turkey issues

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...

Dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has disappeared after going into the Saudi embassy in Istanbul to complete some paperwork regarding his impending marriage. The Turkish authorities are accusing the Saudis of murdering him and disposing of his body...

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...

In the latest developments on Tuesday, the government fired more than 15,000 employees at the education ministry ... (read on :eek:) link

Local (Czech) news here says something huge is happening in Turkey. Couldn't find anything in English just yet. It's bigger than terrorist attack, there are speculation about coup d'état by part of military. :eye-poppi If you know some fresh news agency in English, please let me know.

Most analysts would agree that the primary cash flow for ISIS runs through Turkey in the form of smuggled oil. In addition, most of their arms and fighters flow through Turkey. While those factors could be explained by an ISIS utilization of the porous 565 Turkish-Syrian border, there have been...

Seemingly because of a video posted of Turkish officials discussing engineering a war with Syria. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/03/28/heres-the-video-that-got-youtube-banned-in-turkey/?tid=hp_mm

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

Never a dull moment in Turkish politics. Turkish PM Erdoğan dubs wiretap incriminating him of corruption a 'vile attack’ Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan denied the authenticity of the latest wiretap recording incriminating him of corruption during a Feb. 25 parliamentary group speech...

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...

Turkish daily Hurriyet is reporting that an evolution education site has been included on a blocking list for users selecting the children's setting on the new government Internet filter. The editor-in -chief of The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey argues that this must...

Turkey, what a tolerant place it is shaping up to be - and they want to join the EU More here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/18/turkey

Can’t say I blame Turkey, though I had hoped this would not happen. One major problem as I see it is embodied in this statement: Lovely. What are those goals and how will their achievement be determined? There may be hope, though, because the next sentence is this one: This sort of...

Wordpress.com, which hosts over a million blogs on all kinds of subjects, has now been blocked throughout Turkey. This is because, it seems, one Wordpress blogger rashly dared to question Islamic Creationism, with the result that a Creationist took him to court and, incredibly, got the backing...

I hope Turkey invades Kurdistan. The Kurds are too friendly with the Israelis. http://www.thestate.com/372/story/76969.html

...says it has right to invade Iraq to attack Kurdish guerillas. Story [/b]