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Police detain 40 suspected members of Al-Qaida Turkish police detained 40 suspected members of al Qaeda and the Turkish Islamist militant group Hizbullah in raids in Istanbul on Tuesday.
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Last round for the AKP to determine election... Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has arrived to the AKP Head Quarters to put the final touches on the party’s list of candidates for the upcoming general election.
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Social Security Institution manager in Muğla shot... A gunman killed a provincial manager of Turkey's social security institution in southern Turkey and surrendered after briefly taking hostages on Friday.
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Turkey’s scenarios for regional uprisings While individual scenarios have been prepared for Tunisia, Egypt and Libya; for Syria, the scenario prepared was based upon a regime change ‘not’ transpiring. The National Security Council will be handling each scenario for the recent uprisings in the Arab world during the April 28th meeting.
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Turkey military slams plot case detentions Turkey's armed forces issued a statement on Wednesday criticising, in unusually strong terms, the detention of 163 officers on trial for allegedly plotting a coup against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government.
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Turkey to sound out Libyan sides on possible truce Turkey said it was seeking to broker a ceasefire in Libya as an envoy from Muammar Gaddafi's government arrived in Ankara on Monday, with representatives of the Libyan opposition also expected in the coming days.
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133 martyrs made to rest in peace It turned out one of the PKK terrorists recently killed in Hatay was in charge of the organization’s regional division and responsible for killing 113 citizens in 87 separate attacks.
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Turkey's PM says will prod Syria's Assad on... Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said he would press Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to defuse unrest by making reforms sought by the Syrian people when he speaks to him on Monday, newspapers reported on Saturday.
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“I never would count all of the stars” This was Erdoğan’s response when journalists asked him to predict the results of the upcoming June12th election while en route from his return from London.
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HSYK makes a series of surprising appointments Newly appointed as Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor, Zekeriya Öz will no longer have any involvement in the Ergenekon investigation. The sole authority in the case has now been granted to Fikret Seçen.
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Breaking tradition... Erdoğan is now officially the first Sunni Muslim leader to pay tribute to Imam Ali’s shrine and is also the first Turkish Prime Minister to visit Northern Iraq.
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Erdoğan is the ‘Voice of the Oppressed’ in Baghdad Prime Minister Erdoğan was greeted by a convoy stretching two kilometers long and a crowd reminiscent of a demonstration with signs reading ‘Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the voice of the oppressed, welcome to Iraq.’
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Turkish assembly backs joining NATO naval... Turkey's parliament Thursday approved a government decision to join a NATO naval operation to enforce a U.N.-sanctioned arms embargo off Libya, Turkish television news channels reported.
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'Crusade' comment angers Erdoğan referred to the comments made by France’s Minister of the Interior Gueant, who stated President Nicolas Sarkozy, was leading a ‘crusade’ in Libya, as ‘inconsideration.’
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