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 - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has called on Turkey to announce an amnesty for Kurdish separatists, saying this was the best way to end three decades of fighting in south-east Turkey.
In an interview published in Sabah newspaper Wednesday, Talabani said he believed the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) was ready to lay down its arms and hand its weapons over to US forces in northern Iraq if a general amnesty was announced.
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 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 - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has called on Turkey to announce an amnesty for Kurdish separatists, saying this was the best way to end three decades of fighting in south-east Turkey.
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.
