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Sudanese President Bashir arrives in Turkey Sudan′s President Bashir arrived on Monday in Turkey to attend a summit of African leaders in his first visit abroad since an international court indicted him on genocide charges.	Turkey, Iran may sign energy deal in a month Turkish and Iranian officials are working on technical details to finalize an energy deal between the two countries in a month, Turkish energy minister said on Monday.
Syrian Interior Minister in Turkey Syrian Interior Minister Basam Abd Al-Majid arrived in Turkish capital Ankara on Tuesday as the formal guest of his Turkish counterpart Besir Atalay.	Turk Telekom hikes prices by 5 pct Turk Telekom, Turkey′s biggest fixed-line phone company, will raise its prices by 5 percent from August 19, the company said in a statement to Istanbul Stock Exchange.

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İstanbul hosts Turkey-Africa summit for ‘a common future in solidarity’ Senior officials from Turkey and African countries gathered yesterday in İstanbul on the first day of the Turkey-Africa Cooperation Summit in a bid to transform an already good relationship into sustainable cooperation.	Ankara hopes to conclude energy talks with Iran in a month Turkey will hold negotiations with neighboring Iran on an energy deal opposed by the United States and hopes the talks will yield results in one month, Energy Minister Hilmi Güler said yesterday.
End of an era: Musharraf resigns Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who came to power in a coup nine years ago and was a key US ally in its campaign against terrorism, quit office on Monday to avoid impeachment charges.	Turkish car bomb attack kills one, injures nine A suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives in his car in Turkey′s southern Mersin province on Tuesday, killing himself and injuring nine police officers, the local governor said.

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Ergenekon document reveals MİT’s assassination secrets A new document from the Ergenekon archive has revealed that the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) paid regular salaries to ultranationalists to carry out illegal operations.

Finger pointing persists between Doğan, Çukurova Two of Turkey’s powerful rival media groups, the Doğan Media Group (DMG) and the Akşam Group, continued to exchange accusations yesterday over documents seized during the investigation into the Ergenekon organization, a shadowy criminal network with links to the bureaucracy, military, security forces and other agencies whose members stand accused of orchestrating various murders and attacks so as to create chaos and trigger a coup d’état against the government.

Project to manage precious Konya water resources A project to encourage the development of modern irrigation methods has been launched to promote smart water usage in the water-scarce Konya closed drainage basin and its neighboring Lake Tuz basin.

Erdoğan to visit Azerbaijan tomorrow for Caucasus talks Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will depart tomorrow for the Azerbaijani capital, where he will discuss recent developments in neighboring Georgia with President Ilham Aliyev, the prime minister′s office announced yesterday.