Turkish PM Returns Home to Hero's Welcome
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Turkey's prime minister returned home Saturday to a hero's welcome with some 2,000 supporters waving Turkish and European Union flags at the airport to celebrate a historic agreement to start membership talks with the EU next year.
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PARIS: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview published on Thursday that he is looking to President Jacques Chirac to reassure Ankara over Franceâs backing for its bid to join the European Union.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - To the cheers of supporters who set off celebratory firecrackers and flung pink flower petals, the party of exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto announced yesterday that she would return to her homeland Oct. 18.
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey&#39;s prime minister, has been travelling so much recently that most Turks have to turn on their television to find out where he is.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Ankara ahead of a Middle East tour aimed at advancing the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process and discussing Turkey's EU ambitions.
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Anwar gives the thumbs-up to supporters as he arrives at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang. Anwar returned home Sunday from Saudi Arabia after a two-month trip that earlier took him to Germany for back surgery.
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Just hours before President Bush was to travel to the Middle East, he welcomed Turkish President Abdullah Gul to the White House on Tuesday, praising his country as a friend as well as âa great strategic partner.â
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Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, a leader of Hamas, was returning from a two-week trip abroad.
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Turkey's bid to join the European Union was back on course Thursday after Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan backed down in a row with the bloc over attempts to ban adultery in his Muslim nation.
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Argentina's former President Carlos Menem returns home for the first time in almost a year from self-imposed exile.
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Mahmoud Abbas, favourite to become the new Palestinian president, is given a hero's welcome in Gaza.
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Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul was sworn in as Turkey's president on Tuesday despite the objections of a powerful military that fears a creeping subversion of the country's secular order under the former Islamist.
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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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Former Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif was back in Saudi Arabia on Monday after his expulsion from Pakistan, with Riyadh saying it &quot;welcomed&quot; his return to his former exile home.
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Joseph Estrada, jailed former leader of the Philippines, came home to a hero's welcome on Friday as President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo faced criticism for pardoning the playboy movie star.
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, with a fresh election triumph under his belt, said he would press on with reforms to turn his secular, Muslim country into a modern democracy on a par with its European neighbors.
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Turkey's bid to join the European  Union was back on course Thursday after Prime Minister Tayyip  Erdogan backed down in a row with the bloc over attempts to ban  adultery in his Muslim nation.