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ANKARA - A team of archaeologists has found a 5,000-year-old Venus figure as part of an excavation being carried out in Canakkale’s Ezine district in Turkey. According to a report in Today’s Zaman, the excavation began in the field three weeks ago in cooperation with Germany’s University of Tubingen. Assistant Professor Rustem Aslan, who is vice head [...]

The dust has mostly settled in Ankara, with Croatia and Macedonia the final two terms standing. Though Croatia should prevail in this one and the “ World Cup of Basketball ” isn’t really much more than a lot of friendly matches bound together loosely and packaged as a tournament, the game tonight could prove to be crucial to these team’s Eurobasket dreams in September. Team Croatia has certainly steamrolled its way through this particular tournament, dispatching Latvia and Germany with ea

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absolutely gratuitous photo The Efes Pilsen’s 2009 “World Cup of Basketball” may be a bit of a misnomer for the international friendly tournament that tipped off last night in Turkey, but this show is certainly professionally done – really top marks for the organizers here – and well worth checking out. The World Cup field is comprised of six teams: always entertaining Croatia, the curiosity of Great Britain, home team and sudden European basketball power Turkey, Latvia, Germany, and Macedoni

The 2009 Efes Pilsen World Cup begins today and will serve as national team preparations for the Eurobasket tournament. Held in the Ankara Atatürk Sport Hall, six Eurobasket teams, divided into two groups, will be participate in the five-day tournament leading up to the European Basketball Championships to be held in Poland. The six teams are hosts Turkey (Group A), Croatia (A), F.Y.R of Macedonia (B), Germany (A), Great Britain (B), and Latvia (B). Each team will play the other two o