German Turkey to Football: Besiktas prepare for investigators tender 1,000 Lyon Europa League clash probe megawatts of Dortmund wind in July bomb ‘claims’ YEARS Thursday, April 13, 2017 WEATHER / ANKARA Thursday Partly Cloudy 16°C Car industry breaks record Auto industry production in first quarter totals 424,000, including 300,000 passenger cars, 71 pct of overall production ANKARA - The number of cars The downward performance produced by Turkish automakers of light commercial vehicle in first quarter of the year was production in the quarter, 12 up 44 percent, pushing overall percent less than a year earlier, automotive production to its was the main cause of the negative highest level since 2007, according outlook in commercial vehicles to official data released Wednesday. despite the production of heavy In the January-March period, auto commercial vehicles such as buses, industry production climbed 23 minibuses, and trucks seeing an percent from the same period in increase of 10 percent from the 2016, with passenger cars alone same period last year. Omer Celik and Chief Negotiator EU Minister Turkish up 44 percent, according to an Industry exports also saw a healthy Automotive Manufacturer’s rise in the same period, up 25 Association report. percent from a year earlier to $7.09 The total auto industry output was billion, including $3.01 billion ‘It’s time to use force’ 424,000 in the first quarter of the from passenger cars alone. year, with passenger cars making The surge in exports indicated that up 71 percent of overall production Turkish exporters sold many more against Syria atrocities with 300,000 units. autos abroad in the first quarter to The report said commercial vehicle offset the loss of profits due to the said Assad manipulated efforts production was unable to keep sharp depreciation in the Turkish EU minister says to resolve the six-year conflict in pace with passenger cars in the first lira in wake of last July’s coup bid. Assad regime Syria while carrying out attacks quarter, down 10 percent from a The lira lost 18 percent of its value on civilians. Anadolu Agency Photo Photo Anadolu Agency year earlier. against the U.S. dollar... MORE DETAILS blocking political “The world needs to use force to stop the massacres,” he told resolution to conflict Anadolu Agency during a visit to Adana province, southern Turkey. “We have always talked about Diyarbakir attackers used ‘1-ton bomb’ ADANA, Turkey - A government the political solution until now minister on Wednesday called for but we know how Assad blocked Diyarbakir authorities say 1 ton of explosives used in attack which martyred 3 people in security forces vehicle depot military force to be used against the political solution processes. Bashar al-Assad’s regime to When the political solution is prevent atrocities against civilians. alive, the answer given by Assad ISTANBUL - Tuesday’s EU Affairs Minister Omer Celik deadly blast at a vehicle depot is chemical weapons.” MORE DETAILS belonging to the security forces in southeastern Turkey was a terror attack, the country’s Interior Minister confirmed on Wednesday. “It was a terror attack. We have around 10-12 wounded,” Suleyman Soylu told Haberturk TV. About one ton of explosives was planted in the vehicle depot in Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakir province, the local governorship said later in a statement. A 30-meter (98 feet) tunnel had been dug from the basement of an adjacent building and used to plant the device inside the vehicle maintenance facility, according to Diyarbakir’s governorship. Five people have been detained in connection with the incident. Photo Anadolu Agency Hospital treatment for four people injured in Tuesday’s blast -- including one police official -- is Altay’s mass production continuing, it added. Soylu said the explosives had been planted in a very short time despite to begin next month regular Interior Ministry checks and patrols around the maintenance said the Altay battle tank had building. MORE DETAILS Turkish defense Anadolu Agency Photo By Ozgur Ayaydın Ozgur By Photo Anadolu Agency passed all its tests successfully by minister says battle the end of February. “We will push the button on mass tanks passed all its production in May. We will have a decision about Altay tank’s mass 43 held 3 foreign charities closed down tests successfully production in May if nothing goes worked in Diyarbakir province. by end of February wrong,” he said. Deputy prime minister says NGOs “The focus of all on Diyarbakir means something to Referring to the Turkey-made in military working in southeast Turkey are all of us,” he said during an interview with Anadolu helicopter Atak, the minister said: under investigation Agency’s Editors’ Desk in Ankara. SAKARYA, Turkey - Defense “We gave the 20th Atak helicopter “Hatay, Gaziantep and Diyarbakir are all within the Minister Fikri Isik has said Turkey to the Turkish Armed Forces in central Konya province. zone ANKARA - Three foreign charities operating in scope of activity. There is not that much interest will start mass production of its in Kilis, which has one-and-a-half times as many main battle tank in May this year. “The weapons on the helicopter southeast Turkey have been closed for undisclosed are also largely made in the KILIS, Turkey - Turkish reasons, Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak said refugees than its [original] population.” Speaking at an opening ceremony Kaynak said it was understandable that NGOs of a hospital in northwestern country. We have watched it security forces have held Wednesday. shooting”, adding the ability to He said the charities that had been shut down had targeting refugees would want to work in the border Sakarya province Tuesday, Isik 43 foreign nationals who provinces of Hatay and Gaziantep but... MORE DETAILS manufacture your own... MORE DETAILS entered a prohibited military zone on the country’s border with Syria. The group -- including Turkey to hire medical 23 children -- were found in Turkey’s southern Kilis province while illegally professionals from Gulf crossing the border from “Doctors and nurses from the Gulf Syria, according to the Health Ministry states will be allowed to work security forces. Undersecretary here [at city hospitals],” Gumus An investigation has been told the fourth joint meeting of the launched; the 20 adults are Eyup Gumus says Gulf Cooperation Council-Turkey suspected of having Daesh foreigner recruits will Health Working Group in Ankara. links. “A part of the newly-built city At least one suicide vest work at city hospitals hospitals is reserved for foreign and eight hand grenades in the country patients. Doctors and nurses with were also seized by the foreign language skills will work Turkish authorities. here,” he said. By Duygu Yener Turkey’s city hospitals, also Also on Wednesday, a known as city hospital complex, court in Kilis province ANKARA - Turkish hospitals will offer a modern healthcare remanded a Daesh suspect soon recruit doctors and nurses environment with a diverse array who was arrested earlier from the Gulf countries, Health of high-quality facilities, including while carrying... MORE DETAILS Ministry Undersecretary Eyup five-star hotel accommodations. Death toll in Nigeria’s meningitis outbreak hits 489 Gumus announced on Wednesday. Gumus said Turkey...MORE DETAILS Photo Anadolu Agency.