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Israels Foreign Ministry rejected a call by the presidents of Russia and Turkey to include Hamas in the peace process. In a joint news conference Wednesday in Ankara, Russias Dmitry Medvedev and Turkeys Abdullah Gul said Hamas should not be excluded from the current peace process.

ANKARA, May 11 (Reuters) - The construction of an oil pipeline connecting the Black Sea with Turkey's Mediterranean port of Ceyhan is expected to cost $3 billion, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin said on Tuesday. Sechin also said at a news conference ahead of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's arrival in Ankara on Tuesday that Russia was giving its guarantee to supply oil for the ...

ANKARA, April 13 (Reuters) - Turkey's central administrative budget posted a deficit of 5.9 billion lira ($3.95 billion) in March, falling 32 percent from a year earlier, Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek told a news conference on Tuesday. The budget deficit was 2.271 billion lira in February, previously announced data showed. The primary deficit in March was 1.6 billion lira versus 2.3 billion ...

By Orhan Coskun ANKARA, Aug 4 - Russia's Inter RAO and Gazprom will sign agreements on energy projects with Turkish companies, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said at a news conference on Tuesday . Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is ...

ANKARA, Aug 4 - Russia's Interao and Gazprom will sign agreements on cooperation projects with Turkish companies, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said at a news conference on Tuesday . Turkey's Energy Minister Taner Yildiz also said at the ...