COMMENTARY — Erdoğan touts al-Qaeda-linked militant as a role model in Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Publicizing an otherwise private audience for senior jihadist figures including a prominent al-Qaeda-linked fighter in the presidential palace of Turkey’s Islamist leader...
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Doğan sells book store chain D&R to pro-gov’t Turkuvaz Group
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Turkish gov’t detains 23 people over their alleged links to Gülen movement
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Turkish court rules for continuation of imprisonment of pro-Kurdish HDP’s Demirtaş
The Ankara 19th High Criminal Court ruled on Friday for a continuation of the imprisonment of Selahattin Demirtaş, the former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish...
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