Turkey boss defends his company
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Bernard Matthews denies any cover-up following the bird flu outbreak at one of his Suffolk farms.
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ISTANBUL -- In a new case pitting free speech against Turkish nationalists, a young novelist is due in court here this week to defend herself against charges that she insulted ``Turkishness" because a character in her newest book, ``The Bastard of Istanbul," refers to the deaths of Armenians in 1915 as genocide.
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ANKARA, Turkey, Feb. 23 -- A politician was charged Friday with inciting hatred and threatening public safety after suggesting that fellow Kurds would rise against the state and fight if Turkey ever attacked their Kurdish brethren in neighboring Iraq.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave EU leaders a classic lesson in haggling at a crunch summit here, at one point bluntly threatening to leave if he didn't get what he wanted -- but for some the ...
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A suspected leader of a cell accused in deadly suicide attacks in Turkey boasted Monday that he was an "al-Qaida warrior" and warned in court of future attacks if Turkey continued to support the United States.
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Prime minister defends government's preparations.
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A Turkish Kurdish politician is   entitled to challenge the European Union's inclusion of the   Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrilla group on its list of   terrorist organizations, an adviser to the EU's top court said.
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A suspected leader of a cell accused in deadly suicide attacks in Turkey boasted Monday that he was an &quot;al-Qaida warrior&quot; and warned in court of future attacks if Turkey continued to support the United States.
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Bank of England boss Mervyn King is defending his role in the Northern Rock banking crisis.
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The government has defended a decision to allow imported turkey meat from Hungary, despite speculation linking a recent outbreak of H5N1 bird flu with the east European country.
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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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A lawyer for best-selling novelist Orhan   Pamuk chided Turkey's justice minister on Friday for suggesting   his client was to blame for the controversy surrounding an   article of the penal code blasted by the EU.
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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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One of Turkeyâs richest businessmen has been taken hostage in Iraq, writes Tom Pattinson. Kahraman Sadikoglu, a shipping magnate, was shown on a private Turkish television channel being questioned by kidnappers.
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A Turkish Kurdish politician is  entitled to challenge the European Union's inclusion of the  Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrilla group on its list of  terrorist organizations, an adviser to the EU's top court said.
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One of the European Union's chief architects has warned against the danger of over-expansion as it prepares to decide next month on starting entry negotiations with Turkey.
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A European Commission report on Turkey criticises persistent torture and harassment of human rights workers but the EU executive is still set to give the green light next week for Ankara to start membership talks.