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Leader of 1980 coup to testify in probe Kenan Evren, the general who led a coup in Turkey in 1980, will give a statement next week to prosecutors investigating the putsch and the killings and arrests which followed it, media reports said on Thursday.
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Top general jailed on coup plot charges A top Turkish general was jailed on Monday pending trial over an alleged 2003 plot to unseat Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan’s government, a move that could fuel tensions two weeks before a parliamentary election.
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Four PKK terrorists in Madımak… The file detailing the events that transpired at Madımak, in which 37 people were burned to death. Four PKK members were found to have connections to the incident; however none of them are still alive.
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Atrocious explosion wounds eight civilians in... This time, terrorists, with blood on their hands, have targeted innocent people on their way to work in Istanbul. Just 100 meters away from a Police School in Etiler a time bomb placed on an electric bicycle exploded at precisely 08:58 Thursday morning. Eight were wounded in the blast, including one police officer and three women.
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Bicycle bomb in Istanbul wounds seven A bicycle bomb wounded seven people including a police officer in Istanbul on Thursday, the city's police chief said.
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Mavi Marmara receives 500,000 applications for... Five hundred thousand application forms have been submitted in order to join the second flotilla headed for Gaza. That figure may reach one million.
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Gul: Hamas must recognize Israel right to exist Turkey's President Abdullah Gul has urged the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas to recognize Israel's right to exist, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
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Six members resign from MHP Six top members of Turkey's far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) resigned on Saturday, plunging into chaos its preparations for a parliamentary election next month.
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'It should be a smooth transition' Ambassador Ricciardone hand delivered a message from U.S. President Obama in a meeting granted by Erdoğan on a helicopter landing field. In regards to the situation in Syria, Erdoğan stated that the transition should be smooth and not rushed.
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Turkey takes permissive stance on new Gaza... Turkey has warned pro-Palestinian Turkish activists of the risks of trying to break an Israeli naval blockade of Gaza, but these groups are outside government control, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said on Tuesday.
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Revolt against ‘cyber censorship’ A number of cities throughout the country staged marches yesterday carrying signs reading ‘Don’t Touch My Internet” in protest of a new regulation to filter internet access, planned to go into effect on August 22nd.
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Two new cities to protect against an earthquake Prime Minister Erdoğan has announced another mega project for Istanbul: creating two cities for the metropolis. Districts most threatened by a potential earthquake will then be moved to the newly established areas.
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Members of Grup Yorum amongst 46 detained Anti-terror police detained 46 people on Tuesday in pre-dawn raids in Istanbul aimed at groups suspected of having links to an outlawed leftist militant movement.
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Turkish women vulnerable to violence despite laws Turkish women have been left vulnerable to repeated abuse because of poor enforcement of domestic violence laws, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.
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