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Thursday, June 30, 2016

Death toll rises to 43… #IstanbulAirportAttack

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The death toll in a suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attack at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport has risen to 43, Turkish Interior Minister Efkan Ala announced on June 30
President Erdoğan urged the west to make this a turning point in the fight against terrorism. It is unclear how he wants to solve Turkey’s specific problems
Turkey airport attack aftermath – in pictures

Turkey declares a day of mourning after 41 people were killed in suicide attackson Istanbul’s Atatürk airport, the deadliest and most high-profile in a string of killings and explosions that have shaken the country this year

Istanbul attack: victims and their stories

Among the victims in Turkey were a doting father and a man who had been delighted to get a job at airport just last month

Officials have blamed the Islamic State for the attack in which dozens were killed, and raids and arrests have been carried out across the country.
A total of 19 foreign nationals were killed in the suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suicide bomb attack at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport on June 28, Turkish Interior Minister Efkan Ala has announced
At least 41 people were killed and 239 others were injured when suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants attacked Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport late on June 28

Erdogan in His Labyrinth

Turkey’s descent into violence is of Erdogan’s own creation. The airport attack was in many ways a bloodbath foretold.
The United States is moving toward permanently banning families from accompanying U.S. military and civilian personnel in Turkey, reflecting worsening security conditions there, two U.S. defense sources said on June 29

Obama Offers Condolences to Turkey

President Obama said on Wednesday that he had spoken with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and had reaffirmed the United States’ commitment to fighting the Islamic State.

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Friday, June 10, 2016

New Turkey: Main opposition leader threatened with bullet… MPs’ immunity lifted…

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One person threw bullet at CHP Leader Kılıçdaroğlu at the funeral of the two police officers who lost their lives in the bomb attack launched in Vezneciler.
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu was protested by a group of unknown people at yesterday’s funeral for two police officers who were killed in a car bomb attack in Istanbul’s Vezneciler district on June 7
Erdoğan’s draconian new law demolishes Turkey’s EU ambitions

The president’s targeting of opposition parties has shattered any illusions that Turkey is a western-style democracy

Any chance Turkey could join the EU by 2020, as Brexit campaigners have asserted, went up in smoke on Wednesday after the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, signed a draconian new law that in effect demolishes any notion that his country is a fully functioning, western-style democracy.

The United States has warned about the “chilling effects” of a controversial Turkish bill – recently approved by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – that lifts the parliamentary immunities of scores of lawmakers
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Erdoğan lifts Turkish MPs’ immunity in bid to kick out pro-Kurdish parties

President signs bill that allows prosecution of lawmakers currently under investigation – most of whom are from pro-Kurdish or opposition parties

The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has signed a bill lifting lawmakers’ immunity from prosecution – a constitutional change likely to remove a pro-Kurdish opposition party from parliament.

Turkey’s Nobel laureate writer Orhan Pamuk, speaking to Italian daily La Repubblica, has said he “sometimes misses the good old days when Turkey’s problems were ignored and not discussed.”
The former Bugün daily columnist and the attorney of Hidayet Karaca, Gültekin Avcı who was imprisoned within the scope of Selam Tevhid case has been released.

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