Article: Turkey commemorates 70th anniversary of Ataturk's death

Article: Turkey commemorates Armenian journalist's slaying
AP Worldstream;  January 19, 2008 ;     620 words ...Dozens of people laid carnations and lit candles in front of the office of a slain Turkish-Armenian journalist on Saturday, to mark the first anniversary of his death. Hrant Dink, a Turkish citizen of Armenian origins who was despised by many for calling a century-old killing of Armenians a

Article: TURKEY COMMEMORATES BATTLE OF GALLIPOLI
Info-Prod Research (Middle East);  March 20, 2007 ;     326 words ...According to Hurriyet, Turkey marked the 92nd anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli and Martyrs Day. In his message marking the day, President Ahmet Necdet Sezer said, "This shining country is our inheritance from all the martyrs who gave their lives while serving their country, for love of the

Article: Turkey commemorates Holocaust victims
AP Worldstream;  January 27, 2006 ;     329 words ...AP Worldstream 01-27-2006 Dateline: ISTANBUL, Turkey The Holocaust during World War II, in which Nazis rounded up and killed millions of Jews, was a "horrifying period with no match in history," Turkey's Foreign Ministry said Friday. The statement was made to mark the United Nations' first

Article: TURKEY COMMEMORATES VICTIMS OF KHOJALY GENOCIDE.
AZR - State Telegraph Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan;  February 26, 2008 ;     502 words ...Baku, 26 February (AzerTAc) - The Heydar Aliyev Foundation and Embassy of Azerbaijan to Turkey held numerous events on the occasion of the 16th anniversary of Khojaly Genocide. On February 25, participants gathered in Kechioran region of Ankara to revere memory of Khojaly tragedy victims and laid

Article: TURKEY: TURKEY COMMEMORATES AVIATION MARTYRS.(Brief ...
IPR Strategic Business Information Database;  May 17, 2001 ;     482 words ...According to Turkiye, Aviation martyrs were commemorated throughout the country and in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). Relatives of the martyrs, military personnel and citizens joined the ceremonies. Additionally, President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, Chief of

Article: TURKEY: TURKEY COMMEMORATES BATTLE OF GALLIPOLI.
IPR Strategic Business Information Database;  March 20, 2007 ;     510 words ...According to Hurriyet, Turkey marked the 92nd anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli and Martyrs Day. In his message marking the day, President Ahmet Necdet Sezer said, This shining country is our inheritance from all the martyrs who gave their lives while serving their country, for love of the

Article: Ataturk film draws Turkish crowds, and controversy
AP Worldstream;  November 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... outraging hardline followers of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's secular tradition. More than a half ... secularists are livid over its portrait of Ataturk as an authoritarian leader who was detached ... journalist Can Dundar, for eroding Ataturk's respectability. Insulting Ataturk ...