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Roman-era street discovered in Turkey
A 2,000-year-old Roman-era street has been discovered in southeastern Turkey. Currently, excavation to unearth it is being carried out in Amida Mound, known as the heart of Diyarbakir province.
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Lack of adequate efforts aggravating problems in Turkey, says CHP leader
Turkey's fundamental problems are aggravating as the political mechanism of the state is falling short of making adequate efforts to resolve the issues such as education and the Kurdish question, the leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has said.
NYT accused of whitewashing Turkey’s Afrin occupation – The Jerusalem Post
The New York Times has been accused of whitewashing Turkey’s military occupation of Afrin and their ethnic cleansing of the residing Kurdish people
Erdogan says US supports militants who executed Turkish forces in Iraq
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States on Monday of supporting Kurdish militants who Ankara says executed 13 kidnapped Turks in northern Iraq, adding that a US statement of condemnation was a "a joke."
Austria expels alleged assassin accused of working for Turkish government
His mission was to terrorize members of the Kurdish expatriate community in Europe who tend to be vocal critics of the Turkish’s human rights record
Turkey says talks with France to normalize ties going well
Turkey and France are working on a roadmap to normalize ties and talks are going well, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday, adding Ankara was ready to improve ties with its NATO ally if Paris showed the same willingness.
Turkey has to adapt to new normal: Presidential spokesperson
The normalization process will not be about abandoning measures all together but we have to adapt to the new normal, Turkey's presidential spokesperson said on May 23.
"We need to get used to living with masks. Turkey will go down to history when this coronavirus pandemic is over and it is written down," Ibrahim Kalın said on local television station NTV.
Twenty-six suspected Kurdish militants detained, weaponry seized in counterterrorism sweep
Greece's anti-terrorism service detained 26 people and seized heavy weaponry including anti-tank arms in a large, ongoing counterterrorism operation in central Athens on Thursday to dismantle a suspected far-leftist militant group, police sources cited by state-run news agency ANA-MPA said.
Iraqi court sentences two to death over killing of Turkish diplomat
An Iraqi court has sentenced two suspects to death for the killing of a Turkish diplomat and two Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) citizens in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil.
The 2nd Criminal Court in Erbil sentenced two people to death over the killing of diplomat Osman Köse and two KRG citizens and handed down jail time for four more suspects in connection with the killings.
Turkey Returns 11 French Jihadists to Paris
France will accept 11 suspected French jihadists from Turkey, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said a day after Ankara said it was deporting foreign Islamic State fighters, Reuters reported.
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