Deputy PM admits rift with PM over co-ed housing statements
Ruling party deputies also question Erdoğan’smotives …
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan‘s vow to crack down on mixed-gender student accommodation has created a reaction from his own party
EU?s Füle hopeful for ‘balanced solution’ to Turkey’s mixed-sex accommodation debate
Meeting with EU?s Stefan Füle Nov 8, Turkish officials assured the EU that the government will find a ?balanced solution?
Turkish main opposition leader accuses gov?t of criminalizing students
The recent pressure on university students by the government amounts to a ?criminalization? of students, CHP head says
EU’s Füle meets Turkish opposition
Erdoğan’s infamous talk on mixed-sex accommodation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRO3taAwpK0
Confusion in ruling AKP on student controversy
Members of the ruling AKP have sought to limit the damage from PM’s controversial remarks
Turkey?s Prime Minister Courts Controversy Once More
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had tempered his often divisive public comments after protests a few months ago, stirs anger by attacking a new target: coed dormitories.
Ankara criteria for private life
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told his party members at the Kızılcahaman retreat
The Erdoğan Doctrine: I am conservative, so I can intervene
When Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan set forth in 2001 with his buddies
Turkey 2014 is not Iran 1979, but Orwell?s 1984
Many see Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan?s desire to prohibit coed student apartments
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Turkish university students in probe to be barred
Students will be suspended from the university during a legal probe, according to new regulations
Be tougher in women?s issues, EU commissioner tells Turkey
Stefan Füle has called on Turkey to take a tougher stance on gender inequality
Turkey ?stopped helping? al-Qaeda near Syria border: Report
Turkey has recently ceased aiding al-Qaeda-linked groups near the Syrian border, PYD leader Muslim has reportedly said
Turkey’s new border wall angers Kurds on both sides of Syrian divide
Locals shocked at building of ‘unnecessary and divisive’ new border wall, which they claims risks Kurdish peace talks
The Turkish authorities have started erecting a wall on the frontier with Syria in what is being seen as an attempt to divide the Kurdish majority populations on both sides of the border, prompting protests and hunger strikes, and jeopardising peace talks.
Court delays trial into publisher over French author Apollinaire?s book
A local court postponed its ruling in the case re-launched against a Turkish publisher
Turkish mayor stops hunger strike over Syria border wall
The mayor of southeastern Nusaybin town, Ayşe Gökkan, ended a nine-day hunger strike
Nolle Prosequi in Footage Erase Investigation
While a prosecutor has stopped to investigate further the investigation regarding the erasing of surveillance footage in Ali Ismail Korkmaz case, another investigation on expert and suspect policeman is underway
Eye-Loser Gezi Protestor Sentenced to House Arrest
Çağdaş Küçükbattal, a Gezi Resistance protestor who lost his eye due to a gas bomb canister, was put under house arrest.
Turkish lira hits five-week lows, focus on US data
Turkey?s lira weakened and was expected to remain volatile today
Truck full of heavy weapons seized near Syrian border in Adana
A cargo truck full of bazookas, missiles, bombs and guns has been seized in southern province of Adana
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