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'It's no secret that there are some trends within Turkey that I have been troubled with,' Obama says, while commenting on press freeedom in Turkey
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Reza Zarrab, the controversial Turkish-Iranian businessman who was arrested in the US, declines to seek bail in Florida court and he will be transported to New York
A suspect of an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) car bomb attack in Diyarbakır, which killed seven police officers, has been arrested
American Muslims should not apologize for terrorists who claim affiliation with Islam, Turkey’s head of Religious Affairs, Mehmet Görmez says at a sermon in newly built US Diyanet Center
A parliamentary commission has approved a protocol of the Council of Europe (CoE) aimed at addressing the issue of foreign terrorist fighters
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu visited the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on April 1, just a day after seven police officers were killed and at least 27 people were wounded in a bomb attack blamed on militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)
During the much anticipated meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his U.S. counterpart, Barack Obama, the leaders’ main focus was on upgrading the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the aftermath of deadly attacks in Turkey and Belgium
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has rejected criticism that he has been “waging a war” against press groups, saying “criticism” should not be confused with “insult and defamation"
A pro-government newspaper in Turkey has claimed that the mastermind of the March 13 bomb attack in Ankara that killed at least 37 people was able to escape security officials in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa because two policemen in Ankara delayed communicating critical information
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu March 31 said a key migrant deal concluded with the European Union to curb the flow of illegal migration would begin to be implemented on April 4 with the return of some migrants from Greece to Turkish territory
The US Embassy in Ankara posted a travel restriction on its website on April 1 over security concerns in several cities, including İzmir and Muğla by the Aegean Sea
Bono, the frontman of the Irish rock band U2, and a group of U.S. senators, paid a visit to a refugee camp in the southeastern Turkish province of Gaziantep
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Turkish journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül appeared in Istanbul’s Çağlayan courthouse for the second hearing of their controversial case on April 1, with the court again ruling not to arrest them for the duration of the trial
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Parliament’s national defense commission has agreed to rebuild the historic Russian commemorative monument San Stefano (Ayastefanos) in Istanbul, in return for the building of five Turkish monuments in Russia
ROME – Doğan News Agency
The Japanese prime minister in office when the Fukushima nuclear disaster took place in March 2011 has said he regrets recommending Japanese nuclear technology to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
ANKARA – Anadolu Agency
The former head of an outlawed Turkish group, who recently headed a Syrian militia group allied with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that is accused of the 2013 terror attack in Turkey’s Reyhanlı, is reported to have been killed
WASHINGTON – Anadolu Agency
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on U.S. businesses not to hesitate in investing in Turkey
Turkey’s Justice Ministry has accelerated the process to lift the legislative immunities of eight members of parliament, four each from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP)
ISTANBUL - Reuters
France’s pharmaceutical company Servier has decided to move some of its production operations from France and Ireland to Turkey. The company will produce around 21 million medicine packages in the next 18 months
MARDİN/ERZURUM
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants killed two soldiers, wounding six people, including journalists, in a bomb attack on a military vehicle in the Nusaybin district of Mardin, a southeastern province
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Villagers staged a protest over plans to build a new refugee camp in Kahramanmaraş, a province in southern Turkey close to the Syrian border
PARIS – Agence France-Presse
France on April 1 accused the Syrian regime of violating a fragile ceasefire in the five-year war that has devastated the country
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It was not clear a few days ago whether Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan would meet U.S. President Barack Obama during his stay in Washington DC for the Nuclear Security Summit on March 31-April 1
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to the United States was a tense one from the beginning
A much-anticipated meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took place late on March 31 on the sidelines of the fourth Nuclear Security Summit following the latter’s talks with Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry on March 30
In the eastern province Diyarbakır, an 11-year-old girl was married to a 14-year-old boy, arranged by their families. An imam preformed the rites, which is illegal in Turkey
I came to the “capital of the world” for a panel at Columbia University on a new and highly interesting book: “The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions.”
I agree with every word Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu recently said in Washington. Relations with the U.S. will not be disrupted because of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD)
The results of the first phase of the university entrance examination (YGS) were announced last weekend
Nobody in Turkey talks about the “2023 targets” anymore. Remember the days when Turkey had an ambitious but achievable plan?
New excavation season has recently started in the ancient city of Tripoli in Denizli. An ancient market place in the city reveals that Denizli was a center of trade
Iraqi-British Hadid, who died aged 65, was one of the world’s most famous architects and the first woman to win the prestigious Pritzker Prize for architecture
Icelandic singer and multi-instrumentalist Olof Arnalds will play in Istanbul’s Babylon Bomonti on April 6
An ancient Roman-era burial chamber has been unearthed by treasure hunters who dug a three-meter tunnel inside a shanty house in the western province of Kütahya
Istanbul Modern Cinema, in collaboration with the 35th Istanbul Film Festival, presents a selection of films by the stars of American avant-garde cinema in the 1970s
The Antalya Culture and Arts Center, the newest venue in the southern province, is presenting Andy Warhol’s ‘Pop Art for Everyone’
The 33rd Ankara International Music Festival will kick off on April 4, presenting more over 300 artists from around the world until the end of the month
The Middle East Now Film Festival, organized in Italian city of Florence, will screen Turkish director Yeşim Ustaoğlu’s films this year in its retrospective section
Comment(s)3/31/2016
Ethiopian-Turkish middle and long distance runner Elvan Abeylegesse has been banned from sports for two years by the Turkish Athletics Federation (TAF) for using a banned substance
Hotel occupancy rates declined below 50 percent in Turkey in February, a decrease of 13.4 percent compared to the same term of 2015
Comment(s)4/1/2016