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Turkey is bracing for biggest political upheavals in recent times. Turkey’s highest court, the Constitutional Court, will convene today to decide whether the ruling party, Justice and Development Party, popularly known as AKP is indulging in...
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In Penitents Compete (Tovbekarlar Yarisiyor in Turkish), religious leaders will seek to convert at least one of the 10 atheists in each episode to their faith. Those...
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The Sakarya University Advanced Technologies Implementation Group (SAITEM) sets a record in fuel efficiency. Having been adjudged the third best fuel-efficient car in...
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Turkey’s secular elite often likes to pose to outsiders as the defenders of a democratic and secular order in Turkey against a creeping Islamism they claim is the...
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Each day, police vans deliver batches of illegal migrants to the Gaziosmanpasha detention center, an hour’s drive north of Istanbul. The migrants have been...
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The results of European Parliament election have caused deep concern in European Union candidate Turkey, where gains made by conservatives and some far-right parties...
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Think of a hotel where champagne costs £25 a glass, bathrooms have gold plated mirrors on the floor, toilets are remote controlled and the private beach has been...
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Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked an engagement ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people. Two girls survived after the...
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Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
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Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
made popular May 4 2009
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Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
made popular May 4 2009
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Turkey’s NTV television, citing authorities, says 41 people have been killed and three have been wounded in an attack on a wedding in the southeast.
made popular May 4 2009
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Assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing at least 16 people and wounding 20 others, new organizations...
made popular May 4 2009
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Turkish media say at least 16 people have been killed and 20 others wounded in an attack on a wedding ceremony in the southeastern part of the country.
made popular May 4 2009
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An Iraqi cleric who led bloody rebellions against U.S. troops but stayed out of public view in the last two years has made an unusually visible appearance in Turkey,...
made popular May 2 2009
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Turkey’s prime minister reshuffled the bulk of his Cabinet Friday, appointing an official who has mediated indirect talks between Syria and Israel as foreign...
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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reshuffled his entire Cabinet, and his new foreign minister is an official who has mediated indirect talks between Syria and...
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Turkey’s military says its warplanes struck Kurdish rebel targets overnight in northern Iraq.
made popular Apr 30 2009
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A roadside bomb killed nine Turkish soldiers in an armored personnel carrier Wednesday in southeastern Turkey, making it the deadliest attack by suspected Kurdish...
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Suspected Kurdish rebels detonated a roadside bomb that killed nine soldiers Wednesday in a U.S.-made armored personnel carrier in southeastern Turkey, the Turkish...
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A roadside bomb believed to have been planted by Kurdish rebels killed at least nine soldiers Wednesday in southeastern Turkey, the state-run Anatolia news agency...
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Turkey is being pulled in two opposite directions. The ruling AKP wants it go on to become a liberal Islamic country. The powerful army, judiciary and bureaucracy wants...
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Turkey is going through turbulent times. The Kemalists are trying to get rid of the liberal Islamist AKP through the courts. The AKP has struck back by arresting two...
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Turkey’s highest Constitutional Court yesterday reinstated the ban on headscarves. The ruling AK party proposed to lift the ban in February, however, the move was...
made popular Jun 6 2008
Ever since the AKP (Justice and Development Party) party swept the parliamentary polls in Turkey and also managed to get their own man elected as president, we had been...
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The AKP, after winning the Turkish elections last year and further emboldened by being able to get its nominee elected as president, is slowly testing the waters in its...
made popular Jan 29 2008
The election of AKP sponsored Abdullah Gul as the new Turkish president has driven the final nail into the coffin of the Turkish army’s non-military clout in the...
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Abdullah Gul’s Islamist past rules the roosts of Turkish politics nowadays. Neither the governing Islamist party nor the Secularists are catering to concerns on ...
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Thousands of secularists perhaps have genuine fears against AKP party’s Islamist annals. Albeit, AKP’s new found confidence with the thumping victory in the...
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As was widely expected the AK party [Justice and Development Party] has swept the Turkish elections, winning 47% of the votes polled. The victory of the moderate...
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Turkey - regarded as a solitary bridge between East and West or between the Islam and the Christianity - looks set for the return of Islam based governing party of...
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