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Zaman honors sports stars at unforgettable

Zaman honors sports stars at unforgettable

The Zaman Sports Awards 2009 ceremony took place at the Zaman İstanbul headquarters in Yenibosna on Monday night. The 20th edition of the annual event attracted the who's who of Turkish sports -- club chairmen, coaches, players, athletes, basketball players, politicians, business people, you name it.

THY, FC Barcelona sign sponsorship deal

Turkish Airlines (THY), Turkey’s national carrier, signed a sponsorship deal with Spanish first division soccer club FC Barcelona on Monday....

Freedom of expression training not enough for judicial offic

More than 13,000 Turkish judges and prosecutors have been trained in European Union-funded programs costing millions of euros, but Turkey still lagged behind other countries when it came to freedom of expression in 2009....

Constitutional Court hears DTP case amidst

The Constitutional Court today starts hearing a case filed by the Supreme Court of Appeals’ Prosecutor’s Office in 2007 against the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) demanding its closure on charges of separatism....

Turkey courts Russia on energy after Nabucco deal

Turkey and Russia signed a deal on Thursday promising Turkish support for a major Russian natural gas pipeline project that Moscow wants to build ahead of the rival Nabucco pipeline backed by the West....

Government speeds up efforts for solution to

In a strong show of determination to lose no more time on the settlement of the long-standing Kurdish question, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is set to hold a meeting today with representatives from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP)....

[News Analysis]Heron UAVs test case for Turkish

Persistent technical problems occurring in Israeli-made Heron Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), partly because local Aselsan-made payloads have failed to meet the required standards, have raised questions over the degree of success of the relatively new trend to boost the local defense industry through Turkish development programs....

Turkish Olympiads song contestants fascinate Turks

Thousands of guests attended the finals of the seventh Turkish Olympiads song competition, held on Wednesday at İstanbul's Haliç Congress Center....

French-German ‘lack of vision' has not deterred

The German and French leaders' recent denunciation of the idea of expanding the European Union indefinitely to include new members such as Turkey was met with a bitter and harsh response in Ankara yesterday, as President Abdullah Gül accused the two leaders of a lack of vision....

Turkish defense sector poised to alleviate crisis

Global growth may have sunk into negative territory, industrial output may have plummeted and government ministries around the world may have cut back on expenditures, but one Turkish sector, at least, is bucking the trend and spending more: the defense industry....

Report: Former top general testified in Ergenekon

A former chief of general staff testified secretly to prosecutors conducting the investigation into Ergenekon, a clandestine group charged with plotting to overthrow the government, the Milliyet daily reported yesterday....

Turkey and Syria conduct military drill, Israel

Turkey and Syria began an unprecedented, three-day joint military exercise on their border yesterday, a step farther in their ever-expanding cooperation, which disturbed Syria's arch-foe Israel....

Gun battle between police and terrorists leaves

A shootout between Turkish police and three leftist terrorists during a raid on an apartment building in İstanbul has left three people dead and eight others wounded, authorities have said. Police special forces laid siege early yesterday to an apartment block in İstanbul's Bostancı district. They launched their raid at 5:30 a.m., leaving many residents trapped inside their homes....

‘IFEA fosters ties through French,

Nora Şeni, director of the Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes (IFEA, French Institute of Anatolian Studies), has said the institute helps to acquaint Europeans with the Turkish reality and that the benefits of its work will be seen in time....

World on alert as swine flu epidemic fear grows

Governments around the world rushed on Sunday to check the spread of a new type of swine flu that has killed over 80 people in Mexico and infected around a dozen in the United States. Mexicans huddled inside their homes while US hospitals tracked patients with flu symptoms and other countries imposed health checks at airports as the World Health Organization (WHO) warned the virus had the potential to become a pandemic....

Global economic crisis hits Turkish workers abroad

The number of Turkish employees who lost their jobs in 2008 due to the ongoing global financial crisis makes up 31 percent of the population of Turkish workers in some 55 countries, according to a recently released report from the Ministry of Labor....

Turkey declares Armenia deal at eleventh hour,

Just a day before eyes turn to Washington to see if President Barack Obama will use the word “genocide” in a traditional presidential statement released every April 24, Turkey announced that it had reached an agreement with Armenia on a roadmap for normalizing relations, drawing praise from the United States and deepening concerns in Azerbaijan....

AK Party moves to expand scope of constitutional

With the local elections over, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) has refocused on plans to draft a new civilian constitution as it promised shortly before last month's polls....

Four army members arrested in arms cache probe

Ten people, including four military officers currently on active duty, were arrested yesterday as part of an investigation into Ergenekon, a clandestine terrorist organization, 146 of whose suspected members are currently facing trial for plotting to overthrow the government....

EU needs Turkey as much as Turkey needs EU

The prime minister of Sweden, Fredrik Reinfeldt, paid a visit yesterday to Kulu, a small district in Konya in central Turkey, where he stressed that the European Union cannot ignore Turkey’s power, adding that the 27-member bloc needs Turkey as much as Turkey needs the EU....

Erdoğan tells new KKTC government to support

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sent a clear message to a nationalist party that won the parliamentary elections held on Sunday in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC), saying he expects backing for reunification talks with the Greek Cypriots. President Abdullah Gül has also said Turkey strongly backs both the ongoing reunification talks and Turkish Cypriot President Mehmet Ali Talat, who leads the negotiations....

Doğan Group’s Petrol Ofisi barred from tenders

The Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources has barred Petrol Ofisi, which is majority-owned by Doğan Holding, from participating in government tenders over the next 12 months. The decision was published in the Official Gazette yesterday....

Probe reveals munitions shared among Ergenekon

Recent findings in the ongoing investigation into Ergenekon, a clandestine organization charged with plotting to topple the government, have revealed that the group has cooperated with various terrorist organizations and illegal formations in many bloody attacks against civilians and soldiers....

Hrant Dink’s hit man was not Samast

Five individuals convicted of unrelated crimes testified as witnesses yesterday in the murder trial of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who was shot dead in broad daylight by an ultra-nationalist teenager outside the office of his newspaper, Agos, in İstanbul on Jan. 17, 2007....

First lady launches 'Education Enables'

First lady Hayrünnisa Gül, the wife of Turkish President Abdullah Gül, hosted a reception yesterday at Çankaya palace to promote a recently launched campaign aiming to empower the disabled through education....

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