Word: turkish
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...wife, Mira Markovic, as key suspects in that killing. More than 1,000 people, including several prominent judges and prosecutors, have been arrested so far because of mob links. - By Dejan Anastasijevic/Belgrade Trouble in the Skies greece Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, persuaded a 20-year-old Turkish draft dodger to surrender and release 200 hostages after hijacking an Istanbul to Ankara flight and forcing it to land in Athens. The hijacker used three razor blades and four candlesticks to commandeer the aircraft. A Greek prosecutor charged him with a string of criminal offenses; authorities did not immediately...
...planners appeared to be moving to expand their range of tactical options. Paratroopers took control of an airfield in Kurdish-held territory north of Baghdad to begin establishing the northern front delayed by Turkey's rebuff of plans for the 4th Infantry Division to march on Baghdad from Turkish soil. The 4th's troops and equipment are currently en route by sea to Kuwait, but their deployment in Iraq - possibly via airfields captured last week in western Iraq - may take another two weeks or more. And the U.S. announced Thursday that a further 100,000 troops would be deployed...
...hotel I met other journalists who had been on their own searches - all futile. I can't say that we covered all the spots the Turks may be hidden, but the rumor mill in Kurdistan can report news faster than CNN. If there had been a Turkish incursion up the road, the people of Barmani, Amedi or Duhok would have heard about...
...soldiers don't mix with the local population, and can't even communicate - most of the soldiers speak only Turkish, and the locals just Kurdish and Arabic. "We don't like them, the Turkish government is the most brutal in the world," said one resident, Fadhil Tomar. "After the war, if they don't leave the peshmerga will come and kick them out." At that, a pickup sped up with a couple of Turkish soldiers and a Kurdish-Turkish translator. We were asked to leave...
...little to the east is Amedi, a vacation spot for Iraqi Kurds because of its dramatic location perched at the top of a peak. There the Turkish presence is also obvious. In what looks like it used to be a parking lot right in the middle of town, between the vegetable bazaar and the local police station, are a handful of Turkish tanks and 20 or so soldiers. We ask a policeman if there had been any new arrivals. "No," he said. "No one here would accept them...