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Turkey’s alternative energy potential is huge, but it remains locked – at least so far. Earlier this month, Ankara hosted the International Energy Congress on Renewable Energy where the Turkish energy sector was the main discussion point. The congress attracted a record number of participants from public and private sectors, including the Turkish Minister of Energy and members of the country’s Parliament. It was once more observed that the potential of investments in Turkey is by far exceeding

Zaman Today21st October, 2009President Abdullah Gül (L) spoke with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, on the phone on Monday. Turkey, which has already announced its intention to hold a joint cabinet meeting with Russia similar to those recently held with Iraq and Syria, hopes to hold such a meeting with its Black Sea neighbor in early December.“We have proposed a similar step to the joint cabinet meetings with Syria and Iraq with Russia, but there is nothing being implemented at the mome

As far as I can tell from running this report (via Bianet) through Google Translate , the third hearing in the trial of the murderer of Melek K took place in Ankara on 15 October. The attempted trans panic defence was rejected and the accused, Tayfun P.’nin, sentenced to life imprisonment. KaosGL say that it’s hoped that this will act to a deterrent to anyone else thinking of committing a transphobic hate crime. Incidentally, the translation also suggests that Melek’s preferred name was A

“ By way of deception thou shalt do war ” The Mossad motto… Less than a week after Ankara cancelled an air exercise with Israel, Turkey’s state-sponsored channel TRT1 broadcast “Ayrilik” * (”Farewell”), a new prime-time TV show that depicts the true image of Israel’s genocidal military operation in Gaza last January. The Israelis are not happy. “Broadcasting this series is a serious case of state-sponsored incitement. …,” said Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman this morning .

By HERB KEINON Turkey announced Thursday that it had arrested 33 al-Qaida terror suspects in a plot to target Israelis and others. Ankara announced that anti-terrorism police had arrested 33 al-Qaida-linked suspects who had been planning attacks on Israeli, US and NATO targets in the country. The arrests took place in simultaneous raids in the cities of Van, Erzurum, Konya, Batman and Istanbul. The police did not say which facilities or missions were to have been targeted. Al-Qaida-linked