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The  government will establish a crisis desk to inform the Turkish public daily about the latest developments in Iraq, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said June 13 after a crisis coordination meeting at the Foreign Ministry.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have continued their advance in Iraq after seizing Mosul on June 9.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has slammed the opposition for trying to “exploit” the kidnappings in the Iraqi city of Mosul, while assuring that intense diplomatic efforts are being carried out to secure the release of 80 Turkish hostages being held by militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Central Bank Governor Erdem Başçı, speaking amid intense debates about political interference in the Bank, has insisted that the institution is taking its decisions “independently.”

I cannot believe it. I am astounded. He is still talking… He is still expecting us to believe him. He still assumes people believe him.

He was again swaggering in New York: “Don’t test our patience…”

The assessment in the title line does not belong to this columnist, but has been cherished in this column since a Turkey specialist realistically put it in a Reuters analysis a couple of years earlier.

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) government of Turkey is like a cat with nine lives. Anywhere in the world, any one of the major events this country lived through during last year would have taken down governments, kill the prospects of key bureaucrats and change the political climate.

Turkey’s exports of home-grown television dramas play a key role in wielding “soft power” across the region, a Turkish culture minister has said.

By creating a lasting influence on Turkey’s image in the region, popular dramas are among the country’s most well-known economic and cultural exports, said Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism Ömer Çelik June 12.

An anonymous user acting as a spokesperson for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Twitter has finally succumbed to Turkish and Kurdish trolls, announcing he would close the account.

A shopping mall and residence complex is set to be built on a green area located east of the Küçükçekmece Lake, outside Istanbul. The green area is located on the eastern coast of Küçükçekmece Lake near a first degree natural site, the Soğuksu Grove, and is currently used as a football pitch and park.

“If there had been a commitment to the political will of the government, the punishment of the person who dared to remove the flag would have been given immediately.”

This historic sentence, this historic confession did not come from just anybody; the utterer of this sentence is Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç. This sentence is the key to this era.