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Women wept Friday at the grave of a victim of an air raid in the Turkish village of Gulyazi, near the Iraqi border. Kurds buried 35 victims of the Wednesday airstrike, as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised an in-depth investigation.
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Turkish riot police arrested a protester at the entrance of the Bosphorus Bridge Friday in Istanbul. A group of Kurdish protesters tried to block the traffic across the Bosphorous to protest the Turkish government’s policy on Kurds.
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Soldiers marched at the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on the 72nd anniversary of his death in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday. Mr. Ataturk, was the founder of modern, secular Turkey and served as the country’s first president.
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A girl slept near rose bushes near the village of Rosino, Bulgaria. The oil rose was brought to the country in the 16th century and must be picked by hand at sunrise to achieve the highest concentration of oil. Bulgaria is one of the highest producers of rose oil in the world, along with Turkey.
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Tens of thousands of Kurds gathered in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir on Sunday to celebrate Nowruz. This festival, on the first day of spring, is known as the Kurdish new year. It offers the Kurdish community a chance to demand broader rights and to express support of the outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s Party.
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A man in Okcular village in eastern Turkey carried bedding a day after a strong earthquake hit early Monday. At least 51 people died when an earthquake of 6.0 magnitude struck early Monday in eastern Turkey, officials in the region said. One village was largely destroyed and four others were heavily damaged.
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Turkish soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), look towards the site of explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010.
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