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208 articles tagged "Turkey"
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February 20, 2008, 11:44 AM (GMT+02:00)
Our military sources disclose that, contrary to the public statements made by the Israeli defense minister in Ankara and prime minister Ehud Olmert in Berlin, arms transactions were the key topic of their talks in the two capitals Tuesday, Feb. 11. Israel has ordered from Germany 3 more Dolphin submarines ...
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February 9, 2008, 2:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
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7 Jan. On Jan. 8, hours before he heads out on his Middle East tour, President George W. Bush will receive Turkish president Abdullah Gul in the White House with full honors as the first Turkish head of state to visit since ... 
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January 11, 2008, 9:48 AM (GMT+02:00)
In its January 4 issue, DEBKA-Net-Weekly's exclusive sources laid bare some of the fallout from the successful US intelligence assistance for Turkey's air strikes against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq. This partnership has been effective enough to drive the PKK into seeking safer havens from ...
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December 20, 2007, 5:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
They are said to have moved into the Gali Rash mountainous area 2-3 km inside Iraq. No reports of clashes. The crossing, which is not confirmed by Ankara, is condemned by the Kurdish regional government in Irbil.
Monday, the Turkish army chief Gen. Yasar Buyukanit said the US had opened air ...
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October 26, 2007, 11:03 AM (GMT+02:00)
A Turkish lawmaker disclosed that the Turkish attack began Sunday, Oct. 21, after more than 12 Turkish troops were killed in an ambush by rebel Kurdish PKK guerrillas. He said F-16 jets and artillery pounded at least 63 rebel positions inside the Kurdish-controlled region and 300 Turkish commandoes were dropped ...
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October 24, 2007, 4:08 PM (GMT+02:00)
Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq offered Monday to lay down arms in an effort to stave off a Turkish invasion to destroy their jumping-off bases demanded by thousands of demonstrators out on Turkish streets.
Ankara earlier confirmed the PKK took 8 Turkish soldiers hostage in their Sunday ambush and Turkish reprisal ... 
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October 19, 2007, 6:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan won permission Wed. Oct 17, by a margin of 507 to 19 to launch cross-border strikes for one year shortly after US President George W. Bush told reporters: "Turkey already has troops in Iraq and sending more is not in Turkish interests."
Visiting Syrian president ... 
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October 15, 2007, 7:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that small Turkish armored and reconnaissance units have been operating inside Iraqi Kurdistan for some time.Two Turkish armed divisions have also been poised for months ready to invade at short notice and attack Kurdish PKK separatists in the Iraqi hideouts.
But prime minister Recep Tayyip ... 
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October 8, 2007, 12:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
A high-ranking Iranian air force and intelligence delegation, led by a general, is reported by debkafile's intelligence sources to have landed secretly in the Turkish capital a few days ago. The visitors said Turkey's government and army should be warned that Iran would not stand by again in ...
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October 2, 2007, 11:31 AM (GMT+02:00)
In southern Turkey, a Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) band ordered fourteen civilians and armed guards off a bus and shot dead all but two passengers. The ambush took place in the Sirnak province near the Iraqi border Saturday, Sept 29. The day before, Iraq and Turkey signed a security agreement ...
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August 20, 2007, 9:56 AM (GMT+02:00)
The plane was hijacked by one Turkish national and one Syrian of Palestinian origin en route from Ercan airport, N. Cyprus to Istanbul Saturday. Most of the 136 passengers fled to safety by breaking down the rear door during a refueling stop in Antalya, S. Turkey. They reported the hijackers ...
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July 21, 2007, 9:52 AM (GMT+02:00)
Asked whether Ankara had evidence to support the claim, deputy prime minister and foreign minister Abdullah Gul said in a television interview there was no confirmation but there is an allegation and convincing confessions, which must be investigated. Ankara has asked Washington for clarifications.
On July 6, DEBKA-Net-Weekly 308, ... 
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June 15, 2007, 5:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer also expressed solidarity with Turkey's fight against terrorism.
Iraqi Shiite radical Moqtada Sadr this week warned Ankara to stop shelling N. Iraqi villages where Kurdish rebels are hiding out. Sadr vowed to defend the people of Kurdistan. The Iraqi government made a formal protest Saturday. Sunday, a ... 
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June 5, 2007, 5:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
Defense Secretary Robert Gates Sunday cautioned Turkey against sending troops into northern Iraq.
A Turkish incursion unheeding of strains with Washington would have two objectives, according to debkafile's military sources: To prevent the rise of an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq and the fall of the oil town ...
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June 1, 2007, 9:06 AM (GMT+02:00)
The consignment of 20 tanks from an army barracks near the Syrian border in southeast Turkey to the Iraqi border has sparked speculation about an imminent Turkish incursion against Kurdish PKK rebel bases in northern Iraq. Last week, Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan said he was of one mind with ...
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May 3, 2007, 10:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
The ruling blocked the way for foreign minister Abdullah Gul to gain election as president.
Friday, a secularist opposition boycott denied foreign minister Abdullah Gul the two-thirds parliamentary majority he needs to be elected president, accusing him of pro-Islamist proclivities. Gul argued that he had enough votes and was overruled ... 
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April 25, 2007, 10:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
Gul was picked as the ruling AK party's candidate by prime minister Tayyip Erdogan, who bowed out of the running.
debkafile: By naming the foreign minister for the seven-year post, Erdogan consolidates his position as prime minister. He has also averted a clash with secular circles, including the powerful ... 
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April 18, 2007, 1:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
Some 500,000 people from across Turkey gathered in a secularist rally in Ankara Saturday, April 14, against Erdogan seeking the top post. They marched on the mausoleum of Kemal Ataturk, Turkey's founder as a secular state, chanting anti-Islamic slogans. The prime minister's opponents accuse him of having an Islamic agenda ...
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April 12, 2007, 9:14 AM (GMT+02:00)
Three Turkish soldiers died in a clash with the Kurdish separatists in Turkey's eastern Bingol province Sunday; another two and a Kurdish militiaman were killed in Sirnak province on Iraq's border. debkafile: Ankara accuses Iraqi Kurdistan of harboring the PKK terrorists, which allows them to stage cross-border raids ...
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April 11, 2007, 8:46 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Pegasus Airways plane is on the ground in Ankara and all the passengers are safe. The hijacker was taken after negotiation with Turkish officers. He is said to have forced the pilot with the threat of hand grenades to divert from its route between Diyarbakir in Turkish Kurdistan to ...
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