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Turkey has received the first parts of a Russian S-400 missile defence system despite opposition from the US. The shipment arrived in an airbase in the capital Ankara on Friday, the Turkish defence ministry says. The move will anger the US, which has warned that Turkey cannot have both the...

Turkey's electoral body has ordered that Istanbul's local elections be re-held after a shock opposition victory in March. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party questioned the slim win by the opposition CHP, claiming there were "irregularities and corruption"...

Express:'Pro-Erdogan thugs' batter women as they savagely attack Kurdish protestors in Washington "VIOLENT clashes erupted outside the Turkish ambassadors’ residence in Washington DC after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security physically attacked Kurdish protestors. "Nine people were hurt...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/10/turkeys-president-erdogan-approves-constitutional-boost-to-his-powers Wasting no time while Turkey is on lockdown under a state of emergency Erdogan may finally get what he wanted for so long: to openly rule Turkey effectively as an autocrat with a...

President Erdogan has had a business assoicate of Trump's arrested to influence Trump's dealings with Turkey. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-turkey-dogan-blackmail-erdogan-extradite-gulen-msnbc-rachel-maddow-a7471291.html Please, CIA et al, hurry up and finish...

Well this could get fun. http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/19/europe/turkey-russian-ambassador-shot/index.html?adkey=bn How will President Putin respond? Will he give up control of the US to Donald Trump for a week?

The Turkish PM has directed the courts to issue an order to block the use of Twitter here in Turkey. This was done because of web links spread throughout the country via Twitter. The links are to sites which contain wire tapped phone conversations between Erdoğan, his family, and government...

The future of the UK, ladies and gentlemen: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/21/turkey-twitter-users-flout-ban-erdogan

Turkey in modern history is a state that is strictly secular. Istanbul is a rather cosmopolitan city complete with such infidel things like financial districts and a stock exchange (from what I understand in the Muslim world these things tend to correlate with secularization). Yet the...

There's been some tensions in Turkey for quite a while now, with Prime Minister Erdogan and the ruling party, the Islamic AKP, becoming ever more unpopular with wide segments of Turks. Last night there was a demonstration against one of the last parks in downtown Istanbul being turned into a...