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Turkey’s constitutional court ruled against closing the governing AK Party for Islamist activities but decided to impose partial financial penalties on the party. The decision triggered satisfaction to the political world and Brussels. After the rule, stocks in trade markets presented a rising [...]

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Blind attack in the Gungoren district…explosive mixture in the foundations of the Turkish state, just hours before the confrontation between country’s old-guard secular elite and the political Islam begins. With political tensions rising by the day in Turkey and Istanbul waking to the deadliest attack [...]

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After months of delays, Turkish National Assembly approved a long – awaited revision of the penal’s code article 301, which limited the freedom of expression under the pretext of “insulting the turkishness”. The article has been used to prosecute hundreds of writers, including Nobel Literature Laureate Orhan Pamuk, for “insulting [...]

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Emotions run high today in Cyprus as Ledra street, a powerful symbol of the island’s division, opens. In a goodwill and symbolic gesture Greek and Turkish Cypriots pulled down this morning barricades that have separated them for nearly half a century, reopening Ledra Street in [...]

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L’affaire fait la une de tous les journaux turcs…. non, je ne parle pas des incursions dans les montagnes du nord de l’Irak pour déloger les membres du PKK (parti des travailleurs du Kurdistan) mais de l’arrestation lundi du leader du parti pro- kurde de [...]

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