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. | In a farewell message to brothers in arms, KoÅŸaner said it was impossible for him to continue in his role as he was unable to defend the rights of men who had been detained as a consequence of a flawed judicial process.
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. | The attack is the second in a week on officials in the regional capital of Makhachkala. Militants said last Friday they were responsible for the killing of two guards for a regional anti-extremism official.
A decade after federal forces ousted a rebel government in neighbouring Chechnya, insurgents aiming to carve an Islamic state from Russia's North Caucasus carry out |
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. | The killing, in circumstances that remain murky, has shaken Western confidence in the movement to oust Libya’s leader, Muammar Gaddafi, and constitutes a blow for the US, Britain, France and other countries backing the under-trained and divided opposition alliance.
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. | The chief of the Turkish armed forces has resigned, along with the heads of the army, navy and air force, according to the state-run Anatolia news agency.
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. | Foreign Ministry spokesman Selçuk Ünal said that giving advice to the youth and future generations in such a way as to provoke animosity and the ideology of hatred between peoples in a most irresponsible behavior.
Ãœnal said that the statements Sargsyan did not see any harm in using at a time when the quest for peace in the region has gained momentum points to the fact that he has |
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. | Five Armenian gunmen – “The Lisbon Five” – storm the Turkish Embassy in Lisbon, killing a Portuguese law enforcement officer and wounding another. A Turkish security officer kills one gunman -Vatche Daghlian. Unable to take the Embassy chancery building, the four remaining gunmen – Setrak Ajemian, Ara Kuhrjulian, Sarkis Abrahamian and Simon Yahniyan – occupy the Embassy residence building, where they take the Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM), Yurtsev Mihcioglu, |
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. | In line with Ankara’s diplomatic conventions, following last week’s trip to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC), which marked his first visit abroad as head of the new government, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan will pay his second visit abroad to neighboring country Azerbaijan.
ErdoÄŸan will pay a one |
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. | The oil ministers of Iraq, Iran and Syria Monday signed a preliminary agreement for a $10 billion natural-gas-pipeline deal, the official Iranian News Agency IRNA and other Iranian media reported.
The document was inked in the Assalouyeh industrial region located in the southern province of Bushehr by Iranian oil minister Mohammad Aliabadi, Iraq’s oil minister Abdul Kareem |
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. | “Tabriz is a heart of Azerbaijan” dominated the “(North) Azerbaijan Premier League” (Photo) |
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. | Syrian television denied that more than a million people had come out to protest, saying that only “about 2,000 people took part in Friday’s demonstration in Deir Ezzor.â€
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. | The CHP official also expressed his confusion over Erdoğan’s statement that the Silvan attack had prompted the prime minister to “think differently,†questioning whether the premier meant that terror was “tolerated†before, and that that had changed now.
Nationalist Movement Party, or MHP, group deputy chairman Oktay Vural told reporters that Erdoğan’s statements regarding the new structure had caused confusion as to what the government |
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. | “We have not been able to return to negotiations with Netanyahu because of his refusal to negotiate on the basis of the 1967 borders and to stop settlement,” Abbas said at the meeting, attended by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. |
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. | A law has come into force in Belgium banning women from wearing the full Islamic veil in public.
The country is the second European Union nation after France to enforce such a ban. Offenders face a fine of 137.5 euros (£121; $197) and up to seven days in jail. |
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. | Offensive warfare intensified beginning from May 11, 1993, ended with an occupation of Aghdam. Armenians occupied 77.4 percent of the Aghdam’s territory and they continue the occupation until now. About 130 000 displaced persons from Aghdam were settled in 875 settlements of 59 regions of Azerbaijan. The town of Aghdam and 80 nearby villages are under the occupation. 122 villages, 24,446 residential houses, 48 industry and construction enterprises, 160 school buildings 65 health |
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. | “The so-called embargo applied in Armenia was eliminated long ago. The opening of the borders will offer great economic opportunities to Kars and the region,†he said.
Alibeyoglu said Turkish and Armenian planes operate |
