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Collective bargaining for public servants' wages begins as police intervene in union members' march
As the collective bargaining process for public servants? wages began in Ankara on Aug. 3, police intervened in a group of union members, who wanted to march to the Labor Ministry to make their demands heard on the first day of the negotiations.
At least 35 killed as Syrian jet crashes into market
At least 35 civilians were killed and 120 were injured when a Syrian army fighter jet crashed into a busy marketplace in the rebel-held northwestern town of Ariha on August 3, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
Experts hunt for wonder drugs in special Turkish garden
"Nature is our first medicine," says a student visiting Turkey's first garden for medicinal plants -- just one among an army of researchers and experts who come here to see hundreds of potentially life-saving species.
Turkey 'probes claims Iraqi Kurdish civilians killed in air strike'
Turkish Foreign Ministry on Aug. 1 said an investigation has been opened into claims that several civilians were killed in an air strike against militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq.
Iraqi Kurdish officials said Aug. 1 six people had been killed in a pre-dawn strike by Turkish war planes on the village of Zarkel in northern Iraq.
260 PKK members killed in Turkey air strikes: Report
Around 260 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have been killed and hundreds more wounded in Ankara's week-long campaign of air strikes against targets of the outlawed group inside Turkey and in northern Iraq, the semi-official Anadolu Agency said on Aug. 1.
PKK Bombs Railway in Turkey's Kars, Police Kills Three Kurdish Rebels in Agri
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels have bombed a railway line in Turkey's eastern province of Kars and then fired at repair workers, killing one, the BBC reported.
The attack, which took place on Thursday, is the latest in the surge in violence after a fragile two-year ceasefire between PKK and the Turkish government broke last week.
AKP eyes one last try with nationalist party after CHP talks
If the talks between ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) to form a coalition government fails, then there may be "one last try" with the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), EU Minister Volkan Bozk?r said.
Turkey revises telecommunications tender to make transition to 4.5G: Official
Turkey did not cancel a planned 4G tender, but will make a 4.5G tender on Aug. 26, a high-level official from the Information and Communications Technologies Authority (BTK) has told Anadolu Agency.
First fighters trained and equipped by US, Turkey abducted by al-Nusra in Syria
The al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front has abducted 18 members of a U.S.-backed rebel group in northern Syria along with their leaders as they returned from a U.S.-led train-equip program in neighboring Turkey, Anadolu Agency has reported.
The group of 54 fighters had started proceeding into Syria's interior on July 13 after their training program was completed.
PKK blamed for fatal double shooting in Turkey's east
A Turkish police officer and a civilian were killed in a gun attack in the country's southeastern Diyarbak?r province early July 30.