U.S. National Security Council Deputy Jack Crouch traveled to the Ankara hotel of Turkish Deputy Chief of General Staff Gen. Ergin Saygun to offer a personal apology after Saygun was subjected to a body search attempt during a White House visit. Crouch said no deliberate intent was behind the incident.
Devlet Bahceli won reelection as leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) at the party's weekend congress, receiving 1,127 votes to 12. In his acceptance speech, Bahceli called the four years of Justice and Development Party (AKP) rule a dark period for Türkiye and accused Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of disloyalty to the country.
A gynecologist at a hospital in the eastern city of Van alerted provincial authorities after discovering that an unmarried 21-year-old woman, identified as Z.C., was roughly three and a half months pregnant. Fearing an honor killing, the sub-governor ordered the woman removed from her home and placed under state protection.
Ahead of Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming visit to Türkiye, global media have focused heavily on tensions between Western and Islamic societies, with Time magazine describing the trip as a potential turning point for relations between the two worlds.
A bilateral trade agreement signed between Russia and the United States at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vietnam cleared a significant obstacle to Russia joining the World Trade Organization.
Historical summary. TurkishPress restated this wire report, first published in November 2006, in its own words.