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?pek Yezdani ipek.yezdani@hurriyet.com.tr The United States plans to store heavy military equipment in the Baltics and Eastern European nations to reassure allies made uneasy by Russian intervention in Ukraine, and to deter further aggression, a senior U.S. official said on June 13.

The mayor of a southern Turkish province has denied claims that President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an canceled American journalist Steven Kinzer?s honorary citizenship over a recent critical article, while admitting that she herself made the decision for the same reason.

An editorial of US daily New York Times sparked a fervent response from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an during an Istanbul event he attended on Monday.

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis was forced to say he respected the confidentiality of debt talks with his European counterparts after a news report claimed he recorded an April meeting.

Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman spoke at the Athens Concert Hall on Friday.

Although Krugman was critical of the way that the eurozone has handled Greece?s crisis, he advised the government not to consider an exit from the single currency. He said that such a move would be ?nightmarish.?

?The transition cost would be enormous,? he added.

Two historical breakthroughs took place in U.S. foreign policy within the same week: An interim agreement between the world powers and Iran on its nuclear program on April 4 in Lausanne and U.S. President Barack Obama?s handshake with Cuban President Raul Castro on April 11 in Panama City.

Hour after hour even more information of co-pilots life sees the light of publicity, raising even more questions and causing rage about how the German company allowed the 28 year old German piloting planes, risking the lives of innocent passengers.

Antalya will switch gears in April to welcome the Photo Antalya International Press Photo Days, which will bring together some of the world?s most famous photojournalists to the city The best-known names in both global and Turkish photojournalism will come together in the southern province of Antalya during the Photo Antalya International Press Photo Days.

Since the terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington DC on Sept. 11, 2001, I have seen countless discussions in the West on a peculiar question: "Why do they hate us?" The "they" here refers to the "extremists," a term that was popularized in the same era, of the Muslim world, and the "us" referred to both the U.S. and "the West" in general.

David Carr, a New York Times media critic who was known for sharp wit and blunt style and overcame drug addiction to become one of America's most respected journalists, died Thursday at age 58.
      
Carr collapsed in the newsroom Thursday and was later pronounced dead at a hospital, the Times said.