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2017/02/27

5 years ago, a man on the Turkish-Iraqi border lost 12 of his relatives and family members in a Turkish...

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Turkey Tries Suspects – TGP Cartoon/Latuff

by Carlos Latuff

2017/02/23

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Fearful of Another Coup, Erdogan Supporters Build Informal Militia

2017/02/23

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The Turkish president said few days after the failed military coup attempt that he learned about the putsch from his...

Turkish soldiers accused of attempting to assassinate President Tayyip Erdogan on the night of the failed last year's July 15 coup, are escorted by gendarmes as they arrive for the first hearing of the trial in Mugla, Turkey, February 20, 2017. REUTERS/Kenan Gurbuz

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Turkish General Says Superiors Betrayed During Coup Night

2017/07/17

25 Turkish officers landed in Marmaris on July 15, 2016, Turkey's Palm Beach, where leaders take a break from their...

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Specter of Referendum Dominates Turkish PM’s Germany Visit

2017/02/21

If you have a large number of Turkish expatriates like Germany, there is little chance to avoid being dragged into...

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Campaign That Ended Pinochet’s Rule Inspires Turkey’s Naysayers

2017/02/20

It is not an easy task to campaign against a change that proponents argue will spawn a better era. In...

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Merkel Avoids Asking Turkey To Release Detained German Reporter

by Sevda Nur Zeynalova

2017/02/19

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The German chancellor did not ask Turkey to release a German reporter detained in Turkey, hoping to avoid irking Ankara...

Turkey deployed tanks and troops in neighboring Syria in late August.

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Battered Turkish Army Faces Uphill Battle In Anti-ISIS Fight

by Mahir Zeynalov

In 1937, Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk told the French ambassador that liberating Hatay, or historical Antioch, is his "personal...

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Syria Turned Into Deadly Quagmire For Turkish Soldiers – Cartoon

by Carlos Latuff

2017/02/17

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European Rights Defender Urges Turkey To Restore Freedom of Expression

by Staff Writer

2018/02/08

Europe’s top human rights agency has called on Turkey to restore freedom of expression and thought, end crackdown on media...

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Pentagon Mulls Sending Ground Troops Into Syria

by Mahir Zeynalov

2017/02/16

The U.S. Defense Department is reportedly considering to ask President Donald J. Trump to send ground troops into Syria to...

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Trump’s Trusted General Resigns Over Russian Contacts

by Staff Writer

2017/02/14

Hillary Clinton's vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine called him a "fourth-grade conspiracy theorist." His son was the chief architect of...

Meral Aksener (C), former Turkish interior minister and a lawmaker of Turkey's right-wing Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), stands at a security barrier as police seal off a hotel, preventing dissidents from holding a party congress, in Ankara on May 15, 2016. (Photo: AFP)

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Support For Erdogan In Referendum Splits Turkey’s Nationalists

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Turkish society is bitterly divided. Polarization cleavage is so deep that it is evident in every walks of life in...

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For Turkish FM, There Is No Jailed Journalist in Turkey

The number of imprisoned journalists in Turkey has divided media watchdogs who track the government's crackdown on media. Counts by...

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Erdogan Makes Case For Strong, One-Man Rule

There is no shortage of colorful metaphors Turkish president would use to promote his presidential agenda. He even cited Hitler's...

Police walk over robes of academics at Ankara University.

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Turkish Police Walk Over Robes, Drag Professors on Ground

2017/02/12

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Cebeci Üniversitesi önünde akademisyenler ve öğrencileri polis işkenceyle gözaltına aldı pic.twitter.com/BTiZX5Nstf — hayritunc (@hayriituncc) February 10, 2017 A picture...

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Turkey — A Country With Most Educated Prison Population

by Carlos Latuff

2017/02/13

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Turkish soldiers carry coffin of a slain soldier accidentally killed in a Russian airstrike outside al-Bab in northern Syria.

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Turkey, Russia Offer Conflicting Accounts Over Botched Airstrike

2017/02/10

Kremlin and the Turkish military came up with two different accounts about how a Russian airstrike ended up targeting a...

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Russia, Turkey In Damage Control Mode After Russian Airstrike Kills 3 Turkish Soldiers

2017/02/10

Russian President Vladimir Putin immediately acted to call his Turkish counterpart to offer his condolences and an apology to contain...

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Professor: Turkey Purged My Father in 1948, Me in 1980 and My Assistant Today

2017/04/29