A U.S. based rights group is urging Turkey to press Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is in Ankara for a three-day visit Monday, to end atrocities in the Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.

Killing of Armenian Turkish journalist Hrant Dink a year ago in Istanbul, Turkey, proves no watershed.

The popular video website YouTube has been blocked in Turkey once more. Several sources quote complaints against a video that insults Atatürk, founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey, as the reason for the block. On Friday, internet users in Turkey found the website replaced by a notice saying:

“ Access to this web site has been suspended in accordance with decision no: 2008/55 of T.R. Ankara 12th Criminal Court of Peace.

It is the first time in the history of the Noah's Ark search that an exploration team is getting a material evidence and graphic documentation. This makes it not only a the significant breakthrough in the Noah's Ark-search, but one that is supported with the most substantial evidence in recent history.

Turkish warplanes have again bombed alleged Kurdish guerrilla positions in northern Iraq.

Iraq's parliament has condemned Turkish air strikes on a Kurdish region in northern Iraq as a major violation of Iraq's sovereignty.

US embassy in Iraq said commanders had not approved the attacks, but had been informed before they took place. Turkish military earlier said the US had given tacit approval by opening Iraqi airspace for the operation.

BRUSSELS (Combined Sources)--Hundreds of European Armenians demonstrated in Brussels on Friday to urge the European Union to force Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide before joining the bloc.

ANKARA (AFP)--Turkey's military command has accused some EU countries, in particular France and the UK, of acting in a way that supports Kurdish militants, NTV reported on Tuesday.

YEREVAN--Recent allegations by Azeri and Turkish media that the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) is planning on stationing its forces in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh are absurd, said Armenian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Vladimir Karapetian during an interview with Regnum News Agency.

ISTANBUL (Armenpress)--A Syriac Christian priest kidnapped this week in southeast Turkey has been rescued in an operation by security forces, Turkish television stations reported on Friday.

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the Turkish government has authorized the army to carry out a cross-border operation against Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq.