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208 articles tagged "Turkey"
DEBKAfile
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November 22, 2003, 1:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
When informed of the Istanbul synagogue bombings last Saturday, November 15, Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in an off-the-cup reaction, hit the nail on the head. They are trying to destabilize Turkey, he said, there and then cutting short his trip to Cyprus. Within hours he had reached the ...
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November 16, 2003, 12:07 AM (GMT+02:00)
European Commission President, Romano Prodi hurried Saturday November 11 to condemn the terrorist car bombings at two Istanbul synagogues, Neve Shalom and Beit Israel, even before the final tally of the dead. The Italian official made the gracious gesture of visiting the central Milan synagogue and bringing the condolences of ...
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September 2, 2003, 1:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tuesday, September 1, Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, head of the Kurdish Workers Party - PKK - announced his movement, meanwhile renamed itself KADEK, was reviving the Kurdish revolt. Ocalan has been held in total isolation on the Imrali island prison in the Sea of Marmara since 2002, when the ...
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March 9, 2003, 10:39 AM (GMT+02:00)
Since Wednesday night, March 5, according to DEBKA-Net-Weekly's military sources, US supplies management teams of the US 1st Cavalry Division have been posted at four Turkish sea harbors, taking delivery of the equipment of the US 4th Infantry Division discharged after a long wait at sea. For weeks, twenty-six ...
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January 25, 2003, 8:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
While still holding out on permission for a full-scale, 80,000-strong US invasion force to be stationed in Turkey, the Gul government has ceded part of America's requirements. DEBKA-Net-Weekly's military and Turkish sources say Ankara will make bases available for the landing of 25-30,000 US troops for the first stage ...
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January 13, 2003, 9:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
The conversation held by Turkish minister of state Kutsad Tuzmen in Baghdad Sunday with Saddam Hussein went on for two hours and twenty minutes and was described officially as an important and useful development for Turkish-Iraqi relations. Tuzmen was the bearer of a written message to the Iraqi ruler from ...
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January 11, 2003, 4:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
The new Turkish government has performed a spectacular about-face with respect to US war plans for Iraq and its post-Saddam aftermath, a large monkey wrench that is bound to throw off Washington's timeline for launching its war offensive against Iraq. This partly explains the pressure building up from Britain and ...
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December 25, 2002, 8:30 AM (GMT+02:00)
The conference held in Turkey on Tuesday, December 24, between Israel's chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon and Turkish army chief Gen. Hilimi Ozkok, wrapped up the arrangements made by the US, Israel and Turkey for concerted action in the approaching war with Iraq. The operations of their air ...
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