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US, Russia will never give up the Kurdish card in Syria
Moscow is unlikely to ever give up its Kurdish card despite Turkey's requests that Russian President Vladimir Putin end cooperation with the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), a former soldier and political analyst has said.
Turkey slams US over critical human rights report
Turkey has lashed out at the United States for criticizing measures taken in the aftermath of the July 2016 coup attempt in its annual human rights report, describing these criticisms as "unacceptable allegations, misrepresentations and interpretations that do not reflect reality."
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Turkish PM accuses main opposition leader of using terrorist groups' rhetoric
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Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said theresult of the upcoming referendum on constitutional reforms would be importantfor the future of Turkey on Feb. 11.
Merkel, Erdoğan and 'Islamist Terrorism'
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to Turkey further exposed the rift and tension not only between Ankara and Berlin, but also between Turkey and the Western world in general. First of all, Western politicians' remarks on freedom of speech and democracy in general are now doomed to fall on deaf ears in countries like ours.
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Turkey: The district attorney asked for 142 year sentence for the president of the Kurdish political party!
The leader of the Kurdish political party HDP Selahattin Demirtas is being held in prison along with the vice-president Figen Yuksekdag for almost two months now. Ten more MPs have being put to prison with them.
The accusation against them is that they are members of PKK. Demirtas is facing a 142 year sentence and Yuksekdag 83 years imprisonment.
Turkey recalled diplomat accused of espionage from Nertherlands
The Turkish government recalled one of its diplomats after the Dutch government started an investigation on him. According to what is known so far, he was collecting information on Dutch citizens of Turkish descent and Turkish immigrants after the failed coup last July.
The big picture including Syria
The commando brigade was not fighting in the field when 14 of its members were killed and 55 of them, six of them seriously, were injured in the Central Anatolian town of Kayseri on Dec. 17. Just one week before, our hearts were bleeding for the victims of the terror attack in Istanbul's Beşiktaş.
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Peace journalism ASAP!
At a time when elected chairpersons and members of Turkey's Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) are locked in jail without indictments, at a time when almost all Kurdish newspapers and TV stations are shut down, at a time when anybody who spells the word "peace" is automatically named and shamed for harboring terrorists, intellectual efforts in the opposite direction might see
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Iraq, Syria and 50 shades of terror organizations
The following is from a statement made on Oct. 13 by a high-level U.S. State Department official to daily Hürriyet's Washington bureau chief:
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Turkey Bans Public Meetings in Ankara Till End-November
Authorities in the Turkish capital Ankara have banned public meetings and manifestations until the end of November due to signals of the security forces that extremists are planning attacks on the city which was the target of several terrorist acts in the last year, reported Reuters.