Turks protest at Cyprus oil move
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A row erupts between Cyprus and Turkey over oil exploration plans in the eastern Mediterranean.
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Protesters with foghorns and whistles burst into the International Petroleum Exchange on Wednesday, disrupting oil trading in the world's second largest energy futures market on the day the Kyoto Protocol on global warming came into force.
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Turkey's chief EU negotiator tried to rally the bloc's Baltic newcomers to Ankara's side after the European Union moved to freeze its accession talks because of its stance over Cyprus.
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Environmental activists protest outside an EU building, saying planned cuts in fishing quotas do not go far enough.
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More than 100,000 Turks took to the streets on Saturday to protest against government plans to lift an Islamic headscarf ban at universities and to defend the country's strong secular tradition.
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ISTANBUL, Dec 1 (IPS) - Turkey's controversial move towards European  Union membership has drawn strong opposition within several  member states, but a bigger obstacle now emerges by way of a tiny  new member of the club: Cyprus.
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Turkey is ready to back any new UN effort to resolve the Cyprus conflict, a major obstacle on its way to European Union membership, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.
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Turkey's government backed off its plan to outlaw adultery after criticism within the European Union, strident protests from opposition politicians and a march on parliament Tuesday by hundreds of outraged Turkish women.
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Any final agreement brokered on the Cyprus issue should be voted on in a referendum, the Prime Minister said. Turkey is to commit itself to finding a solution to the dispute on Cyprus, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said Friday.
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LARNACA, Cyprus, Oct 5  - The Cypriot authorities issued a strong protest Tuesday after Israeli warplanes forced a German airliner into their flight control zone without prior authorization amid a bomb alert.
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Greek Cypriots razed to the ground a symbol of Cyprus's decades-old division running through the heart of the capital Nicosia and challenged Turkey to respond by withdrawing its troops from the area.
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At an Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) meeting yesterday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan responded to a question about Cyprus by saying: &quot;Turkey will not withdraw any troops from Cyprus.
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Ankara insisted yesterday that it would not recognize the Republic of Cyprus before the December 17 European Union summit which will determine whether to grant Turkey a date for the start of EU accession talks.
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The regional government of Iraqâs semi-autonomous Kurdish region condemned a cross-border incursion of Turkish troops on Tuesday.
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Thousands take to the streets of Taiwan's capital, Taipei, in protest at plans to buy $18bn in arms from the US.
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Setting deadlines for the opening of Turkish ports and airports to traffic from Cyprus will not help solve the issue, Turkish officials said on Tuesday.Comment