ANKARA: A full-blown Turkish military incursion into Iraq may assuage public anger over this week's attacks by Kurdish militants, but would not deal a fatal blow to the rebels and could inflame Turkey's ties with its Middle East neighbors.
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ANKARA: Having failed to persuade Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to end a bloody crackdown, Turkey is preparing a list of sanctions against its one-time friend in a policy shift that aligns Ankara more closely with the West.
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ANKARA: Turkey's threats to send warships to gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean mark a new projection of Ankara's growing power in the region, challenging Cyprus's drilling plans and casting a shadow over Israel's preparations to exploit huge (...)
ANKARA: Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan will press Turkey's ambitions to become a leading political power in the Muslim world this week in trips to Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, three arenas in a wave of popular revolts that have reshaped the (...)
ANKARA: Turkey's plan to flex its naval muscles in the eastern Mediterranean risks being perceived as an over-reaction in Ankara's dispute with former ally Israel and as an assertion of regional power that could alienate even its new Arab (...)
ANKARA, June 12 (Reuters) - Turks began voting in an election on Sunday that is expected to return Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to office for a third consecutive term and could give him a mandate to rewrite the constitution.
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CAIRO: The International Criminal Court prosecutor said on Thursday he would present a case for possible war crimes by Libya's Moammar Qaddafi in May and that he could open a second case to include more recent attacks on civilians.
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ANKARA: In plunging headlong into trying to help resolve some of the toughest political conundrums in the Middle East, Turkey may be wondering whether it has taken on more than it can handle.
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