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ANKARA (AFP) - Turkey's foreign minister Tuesday insisted on an Israeli apology over a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship but refrained from repeating a threat to break off ties with the Jewish state.

ANKARA: Turkey's threats to sever relations with Israel are unlikely to materialize as both countries need each other and Ankara cannot afford new tensions with the West, analysts said Monday.Stoking up a simmering crisis, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Monday Turkey would cut diplomatic ties unless it gets an apology over a May 31 raid on Gaza-bound aid ships in which nine Turks were ...

ANKARA, June 29 (Reuters) - Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that the gross domestic product growth, set to be announced on Wednesday, would break a new record. Data shows first quarter growth has to exceed 12 percent from a year earlier to register a new record in growth figures. "Turkey has been minimising the impact from the global financial crisis and become an economy ...

Turkeys made Greek Cyprus an offer in a bid to break the deadlock over the divided islands status and continuing trade embargoes. Ankara says it is ready to open all its ports to Greek Cypriots if two Turkish Cypriot ports and an airport are opened to international trade in return.

UN Security Council member Turkey offered on Tuesday to help break a deadlock over an atomic fuel deal for Tehran and insisted that diplomacy is the best way to resolve Iran's nuclear crisis.