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More Than 560,000 Affected by ‘Unprecedented’ Yemen Floods: UN

by Staff Writer with AFP

2024/09/06

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Journalists Around World Rally For Jailed Colleagues in Turkey

by Abdullah Ayasun

2017/05/04

As the international community marks the World Press Freedom Day at a time when 'post-truth' politics pervade public discourse and...

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Young Turkish Reporter’s Worst Fear Comes True Behind Bars

by Quentin Blanchard

2017/05/03

“I have been jailed for 9 months, crying all the time, expecting justice. I just want to believe that it...

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Turkey Braces For Potential Fallout With NATO Over S-400 Deal

by Anna Varfolomeeva

2017/09/14

Only a year and a half ago, Turkey shot down a Russian jet for allegedly violating the Turkish airspace for...

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Turkey Fires 4,000 Public Workers In Latest Purge

by Staff Writer

2017/04/29

The Turkish president has signed twin executive decrees to fire nearly 4,000 public employees, shut down one newspaper and one...

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Turkey’s President, Long Nation’s Neutral Figure, To Become Partisan

by Abdullah Ayasun

2017/05/05

A constitutional referendum, which was approved by a slight majority of the Turkish people on April 16, will go into...

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In Turkey, Road To Judicial Posts Passes Through Party Membership

by Abdullah Ayasun

2017/08/12

Submission of Turkey's already battered judiciary into the political sway of the ruling party reached a new level, making judicial...

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Turkey Suspends 9,000 Police In Latest Purge

by Staff Writer

2017/04/27

The Turkish government has suspended more than 9,000 police officers in the latest purge wave since abortive coup attempt last...

Turkish Police Walk Over Robes, Drag Professors on Ground

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Disrobed And Jailed, Turkey’s Judges Suffer In Dark

by Quentin Blanchard

2017/04/27

A frail man in a black tracksuit with sparse hair next to a frighteningly big V-shape surgery scar on his...

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Demanding Jobs Back, Turkey’s Purged Academics Are On Hunger Strike

by Abdullah Ayasun

2017/04/23

Nuriye Gulmen has become a symbol of civil disobedience and peaceful resistance to political repression under the state of emergency....

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Turkey’s Witch Hunters Turn Fire Against Each Other

by Abdullah Ayasun

2017/04/23

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For years, Cem Kucuk made a career for leading a McCarthy-like witch-hunt on TVs. He won many enemies, as he...

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Erdogan Came Close Losing His Most Powerful Weapon — Polls

by Mahir Zeynalov

2017/04/21

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In Ankara's Sihhiye Square in 2007, nearly 300,000 supporters of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan gathered to show support for...

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Surge In Kidnappings Of Purged Officials Recalls Dark 1990s

by Abdullah Ayasun

2017/04/23

'White Toros' was an old vehicle specially designed for Turkish drivers by French Renault's local representative. Millions of low-income Anatolians...

Erdogan Signals To Extend State of Emergency

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Erdogan Says ‘Obama Deceived Us’ Over Syrian Kurdish Fighters

by Staff Writer

2017/04/19

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said former U.S. President Barack Obama deceived Turkey regarding the role of Syrian Kurdish...

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Contested Referendum Pushes Turkey Into Uncertain Future

by Quentin Blanchard

2017/04/23

As protesters walked past the bookshop he runs in Besiktas, a female customer asked for a book, any book, on...

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Turkey’s Electoral Authority Rejects Appeal To Cancel Referendum Result

by Abdullah Ayasun

2017/04/19

Turkey's top electoral authority on Wednesday rejected appeals by the opposition parties to annul the referendum littered with widespread irregularities...

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Buoyed By Referendum Result, Nationalist Insurgent Mulls To Form New Party

by Abdullah Ayasun

2017/04/19

Turkey's controversial vote on Sunday has opened palpable cracks within the nationalist bloc after referendum alliance between President Recep Tayyip...