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- Government unveils relief measures for
tradesmen
The government yesterday announced a set of measures to ease the problems of tradesmen, who staged nationwide demonstrations last week protesting the government's inertia towards the ongoing economic crisis.
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- Police call for calm after anti-Kurdish riots
follow girl's slaying
Authorities appealed for calm in the western Turkish town of Susurluk Monday, a day after crowds enraged by the murder of a young girl targeted local Kurds and clashed with police, the Anatolia news agency said Monday.
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- Police wary of provocations
- Police Chief Genc warns tradesmen against possible infiltration into protest rallies by provacateurs
Turkish police warned protesting tradesmen on Monday to take every possible measure to prevent infiltration by provocateur groups into rallies they have been holding for the past week against the government.
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- Bush sees imminent damage to US-Chinese
relations
President George W. Bush said on Monday that "diplomacy takes time," but cautioned China that relations with the United States will suffer unless the 24 crew members of a U.S. spy plane are released soon.
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- Israel regrets convoy shooting, violence rages
- Palestinian killed in exchange of fire, Israel bombards Gaza Strip area
Israel voiced regret on Monday over an incident in which its troops fired on a convoy carrying Palestinian security chiefs, saying it underscored the need for the two warring sides to talk.
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- Editorial by Ilnur Cevik : New incident at Susurluk
- Opinion by Mehmet Ali Birand : No faith left in either leaders or system
- Opinion by Gunduz Aktan : Ankara on Istanbul's lips
- Opinion By Dr. Cuneyt Ulsever : A la Turca and/or militant democracy
- Opinion By Yavuz Baydar : Cabin pressure
- Equilibrium By Burak Bekdil : Elbonia
- Opinion by Avni Ozgurel : On scenarios
- Police call for calm after anti-Kurdish riots follow girl's slaying
- Police wary of provocations
- Police Chief Genc warns tradesmen against possible infiltration into protest rallies by provacateurs
- Unreformed offenders in prison again
- Offenders released on parole are going back to jail
- Experts say releasing prisoners without any criteria was a mistake
- According to experts, the majority of prisoners who were set free needed to go through a rehabilitation program
- Turkish police detain 20 in prison protest
- Former Deputy Mezarci detained on return to
Turkey
- Police detained Hasan Mezarci at the town of Ipsala on the Turkey-Greece border early Monday and took him to the police station for questioning
- Dervis: Nobody interferes in
Turkey's domestic affairs
- In response to allegations the IMF told Turkey to cut back on military spending, Dervis says government able to answer IMF queries regarding the budget but that the program will be of Turkey's making
- Death fasts: Three die, others face permanent
problems
- Temucin says there are death fasters who suffer from 'Korsakov' illness, the symptoms of which include total failure of one's memory accompanied with psychological illnesses such as depression and paranoia
- Postcards from the Southeast
- Bomb found in Turkey's Red Crescent
headquarters
- A Red Crescent employee found the bomb under a staircase at the organization's headquarters in Ankara Monday morning, the Anatolia news agency reported. The employee alerted police, who evacuated the building.
- One line on the news
- International Rotary's regional meeting held in Antalya
- Municipalities hit by crisis
- Gurtuna: If things carry on like this, investments will cease and we will have to lay off people
- Medicine dosage debate hots up
- While Durmus says medicines should be bought one at a time, Pharmacology Assoc. says this will increase usage
- Turkish Journalists Association condemns
layoffs
- TGC monthly report notes the lay offs in the media sector were most important event in sector in March
- Van den Reeck: Belgium to
continue trading with Turkey despite crisis
- A trade mission from the Brussels comes to Turkey to contact Turkish companies, for both exports and imports. Numerous meetings take place at the Chamber of Commerce between representatives of Belgian and Turkish companies, and many new contacts are made
- 'It is important to have our presence, not only when things go well but also when they don't go so well'
- Gurel asks American Turks to support Turkey's
interests
- State Minister Sukru Sina Gurel asks American Turks in Florida to give support to the Turkish cause in the US particularly to stop Armenian allegations
- Peres: Armenian allegations are meaningless
- On the eve of his visit to Turkey, Israeli Foreign Minister Peres says Armenian allegations are 'meaningless' and there is no similarity between the Holocaust and Armenian incidents
- Cakmakoglu: We want to boost ties with Greece
