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PROTECTIONISM OF EUROPE, U.S. WON'T SPILL INTO CANADA, TRUDEAU SAYS
HANGZHOU, CHINA--Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there's little risk that protectionist forces seen in the United States and Europe will spill over into Canada...
BUT IN TURKEY, THE PURGES ARE SEEN DIFFERENTLY BY SOCIETY AT LARGE AND ARE ONE MORE POINT TO RALLY AROUND, EVEN FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN CRITICAL OF MR. ERDOGAN.
His in-laws stopped speaking to him after he voted for Mr. Erdogan's party last year, he said, but all that was forgotten after the coup attempt...
EDT -- A TURKISH GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL SAID MONDAY THAT AT LEAST 22 VICTIMS OF A SUICIDE BOMBING AT A KURDISH WEDDING IN GAZIANTEP CITY WERE AGED BELOW 14, ACCORDING TO REUTERS.
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A child aged between 12 and 14 carried out a suicide bombing at a Kurdish wedding over the weekend in southeastern Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday...
IN OCTOBER LAST YEAR, SUICIDE BOMBERS KILLED AT LEAST 95 PEOPLE ATTENDING A RALLY OF PRO-KURDISH AND LABOUR ACTIVISTS OUTSIDE ANKARA'S MAIN TRAIN STATION.
Turkey wedding bomb Suicide bomber who killed at least 51 was between 12 and 14 years old, says President Erdogan...
RELATED: TURKEY FREES MORE THAN 750 SOLDIERS AFTER FAILED COUP
MORE THAN 10,000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED IN THE CRACKDOWN, MOST OF WHOM ARE MILITARY PERSONNEL.
Authorities have continued to search for army personnel suspected of participation in the failed coup...
ALTHOUGH TURKEY HAS A LONGSTANDING APPLICATION TO JOIN THE EU, RELATIONS BETWEEN ANKARA AND BRUSSELS HAVE REACHED THEIR LOWEST LEVEL SINCE MR ERDOGAN CAME TO POWER IN 2002.
The EU had "failed a test" by supposedly being slow to condemn the bid to overthrow the president and failing to send a representative to Ankara since the bloodshed...
IN A CLIMATE OF HEIGHTENED ANTI-WESTERN SENTIMENT, ERDOGAN'S MOVE TO WARM RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA MAY CEMENT TURKEY'S ALIENATION FROM ITS TRADITIONAL ALLIES, ANALYSTS SAY.
Turkey's Erdogan pivots to Putin as tensions rise with the West...
TURKEY'S SHOOTING DOWN OF A RUSSIAN WARPLANE NEAR ITS BORDER WITH SYRIA LAST NOVEMBER LED MOSCOW TO IMPOSE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS, PARTICULARLY ON FOOD IMPORTS AND TOURISM.
Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin will focus their talks on the Syria conflict, trade, energy and the resumption of Russian charter flights to Turkey...
PRIME MINISTER BINALI YILDIRIM ALSO REITERATED ANKARA'S DEMAND THAT THE UNITED STATES EXTRADITE GULEN TO TURKEY.
The event marked the culmination of three weeks of nightly "democracy watches" -- demonstrations and vigils that sprang up nationwide in the aftermath of the July 15 coup attempt...
THE YENIKAPI MEETING AREA BY THE MARMARA SEA WATERFRONT IN ISTANBUL'S EUROPEAN SIDE WAS TRANSFORMED INTO A SEA OF RED AND WHITE, THE COLOURS OF TURKEY'S FLAG.
He spoke from a 60-metre stage framed by two platforms and draped with massive national flags and banners depicting Erdogan and Turkey's founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk...
EMBOLDENED ERDOGAN FACES ISTANBUL ANTI-COUP RALLY SEEN NUMBERING IN MILLIONS
Religious leaders and two of Turkey's three opposition parties attended the rally, sitting next to Erdogan, who arrived on board a helicopter with his wife, Emine...
LEADERS OF TURKEYA??S THREE MAIN POLITICAL PARTIES JOINED THRONGS OF COUNTRYMEN IN ISTANBUL FOR A PRO-DEMOCRACY RALLY.
Turkey's government has blamed the coup on followers of Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999...
MOSCOW -- TURKISH PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN AND HIS FAMILY ARE INVOLVED IN ISIS' ILLEGAL OIL TRADE AND PERSONALLY BENEFIT FROM IT, RUSSIA ALLEGED WEDNESDAY.
Russia Accuses Turkey's Erdogan of Involvement With ISIS Oil Trade...
A REPRESENTATIVE IN THE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE ON WEDNESDAY SAID DR. ERDOL WOULD NOT BE GIVING ANY MORE INTERVIEWS ON THE SUBJECT.
Nearly every world leader, of course, takes precautions in the matter of food safety, and the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, was known to have a food taster...
"I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY CONSENSUS THAT GOLLUM IS EVIL," MR. DROUT SAID IN AN INTERVIEW. "HE IS THE MOST TRAGIC CHARACTER IN 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS.' "
"The context is this: Gollum accidentally, not intentionally, saves the entire world," Mr. Drout said .....
