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Turkey's MHP leader ready to 'strip terrorist sympathizers of citizenship'

The embattled leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), Devlet Bahçeli, has expressed support for stripping "terrorist sympathizers" of their citizenship, a proposal voiced by President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, while he also criticized a German comedian who read out a crude poem about Erdo?an on German TV for "insulting" the president.

MHP: Turkish PM extended olive branch to PKK in Mardin

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has extended "an olive branch" to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) with a recent speech in the southeastern province of Mardin, Turkey's nationalist opposition leader has suggested, comparing Davuto?lu with figures from British history whose reputations in Turkey have been associated with efforts against national interests.

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