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Did smugglers in Turkey help Hayat Boumeddiene slip into Syria? - CNN International Tue, 20 Jan 2015 21:59:16 GMT

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Did smugglers in Turkey help Hayat Boumeddiene slip into Syria?
CNN International
Boumeddiene's last known location is the city of Sanliurfa, along the Turkey-Syria border. Sanliurfa has become a key hub for transit into Syria. The touristic city has seen its population swell due to the influx of refugees from Syria's civil war, and ...

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Erdogan Shadow Over Central Bank Sees Turkey Rate Cut Questioned - Bloomberg Tue, 20 Jan 2015 17:03:32 GMT

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Erdogan Shadow Over Central Bank Sees Turkey Rate Cut Questioned
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Turkey's central bank is finding it difficult to convince investors that it is cutting interest rates for the right reasons. The bank said Tuesday's half-point cut in the benchmark repo rate, taking it to 7.75 percent, was a response to lower inflation ...
Turkey Central Bank Cuts Rates Amid Political PressureWall Street Journal
Turkey arrests dozens suspected of eavesdropping on presidentAl Jazeera America
Turkey arrests 24 in new raids on wire-tapping suspectsMiddle East Eye
Financial Times -Council on Foreign Relations (blog) -Yahoo News
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UK student found after days lost in Turkey without food - BBC News Wed, 21 Jan 2015 00:08:15 GMT

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UK student found after days lost in Turkey without food
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David Mackie told the press after the rescue that they had not eaten for seven days and had resorted to eating a few ants and drinking water they found on the mountain. He was trekking in southern Turkey with two Dutch students, Marje de Grott and ...
Lost tourists found in southern TurkeyHurriyet Daily News
Brit student survived in Turkish cave drinking only rainwater without any food ...Mirror.co.uk
Missing Dutch students found alive in Southern TurkeyNL Times
Cihan News Agency
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How Turkey misread the Kurds - Aljazeera.com Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:37:01 GMT

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How Turkey misread the Kurds
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Residents of the Kurdish-majority city Cizre, in southeast Turkey near the borders with Iraq and Syria, walk with one eye on the ground, navigating the ditches and blockades created by youth who wanted to block the entrance of Turkish police into the city.
Will Erdogan's “New Turkey” Become a Reality?Fair Observer
PKK and affiliates stretched over Turkey like an octopusBGN NEWS
Turkey Considers Adding Kurd Islamist Group to Peace TalksVoice of America

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Turkey Turns Up the Heat on the Press - Daily Beast Tue, 20 Jan 2015 08:23:48 GMT

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Turkey Turns Up the Heat on the Press
Daily Beast
ISTANBUL — When Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan dispatched his prime minister to Paris a week ago to join the march for free expression in the face of Islamist terror, not a few critics asked why he bothered. Back at home Erdoğan has been ...
Where is Turkey heading?Hurriyet Daily News
LALE KEMALToday's Zaman (press release) (blog)
Turkey Media Roundup (January 20)Jadaliyya

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Turkey's red line - Aljazeera.com Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:24:59 GMT

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Turkey's red line
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In the days following the global outrage over the attack on the French satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, many in Turkey seem to have forgotten those days when any criticism of Ataturk was a punishable offence - one that could label you a traitor ...

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Turkey's porous Syria border no barrier for jihadists - Yahoo News Wed, 21 Jan 2015 03:00:38 GMT

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Turkey's porous Syria border no barrier for jihadists
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Turkey may have stepped up efforts to improve security on its border with Syria, but the area remains a major thoroughfare for jihadists and their sympathisers seeking to enter the country from Europe. The flight of Boumeddiene, 26, the partner of ...

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England and Turkey in tug-of-war for West Ham United youngster Oscar Borg ... - Daily Mail Tue, 20 Jan 2015 16:02:47 GMT

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England and Turkey in tug-of-war for West Ham United youngster Oscar Borg ...
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West Ham teenage star Oscar Borg is subject to a tug-of-war between the England and Turkey national teams. The 17-year-old was born and grew up in Surrey but alerted the Turkish Football Association to his eligibility when they discovered his ...

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Plan to expand bombing campaign in Syria stalls amid US-Turkey disagreements - Washington Post Sun, 18 Jan 2015 21:28:23 GMT

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Plan to expand bombing campaign in Syria stalls amid US-Turkey disagreements
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A plan to expand the U.S.-led coalition bombing campaign against the Islamic State in Syria, along the Turkish border west of the besieged town of Kobane, has been put on hold because Turkey and the Obama administration have failed to agree on its ...
'Missing Korean in Turkey moved to Syrian border'The Korea Herald
Police hunt for missing teen in TurkeyKorea JoongAng Daily
Hayat Boumeddiene's easy route: How terrorists slip through Turkey into SyriaSydney Morning Herald
News & Observer
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Turkey's Ministers Say They Expect Basci to Cut Rates Today - Bloomberg Tue, 20 Jan 2015 09:53:37 GMT

Turkey's Ministers Say They Expect Basci to Cut Rates Today
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The Turkish government said it expects the central bank to cut interest rates today, stepping up pressure on Governor Erdem Basci to provide cheaper credit in an attempt to reverse a slowdown in economic growth. Following a nine-hour-long government ...

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