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Turkey's coming police state - Aljazeera.com Thu, 26 Feb 2015 11:03:26 GMT

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Turkey's coming police state
Aljazeera.com
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan turns 61 this week, yet he remains politically dexterous enough to pull off some impressive sleights of hand. In the wee hours of Sunday morning, Turkey's parliament passed the first 10 articles of a controversial ...
The 2015 elections and Turkey's political partiesDaily Sabah
Is loneliness the AKP's or Turkey's fate?Today's Zaman
Turkey targets voters with government benefitsAl-Monitor
Middle East Eye -Cihan News Agency -Al-Arabiya
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All It Takes To Cross From Turkey To ISIS-Held Syria Is $25 - Huffington Post Fri, 27 Feb 2015 00:15:21 GMT

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All It Takes To Cross From Turkey To ISIS-Held Syria Is $25
Huffington Post
KARKEMISH, Turkey -- If the three Brooklyn men arrested Wednesday on charges of aiding and plotting to join the Islamic State had boarded flights to Turkey, they likely would have made it to Syria with ease. For a wannabe foreign fighter, the last step ...
Give Turkey Credit for All Its EffortWall Street Journal
Turkey: Friend or foe of West in Islamic State war?The Australian (blog)

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Turkey's 'strategic depth' in Syria - Al-Monitor Fri, 27 Feb 2015 02:38:27 GMT

Daily Sabah

Turkey's 'strategic depth' in Syria
Al-Monitor
The 8,797-square-meter (94,690-square-foot) piece of land that the tomb was constructed on is considered as Turkish national territory according to the Turco-French Treaty of 1921 and the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923, the legal basis of the Republic of ...
Turkey's security council discusses Süleyman Şah evacuationToday's Zaman

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Turkey Drives Hard Bargain Over Crucial Missile Deal - DefenseNews.com Thu, 26 Feb 2015 19:46:40 GMT

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Turkey Drives Hard Bargain Over Crucial Missile Deal
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ANKARA, TurkeyTurkey has alarmed fellow NATO members by raising the prospect of handing China a multi-billion dollar missile contract, yet the long-running saga is far from over and Ankara may just be trading for a better deal. Turkey, NATO's only ...
Turkey goes back to other missile system bidders as China drags feet: officialsReuters
Turkey looking to the West over China for antimissile contractBlouin News Blogs (blog)

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Can Islam take a joke? Turkey's satirists speak out - CBC.ca Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:08:51 GMT

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Can Islam take a joke? Turkey's satirists speak out
CBC.ca
With religion and politics splashed on a bright red background, the latest cover of Charlie Hebdo blares, "We're back!" It is the first new issue in seven weeks, time the magazine said it needed to mourn and regroup after the deaths of 12 people killed ...

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From 'Midnight Express' to Discovering the Allure of Turkey - New York Times Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:45:42 GMT

New York Times

From 'Midnight Express' to Discovering the Allure of Turkey
New York Times
It has no good Turks, and the images of Turkey are horrific, and to this day, Turkey is still dealing with this. I was the most hated man in Turkey, because of the sentencing scene in the movie, screaming at the court, “You're a nation of pigs!” The ...


Why Turkey Finally Made A Move Against ISIS - Huffington Post Tue, 24 Feb 2015 01:22:53 GMT

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Why Turkey Finally Made A Move Against ISIS
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WASHINGTON -- Turkey made its boldest move yet against the Islamic State over the weekend. It wasn't to help the U.S.-led air campaign against the group, something Turkey could do by making its strategic Incirlik Air Base available to American jets.
Turkey and SyriaThe Economist
Did Turkey Cut a Deal With ISIS to Save Soldiers?Daily Beast
Turkey launches raid to save Ottoman tomb in SyriaCBS News
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Former Miss Turkey faces prison for 'insulting' country's president - Fox News Wed, 25 Feb 2015 23:31:39 GMT

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Former Miss Turkey faces prison for 'insulting' country's president
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Miss Slovakia Magdalena Sebestova, Miss Turkey Merve Buyuksarac, Miss Italy Elizaveta Migatcheva, Miss Hungary Renata Anetta Toth and Miss Slovenia Iris Mulej (L-R) pose during the Miss World 2006 welcome dinner in Warsaw September 3, 2006.
Former Miss Turkey Faces Prison For 'Insulting' President ErdoganHuffington Post
How a single Instagram post could end up sending a former Miss Turkey to jailWashington Post (blog)
Former Miss Turkey faces jail for “insulting” Recep Erdogan on Instagrameuronews
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Why doesn't Turkey speak up on Iran nuclear issue? - Al-Monitor Fri, 27 Feb 2015 02:38:27 GMT

Why doesn't Turkey speak up on Iran nuclear issue?
Al-Monitor
As any political observer could testify, Turkey lately has become a polarized society, where mutually bitter political camps are engaged in a vicious political war. The government, for its part, believes that it has survived at least two “coup attempts ...

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Turkey's Tomb Raiders - Foreign Policy (blog) Tue, 24 Feb 2015 18:13:28 GMT

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Turkey's Tomb Raiders
Foreign Policy (blog)
21, Turkey sent a military convoy into Syria to rescue 38 of its soldiers who had been surrounded by forces of the Islamic State. So what were those Turkish soldiers doing inside Syria? They were guarding the tomb of Suleyman Shah, the grandfather of ...
Turkey's Invasion of Syria Shows Turkish Connection to ISIS; NATO AgendaCenter for Research on Globalization
Turkey's "Cold War" With ISIS May Be WarmingBuzzFeed News
Iran warns Turkey not to jeopardize regional security after operation in SyriaToday's Zaman
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