Israel chides Turkey over TV series portraying soldiers murdering children

October 14th, 2009 Israel: Turkish TV paints troops as child-killersJERUSALEM — Israel's foreign minister has ordered ministry officials to summon Turkey's ambassador in Israel and protest to him over a Turkish TV series that reportedly portrays Israeli soldiers murdering children, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. It was the latest twist in worsening relations between the two Mediterranean countries which have traditionally had close defense ties.

October 14th, 2009 JERUSALEM - Israel said Wednesday it would formally complain to Ankara about an "inciting" and "distorted" new Turkish television drama about a fictional Palestinian family in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli Foreign Ministry said it would summon the Turkish ambassador in Tel Aviv to its offices in Jerusalem for an explanation.

October 13th, 2009 US faults Turks for canceling NATO air exercisesWASHINGTON — The United States has chided Turkey for canceling a NATO military exercise because Israel also was participating. Neither the Turks nor NATO has confirmed that Israel's participation in the exercises over Turkey was Ankara's reason for pulling out.

October 11th, 2009 Israel: Turkey calls off joint air force drillJERUSALEM — Turkey has canceled an annual multinational air force drill including the U.S. and NATO because it opposed Israeli participation, the Israeli military said Sunday, in a sign of further deterioration in relations between the two countries.

October 11th, 2009 Turkey freezes Israel out of air force drillJERUSALEM — The Israeli military says Ankara has canceled an annual air force drill in Turkey this week because of Israeli participation. Relations between the two countries have deteriorated sharply since Israel's winter war in Gaza.

September 16th, 2009 Syrian president in Turkey for talks on IsraelANKARA, Turkey — Turkey encouraged Syria on Wednesday to think of ways to revive the stalled peace talks with Israel, but the Syrian president said Israel does not appear to be a partner in the process. Syrian President Bashar Assad sat down with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul to consider how to restart the talks.

May 11th, 2009 Lawyers: Ex-soldier deserves death for crimesPADUCAH, Ky. — Federal prosecutors say a former soldier convicted of raping and murdering an Iraqi teenager and killing her family deserves a death sentence because the crimes were so heinous.

May 5th, 2009 Turkey: 8 suspects in wedding shooting detainedANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's Interior Minister Besir Atalay says security forces have detained eight people suspected of involvement in an attack on a wedding in southeastern Turkey. Atalay says the attack killed 44 people, correcting an earlier death toll of 45.

May 5th, 2009 8 suspects in Turkey wedding shooting detainedANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's Interior Minister Besir Atalay says security forces have detained eight people suspected of involvement in an attack on a wedding in southeastern Turkey. Atalay says the attack killed 44 people, correcting an earlier death toll of 45.

May 4th, 2009 Reports: 16 killed in attack on wedding in TurkeyANKARA, Turkey — Assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing at least 16 people and wounding 20 others, new organizations reported. The nighttime attack occurred in Sultansehmuz village near the city of Mardin, and it was not immediately clear who was responsible.

April 29th, 2009 Roadside bomb kills at least 9 Turkish soldiersANKARA, Turkey — A roadside bomb believed to have been planted by Kurdish rebels killed at least nine soldiers Wednesday in southeastern Turkey, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported. The bomb was detonated by remote control as a military vehicle was traveling on a road linking the mainly Kurdish cities of Diyarbakir and Bingol, CNN-Turk and other news reports said, without stating sources.

April 27th, 2009 Turkey, Syria conduct military drillANKARA, Turkey — The Turkish military said it launched a joint drill with Syrian soldiers on their shared border Monday in order to improve security. Israel, an ally of Turkey and a longtime foe of Syria, expressed concern.

April 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Country singer Faith Hill has posed as three other iconic blondes for the May issue of Redbook magazine. The 41-year-old has posed as actress Brigitte Bardot, model Twiggy and actress Grace Kelly, reports Fox News.

March 22nd, 2009 TEL AVIV - After repeatedly rebuffing charges of having committed war crimes in its recent war against Hamas in Gaza, a stunned Israel has changed track and instructed its military prosecutor to launch a criminal investigation into the alleged deliberate killing of women, children, and elderly non-combatants by Israeli soldiers. According to a report in the Christian Science Monitor (CSM), this marks the first acknowledgement by Israel of possible misdeeds in a war that left 1,300 Gazans dead, thousands more injured, and billions of dollars worth of property damaged.

January 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Slumdog Millionaire, which has won 10 Oscar nominations and is a story about a slum kid in Mumbai hitting the jackpot, portrays the harsh realities plaguing India and does not glamourise poverty like some people think, say NGOs. Shirin Vakil Miller, the India director of the NGO Save the Children, which works for slum children said the movie is a reflection of the ground realities challenging millions of Indian children each day.