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 - The 5th World Water Forum got under way in Istanbul on Monday morning, with Turkish President Abdullah Gul playing host to various world leaders who plan to discuss water issues in the 21st century.
Some 20,000 people from more than 130 countries were in Istanbul for the forum, which is held every three years. The forum aims to bring together people from both within and outside the water sector in order to find sustainable solutions to the world's water challenges.
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.
Ankara - The 5th World Water Forum got under way in Istanbul on Monday morning, with Turkish President Abdullah Gul playing host to various world leaders who plan to discuss water issues in the 21st century.
