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Turkey's Economic Miracle Under Fire
İstanbul :: Turkey | 13 hours ago
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Tweet Turkey's political stability under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and its integration into globalized economy helped turn it into a regional power. But the global connections now seem to challenge Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian style.
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Fraudulent democracy and urban stasis in Turkey
İstanbul :: Turkey | 1 day ago
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Graffiti in Istanbul Democracy is a fraudulent contract, Jose Saramago once remarked; from the moment you cast your vote, you have abandoned power until the next election. This may be the way democratic elections work, but it is not how democracies
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TURKEY, ISTANBUL: Protesters campaign going after the government failed to meet their demands
Istanbul: Turkish dissenters challenged government calls to leave an Istanbul stop on Saturday after more than two weeks of occupation, in spite of a guarantee by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to hold a vote on arrangements to redevelop the
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Erdogan calling for an end to demonstrations after his pledges
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated Friday the protesters to vacate the park in Taksim Square in Istanbul on Thursday evening, after his pledge to suspend the project to
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Dozens of Turkish protesters released
Ankara :: Turkey | 5 days ago
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to put the brakes on plans for a mall on a park in Istanbul for now, a compromise of sorts to end the two weeks of persistent unrest across the nation. The government will keep construction plans on
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Turkey protests: CBC reporter Sasa Petricic arrested
Ottawa :: Canada | 7 days ago
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Photo Save to mystar CBC veteran foreign correspondent Sasa Petricic sent out around 10:30 a.m...Petricic a few hours earlier had reported via Twitter that he was in Taksim Square in Istanbul, the morning after police moved in on protesters with tear
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Why is Prime Minister Erdogan So Aggressive?
Sofia :: Bulgaria | 7 days ago
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Send to Kindle Hurriyet newspaper The ruling Justice and development Party (AKP) of Turkey is perhaps the one and only in the world over the past decade to succeed in giving an aggrieved image, although it has been in power and is thus a potential
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This genie should not be tricked back into its bottle
London :: United Kingdom | 7 days ago
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A new language of freedom and democracy has been emerging in Turkey in the past decade. This atmosphere was created by removing the military's influence from civilian life and politics and, recently, by opening roads towards peace between Turkey and
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Violence flares as Turkey PM cracks down on protests
Ankara :: Turkey | 8 days ago
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Riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to clear protesters from an Istanbul square on Tuesday as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned he would show "no more tolerance" for the unrelenting mass demonstrations against his Islamic-
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Turkish PM issues protest threat
İstanbul :: Turkey | 8 days ago
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that he will not show "any more tolerance" for protests. He vowed to end the demonstrations after police cleared Istanbul's Taksim Square, the focal point of unrest for nearly two weeks. Police used water cannon, tear
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