For buyers, high prices and fears of fakery
Competition among dealers, museum curators and collectors has driven prices for the best Oriental carpets to six and seven figures. "At the very top, supply is very limited, prices are...
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The strange journey of a centuries-old carpet
Only a few people in the North Carolina auction room paid much attention when bidding started on Lot 57, described sparingly in the catalog as an 18th Century Turkish carpet...
State comes 1st, mosque 2nd in Turkey’s system
Like the modern office building where he works, Mehmet Bekaroglu is without flourish. His dress is Western conservative, his manner approachable, his message conciliatory. Islam is a peaceful religion, Bekaroglu...
State comes 1st, mosque 2nd in Turkey’s system
Like the modern office building where he works, Mehmet Bekaroglu is without flourish. His dress is Western conservative, his manner approachable, his message conciliatory. Islam is a peaceful religion, Bekaroglu...
Uzan says he sought deals
Motorola Inc.'s effort to collect a $4.2 billion fraud judgment against Turkey's scandal-plagued Uzan family is more challenging now that the Turkish government has seized the family's business empire, an...
U.S. detention of Turks stokes anger in Istanbul
Criticism mounted Tuesday over the American detention of Turkish soldiers and civilians after a raid on a Turkish military outpost in northern Iraq late last week. Although the troops and...
7 Iraqi police die in bomb attack
At least seven U.S.-trained Iraqi police officers were killed and dozens of Iraqi officers and recruits injured when explosives packed in a rice sack were detonated outside a facility where...
U.S. impatience sank troop deal, some officials say
Senior Turkish officials say the United States could have had access to Turkish air bases and permission to move troops through Turkish territory to create a northern front in Iraq...
Turkish officials reconsider U.S. use of military bases
With a U.S.-led war against Iraq appearing imminent, Turkey said Monday that it would urgently reconsider allowing American troops to use Turkish bases to open a northern front against the...
Cabinet supports U.S. use of Turkish bases
With its broken sidewalks and jaywalking cows, the town of Silopi seems an improbable launch pad for one of the largest and most complex military operations in recent United States...