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Turkeys Violent Homophobia - Daily Beast Mon, 01 Jul 2013 20:05:49 GMT

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Turkeys Violent Homophobia
Daily Beast
Hate crimes against LGBT individuals are higher in Turkey than in any other member of the Council of Europe, advocacy groups say. Gay men and transgender women are at particular risk. At least 30 transgender individuals in Turkey were murdered ...
Protests Squelched, Gay Rights March Brings Many in Turkey Back to the StreetsNew York Times
Turkey's Political Fallout on Iraqi Kurdish CrudeAl-Monitor
Solidarity breaks out in TurkeyOpen Democracy
Huffington Post -Creative Time Reports
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Turkey's Erdogan: His own worst enemy? - USA TODAY Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:17:21 GMT

Turkey's Erdogan: His own worst enemy?
USA TODAY
The refusal by protesters across Turkey to go home after weeks of demonstrations has posed the biggest threat to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan since he took office more than a decade ago. His violent crackdown against them has damaged ...


Gold turkey - The Economist (blog) Mon, 01 Jul 2013 21:09:52 GMT

Gold turkey
The Economist (blog)
HIGH inflation has wreaked havoc in India over the past five years. Unable to get a decent real return from bank accounts given relatively low interest rates, savers have taken their money out of the formal financial system. Household savings directed ...

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Ephesus & Kusadasi, Turkey - USA TODAY Mon, 01 Jul 2013 19:43:02 GMT

Ephesus & Kusadasi, Turkey
USA TODAY
The major reason for visiting Kusadasi: eyeballing the vast ruins of Ephesus, the ancient Greek city. Kusadasi became a major port -- claiming 250,000 residents during the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.D. -- in the Roman Empire. About 27-square-miles of ...


INTERNATIONAL > Turkey rebuffs HRW's Syria refugee report - Hurriyet Daily News Mon, 01 Jul 2013 12:42:29 GMT

INTERNATIONAL > Turkey rebuffs HRW's Syria refugee report
Hurriyet Daily News
“Iraq, Jordan, and Turkey have either closed numerous border crossings entirely or allowed only limited numbers of Syrians to cross, leaving tens of thousands stranded in dangerous conditions in Syria's conflict-ridden border regions. Only Lebanon has ...


ECONOMICS > Turkey's exports slightly up in June - Hurriyet Daily News Mon, 01 Jul 2013 21:07:32 GMT

ECONOMICS > Turkey's exports slightly up in June
Hurriyet Daily News
Turkey's exports rose slightly to $11.8 billion in June, a 0.6 percent increase from the same month a year earlier, according to figures revealed by the Turkish Exporters' Assembly (TİM) today. The export volume reached $74.6 billion in the last six ...


Jordan, Iraq, Turkey turn away refugees - The Daily Star Mon, 01 Jul 2013 21:43:39 GMT

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Jordan, Iraq, Turkey turn away refugees
The Daily Star
BEIRUT: Syria's neighbors have closed or tightened restrictions at several border crossings, leaving tens of thousands of people stranded within Syria's dangerous frontier regions, Human Rights Watch said Monday. It said Iraq, Jordan and Turkey had all ...
Jordan, Turkey, Iraq 'risk turning Syria into an open-air prison'Al-Bawaba

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SEMİH İDİZ > Egypt and Turkey - Hurriyet Daily News Mon, 01 Jul 2013 21:13:52 GMT

SEMİH İDİZ > Egypt and Turkey
Hurriyet Daily News
There is a difference between Turkey and Egypt. To start off with no one can imagine the kind of gay pride parade that we had in Istanbul over the weekend taking place in Cairo, or anywhere else in the Islamic world, for that matter. This is clearly ...

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Turkey 2013 - Flying Eagles to Play Uruguay in Second Round - AllAfrica.com Mon, 01 Jul 2013 09:47:53 GMT

Turkey 2013 - Flying Eagles to Play Uruguay in Second Round
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Nigeria will take on Uruguay in a FIFA Under-20 World Cup Round of 16 match on Tuesdaynight in Istanbul. Uruguay finished second in Group F on six points after they smashed four unreplied goals past erstwhile group leaders Uzbekistan in their final ...

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Vehicle clips pole, crashes into North Turkey Creek - Denver Post Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:54:11 GMT

Vehicle clips pole, crashes into North Turkey Creek
Denver Post
A vehicle clipped a utility pole on a winding, mountain road and careened into North Turkey Creek. The crash happened about 8:45 a.m. Monday in the 20,000 block of North Turkey Creek Road in Jefferson County, said Dan Hatlestad, an Inter-Canyon Fire ...