Clue for AKP authoritarianism: “Intelligence + religious affairs” set to take huge share of Turkey’s 2016 budget

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Intelligence, religious affairs set to take huge share of Turkey’s 2016 budget

Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency (MİT) and Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) will see dramatic rises in their shares of the upcoming year’s budget

Turkish Nobel laureate blames Erdoğan for bringing country to brink

Turkey’s Nobel laureate has warned the country could collapse into sectarian conflict and blamed President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for the climate of insecurity brutally illustrated by Oct. 10 deadly attacks in Ankara

Ankara union members bid farewell to member lost in bombing

One of the 97 victims of the twin Ankara bombing, Ali Kitapçı, the secretary of the United Trade Union of Transport Employees’ (BTS) Ankara branch, has been laid to rest in the Turkish capital, following a ceremony held at the city’s main train station where the bombs were detonated.

ELİF AKGÜL IN DİYARBAKIR: DİHA News Director: The More Oppression Increases the More Solidarity Hardens

Bianet :: English

Bianet talked to journalists Çelik and Taşan from Diyarbakır bureau of Dicle News Agency which has been blocked 24 times about oppressions.

Finnish president hopes not to get lost in Erdoğan’s palace

Sauli Niinistö, the Finnish President who will launch his Turkey visit Oct. 13, jokingly fears he will find it difficult to find his way in the Turkish presidential palace, which has been a source of debate for its size and cost

Prominent Turkish actor dies of liver cancer

Renowned Turkish actor Levent Kırca died of liver cancer early on Oct. 12 in Istanbul. He was 67

Forensic report says 102 autopsies conducted after Ankara bombing

A total of 102 autopsies have been conducted after the twin bombing in Ankara on Oct. 10, according to forensics reports, even though the state’s latest death toll remains at 97 victims

Why the Ankara bombing is a Turkish classic

The headline might come as a surprise since the Ankara bombing was the deadliest terror attack in Turkey’s history

Turkish officials claim ‘concrete evidence’ of Isis link to bombings

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Kareem Shaheen in Ankara

Government sources tell the Guardian they have found link with Suruç attack in July blamed on Islamic State, and have been tracking group for months

Turkish officials said they had firm evidence linking Islamic State to the twin suicide bombings that killed scores of people at a peace rally in the country’s deadliest ever terrorist attack.

Suspicion mounts in Turkey as peace activists bury their dead

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Kareem Shaheen in Ankara

Grief turns to anger as Kurdish and Turkish activists say Saturday’s bombing in Ankara was a result of careless, even deliberate government policy

The Guardian view on the impact of the bomb attacks on Turkey’s elections | Editorial

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk

Conspiracy theories about the bomb attacks are a symptom of increasing lack of trust in the Turkish governmentAs Turks mourn the deaths of the more than 100 people killed in Saturday’s bomb attacks, there is just as much anger as grief across the nation. The announcement by the Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, that Islamic State was behind the bombings will assuage neither emotion. The domestic turmoil created by Turkey’s war with Kurdish armed groups, and the spillover of violence and chaos from the wider Middle East, mean that Turks are unlikely to be satisfied by simple assertions of this kind.

Reactions to Ankara Attack and Nobel Prize Reflect a Polarized Turkey

NYT > Turkey by By TIM ARANGO

Nothing seems to be enough to bring Turks together these days, even in the face of tragedy or triumph, and analysts point to divided leadership.

Thousands gather across Turkey for funerals of Ankara bomb victims – video

world news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Guardian Staff

Thousands of mourners gather across Turkey for the funerals of victims of Saturday’s bombings. In Tunceli, around 500 miles east of Ankara, thousands chant ‘Thief! Murderer! Erdogan!’ as two coffins are carried through the crowds. In Suruc, near the Syrian border, three more victims were buried and in Ankara a large crowd of people gathered as another coffin was taken away to the burial site following a service

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