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A Crackdown on Dissent in Turkey, Where Insulting the President Is a Crime - New York Times Wed, 02 Mar 2016 20:56:58 GMT

New York Times

A Crackdown on Dissent in Turkey, Where Insulting the President Is a Crime
New York Times
Turkey has never had a wide regard for freedom of expression, and in previous times the judicial system aggressively targeted those who insulted Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, modern Turkey's founding father, as well as those insulting “Turkishness” or the ...
Turkey Has Opened at Least 1845 Cases Over Insults to …Foreign Policy (blog)
Nearly 2000 legal cases opened for insulting Turkey's ErdoganJerusalem Post Israel News
Erdogan says Turkey 'ready' to fight terrorism in NigeriaYahoo News
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Report: Turkey demands weapons from Israel as part of normalization effort - Jerusalem Post Israel News Wed, 02 Mar 2016 19:56:00 GMT

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Report: Turkey demands weapons from Israel as part of normalization effort
Jerusalem Post Israel News
A representative appointed by Turkey's Defense Ministry has been sent to Israel in order to procure Israeli made weapons and aircraft equipment as a condition for the return to normalized relations between the two countries, Arab media reported Wednesday.

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Syrian children in Turkey heal through storytelling - PBS NewsHour Wed, 02 Mar 2016 18:33:37 GMT

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Syrian children in Turkey heal through storytelling
PBS NewsHour
Syrian refugee students in Reyhanli, Turkey, conducting elections for their first student council as part of their Democracy 101 workshop. The event took place during a four-day education program sponsored by Karam Foundation. Photo courtesy of Karam ...

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Turkey and Russia: History Fuels Rancor - The Moscow Times (registration) Wed, 02 Mar 2016 13:10:00 GMT

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Turkey and Russia: History Fuels Rancor
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In Turkey, nearly every military and political mishap is now blamed on Moscow – from the defeat of Syrian rebels backed by Turkey to the February 21 expulsion of a senior Turkish diplomat from Bulgaria, a country which Tsarist Russia liberated from ...

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Turkey eases curfew after assault on PKK rebels leaves Cizre in ruins - The Guardian Wed, 02 Mar 2016 17:11:04 GMT

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Turkey eases curfew after assault on PKK rebels leaves Cizre in ruins
The Guardian
The PKK, considered a terror group by Turkey and its allies, has been waging an insurgency in south-eastern Turkey since 1984. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people since then. A fragile two-year-old peace process with the rebels broke ...
As Turkey reaches an impasse, a federal solution needs to be foundKathimerini
Residents return to flashpoint town in southeastern Turkey, find it destroyedFox News
Turkey says US pinning Syria strategy on 'small terror group'Hurriyet Daily News
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Turkey says proposing migrant return deals with 14 countries - Kathimerini Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:07:27 GMT

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Turkey says proposing migrant return deals with 14 countries
Kathimerini
Turkey on Wednesday said it had proposed signing agreements with 14 countries on the return of migrants from EU member states. Ankara had "offered to conclude readmission deals with 14 countries,” foreign ministry spokesman Tanju Bilgic said at a ...
Turkey stops 24120 irregular migrants in 45 daysHurriyet Daily News
Turkey Proposes to Sign Migrant Readmission Deals with 14 CountriesNovinite.com
Turkey, wary of its NATO allies, to acquire more advanced weaponsDaily Sabah
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'Send them back to Turkey' EU kicks out illegal immigrants as huge deportation plan begins - Express.co.uk Wed, 02 Mar 2016 19:17:12 GMT

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'Send them back to Turkey' EU kicks out illegal immigrants as huge deportation plan begins
Express.co.uk
The EU finally tried to wrestle back control of the spiralling migrant chaos today with the announcement that 308 illegals are being shipped back to Turkey as part of a landmark agreement. Brussels also urged member states to automatically deport any ...
EU wants migrant flow from Turkey to drop below 1000 a day: officialsReuters
Turkey says it is proposing migrant return deals to 14 countriesHurriyet Daily News
Brussels, Berlin want Turkey to help reduce migrant flowsToday's Zaman

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Russian MoD Accuses Turkey of Attempts to Derail Syrian Ceasefire - Sputnik International Wed, 02 Mar 2016 18:02:52 GMT

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Russian MoD Accuses Turkey of Attempts to Derail Syrian Ceasefire
Sputnik International
On February 25, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that the truce in Syria is not obligatory for Turkey to follow if the country feels a threat against its security. "We consider these actions by Turkey as blatantly provocative and aimed at ...
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Merkel Ally Predicts Chaos If Turkey Joins EU Free Movement Area - Breitbart News Wed, 02 Mar 2016 13:18:32 GMT

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Merkel Ally Predicts Chaos If Turkey Joins EU Free Movement Area
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A senior ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that her plan to stem mass migration from Turkey may backfire, and induce a “new, uncountable influx” of migrants from the Muslim world. In October last year, the European Union (EU) led by ...


Elif Shafak on Turkey's turmoil: 'Intimidation and paranoia dominates the land' - The Guardian Tue, 01 Mar 2016 14:41:52 GMT

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Elif Shafak on Turkey's turmoil: 'Intimidation and paranoia dominates the land'
The Guardian
Ankara, the city where I spent most of my childhood and early youth, is not only the capital of modern Turkey, and the centre of Turkish politics and the military. It is also home to a vast population – students, white-collar professionals, human ...
Judy Asks: Is Erdoğan Destroying Turkey?Carnegie Europe

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