* 20 is minimum target, no formalised plan yet * Russian firm to build Turkey’s first nuclear power station * Turkey in talks with Toshiba, Japan govt for second plant ANKARA, Jan 31 – Turkey wants to build 20 nuclear reactors by 2030 to produce electricity and reduce its reliance on oil and gas imports, a senior Energy Ministry official said. Turkey has agreed with Russian nuclear company [...]

In January 2009, Chicago editor and writer Martha Bayne was working a shift at the Hideout, a comfortably divey music venue in an industrial corner of the city. Her midweek shifts meant small crowds and smaller tips, so the bored and broke Ms. Bayne came up with an idea to liven things up and do some good. Skip to next paragraph Terry Boyd Terry Boyd is the author of Blue Kitchen, a Chicago-based [...]

While the US, Japan and Europe slashed interest rates to unprecedented low levels, growth remains sluggish. Dealing with debt problems and supporting the recovery, the ECB provided money to quasi-finance the euro area problem children. Similarly the Federal Reserve is trying to jump start the economy and has been flooding markets with money so that they have no idea about what to do with all the liquidity. Skip [...]

Turkish Trade Minister Zafer Caglayan summoned executives with investments or links to Egypt and Tunisia to discuss anti-government protests in North Africa. The “crisis meeting” will take place tomorrow in Ankara and discuss possible steps to protect the interests of Turkish companies, Caglayan said today in an e-mailed statement. It didn’t give any details. Turkish companies have approaching [...]

By Daniel Idonor PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan will this afternoon leave Adis Ababa, in Ethiopia, where he has been attending the 19th Session of the African Union, AU, for Turkey to begin a two-day state visit to that country. The state visit, the first of its kind by President Jonathan to any country ever, is to enjoy the company of the First lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, four State Governors including [...]

Posted at 4:14 PM ET, 01/30/2011 The next stop for Freddy Adu: Turkey. His agent Richard Motzkin told the Insider on Sunday that the nomadic American midfielder-forward will go on loan to Rizespor, a Turkish second-division club. Adu, who was born in Ghana before moving to the Washington area and signing with MLS at age 14, will turn 22 in June. Since leaving D.C. United after the 2006 MLS season, [...]

Dear SOS: Today my daughter and I had lunch at Coast restaurant at Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica, Calif. We so enjoyed the turkey chili and were hoping you would be able to get us the recipe. -Susan Weiner, Claremont, Calif. Dear Susan: Coast at Shutters on the Beach was happy to share its recipe for this rich and hearty chili. COAST’S TURKEY CHILI [...]

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The Turkish government dispatched three planes to the Egyptian capital, Cairo, and two to the city of Alexandria on Sunday, to fly out its anxious citizens from Egypt. Some 102 Turks have already landed at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport. The report followed earlier ones that Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates were flying in planes to evacuate their nationals [...]