Islam harmed by hostage taking in Iraq: Erdogan
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Adding his voice to those calling for the release of two French journalists abducted in Iraq last week, and who militants have threatened to execute unless France reverses its policy of banning the wearing of headscarves by Muslim students in schools
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ISTANBUL -- A top Turkish general said yesterday that increasingly powerful Islamist forces are threatening the country's secular system, and that the army would play its role in defending the country against them. General Ilker Basbug's comments appeared to be aimed at the Islamic-rooted government and the European Union officials who have called on the military to limit its role ...
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ANKARA, Turkey  - One of Turkey's richest businessmen said he has been kidnapped in Iraq, appearing in a video aired Saturday alongside one of his weeping employees and saying they were being treated well by their captors.
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Pope Benedict backed Ankara's EU entry  bid and said Islam was a religion of peace on Tuesday,  according to Turkey's prime minister, in a bid to soothe rows  over his views in the mostly Muslim state.
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Turkey's top Muslim official said on  Thursday Pope Benedict should state clearly during a planned  visit to Turkey next week he believes Islam, like Christianity,  to be a religion of peace.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey  - At least four people were killed and 52 injured on Thursday when a bomb destroyed a military vehicle in a southeastern Turkish city, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said.
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Militants in Iraq are threatening to kill two Turkish hostages if their company does not withdraw from the country within three days, Turkish media reported Wednesday.
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Turkish television stations broadcast a video Friday that claimed that Habib Akdas, suspected leader of the Turkish al-Qaida cell blamed for November suicide bombings in Istanbul, was killed this week in a US bombing raid in Iraq.
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Turkeyâs prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, asked for help in the struggle against Kurdish separatists in Iraq.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for the lifting of a ban on women wearing headscarves at state universities. Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party began drafting a new constitution after its landslide election victory in July.  The separation of religion and state enshrined in the current constitution is one of the key issues in the debate.
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Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan signaled on Tuesday Turkey should focus on battling Kurdish guerrillas at home rather than in northern Iraq.
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US President George W. Bush Monday spoke to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and stressed their common fight against Kurdish rebels operating out of Iraq, officials said.
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Clerics differ on who was responsible for the kidnapping in Baghdad.
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Pope Benedict backed Ankara's EU entry bid and said Islam was a religion of peace on Tuesday, according to Turkey's prime minister, in a bid to soothe rows over his views in the mostly Muslim state.
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A video footage aired Saturday on Turkish television showed one of the countryâs wealthiest businessmen saying that he and one of his employees were kidnapped in Iraq and that they were being treated well by their abductors.
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CAIRO, Egypt &#151; A statement posted on the Internet along with a video of what appears to be a Turkish hostage being shot to death claims the masked man who fired the gun is leader of al-Qaida in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi militant group appealed Sunday to an influential Sunni Muslim organization for an edict on whether the kidnapping of foreigners who work for occupation forces is acceptable under Islam.    The appeal came as a Turkish transportation company, Renay International, announced it would withdraw from Iraq a day after Iraqi militants threatened to behead one of its employees - the latest company to meet kidnappers' demands to go...