ANKARA (A.A) - August 8, 2011 - Two cargo planes carrying food and medical supplies took off on Monday in Turkey's first aid shipment to the famine-stricken Somalia.

ADANA (A.A) - August 8, 2011 - Campaigns have been launched in various provinces in Turkey aiming to send aid to people of famine-stricken Somalia.

ANKARA (A.A) - August 8, 2011 - Turkey's Family & Social Policies minister said on Monday that Turkey and the United Nations would carry out joint works to improve education, employment and lif

ANKARA (A.A) - August 8, 2011 - Turkish Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan will hold talks in South Korea between August 9 and 13.

ANKARA (A.A) - August 8, 2011 - Turkey's IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation delivered humanitarian aid worth of 250 thousand euro to drought-stricken Somalia in the last three months, the foundatio

KUSHIMOTO (A.A) - August 8, 2011 - Ceremonies were held in Japan on Monday to commemorate Turkish Ottoman navy sailors and officers who were killed over a century ago when their ship sank off-coast

VAN (A.A) - August 8, 2011 - A police officer, who was wounded Sunday in a mine blast in southeast Turkey, died Monday in a hospital.

ISTANBUL (A.A) - August 8, 2011 - Euro hit an all-time high on Monday against Turkish lira, trading at over 2,500 at the Istanbul free market.

CAIRO (A.A) - August 8, 2011 - Egypt's newly-appointed Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr is set to visit Turkey later this week in his first foreign trip after assuming office on July 17, Amr's to

ANKARA (A.A) - August 8, 2011 - These are some of the major headlines and their summaries in Turkish press on August 8, 2011.