Ankara - An explosion in south-eastern Turkey late Wednesday night destroyed parts of a pipeline carrying oil from the Iraqi city of Kirkuk to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhun, the Anadolu

Ankara - The mayor of the south-eastern Turkish town of Batman on

Ankara - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday congratulated president-elect Barrack Obama and said that he hoped the next president of the United States will do more for international peace.

Speaking in Ankara, Erdogan said the United States had a "heavy burden to carry" and that he hoped Obama would do more to bring peace to the Middle East. He said that the election put an end to discussions that there was a black-white divide in US politics, noting that many white people voted for Obama.

Ankara - Two people were injured in an explosion in the south-eastern Turkey city of Hakkari Saturday, a day before Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was scheduled to visit the city, the Anadolu news agency reported.

The cause of the explosion at the Hakkari offices of Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) was not immediately known.

Tensions in the predominantly Kurdish-populated south-east Turkey have been high in recent weeks with a number of protests against the government ahead of local elections next year.

Ankara - The Istanbul trial of 86 alleged coup plotters hit a delay Monday when one of the accused insisted that the entire 2,455-page indictment be read out in court, CNN-Turk television reported.

The broadcaster reported that the demand for a full reading came from just one defendant exercising his right to have the entire indictment read. The process is likely to take up to 10 days.

Ankara - Turkish military police Saturday detained 88 foreigners found packed inside the back of a truck just outside Ankara, the Anadolu news agency reported.

Gendarmes, military police responsible for security in rural areas, discovered the would-be migrants during a routine traffic inspection in the district of Elmadag.