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The leader of Turkey’s main opposition party was on July 14 ordered to pay President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan compensation for calling him a “sham dictator.”
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Beşiktaş attacking midfielder Jose Ernesto Sosa, who is contracted to the Istanbul club until June 2018, is using the terror threats in the country as an excuse to move to another club, the title-holder’s chairman has said
Turkey’s Health Ministry has warned against playing Pokémon Go between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., as long exposure to the hot sun between those hours could be hazardous
A group of armed special operations police officers in camouflage uniforms began to patrol Istanbul’s busy İstiklal Avenue on July 13, after France’s diplomatic missions in the country were closed and French National Day events were canceled due to security concerns
Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said he wishes newly-appointed British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson would be “led back to the right way” after his controversial references to Turkey during the recent referendum campaign to leave the EU
Hours after saying Turkey needed to return to normal relations with Syria, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said that for anything to change on the Turkish side regarding Syria, first Syrian President Bashar al-Assad needed to go
United States Ambassador to Turkey John Bass has said he met with Turkey’s defense and interior ministers on July 13 to discuss the ongoing fight against terrorism, underlining mutual determination to eradicate the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria and Iraq
The United States Embassy in Ankara held its 240th Independence Day event on July 13, as no specific security threat was issued against the U.S. missions and nationals
A delegation from Turkey will travel to Moscow and hold a meeting with their Russian counterparts on July 14 in order to tackle bilateral cooperation in the field of tourism, as well as bilateral relations as a whole, in another step towards normalization between the two countries
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The first hearing of the Petrol Ofisi (POAŞ) case, which has 47 suspects including Doğan Holding Honorary Chairman Aydın Doğan and İş Bank Executive Board Chairman Ersin Özince, was held on July 13 in Istanbul
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A court in Şanlıurfa has ruled for pecuniary and non-pecuniary compensation worth 365,000 Turkish Liras to the family of a local man who was killed when a mortar shell fired from Syria hit his home in the Ceylanpınar district in 2013
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PARIS - Reuters
The United States will propose increasing military cooperation and sharing intelligence with Russia to identify and target ISIL and al Qaeda headquarters, training camps and supply routes in Syria, the Washington Post reported
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BEIRUT - Agence France-Presse
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said July 14 he has never faced pressure from Russia to step aside, as US Secretary of State John Kerry headed to Moscow seeking to revive stalled peace efforts
LONDON - The Associated Press
Britain’s new Treasury chief pledged July 14 there will be no emergency national budget - even though there are questions marks hanging over the economy following the country’s decision to leave the European Union
LONDON - Agence France-Presse
Boris Johnson, the former London mayor and "Leave" campaign figurehead in Britain's EU referendum, was appointed foreign secretary on July 13 in new Prime Minister Theresa May's government
ANKARA
Turkey has strongly condemned the European Parliament, accusing it of allowing a photo exhibition organized by sympathizers of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Brussels, sparking fresh tension between Ankara and Brussels
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BERLIN
Germany will recall its troops from İncirlik Airbase in Turkey if Ankara continues to block lawmakers from visiting its soldiers there, the vice chancellor announced
ANKARA - Anadolu Agency
The indictment prepared by the Ankara’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office concerning the Oct. 10, 2015 terror attack at the train station in central Ankara has been accepted by the capital’s 4th High Criminal Court
PARIS – Reuters
The flow of refugees and migrants to Europe has slowed since April when the European Union sealed a deal with Turkey to halt illegal traffic across the Aegean Sea, the region’s border agency chief said on July 12
FOLSCHVILLER – Anadolu Agency
A Turkish family of four in eastern France was found dead in their home on July 12, with police suspecting that the father killed the wife and the children before killing himself
ANKARA – Anadolu Agency
Only Syrians whose citizenship would be beneficial for Turkey’s interests will be offered identity cards, Turkish Interior Minister Efkan Ala has said, while announcing that efforts were ongoing to grant citizenship to Meskhetian Turks as well
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On July 10, the Washington Post reported that Rifai Ahmed Taha, a 61-year-old Egyptian and a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood and Gamaa Islamiya, had been killed by the U.S. military in a drone strike near Idlib in the civil war-struck Syria in early April 2016
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The heads of state and government of the 28 NATO member countries gathered in Warsaw on July 8-9, along with Montenegro, whose membership is going to be ratified soon, and 26 partner countries and representatives from several international organizations
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With Theresa May taking the British prime minister’s office on July 13, a second woman will be at the helm of another major European power, after Germany’s Angela Merkel
Though often at odds in the past, Greece and Turkey share a bond revealed not only in food or language but also in music celebrated on both sides of the Aegean Sea.
Hollywood begins the run-up to its annual prize-giving season today with “Game of Thrones” tipped once again to dominate the field at the announcement of the television industry’s 2016 Emmy Awards nominations
Turkish rap star Ceza will represent the country during the Sziget Festival, one of the biggest festivals in Europe, to be held in August in Budapest
West Ham United coach Slaven Bilic, who made a name with a good performance in the Premier League last season, will have Beşiktaş winger Gökhan Töre in his squad in the coming season, though big sharks have begun to circle for French star Dimitri Payet
Composer and singer Özdemir Erdoğan and jazz saxophonist Ergüven Başaran have been granted “All-time Success Awards” at the Istanbul Jazz Festival organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV)
Archaeologists excavating the site of the biblical city of Ashkelon found what they say is the first Philistine cemetery ever discovered
The star of a new exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum is not one of the Dutch painter's flamboyant masterpieces, but a rough sketch by a junior French provincial doctor
The Anatolian province of Çorum had been home to many civilizations throughout history, including the Hittites and Hattis. Their artifacts are the most important tourist attractions in the city
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Manisa Mental Hospital head Ahmet Ayer has said they were preparing to establish a museum to display the objects which have been used by the 90-year-old hospital in the treatment of mental health diseases
Comment(s)7/11/2016
Construction starts for new nuclear reactors fell to zero globally in the first half of 2016 as the atomic industry struggles against falling costs for renewables and a slowdown in Chinese building, a report on the industry showed on July 13