Turkey
Kosovo's Fatih Mosque, re-constructed by Turkey, opened
Source | WorldBulletin
Kosovo | 05 Nov 2010
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday put Fatih Mosque, re-constructed by Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency (TIKA), into service again in Kosovo.
Fatih Mosque, one of the 800 mosques in Kosovo, was constructed in 1461.
Turkey, Georgia to jointly use customs gates
Source : World Bulletin
ISTANBUL | 08 Oct 2010
Turkish State Minister Hayati Yazici and Georgian Finance Minister Kakha Baindurashvili signed a protocol on joint use of customs gates Sarp, Cildir/Aktas and Posof/Turkgozu at a ceremony in Istanbul on Friday.
Delivering a speech in the ceremony, Yazici said that there would be a 40 percent decrease in procedures in customs gates thanks to the protocol.
Yazici said that they opened a new page between Turkey and Georgia with this protocol.
Joint use of customs gates would be first for Turkey and Georgia, he said.
Turkey to host Turkish Speaking Countries meeting
Source | World Buletin
15 Sep 2010
10th summit meeting of heads of state and government of the Turkish Speaking Countries will take place in Istanbul in September 15-16.
Turkish President Abdullah Gul, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kyrgyzstan President Roza Otunbaeva, and Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguli Berdimuhammedov will meet on September 16 within the scope of the summit meeting.
The Constitutional Referendum and New Dynamics of Turkish Politics
The Constitutional Referendum and New Dynamics of Turkish Politics
by Ibrahim Kalin
On September 12, 2010, exactly thirty years after the 1980 military coup, Turkish voters went to the polls to vote on the largest constitutional amendment since the current constitution was adopted in 1982.
