28/03/2008 by Icmeler.

Turkey is restoring access to YouTube after the video-sharing website removed the videos that prompted the officials to block access in the first place. The website said that it has removed the videos a prosecutor deemed insulting to Turkey’s founding father, who established the country after collapse of the Ottoman Empire Turkey has blocked access to the website in the past, due to clips allegedly insulting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who died 70 years ago. They allowed access again after the disputed videos were removed.

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28/03/2008 by Icmeler.

Paris Hilton took part in an impromptu belly dance during the Miss Turkey 2008 contest in Istanbul yesterday. The heiress was a judge at the beauty pageant - but she clearly didn’t want to be left out of the limelight. Paris, 27, took to the stage to join a professional belly dancer and was seen twirling and shaking her hips to the music. ‘This is my first time judging anything like this,’ Paris tells Reuters. ‘I’m going to look at how the girls carry themselves, what they look like, the way they dress and what they say.’  It almost pains me to post this, just because Paris Hilton could not possibly love being the center of attention anymore and, by putting this up, I’m totally giving her what she wants, but I just had to. I have eyes, and I can see that Paris is an attractive girl, but, when it comes to dancing, she is just an awkward mess.

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28/03/2008 by Icmeler.

Bulgaria is backing Turkey’s bid to join the European Union, Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev said Thursday, according to a statement from his office.EU member Bulgaria supports all countries in the region, including Turkey, in their EU membership bids,the statement quoted Stanishev as saying during one-on-one talks with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. But Erdogan also said that Turkey expected “that the European Union would remain faithful to the engagements undertaken towards Turkey; the statement added.Turkey started negotiations to join the bloc in 2005, but a year later Brussels froze talks on eight of the 35 policy fields that candidates must complete before accession, over a disagreement on Cyprus.

France and Germany have proposed a “privileged partnership” instead of full membership to the Muslim state, a compromise already rejected by Erdogan who warned the European Union not to become a club of Christians Erdogan arrived Thursday on a two-day official visit to Bulgaria, where he was scheduled to meet President Georgy Parvanov and the leaders of the coalition partners in government, former king Simeon Saxe Coburg and Turkish-minority party leader Ahmed Dogan.

He was also to open a complex of glass plants belonging to Turkish glass giant Sisecam in the northeastern town of Targovishte later Thursday and visit the southern region of Kardzhali Friday.

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24/03/2008 by Icmeler.

Hundreds of Kurdish protesters lobbed stones at police and soldiers yesterday in southeastern Turkey in a fourth-straight day of clashes that have killed at least two people and injured dozens. A Kurdish demonstrator was shot to death yesterday and a police officer was injured, hospital officials said. Almost all shops were closed, with residents staying home.

The demonstrators - mostly members of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society party, which faces closing for alleged ties to Kurdish were protesting against the death of a Kurd who died early yesterday after being shot during clashes with police a day earlier.

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