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Dubai-based Abraaj Capital has said it has made “very significant” returns from the sale of its 50% stake in Turkey’s largest hospital chain, Bloomberg has reported. The sale of Abraaj’s stake in Turkey’s Acibadem Saglik Yatirimlari valued Acibadem Holding at about $1.68bn for its entire Class A and Class B share capital, the companies said in Dece… [...]

As part of cultural activity programs prepared by the Culture and Tourism Ministry and Turkish Organizing Committee for International Book Fairs, Turkey will again participate in a great many literary, cultural and sectoral events worldwide in 2012. Article source: http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?rid=203053366&cat=53023059fadd9a63

The New York Times daily yesterday published an article entitled “In the Arab Spring, Watch Turkey” which claims that latest developments in the Middle East have caused such comments that a cold war has started between the US and Iran, which has been trying to follow a policy of expansionism by using its Shiite power, adding, “What this view of the… [...]

Turkey does not intend to be considered with the proposed new EU sanctions against Iran. This was announced by the head of the Turkish MINISTRY of FOREIGN AFFAIRS 29 January Ahmet Davutoglu. ‘;Turkey does not agree with entered the EU ban on the purchase of Iranian oil,’; he said at a meeting of the cooperation Council for the Arab States of the P… Article [...]

From left, Bahrain’s Foreign Minister, Sheik Khalid bin AhmedI bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal, his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu and United Arab Emirates’ Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahayan seen during a group photo during the Gulf Cooperation Council foreign ministers meeting in Istanbul, Tur… [...]

A fashion magazine, which has been created for fashion-conscious Muslim women wearing headscarves, is proving that when it comes to Turkey, they don’t need bikinis, breasts and legs to sell issues. Outraged when he saw photos of transsexuals in a magazine, devout Muslim Ibrahim Burak Birer, 31, decided to create a magazine in Istanbul that would contest the “diktat of nudity”. With [...]

Davutoglu who responded to a parliamentary question submitted by a member of Nationalist Action Party (MHP) stated that no air vehicle had been sent to Israel for repair, saying, “As of today, there is no Heron in Israel that belongs to the TSK. Article source: http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?rid=203028070&cat=53023059fadd9a63

“The struggle against terrorism will continue with determination,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday in his first speech to the Justice and Development Party (AKP) parliamentary group since his Nov. 26 surgery. “The terrorists will be rendered ineffective wherever they are, be it in the mountains, in the country or across the border,” he said. Article [...]

The president of the Turko-French inter-parliamentary friendship group, who resigned due to intense pressure from the Turkish public following the passage of a bill through the French lower house of parliament on Dec. 22 seeking to make it illegal to deny that the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 by Ottoman Turks were genocide, stated that the ge… Article source: [...]

Speaking at the opening ceremony of a vocational school in Ilgin district of Konya, Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz said yesterday that education was the best field to make investment. Article source: http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?rid=203028360&cat=53023059fadd9a63