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Turkey, US to sign financial information exchange deal: Minister

Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet ?im?ek said the Turkish government and the United States administration will sign a deal on July 23 which will make financial information exchanges possible between the two countries, as a part of the efforts to fight against tax evasion, as reported by Anadolu Agency. 

ISIL attack puts Turkish government in difficulty

It must have been difficult for the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu to feel the need to defend the government against speculations that it had relations with the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), as he strongly condemned the July 20 terrorist bomb attack in the Turkish Syrian-border town of Suruç, which has killed 32 so far and wounded nearly 100 and was ?probably?

Why were the police angry at anti-ISIL protests?

After the Suruç terrorist attack on July 20, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu called on political parties to issue a joint declaration. "Right at this moment, as leaders of four political parties, when we are engaged in an effort to form a partnership for government, when we are trying to generate shared wisdom, if we agree that the target of this attack is Turkey and Turkey's democracy, then now

Time for AKP to wake up to ISIL threat

The barbaric terrorist attack in Suruç, a Turkish town just 10 kilometers from the Syrian border, not only killed 31 innocent souls and wounded dozens of others. It also shook the nation, showing that the fire beyond our southern borders can easily burn us as well. It is time to think seriously about this threat and understand what its perpetrators really want. 

Fallen Turkish soldier laid to rest in official ceremony in Ad?yaman

One Turkish soldier who was killed on July 20 in a gun attack staged by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) in eastern Turkey was laid to rest in a July 21 ceremony.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu also attended the funeral ceremony of gendarmerie soldier Müsellim Ünal, 22, in the southeastern province of Ad?yaman.

Attack is a strategic ISIL move, according to Ankara expert

Ankara has evaluated the July 20 bomb attack on civilians in Suruç in the southern provice of ?anl?urfa as an attempt to force the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) into an encounter with the state and the government, security experts have told daily Hürriyet, adding jihadists were also sending a message to the government to stop operations on its me

Intelligence report warned of ISIL suicide bombers in Turkey

Turkish security forces had repeatedly warned about seven Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants who crossed into Turkey illegally, planning to stage deadly attacks against targets in the country.

The National Intelligence Organization (M?T) informed security forces about possible attacks by ISIL members on June 22 and July 3.

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