Turkish military says it killed 20 PKK fighters
(Reuters)
Reuters - Turkish military sources said
at least 20 Kurdish separatists and two Turkish soldiers were
killed after Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas attacked
a military base in southeast Turkey on Friday.
F1: Massa sets pace in Turkey
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton narrowly fails to beat Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen to fastest time in second practice at the Turkish Grand Prix.
Kovalainen boost in early Istanbul practice
Heikki Kovalainen showed no ill effects of his high speed crash in Barcelona as he set the second fastest time in opening free practice for Sunday's Turkish Grand Prix.
Report: Land mine kills 3 in Turkey
(AP)
AP - A land mine explosion in southeast Turkey killed three people and injured three others on Friday, state-run media said.
F1: Massa ahead in practice
Ferrari's Felipe Massa beats McLaren drivers Heikki Kovalainen and Lewis Hamilton in first practice at the Turkish Grand Prix.
Three Killed in Rebel Blast in Turkey
Three people were killed and five wounded when a land mine detonated by Kurdish guerrillas destroyed their minibus in southeast Turkey, officials said.
Three killed in rebel landmine blast in SE Turkey
(Reuters)
Reuters - Three people were killed and
five wounded on Friday when a landmine detonated by Kurdish
guerrillas destroyed their minibus in southeast Turkey,
security officials told Reuters.
Greens to protect W Budapest caves from spa hotel project - paper
Budapest, May 8 (MTI) - Five hundred cave scientists and environmentalists signed a petition against a project to convert a former Turkish bath in western Budapest into a spa hotel, national daily Nepszabadsag reported on Thursday. Speleologist Peter
Turkey was created in 1923 from the Turkish remnants of the Ottoman Empire. Soon thereafter the country instituted secular laws to replace traditional religious fiats. In 1945 Turkey joined the UN and in 1952 it became a member of NATO. Turkey occupied the northern portion of Cyprus in 1974 to prevent a Greek takeover of the island; relations between the two countries remain strained. Periodic military offensives against Kurdish separatists have dislocated part of the population in southeast Turkey and have drawn international condemnation.
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