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Singapore  - A Turkish national was slapped a 656 US dollar fine for spreading the word that a plane getting ready to take off from Singapore’s Changi Airport would blow up, the Straits Times reported Tuesday.

Ankara - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is due to arrive in Turkey on Wednesday where he will take part in an intergovernmental summit. The topic of Turkey’s European Union accession process is expected to top the agenda.

Ankara - An explosion in south-eastern Turkey late Wednesday night destroyed parts of a pipeline carrying oil from the Iraqi city of Kirkuk to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhun, the Anadolu news agency reported Thursday.
The explosion in the province of Sanliurfa was believed to have been caused by a quick change of pressure [...]

Ankara - The Turkish military on Friday claimed to have killed 25 Kurdish rebels and wounded several others in airstrikes last week on Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) positions in northern Iraq.

Ankara - Turkey’s highest court decided not to close down the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) owing to the government’s steps to join the European Union, according to the court’s reasonings published in Friday’s Official Gazette.

Ankara - Two suspected bomb explosions rocked the Istanbul suburb of Gungoren late Sunday night with reports that at least eight people were killed.