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The struggle against terror is not merely killing terror group members, but also other means of fighting should be carried out in this process, the main opposition party leader has said, questioning the government's way of fighting against the illegal PKK group.

Turkish lawmakers found themselves debating Oscar Wilde during a constitutional commission meeting on May 2, after several lawmakers said they did not know who the classic Irish writer was and confused him with the Oscars movie awards.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is not one to mince words. Just a day after the downing of the Su-24 jet, he said that Russia had “serious doubts this was an unintended incident and believe that it is planned provocation” by Turkey.

Most useful idiots took it literally when Turkey?s then-emerging class of ?reformist? (or post-modern) Islamists promised in their 2002 election manifesto that:  

A deputy from Turkey?s Justice and Development Party (AKP) who gave a fiery speech to a group of protesters attacking daily Hürriyet?s headquarters in Istanbul on Sept. 6 is seen threatening Hürriyet journalists and expressing his regret that they ?never beat them in the past? in a newly-surfaced video.

A Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy has stirred controversy on social media with an old tweet in which he showed support for an al-Qaeda-linked group, hours after he participated in a protest against daily Hürriyet in which the newspaper?s headquarters was pelted with stones.