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Peres: Turkish conditions for meeting unacceptable (AP)

September 21st, 2010

Shimon Peres, President of Israel, responds to questions during a news conference at United Nations headquarters Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)AP - A planned meeting between Israeli President Shimon Peres and his Turkish counterpart was scrapped because of the Israeli leader’s refusal to apologize for the deadly commando raid on…

US military chief seeks Turkish support over Iran (AP)

September 4th, 2010

Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs Adm. Mike Mullen, right, and Turkey's Chief of Staff Gen. Isik Kosaner inspect a guard of honour at the Turkish army headquarters in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. The United States is seeking Turkish permission to withdraw noncombat military equipment from Iraq through its territory and Turkey is likely to agree to the request, a Turkish Foreign Ministry official said Friday.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)AP - The United States’ top military officer stressed on Saturday the need for Turkey to help enforce United Nations sanctions against Iran aimed at deterring the Islamic Republic from…

Palestinian who attacked Turkish Embassy captured (AP)

August 17th, 2010

An Israel border police officer holds his weapon as a paramedic rushes put of the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A Palestinian took hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv Tuesday after shots were fired outside, Israeli police and a Foreign Ministry official said, in an incident that appeared to have only an indirect link to recent tensions between the two countries. (AP Photo / Ariel Schalit)AP - A Palestinian who broke into the Turkish Embassy in Israel trying to take hostages and demanding asylum was turned over to Israeli authorities late Tuesday, ending a tense…

Israel: Attacker has hostages at Turkish Embassy (AP)

August 17th, 2010

AP - An Israeli official says a man is holding hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv after shots were fired outside.

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Benjamin Netanyahu and the Curse of the Turkish Flotilla (Time.com)

August 10th, 2010

Time.com - Israel’s prime minister rehearsed hard for his appearance before an investigative commission and still managed managed to blow it — twice

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Turkish jets raid northern Iraq, clashes kill 23 (AP)

June 19th, 2010

Kurdish rebels killed 10 Turkish soldiers in an attack on an army post and a mine explosion near the border with Iraq, prompting retaliatory air raids on rebel outposts.(AFP/Graphic/File/AFP/Graphic/File)AP - Turkish warplanes launched air raids at suspected Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq Saturday after a rebel attack on a military outpost in Turkey touched off clashes in…

Turkish jets raid northern Iraq, clashes kill 22 (AP)

June 19th, 2010

Iraqi police commandos take position in Basra, 2008. One demonstrator was killed and two wounded when Iraqi police opened fire to disperse a protest against power rationing in the southern city of Basra(AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)AP - Turkish warplanes launched air raids at suspected Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq Saturday after a rebel attack on a military outpost in Turkey touched off clashes in…

Turkish jets raid northern Iraq, clashes kill 20 (AP)

June 19th, 2010

An attack by Kurdish rebels on a Turkish army post near the border with Iraq left eight soldiers dead and prompted retaliatory air raids on rebel outposts.(AFP/Graphic/File/AFP/Graphic/File)AP - Turkish warplanes launched air raids at suspected Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq Saturday after a rebel attack on a military outpost in Turkey touched off clashes in…

Military: Turkish troops cross into northern Iraq (AP)

June 16th, 2010

AP - Turkey sent hundreds of elite soldiers across the border into northern Iraq on Wednesday to chase a group of Kurdish guerrillas escaping after a failed attack on a…

Attacks threaten unusual Turkish outreach to Kurds (AP)

June 16th, 2010

FILE - In this file photo of Nov. 9, 2007 Turkish Kurd villagers in Turkey's pre-dominantly Kurdish southeast protest a surge in attacks by the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in Calisan village in the province of Sirnak near Turkish-Iraqi border southeastern Turkey. A remarkable Turkish attempt to end the country's 26-year-old fighting against Kurdish rebels by granting cultural freedoms to a minority, whose existence once rejected and barred from speaking Kurdish in public appears to have deadlocked, as a dramatic escalation in rebel violence raises the prospect of a return to the grinding warfare that has killed about 40,000 people. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)AP - Kurdish rebels have dramatically stepped up attacks in Turkey this month in an escalation that poses a dire threat to a remarkable attempt at ending one of the…

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