Crowds of Kurds pelted journalists and police with stones in the quake-hit city of Van as their anger at the Turkish media's coverage of the disaster boiled over.
Turkish jets kept up bombing raids on Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq overnight, as the rebels confirmed that some Turkish troops crossed into Iraq, officials and media reports said on Friday.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton flew in to Tripoli on Tuesday on a previously unannounced visit as Libya's new rulers try to crush the last pockets of resistance by pro-Moamer Kadhafi fighters.
JERUSALEM — Israel said on Monday it was withdrawing its police representative from Turkey and ending bilateral cooperation between their forces as the diplomatic crisis between the two former allies deepened.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will on Monday begin an "Arab Spring" tour to Egypt, Tunisia and Libya in a bid to forge stronger ties as relations with Israel are sinking to new lows over a flotilla row.
