| February 22, 2008 | -
Turkey began a ground invasion into Iraq targeting the PKK, despite protests that the invasion was “a violation of Iraq's sovereignty,” and Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered a six-month extension of his Mahdi militia's unilateral cease-fire, which has led to a 60 percent decrease in violence across Iraq.
| Source 1:
BBCnews.com
Source 2:
LA Times
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| October 15, 2007 | -
Turkey shelled the village of Dashta Takh in Iraqi Kurdistan and declared plans to send its ground troops to attack outposts of the Kurdish separatist PKK in the north of Iraq; criticized for the announcement, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan pointed out that the United States invaded Iraq without anyone’s permission.
| Source 1:
Al Jazeera
Source 2:
Hürriyet
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| July 14, 2007 | -
Turkey was amassing more than 200,000 soldiers along its border with Iraq.
| Source:
Reuters via Globe and Mail
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| May 8, 2007 | - Four ethnic Albanians, a Jordanian, and a Turk were arrested for plotting to invade Fort Dix, New Jersey.
| Source:
NJ Star-Ledger
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| January 20, 2007 | -
Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, who wrote extensively about the Armenian genocide, was shot dead outside his office in Istanbul.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| October 19, 2006 | -
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan collapsed from fasting during Ramadan. His security staff rushed him unconscious to the hospital and accidentally locked him in his car; they fought for ten minutes to break the car's reinforced windows with a sledgehammer and chisel.
| Source:
AFP via New York Times
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| March 7, 2006 | - Scientists were investigating a family of mentally retarded Kurds in Turkey who walk on all fours. "However they arrived at this point," said a scientist, "we have adult human beings walking like ancestors several million years ago."
| Source:
Time-warp family who walk on all fours
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| January 16, 2006 | - An Indonesian girl died of bird flu, and Turkey had killed 306,000 birds.
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
BBC News
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| January 5, 2006 | - Two teenagers in Turkey died of bird flu.
| Source:
BBC News
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| October 25, 2005 | - In Turkey 20 people were each fined $75.53 for using the letters "Q" and "W" during a Kurdish new year celebration.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| October 13, 2005 | -
Avian flu arrived in Romania and Turkey. In response, Bulgaria refused entry to a flock of 20 circus doves that had been performing in Turkey.
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
Reuters
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| July 8, 2005 | - Four hundred sheep killed themselves in Turkey.
| Source:
IOL.co.za
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| May 6, 2005 | -
Turkey banned four porn channels from its satellite TV network.
| Source:
Reuters
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| December 23, 2004 | - Yusuf Halacoglu, president of the Turkish History Institution, accused Armenia of genocide.
| Source:
Zaman Online
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| September 15, 2004 | -
Turkish politicians were debating whether to outlaw adultery.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 2, 2004 | -
Iraqi gunmen executed a Turkish truck driver.
| Source:
Boston Globe
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| June 28, 2004 | - While in Turkey for the NATO summit, President Bush met with religious leaders and thanked them "for being so faithful to the Almighty God."
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 27, 2004 | - Three Turks and a Pakistani were kidnapped, and militants threatened to kill a captured U.S. Marine.
| Source:
Reuters
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| June 25, 2004 | - Two bombs went off in Istanbul.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
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| May 21, 2004 | - A bomb blew up outside a McDonald's in Istanbul.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 21, 2003 | - President George W. Bush traveled to Great Britain, along with 650 companions, including five personal chefs, but was unable to move freely in the country because of massive protests. At Buckingham Palace the president dined on roasted halibut with herbs, free-range chicken, potatoes cocotte, salad, and a sorbet bombe but presumably skipped the Puligny-Montrachet and the Veuve Clicquot, Gold Label, 1995. Truck bombs blew up the British Consulate and a British bank in Istanbul, killing at least 27 and wounding hundreds. Bloody victims ran screaming through the streets. Two hotels in Baghdad used by Westerners were bombed as was the headquarters of a pro-American Kurdish group in Kirkuk.
| Source:
New York Times, Daily Telegraph
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| November 17, 2003 | -
Al Qaeda
suicide bombers blew up two synagogues in Istanbul.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 15, 2003 | - A car bomb blew up outside the Turkish embassy in Baghdad; it was the third Baghdad car bomb in less than a week.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 4, 2003 | -
Turkey's parliament rejected a proposal to allow American troops to use Turkish bases for the invasion of Iraq, undoing weeks of bargaining with the United States over a multi-billion-dollar fee. “What more do you want?” said Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish leader. “It was a completely democratic result. May it be for the best.” American officials asked for a “clarification” of the decision, and Yasar Yakis, the Turkish foreign minister, said that his government would request a second vote.
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| March 4, 2003 | -
Two dozen American ships laden with military supplies were still floating off the Turkish coast.
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| October 23, 2001 | - Three new studies found that the chicken, beef, turkey, and pork sold in American supermarkets commonly contain antibiotic-resistant strains of dangerous bacteria.
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| September 18, 2001 | - In Turkey, the Revolutionary People's Liberation Army-Front carried out a suicide attack in Istanbul, killing two policemen.
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