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‘Turkish sculptor Mehmet Aksoy faces more than four years in prison after being accused of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Prosecutors in the Turkish capital, Istanbul, have demanded 56 months in jail for the artist who allegedly insulted the president by saying Erdogan’s earnings were illegitimate. In March, a sculpture by Aksoy titled “Monument of […]

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‘The United States has admitted that it has been fully aware of Turkey’s role in the transit of terrorists into Syria, but has failed to name it as a sponsor of terrorism. Throughout 2014, Turkey served as a source and transit country for foreign terrorists seeking to enter Syria, the United States said in its […]

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‘The Turkish government has strongly criticized the Belgian prime minister for recognizing the massacre of Armenians in 1915 as “genocide.” The Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a Saturday statement that the remarks by Charles Michel in recognizing the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces during World War I as genocide are a distortion of […]

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‘Turkish authorities have detained two Georgian citizens who tried to enter the country carrying radioactive material, a report says. A 43-year-old woman and a 40-year-old man, identified only as N. K. and I. A. respectively, were arrested with 1.2 kilograms of cesium at a border gateway in northeastern Turkey on Friday, the official Anadolu Agency […]

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‘A new report says officials with the Turkish government intelligence agency secured the flow of arms to terrorists in Syria. Four Turkish prosecutors brought the matter into light after intercepting Syria-headed arms-laden trucks in January 2014, the English-language daily, Today’s Zaman, reported on Thursday. They said Turkish officials, including intelligence agency personnel, were involved in […]

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‘The UN refugee agency says some 23,000 people have fled Syria to Turkey in less than two weeks as Syrian Kurdish forces are engaged in fighting against Takfiri ISIL terrorists inside Syria on the border […]

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‘Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed grave concern over the recent advances of Kurdish fighters in the Syrian province of Raqqa where Takfiri ISIL terrorists are operating. “This is not a good sign…This could […]

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‘Newly-surfaced video footage has corroborated widespread assertions that the Turkish government’s intelligence agency has been ensuring ISIL terrorists safe passage into Syria. The center-left Turkish daily, Cumhuriyet, integrated the videos in a Thursday report implicating […]

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‘Two years ago almost to the day, the masses descended on the streets all over Turkey to demand the resignation of the Erdogan government, who was then prime minister, protesting not only the project of […]

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‘A Turkish daily has accused the country’s authorities and intelligence agency of helping smuggle the ISIL and other Takfiri terrorists into Syria from Turkish soil. The opposition daily Cumhuriyet said in a report on Friday […]

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‘Macedonia is ready to take part in the construction of the Turkish stream natural gas pipeline once Russia and Brussels reach an agreement on the strategic project, Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has announced. “Our […]

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‘The construction of a $615-million, 1,150-room palace for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been declared “illegal” by the country’s top administrative court. Ankara’s Fifth Administrative Court overturned a previous ruling that permitted an exception […]

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‘Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says there is a principal agreement between his country and the United States over providing air protection for the militants operating inside Syria. Speaking in an exclusive interview with English-language […]

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‘Turkey helped deliver weapons to rebel-controlled Syrian territories, according to testimony from prosecutors and gendarmerie officers, Reuters says. It contradicts Ankara’s denials that it sent arms to rebels and thereby contributed to the rise of […]

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