Turkeys banking watchdog said it had authorised UniCredito Italiano to examine necessary documents and prepare a bid to buy Iktisat Bank, one of several failed banks under state control.

Ankaras political and military rulers expect that a Turkish military presence in Afghanistan will indirectly provide the country with a wider margin of maneuver and a greater say in the prospective reshaping of the region,

The Turkish Journalists Association said 3,000 of Turkeys 12,000 journalists have been laid off since mid-February, when the country was plunged into an economic crisis.

Last week, thousands of protesters closed businesses and blocked highways in Ankara and Istanbul, shouting, The government must resign! and waving placards with the words Youre sucking our blood.

Investment-grade issuersare expected to dominate emerging markets in the next few months, offering a chance to diversify from Argentina and Turkey.

Ongoing economic crisis leads to unemployment among Turkeys specialized workforce, say Engineers Chambers officials. New raduates as well as experienced engineers are seeking jobs outside of their profession or overseas.

The official decision for DEPORTATION (Exile) was taken in May 27th of 1915. The Ottoman government had decided to force a number of its subjects, depriving them of their possessions and property, to exile to hundreds of kilometers away to Deyr-uz Zor.

Only the government here appears to be pleased with its new economic recovery programme. Announced on the weekend, the programme, which is backed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has spawned a wave of criticisms and labour rallies.

-Type prisons are specially designed maximum-security facilities, which Human Rights Watch, the global human rights group, calls physically and psychologically damaging to prisoners. The prisons are designed to keep prisoners in isolation.

It is vital that we explore anti-American sentiment. It is especially urgent that we study Americas Middle East policy, with emphasis on U.S. dealings with Iraq and Israel.

Colasan and Soms mistake is so basic it would be akin to a U.S.journalist writing about Turkey and confusing MHP with the PKK. Their allegations reflect badly on them, their newspapers, and the entire Turkish newspaper industry.

Turkish writer Asiye Zeybek was raped by policemen - yet it is she who faces prison. And her case is the tip of the iceberg, says Joan Smith of The Guardian in her column on Sep.17 issue of the British daily.

Proposals of replacing the ruling cabinet with a technocrats government, in order to overcome the Nationalist Action Partys (MHP) unwillingness in implementing the IMF backed austerity programme rebuffed. Political analysts comment on the issue.

The United States and Turkey share a core common concern with the guiding principles of the Taliban and al Qaeda. Though Turkey is 99.8 percent Muslim, Osama bin Laden and the Taliban, surely include the Turkish Republic among the camp of disbelief.

Up to 4,000 media workers have been laid- off in Turkey as a result of a recent 30 per cent devaluation of the Turkish Lira, which has hit the media industry the hardest.

The death of a political prisoner in Turkey last week may spark a chain of similar action by other inmates on hunger strike in the countrys prisons, a medical doctor has warned.

Swedish PEN decides to grant the 2001 Tulchovsky Award to imprisoned Turkish journalist Asiye Zeybek Guzel. A Swedish PEN delegation attends Guzels trial on Friday.

Greece and Turkey have signed an agreement that will allow Greece to send back illegal migrants that have entered the country through Turkey.

Open until Dec. 13 a recent exposition brings together 1500 pictures from the past 68 years of painter Nuri Iyem. Painted estimated 4000 pictures throughout his career Iyem is the first Turkish artist on whose business card his profession was inscribed.

An IHD (The Human Rights Organisation of Turkey ) fact finding mission to Southeast Turkey is reported to have faced arassment during their visit to the region. In an urgent appeal yesterday the IHD calls for intervention for the release of detained local