Ankara - The editor of a Turkish scientific magazine who was reportedly removed from her position for commissioning a cover-page story on the 200th anniversary of evolution theory founder Charles Darwin's birth will be allowed to retain her job, Turkish newspapers reported on Wednesday.
Ankara - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani held talks in Istanbul with his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul on Tuesday with the main topic being how to increase security so as to increase bilateral trade, the NTV television station reported.
Ankara - Five people were taken into custody on Tuesday after the discovery of possible human bones in excavations in a village in south-east Turkey, the Anadolu news agency reported.
Acting on evidence given to a local prosecutors office that Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) sympathizers had been executed by Islamic fundamentalists, excavations began on Monday in the village of Kustepe. Turkish media reported that 20 bones, possibly human, had been discovered during Monday's digging.
Ankara - Two environmental activists were deported from Turkey Tuesday morning for protesting at the opening of the World Water Forum in Istanbul Monday, a spokesman for a group in which they are members told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Ankara - A senior Turkish foreign policymaker on Tuesday said Turkey does not look kindly on the prospect of Danish Prime Minister Fogh Rasmussen becoming NATO secretary-general, the Anadolu news agency reported.
Ankara - A serving colonel in Turkey's military police was on Monday taken into custody on suspicion of involvement in the extrajudicial executions of sympathizers of the rebel Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in south-east Turkey in the 1990s, the NTV private television station reported.
Ankara - The editor of a Turkish scientific magazine who was reportedly removed from her position for commissioning a cover-page story on the 200th anniversary of evolution theory founder Charles Darwin's birth will be allowed to retain her job, Turkish newspapers reported on Wednesday.
Ankara - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani held talks in Istanbul with his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul on Tuesday with the main topic being how to increase security so as to increase bilateral trade, the NTV television station reported.
Ankara - Five people were taken into custody on Tuesday after the discovery of possible human bones in excavations in a village in south-east Turkey, the Anadolu news agency reported.
Ankara - Two environmental activists were deported from Turkey Tuesday morning for protesting at the opening of the World Water Forum in Istanbul Monday, a spokesman for a group in which they are members told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
