Noncommissioned Officers Association

A group of business associations, unions and professional chambers have decided to hold a mass rally in the Turkish capital city of Ankara on Sept. 17 in a show of condemnation of ?terror.?

A group mostly made up of retired non-commissioned officers has formed a new political party called the "AS Parti," filing the required petition with the Interior Ministry and thus becoming Turkey's fourth new party to be established in the last few months, ahead of the June parliamentary election.