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‘Attorneys for Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan have filed a lawsuit against a major opposition leader for stating that Erdogan is a dictator, presidential sources and the opposition party told Reuters. The president is reportedly seeking $32,000 in damages. Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu made the controversial comment on Saturday, just one day after […]

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‘The leftwing US academic Noam Chomsky has hit back at Recep Tayyip Erdoğanafter the Turkish president accused him of ignorance and sympathising with terrorists. Hours after Tuesday’s bomb attack on a tourist area of Istanbul, Erdoğan delivered a sneering criticism of Chomsky and “so-called intellectuals” who had signed a letter calling on Turkey to end […]

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‘The ongoing crackdown on Kurds in southeastern Turkey shows that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is working to set up a dictatorship in the country, Hatip Dicle, the co-chair of Pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Congress (DTK), told Sputnik in an interview. “They [the Erdogan government]call it a “presidential form of government,” but in fact it’s pure dictatorship. […]

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‘Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Russia and Iran of fueling tensions in the region — Moscow by continuing to back the regime in Syria and Tehran with its growing confrontation with Riyadh. “The dangerous course that Russia is now on constitutes a very big problem, not only for itself and the region but […]

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‘Some 800 Turkish journalists were fired and nearly 160 others arrested last year, a senior member of the country’s main opposition party says. The Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy head, Sezgin Tanrıkulu, said on Monday that last year 774 Turkish journalists were sacked, 156 others were detained, and court cases were opened against 238 member […]

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‘A complex Islamic State migration operation operated through a Turkish border town less than 2 miles from Syria, passenger manifests seized by Kurdish forces and seen by the Guardian suggest. Pressure on Turkey to control its frontiers continues to mount. According to the documents that were handed over to the Guardian by the Syrian Kurdish […]

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‘In five months of battling the Kurdish insurgency in southeastern Turkey, Ankara has killed over 160 civilians, according to a rights group report. Among them was an unborn child, whose mother was shot. In August, Ankara launched a ground operation to crack down on Kurdish fighters linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The violence […]

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‘Turkish police have raided an Istanbul office of the pro-Kurdish opposition party HDP and arbitrarily detained several senior officials, party officials said. The arrests come as President Erdogan called for legal action against the party’s members. Five members of the left-wing pro-minority Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) were detained in a police raid on one of […]

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‘The Obama administration must see Turkey under the reign of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for what it is, not how it used to be, or how Washington wishes it were. It is time for steely-eyed realism about Erdogan. Following are the facts: Erdogan is authoritarian. He recently praised “Hitler’s Germany,” mentioning Hitler in the context […]

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‘Turkey has expressed its fears to the US concerning Kurdish expansion in northern Syria. Ankara is worried about Kurdish territorial gains, but Washington wants to ensure Turkey’s southern border is sealed to stop Islamic State fighters getting into Syria. Kurdish fighters have proved to be some of the most effective forces in helping to combat […]

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‘A decree from Russian President Vladimir Putin, which entered into force on January 1, 2016, included a ban on the employment of Turkish citizens by Russian employers, a food import ban on certain categories of products, as well as on charter flights in both directions. “Turkey’s behavior under Erdogan is not short of farcical — […]

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‘After shooting down a Russian Sukhoi Su-24M tactical bomber jet operating in Syrian airspace, in early December 2015 the Turkish government sent a heavily armed battalion to the Zilkan military base in Iraq. This move ignited tensions between Ankara and the Iraqi federal government, which renounced it as an act of Turkish aggression. Within the […]

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‘Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey and Israel must improve their relations, stressing that his country needs the Tel Aviv regime. “Israel is in need of a country like Turkey in the region. And we too must accept that we need Israel. This is a reality in the region,” the Turkish president said on […]

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‘Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reiterated his desire to ensure Turkey adopts a presidential system of government and has even cited Adolf Hitler’s Germany as an example of how this can be achieved. Speaking at a news conference, Erdogan was asked by a journalist whether Turkey would be able to keep a unitary structure […]

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‘Over the last six or so months, it’s become abundantly clear that Turkey is home to several of the key transit and supply routes utilized by Islamic State. Ankara has long been suspected of turning a blind eye to the legions of foreign fighters that flow across the border into Syria and as Nafeez Ahmed […]

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