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Agreement on Turkish gas pipeline 'nearly completed'

The final touches to the agreement to pipe Russian natural gas through Turkey should be completed when President Vladimir Putin meets his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Monday, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said. In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency ahead...

Car bomb attack kills six soldiers in southeast Turkey

Six Turkish soldiers were killed and seven people, including civilians, wounded on Sunday when a car bomb exploded near a police station in a border region of the country's southeast, security sources said. The sources said the blast hit the Durak gendarmerie station, 20 km (12 miles) from...

9 detained in drug raids across Turkey

At least nine suspects were into custody late Saturday in drug trafficking operations across Turkey, according to police. Anti-drug police raided various addresses in Istanbul, Izmir, Diyarbakir and Kayseri and seized more than two tons of marijuana including skunk -- a good quality...