Social democratic and left-wing political parties have begun seeking joint candidates to unite against the Justice and Development Party (AKP), in local elections in March.

In a study reported Friday in the Journal of Fish Biology, scientists said DNA testing proved that a pup carried by a female blacktip shark contained no genetic material from a male.

The media stepped up their criticism yesterday of Gen. Babaoglu, who continued to play golf at a hotel in Antalya after a terrorist attack in eastern Turkey killed 17 soldiers last Friday.

In this period of dark gloom and doom, the new Global Competitiveness Report 2008-2009 has been declared by the World Economic Forum. The US tops the overall ranking.

Foreign Minister Ali Babacan has stated that Turkey will make not make concessions on freedoms or security in its fight against the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Renowned cinema actor Kevin Spacey of the United States will arrive in southern province of Antalya on October 17 to attend the 45th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival.

The Prime Ministry has given its support to an international project that aims to devise a strategy to help Turkey deal more effectively with the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party.

The G7 has vowed to take all necessary steps to unfreeze credit markets and ensure banks can raise money but offered no collective course of action to avert a deep global recession.

Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative said.

The Turkish government would hold direct talks with the Kurdish regional administration in N Iraq in its fight against the terror organization, PKK, CNN Turk reported on Friday.

There were more sharp falls in the stock markets and the IMF says we are 'on the cusp of a recession'. Despite interest rate cuts and bank bail-outs, the mayhem in the markets continues.

Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari received the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to build a lasting peace in places as diverse as East Timor and the Balkans in Europe.

The General Staff termed the criticism about Gen. Aydogan Babaoglu unjust as it said Babaoglu had received no information about the Aktutun attack until Saturday evening.

The global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current global banking crisis, according to an EU-commissioned study.