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Iraq Kurd fighters on Turkey border await to join Kobane; Biden to visit Turkey next month…
US Vice President Joe Biden to visit Turkey next month US Vice President Joe Biden next month visits Ukraine as well as Turkey, where fighting across the border in the... Read more
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Turkish inaction ends but not for ISIS, fighter jets bomb PKK positions… Nejat Ağırnaslı, Sociologist, Dies in Kobane…
Nejat Ağırnaslı, Sociologist, Dies in Kobane bianet – Suphi Nejat Ağırnaslı, a sociology graduate from Turkey’s prestigious Bosporus University, has lost life in Kobane while fighting against ISIS. He was... Read more
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Brief notes (3)- Who leads the uprising?
E. S. I am about the fly from Beirut to Istanbul and this is the last of 3 hasty posts on the current protests in Turkey. Hopefully I will continue... Read more
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In the anniversary of PKK’s attackes began, guerilla chief’s statue erected.
News in Turkish The statue is in a Diyarbakır village. It is for “Mahsum Korkmaz, also known as Agit, was the first commander of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)’s military forces.” ************** Turkey ruling party favours Davutoglu... Read more
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Serhatcan Yurdam (@syurdam) Berlin’de “PKK yasağı kaldırılsın” mitingini haberleştirdi…
Berlin‘de “PKK yasağı kaldırılsın” mitingi BERLİN – Binlerce eylemci, dün gerçekleşen bir mitingle, Almanya’da 20 yıldır süren PKK yasağını ve örgütün terör örgütleri listesinde değerlendirmesini protesto etti. Miting, Almanya Fedaral Meclisi... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: Turkey at work to trick UEFA to bring police at games..
Turkey seeks way to sway UEFA over police at games The Turkish government is mulling ways to convince UEFA over the authorization of police officers to oversee the security... Read more
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Contious warnings about the peace process: “PKK retreat to ?end Sept 1? unless ruling AKP takes steps- Politics roundup
PKK retreat to ?end Sept 1? unless ruling AKP takes steps A senior PKK leader has said that they will continue to withdraw until Sept. 1 Turkish gov?t urges PKK... Read more
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Politics roundup. Erdoğan sort of starts election campaign in Rize… KCK warns about the peace process…
Discursive humility: Turkish PM says he doesn?t want to see ?yes men? around Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan encouraged intellectuals to warn politicians, including himself Increasing Conservative agenda: Turkish PM... Read more
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Yavuz Baydar: Media Bosses [n Turkey] Are Undermining Democracy… A politics roundup…
In Turkey, Media Bosses Are Undermining Democracy New York Times By YAVUZ BAYDAR. Published: July 19, 2013. ISTANBUL ? THE protests that convulsed Istanbuland other Turkish cities last month exposed,... Read more
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Many Israelis think apology to Turkey ?mistake?… A FP roundup…
Is Turkey delaying the Israeli normalization process? It has been nearly three months since Turkish and Israeli diplomats started negotiations for the terms of an agreement. Israelis think apology to... Read more
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Government’s face saving move: “Armed forces? role set to be limited to protecting state from ?external threats?
Erdogan acts to curb Turkish military Armed forces? role set to be limited to protecting state from ?external threats? after phrasing ? ?to protect nation? ? was used to justify... Read more
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Politics roundup: Tense days over the Peace process…
Turkey faces pressure to advance Kurdish militant peace process By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party is pressing Ankara to advance a peace process with Kurdish militants... Read more
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Erdoğan finally in Reyhanlı. The crowd transported from other cities…
‘Those who seek to preserve their dictatorship disrupted our peace’, Turkish PM says in Reyhanlı During his Reyhanlı visit, Turkish PM Erdoğan accused al-Assad of being involved in the bombings... Read more
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Reyhanlı bombings. Conspiracies abound. Media blackout doesn’t help…
Head of accused group denies responsibility, blames Israel for Reyhanlı bomb attack Former leader of the the organization that was accused for the recent twin blasts that killed ******************** Reyhanlı... Read more
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40 reported dead in Reyhanlı, Hatay car bomb… Speculations abound… A politics roundup…
Report: 40 dead in Turkey car bombings near Syria ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ? Turkey’s interior minister says the death toll in the explosions in a town across the border from... Read more