TURKEY SACKS 15,000 EDUCATION WORKERS IN PURGE AFTER FAILED COUP
But large swaths of the population back the actions by the president, whom they idolise for boosting Turkey's economy and representing the country's lower classes...
ERDOGAN, A PIOUS MUSLIM, HAS REPEATEDLY ANNOYED FEMINISTS AND WOMEN'S ACTIVISTS WITH HIS COMMENTS ON SEX AND FAMILY PLANNING, ONCE DESCRIBING BIRTH CONTROL AS TREASON .
Turkish president says childless women are 'deficient, incomplete'...
BECAUSE IN THIS ENVIRONMENT OF CHAOS WE NEED A STRONG GOVERNMENT, SAID BERTAN AYDIN, 28, A STUDENT AND TAXI DRIVER IN ISTANBUL, JUST BEFORE VOTING ON SUNDAY.
In Istanbul's Sariyer district, a secular stronghold, said, Today I'm voting for peace...
CAPT KONSTANTIN MURAKHTIN TOLD RUSSIAN TELEVISION THERE WAS NO WAY THE JET COULD HAVE VIOLATED TURKISH AIRSPACE, AS TURKEY SAID IT DID.
Russia and Turkey have found themselves on opposing sides in Syria's conflict, with Russia supporting President Bashar al-Assad, while Turkey is a staunch critic...
ZAMAN NEWSPAPER DEFIANT LAST EDITION AS TURKEY POLICE RAID
Turkish police raided Zaman's offices hours after a court ruling placed it under state control, but managers were still able to get the edition to print...
SPEAKING SATURDAY MORNING, MR. ERDOGAN SAID, REFERRING TO MR. GULEN I HAVE A MESSAGE FOR PENNSYLVANIA YOU HAVE ENGAGED IN ENOUGH TREASON AGAINST THIS NATION.
In a news conference on Saturday, Turkey's top military officer, Gen...
EMBOLDENED BY HIS PARTY'S ELECTORAL VICTORY IN NOVEMBER, TURKISH PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN HAS SET OUT ON A CRUSADE AGAINST ACADEMICS.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses after he received an honorary doctorate from Bayburt University in Bayburt, Turkey, Friday, Nov. 27, 2015...
TURKEY HAS SEEN A SHARP RISE IN THESE SCHOOLS UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF MR. ERDOGAN, HIMSELF AN IMAM HATIP GRADUATE.
In August, the Yesil Bahar Secondary School in Kadikoy, one of Istanbul's more liberal districts, was among hundreds of secular schools converted to religious ones...
MR. GULEN WAS ONCE AN ALLY OF MR. ERDOGAN'S BUT IS NOW A BITTER ENEMY.
And Islamic State militants, who have used Turkey to transit fighters and weapons to Syria and Iraq, have carried out deadly attacks on Turkish soil...
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28 OF 39 PHOTOS FAILED MILITARY COUP IN TURKEY
SOLDIERS SECURE AN AREA AS SUPPORTERS OF TURKISH PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN PROTEST IN ISTANBUL'S TAKSIM SQUARE.
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30 of 39 Photos Failed military coup in Turkey
Supporters of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan protest in front of soldiers in Istanbul's Taksim Square...
TURKEY COUP WHO IS FETHULLAH GULEN AND WHY IS RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN OBSESSED WITH HIM?
In a 2009 cable, made available through WikiLeaks, former US Ambassador James Jeffrey reports that in Turkey, the Gulen political agenda is seen as possibly insidious ...
BUT MR. ERDOGAN HAS USED HIS NEW LEVERAGE TO PURSUE HIS CRITICS IN EUROPE, EXTENDING A CRACKDOWN AT HOME THAT HAS TARGETED MORE THAN 1,800 OPPONENTS, INCLUDING JOURNALISTS, FOR INSULTING HIM.
Prosecutors in Mainz are still investigating whether to formally open proceedings against Mr. Bohmermann on grounds that he offended a foreign leader with his satirical poem...
PRIME MINISTER AHMET DAVUTOGLU ANNOUNCED THURSDAY HE WOULD STEP DOWN, A MOVE THAT MIGHT ALLOW ERDOGAN TO PUSH TURKEY TOWARD A PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM.
The journalists behind the Panama Papers exposA C of offshore tax havens are slated to release a massive, searchable archive of their leaked documents next week...
ANALYSTS SAY MR. ERDOGAN, GIVEN HIS POWER AND HIS VAST POPULARITY AMONG TURKEY'S PIOUS MASSES, IS UNLIKELY TO FACE MUCH POLITICAL COST IN REMOVING MR. DAVUTOGLU.
Mr. Davutoglu, a bookish and professorial counterweight to the brash and abrasive Mr. Erdogan, agreed in 2014 to be prime minister when Mr. Erdogan was elected president...
TURKISH PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, LEFT, AND PRIME MINISTER AHMET DAVUTOGLU DURING THEIR MEETING IN ANKARA THIS WEEK, WHICH PRECEDED THE PRIME MINISTER'S RESIGNATION.
How Turkey's Erdogan tightened his grip on power by sidelining his prime minister...