WATERTOWN, MA (A.W.)-On Oct. 1, Turkish sources reported that hundreds of Turkish nationalists held Friday prayers-namaz-at the Holy Virgin Cathedral in Ani.

Turkish and Sudanese officials on Monday denied that Turkey had informally pressed the Sudan's internationally indicted president, Omar al-Bashir, to cancel his plans to visit Istanbul to attend an Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) meeting.

Turkey's leading opposition party on Monday requested that a session of Parliament be called to determine a strategy for Ankara to take in combating efforts to gain recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

Turkish security forces provided details of plots by a Turkish terrorist group planning to assassinate ARF members visiting Turkey and attack Kurdish targets, reported the Turkish daily newspaper Zaman.

The normalisation of Turkish-Armenian relations remains conditional on a Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement acceptable to Azerbaijan, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly said after this week's high-profile visit to Russia.