AlHijjah 27, 1432, Nov 23, 2011, SPA - Royal Dutch Shell has signed a deal with Turkish state-run petroleum company, TPAO, to search for oil and gas.
The deal, sealed on Wednesday, allows the two companies to search for oil and natural gas offshore (...)
AlHijjah 27, 1432, Nov 23, 2011, SPA -- The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jasem bin Jabor Al Thani of Qatar met here today Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.
During the meeting, they reviewed bilateral relations and (...)
AlHijjah 17, 1432, Nov 13, 2011, SPA - The death toll from Turkey's 5.6-magnitude earthquake climbed to 37 on Saturday, as rescue workers in Van combed
through the wreckage of the second earthquake to hit the eastern city in three weeks.
Rescuers (...)
AlHijjah 17, 1432, Nov 13, 2011, SPA -- Searchers on Sunday ended efforts to find anyone else alive in the rubble of an earthquake-shattered hotel in eastern Turkey, AP cited the state-run agency as reporting.
The 5.7-magnitude quake struck the (...)
AlHijjah 17, 1432, Nov 13, 2011, SPA - The state-run news agency says authorities have ended efforts to find anyone else alive in the rubble of an earthquake-shattered hotel in eastern Turkey.
The Anatolia news agency said search and rescue (...)
AlHijjah 16, 1432, Nov 12, 2011, SPA - State-run television says Turkish commandos stormed the hijacked ferry and shot dead the lone hijacker.
TRT television says some people jumped into the sea during the raid but it is not clear if any of the 18 (...)
AlHijjah 16, 1432, Nov 12, 2011, SPA -- Turkey's interior minister says a Kurdish rebel shot dead after hijacking a passenger ferry was wearing plastic explosives.
Idris Naim Sahin identified the hijacker as Mensur Guzel and said he was wearing 450 (...)
AlHijjah 14, 1432, Nov 10, 2011, SPA - The death toll from an earthquake in Turkey reached five, with 20 injured, news reports said Thursday.
Two more bodies were pulled from the rubble overnight, Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay told reporters (...)
AlHijjah 7, 1432, Nov 3, 2011, SPA -- Turkey's state-run television said that a fighter jet has crashed during a training flight, killing its two pilots, AP reported.
The TRT television said the F-4 fighter jet crashed near the central Anatolian (...)
AlQa'dah 25, 1432, Oct 23, 2011, SPA -- A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Sunday, collapsing dozens of buildings into piles of twisted steel and chunks of concrete. Desperate survivors dug into the rubble with their bare (...)
AlQa'dah 24, 1432, Oct 22, 2011, SPA - State-run television says 32 Kurdish rebels have been killed in a Turkish military operation in southeastern Turkey.
TRT television, citing unnamed officials Saturday, says the rebels were killed in clashes in (...)
AlQa'dah 20, 1432, Oct 18, 2011, SPA -- Turkey will take in about 10 of the Palestinians freed in a swap deal with Israel, an official said Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkey agreed to receive the freed inmates to contribute to (...)