Our Telford, Pa., relatives, Jimmy and Emily, would host Thanksgiving dinner in their lovely Bucks County home. The resulting annual family gathering would begin early in the afternoon and bring the entire clan together. The women would fill the kitchen, combining their efforts to feed those who had converged on the property for the holiday meal. ...more

November 21, 2007

Turkey said Thursday it isn't seeking a confrontation with Iraqi Kurds by threatening a cross-border offensive in northern Iraq, saying any attack would target only the bases of Turkish Kurd guerrillas. ...more

November 2, 2007

Turkey delivered a tough message to Iraq and Western allies Tuesday: A cross-border attack on Kurd guerrilla bases is coming unless the U.S.-backed government in the Iraqi north cracks down soon. ...more

October 24, 2007

Turkey's top general warned that ties with the United States, already strained by attacks from rebels hiding in Iraq, will be irreversibly damaged if Congress passes a resolution that labels the World War I-era killings of Armenians a genocide. ...more

October 15, 2007