- Stressing that his ministry is placing special importance on relations with Greece, Cakmakoglu says they want to boost ties with their neighbor
- Czech Deputy Prime Minister to visit Turkey
- Czech Deputy Prime Minister Jan Kavan visit Turkey between April 10 and 12
- Kazakhstan dismisses fears of Bosphorus tanker
jams
- 'This issue is a far-fetched one, and we are ready to cooperate and be responsible for respecting all safety and ecological norms'
- Bush sees imminent damage to US-Chinese relations
- Israel regrets convoy shooting, violence rages
- Palestinian killed in exchange of fire, Israel bombards Gaza Strip area
- British couple lose battle over Internet twins
- The twins adopted by Alan and Judith Kilshaw are expected to be sent back to the US state of Missouri following the court ruling
- 'Spy Kids' clings to top box-office spot
- World best Sellers
- Britain's monarchy stirs new debate on its
future
- The queen slammed the press for waging a campaign of 'entrapment, subterfuge, innuendo and untruths' against the couple but acknowledged that new guidelines were needed on the way royals with careers combined business life with public duty
- Academy apologizes for Mike Myers
- Gardner against banning of snowmobiles
- Who runs the world? Ask French Foreign Minister Vedrine
- Iran MPs summon the security chief over mass
arrests
- Khatami says clampdown hampered his drive to create a modern state
- Toledo-Garcia showdown looms in Peruvian polls
- Nepal twins fine on day four of operation
- Doctors had expected the operation to last up to 36 hours but separating the veins joining the two brains is proving more difficult than first thought
- EU: Support growing for climate deal without US
- Dutch start investigate fire at Schiphol Airport
- EU meets amid foot-and-mouth fears
- Farm ministers wary of vaccination calls
- Greek journalists strike for better conditions
- Thousands of Pakistanis pay tribute to hardline Islam
- Putin summit focuses on debt, global security
- Government unveils relief measures for tradesmen
- Eximbank unable to provide sufficient export
financing
- Eximbank plans to launch syndicated borrowing in May to roll over a $160 million loan raised last year
- Treasury holds six-month bill auction
- Finance Minister Oral to attend Ecofin meetings
- Let historians decide on so-called genocide
- Nationalists who use history have different goals. They use events from the past as weapons in their nations' battles. They have a purpose -- to triumph for their cause, and they will use anything to succeed in this goal
- Like other men and women, historians have political goals and ideologies, but a true historian acknowledges his error when the facts do not support his belief. The nationalist apologist never does so
- The Armenian issue has long been plagued with nationalist studies. This has led to an inconsistent history that ignores the time-tested principles of historical research. Yet when the histories of Turks and Armenians are approached with the normal tools a logical and consistent account results
- Cyber news
- InfoNet against hackers and viruses
- A new service which has recently been introduced in Turkey is providing safety and security against hackers and viruses. The specific company operating in Turkey is InfoNet Information Technologies, which provides information and network safety services for companies accessing the Internet
- Microsoft enters Net music fray with
online broadcasts
- The move to subscription services is gaining momentum following the legal battle between the major record labels and the wildly popular Napster service, which allows Internet users to copy digital music files from each other's computers
- MIT offers course materials freely on the
Web
- MIT said the aim of the project, MIT OpenCourseWare, was to freely share the prestigious university's knowledge. While the course materials would be free, there would be no credits or MIT degree. Under the program, over the next decade MIT would post the Web course syllabuses, lectures, recitation notes and problem sets -- 'but not the solutions,' a university spokeswoman said.
- Real Yozgat!
- Denizli beats Fener, Yozgat outplays Galatasaray, Okan Yilmaz joins Jardel at the goalscoring summit - Anatolia lives, OK?
- No change at top of Turkish League
- Cim Bom bites the dust in Yozgat, joining Antep and Fener as weekend losers; biggest beneficiary is Besiktas
- Big day for Botas women
- Adana women bid for Ronchetti triumph; Efes Pilsen downs Dacka; easy win for Ulkerspor
- Woman racer Poensgen kicks off GP season
- Delighted Real homes in on title
- Six Nations peters out without winner
- Gibbs boosts Lions hopes with two tries for Wales
- Australian pugilist dies after heavy fall
- Liverpool, Arsenal kill Cup romance
- Sacramento beats slumping Portland
- Cechmanek nips Hasek in NHL playoff tuneup
- Woods aims to sweep rest of 2001 majors
- Tiger reigns supreme in the golf world after conquering his rivals in an extraordinary final-round shootout to win the Masters and hold every one of the sport's major professional titles
