Portal:Current events/Turkey/2007 August 14


 * Abdullah Gül, currently the Foreign Minister of Turkey, confirms that he would stand again for election as the President of Turkey. (Reuters), (Today's Zaman)
 * Of the 25 wells that TPAO established near the Syrian-Turkish border, 21 produce oil. Still there are plans to set up new ones shortly. (Today's Zaman)
 * A Turkish ferry rammed head-on into a Ukrainian-flagged freighter anchored off the northwest coast in the Sea of Marmara on Monday, slightly injuring dozens of ferry passengers, said a spokesperson for Istanbul’s ferry boat company İDO. (Today's Zaman)
 * Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan may announce his new Cabinet at his regular meeting with the president later this week, government spokesman Mehmet Ali Şahin said Monday. (Today's Zaman)
 * The Trabzonspor-Sivasspor match on Sunday was abandoned with less than 30 seconds to go due to crowd-player violence, Trabzonspor was leading 1-0, and the incident has overshadowed all other action this week.
 * The leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP) Deniz Baykal yesterday said the main reason for his opposition to Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül's presidential bid is his political identity and not his wife's headscarf. “Mr. Gül has penned articles with a deep ideological engagement and that directly put forward his main political identity. (Turkish Daily News)
 * Turkish aid organization Kızılay (Red Crescent) sent 16 trucks load of aid to Iraq on Tuesday. (The New Anatolian)
 * Turkey congratulated the 60th anniversary of Pakistan's independence. (The New Anatolian)
 * A commercial contract for construction of the Ilisu Dam and Hydroelectric Power Plant Project was signed between the Turkish Directorate General for Water Works (DSI) and the Ilisu consortium of Germany, Switzerland and Austria. (The New Anatolian)
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