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                    <language>en-us</language><item><title><![CDATA[Turkey puts radio station on air in Afghanistan]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/24567.htm]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last month Turkey put a radio station on the air in Wardak, in central-east Afghanistan, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Burak Ozugergin announced yesterday. He said the radio station broadcasts in a local language and plays Turkish folk ...<br>February 8, 2010, 3:16 am]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/24567.htm]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Davutoglu, Iranian FM discuss Afghanistan]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/24566.htm]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu yesterday received his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki, currently in Ankara to attend a bilateral Joint Economic Commission meeting. The top diplomats&#039; talks focused on developments concerning Iran, ...<br>February 8, 2010, 3:15 am]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/24566.htm]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fistfight in Turkish Parliament]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/24565.htm]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting broke out Tuesday in Parliament among the deputies of the ruling AKP and the MHP, when MHP deputy Osman Durmuş sarcastically said, “How do you [the hospital] not let the wife of a prime minister who is regarded as prophet come into the ...<br>February 8, 2010, 3:05 am]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/24565.htm]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minister Bagis: “If the EU rejects Turkey then it will become a Christian club.”]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/24564.htm]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turkish chief EU negotiator and Minister Egemen Bagis gave a speech at the Bruges European College. Bagis said that if Turkey was accepted to the EU, this would benefit both sides since Turkey could solve many of the problems in Europe by her young ...<br>February 8, 2010, 2:59 am]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/24564.htm]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PM bitter towards EU for keeping Turkey at its door for five decades]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/24563.htm]]></link><description><![CDATA[In strongly worded remarks Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan expressed deep disappointment on Wednesday over the way Turkey has been treated by the European Union, calling the treatment “unfair.”
Speaking at a joint press conference ...<br>February 8, 2010, 2:56 am]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/24563.htm]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iranian FM Mottaki in Turkey]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/24548.htm]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki yesterday was received in Ankara by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He said that his visit comes as Iran has important political relations with Turkey and it wants to develop them. Today Mottaki is ...<br>February 3, 2010, 3:58 am]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/24548.htm]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MHP Vice President to Pay 10 thousand TL to PM Erdogan]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/24547.htm]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Turkish court ruled that the nationalist MHP Vice President, Deniz Bolukbasi, would pay 10 thousand TL (about 6,700 dollars) as damages for mental anguish to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Prime Minister had sued the MHP ...<br>February 3, 2010, 3:56 am]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/24547.htm]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan: “It is normal to remove the religion entry on Turkish identity cards”]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/24546.htm]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan responded to questions on the latest decisions of the European Human Rights Court. Erdogan said that the decision of the European Human Rights Court was parallel to the steps adopted by the Turkish ...<br>February 3, 2010, 3:55 am]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/24546.htm]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Istanbul to host NATO meeting focusing on Afghanistan]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/24562.htm]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the heels of hosting last week&#039;s regional conference on Afghanistan, tomorrow and Friday Istanbul will host an informal meeting of NATO defense ministers focusing on the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the NATO-led ...<br>February 3, 2010, 2:53 am]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/24562.htm]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senior US Iraq commander in Ankara]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/24561.htm]]></link><description><![CDATA[The senior US commander in Iraq, Gen. Ray Odierno, arrived in Ankara yesterday at the invitation of Interior Minister Besir Atalay. Today Odierno is set to attend anti-terrorist coordination meetings with Turkish officials, "Turkey is a strong ally ...<br>February 3, 2010, 2:51 am]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/24561.htm]]></guid></item></channel>
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