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Ex-army chief claims PM opted not to move against Gülenists

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was supplied with intelligence regarding the police officers who were allegedly conducting operations on behalf of the Gülenist “parallel structure,” but he failed to act then, Turkey’s former Chief of Staff İlker Başbuğ has claimed.

Islamists seize key Benghazi army base as Tripoli fire rages

Islamist groups seized the headquarters of the Libyan army's special forces in Libya's second city Benghazi after days of fighting, as a huge blaze raged at a fuel depot near the capital's airport.

An Islamist and jihadist alliance announced the capture July 29 of the main military base in the eastern city in a statement which was confirmed by an army official.

Israel agrees four-hour Gaza ceasefire as UN rages over school strike

Israel agreed July 30 to observe a four-hour lull in Gaza several hours after a deadly strike on a school killed 16, drawing a furious response from a U.N. refugee agency. In a statement, the army said it had agreed to a humanitarian pause which was to begin at 12:00 GMT.

Deadly shelling hits UN school as Hamas mulls truce

Israeli shells struck a U.N. school in Gaza early July 30, killing 16, as ground troops made a signficant push into the territory despite Palestinian efforts to broker a 24-hour truce.

It was the second time in a week that a U.N. school sheltering hundreds of homeless Palestinians had been hit, with the latest violence pushing the Gaza death toll over 1,260.        

Taking turns with the handcuffs

What does our proverb say? “Don’t make a martyr sigh, you will pay for it by and by.” Or you can say, “What goes around comes around.”

It’s not exactly like this. Or it is exactly like this. Maybe this coming around was slow in the past, but we are living in such times now that today’s wrongdoing does not even wait until tomorrow to be corrected.

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