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AFP PHOTO Russia has urged Turkey to refrain from making provocative statements about events in Syria amid rising tensions over the Syrian province of Idlib, Gazete Duvar’s English service reported on Friday. The Russian Foreign ...
Erdogan’s authoritarianism cited as reasons for his plunging ratings ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s popularity rating has fallen to its lowest level since October 2018, according to a new survey. Pollster company Metropoll’s findings ...
Land prices are booming in Sazlibosna. Over a tulip-shaped glass of tea in one of the village’s cafes, local governor Oktay Teke says that a few years ago, a square meter of land here in ...
After the attempted coup in Turkey in 2016, 134,000 people lost their jobs. Most of them are still unemployed and have to fight for health services and pensions. Many suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. By ...
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, right, and Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis in July 2019.(Keystone / Cem Ozdel Handout Handout) The Swiss government has delayed fully signing off on an expanded free-trade deal with Turkey ...
Ahmet S. Yayla, a counterterrorism police sergeant, had a surprising encounter when he arrested a suspected terrorist with ties to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in 1998. “No one I’ve gone to arrest has ever ...
A commemoration of Sivas massacre. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has used his presidential power to pardon a man who was given an aggravated life sentence due to his role in the killing of 35 ...
For decades now, Alevi Muslims in Turkey have fought for official recognition as a religious community. The state has persistently ignored court judgments in their favor, meaning they are also denied financial support. Around 14 ...
A deadly earthquake in eastern Turkey has rekindled questions about how the government spends billions of liras in “quake taxes” in a country crisscrossed by fault lines and whose biggest city, Istanbul, is said to be at ...
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It all began with a coup… Key Point: Perhaps it would have been easier not to get rid of those F-16 pilots. Fighter pilots aren’t cheap. The U.S. Air Force estimates that training a new pilot ...