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A man was arrested on Nov. 22 for allegedly sending a bomb-laden package to his father’s office last week, Doğan News Agency has reported
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Efforts are underway to improve Turkey’s cybersecurity and precautions will be implemented in the public sector, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırm said.
An Ankara court issued an arrest warrant on Nov. 22 for PYD co-head Salih Muslim as well as senior outlawed PKK militants over a bomb attack targeting military shuttles in Ankara in February
Turkey would never take steps to undermine NATO’s collective defense and unity as spelled out in Article 5, the alliance’s chief has said
Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has announced that his ruling party will withdraw a controversial motion on the sexual abuse of minors
Turkey-backed Syrian rebels have besieged the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)-held northern Syrian town of al-Bab from the west and have set their eyes on Manbij for their next offensive, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Nov. 22
Turkey’s opposition parties have asked the government to explain the main motives of a controversial motion on the sexual abuse of minors, questioning who would benefit from the law
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) head Devlet Bahçeli has said his party has completed its study of a constitutional change draft submitted by the ruling Justice and Development (AKP) and found it “generally reasonable.”
The Kurdish issue-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has returned to parliamentary work after boycotting it since Nov. 6, HDP spokesperson Ayhan Bilgen has said, adding that the intra-party discussion over the return is continuing
More than 15,500 public personnel in Turkey have been dismissed from their posts with two new state of emergency decrees, the Official Gazette reported early on Nov. 22
Turkish Cyprus has blamed Greeks and Greek Cypriots for the failure of long-anticipated peace talks to end one of the world’s longest running conflicts.
A court in Ankara began hearing on Nov. 22 a case into 73 suspects in the most extensive case yet against the Gülenist organization that is widely believed to have been behind the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, with the leader of the group, Fethullah Gülen, being one of the prime suspects
CRIME
ANKARA
Images of six on-the-run military officers, wanted over claims of being linked to the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, were released to the press on Nov. 21
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RIGHTS
ISTANBUL
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) unanimously ruled on Nov. 22 that the seizure and confiscation of all copies of a magazine published by the Ankara-based LGBT rights group Kaos GL, for more than five years, violated freedom of expression
ANKARA/ISTANBUL
The government canceled a meeting with top economy officials on Nov. 22, where they had planned to discuss weakness in the Turkish Lira, sources at Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım’s office told Reuters, citing a change in his program
BAGHDAD
The U.S.-led coalition said it carried out an air strike on Nov. 22 that destroyed a bridge over the Tigris River in central Mosul to stop jihadists from rotating their forces in the Iraqi city, while more than 68,000 people have fled their homes since the start of an operation to liberate the city, the U.N. said.
SİİRT - Anadolu Agency
The body of one missing miner was recovered on Nov. 22, five days after a mine collapse in the Sirvan district of the southeastern province of Siirt, bringing the number of bodies found at the Madenköy copper mine to seven
A huge fire broke out at a plastic factory in the Bayrampaşa district of Istanbul on Nov. 22.
The arrested editor-in-chief of daily Cumhuriyet, Murat Sabuncu, and Cumhuriyet columnist Kadri Gürsel have demanded the urgent preparation of any indictment against them as well as trial without arrest
UNITED NATIONS – Reuters
The number of besieged Syrians has more than doubled over the past year to nearly one million, the United Nations aid chief told the Security Council on Nov. 21, as the United States named 13 Syrian military commanders it accused of killing civilians.
The consumer confidence index declined to 68.9 in November, a 6.9 percent decrease compared to the previous month, data from the Turkish Statistics Institute showed on Nov. 22.
The sons and brothers of victims of the July 15 coup attempt will not be forced to conduct military service unless they desire to do so, according to a new decree law issued on Nov. 22 as part of the state of emergency, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.
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What has been happening in Ankara since Friday, Nov. 18 is unprecedented in the 14-year rule of the Justice and Development Party (AK Parti)
Comment(s)11/23/2016
The question is not mine. It is not even a question. It is an open curse to womanhood. These are the gentler version of the words tweeted by one of the chief advisers of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in response to a French journalist who accused the president of being a “dictator.”
The European Parliament will vote on a resolution on Thursday that suggests temporarily freezing Turkey’s accession talks in the light of an increase in the violations of human rights and the deterioration in the use of fundamental freedoms in the aftermath of July 15 coup attempt.
The latest round of Cyprus talks collapsed once again due to what Turkish Cypriots claimed were the “maximalist demands” of the Greek Cypriot side, and Greek Cypriots lamented the uncompromising position of the Turks. Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akıncı has most probably earned the title of being “the saddest Cypriot.”
After this column argued last week that “Turkey’s identity crisis is too persistent to disappear, even after decades of soul-searching, Turkey is too Islamic to belong to Europe, too secular and non-Arab to belong to an Islamic club, too Sunni to find a seat in any Shiite Muslim club, too Turkish to find allies in a Eurasian pact, and too alien to find a meaningful African alliance,” a most dear friend wrote from London:
If you have been following Turkish news, the odd question in my headline might have occurred to you.
Last week, when the U.S. dollar rose to a record high, the Turkish Central Bank’s foreign currency and gold reserves eroded exactly $5.5 billion. They fell back to $117.5 billion, which is the highest drop since 2009 in the foreign exchange reserves, which are released on a weekly basis.
Slowing growth rates and the rapid increase in foreign exchange rates have demoralized Turkey’s business world. The current state of affairs in the economy not only troubles the banking sector, but also the entire business world, primarily the indebted real sector.
Blessed with a rich agriculture and other natural protection, Arslantepe in present-day eastern Turkey helped nurture civilization in Anatolia more than 5,000 years ago
Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull’ is on stage for the first time ever in Istanbul, at the Harbiye Muhsin Ertuğrul Theater
A burial chamber has been unearthed in the Kayı village of the Daday district in the northern Turkish province of Kastamonu
A bustard, the world’s heaviest bird species that can fly, which is rarely seen in Turkey, has been found wounded in the eastern province of Tunceli. The bird had a broken leg and was taken into treatment at the Elazığ Veterinary Faculty.
Turkey’s Beşiktaş will put its unbeaten record in the Champions League on the line on Nov. 23 when it hosts Portugal’s Benfica at its Vodafone Arena Stadium
Mozart’s ‘Wendling Flute Concerto,’ which has been kept hidden for 239 years, will be performed for the first time at the seventh International Şefika Kutluer Festival
A Roman-era cistern has been unearthed in the ancient city of Dara in Turkey’s southeast. The cistern was used to meet the water needs of guests from Mardin, who were prohibited from entering the city
The Beethoven Prize 2016, one of the world’s most prestigious awards given by the Bonn-based Beethoven Academy, is to be presented to Turkey’s internationally acclaimed pianist Fazıl Say next month
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The first ballet work in the new season of the İzmir State Opera and Ballet, William Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo & Juliet,’ is on stage with a new interpretation at İzmir’s Elhamra theater
There will be a modest increase in GDP growth in 2016 for countries in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region, said World Bank in a report on Nov. 22