Ankara - One person was reported dead and more than 20 people were missing after a ferry sunk in the Marmara Sea late Sunday, the Anadolu news agency reported.
Coast Guard vessels were joined by local fishing boats in an attempt to rescue the more 100 people on board the ferry. As of early Monday, 72 people had been rescued or were able swim to shore.
Ankara- Turkish prosecutors may open their own inquiry into a scandal currently before a German court where an Islamic charity allegedly siphoned off donations, Hurriyet newspaper reported on Thursday.
There have been claims in Turkey that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was a beneficiary of the alleged scam.
Three former operators of the Deniz Feneri Foundation admitted to a court Frankfurt this month that they embezzled donations from devout Turks living in western Europe.
Istanbul, September 11 : A team of archaeologists has found ruins of the Temple of Athena in the popular resort town of Bodrum in western Turkey.
Profesor Adnan Diler, who leads the archaeological excavations in the ancient city of Pedasa, told Turkish Press, “We found the Temple of Athena, one of the most important works of arts in Anatolia, in Konacik hamlet in Bodrum.”
Ankara - Turkish President Abdullah Gul left Ankara Saturday for an historic visit to Armenia in a trip that commentators have marked as a thaw in relations between the inimical neighbours.
Gul's day trip to Yerevan where he will meet his Armenian counterpart Serge Sarkisian and then attend a Armenia-Turkey World Cup qualifying match is the first visit by a Turkish head of state to Armenia since the country gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Ankara - Turkish President Abdullah Gul will on Saturday become the first Turkish head of state to visit Armenia in an important to normalizing relations between the two historic foes.
"An historic decision," read the main headline in Hurriyet newspaper. "The ice wall between Turkey and Armenia is being thawed through football diplomacy."
The opportunity to visit Armenia came after Armenian President Serge Sarkisian invited Gul to join him in Yerevan to watch a World Cup qualifying match.
Ankara - Turkey and Russia on Tuesday failed to find a solution to a
growing trade dispute with Turkey's Foreign Minister Ali Babacan merely
saying that he hoped the situation would be solved soon.
In what has been seen as retaliation for Turkey allowing US warships
into the Black Sea to deliver aid to Georgia, Russia has imposed new
import controls on lorries carrying Turkish goods that have resulted in
hundreds of Turkish lorries lining up at Russian border points.
Ankara - One person was reported dead and more than 20 people were missing after a ferry sunk in the Marmara Sea late Sunday, the Anadolu news agency reported.
Ankara- Turkish prosecutors may open their own inquiry into a scandal currently before a German court where an Islamic charity allegedly siphoned off donations, Hurriyet newspaper reported on Thursday.
Ankara - Turkish President Abdullah Gul will on Saturday become the first Turkish head of state to visit Armenia in an important to normalizing relations between the two historic foes.
Ankara - Turkey and Russia on Tuesday failed to find a solution to a
