turkeywonk.wordpress.com – aaronstein1 – Nov 30, 6:55 AM – Yesterday, the Islamic State detonated four suicide car bombs in the embattled town of Kobane. One VBIED detonated just inside the Mursitpinar border gate. After the explosion, clashes broke out between the YPG and the Islamic state in the area.
Turkish political parties have launched a fresh debate over the possibility of lifting the 10 percent threshold in the Turkish election system, with the Constitutional Court now considering an application to review the matter
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg calls on Turkey to join the economic sanctions campaign against Russia over the Ukrainian crisis.
Turkey on Dec. 1 assumed the presidency of the G20 group of major economies for the first time in its history, pledging to fight global inequality during its turn at the helm
A group of workers blocked a highway for over half an hour on Dec. 1, in protest at the imminent privatization of the Yatağan coal plant in the southwestern province of Muğla
The leaders of Russia and Turkey met Monday amid striking differences over the crises in Syria and Ukraine, but the two presidents were expected to focus instead on their countries’ booming economic and .
The strategy was often conducted at the expense of rational long-term economic decision-making, economic historian Professor Şevket Pamuk says
Sırrı Süreyya Önder from HDP’s delegation to the resolution process announced the highlights from “Peace and Democratic Negotiation Process Draft” by PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan.
A Turkish judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) was elected as the president of one of the ECHR’s five sections on Dec. 1
Berkin Elvan’s family launch a campaign to urge a prosecution on his killing – a process that failed to launch despite 533 days after his injury and 9 months after his death.
CHP lawmaker Tanal applied to the Constitutional Court on Dec. 1 over the removal of a ban on media reports about the work of the parliamentary commission on corruption
Turkey’s new $615 mln palace is no trifle, so it is natural to provide a security that cannot be trifled with
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