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Leaders of Turkey, Syria, France and Germany hold Syria talks

Source:al Jazeera Date:28Oct2018

Not much progress in this summit, but Erdogan manages to involve Europeans, Idlib peace holds and agreement reached for all Syrians to return home safely.   Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr,

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Territorial waters dispute heats up between Turkey and Greece

Source:Ahval News Date:26Oct2018

Under the present six-mile delimitation, Greek territorial waters comprise nearly 43.5 percent of the Aegean Sea. For Turkey the percentage is only 7.5 percent. The remaining 49 percent is

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On Turkey’s new development path

Source:Daily SABAH Date:26Oct2018

Erdogan’s chief economics guru Mr Cemil Ertem explains Turkey’s new development paradigm:   The growth paradigms that have been tailored in favor of colonialist-imperialist

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Will Erdogan’s power take hit after losing his biggest political ally?

Source:Middle East Eye Date:25Oct2018

Doesn’t answer the question, but good background on AKP-MHP alliance   Turkish president’s AK Party has lost its ultranationalist ally, the MHP, amid disputes ahead of upcoming local

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Treasury official points finger at Turkey over Venezuelan gold trade

Source:UPI Date:25Oct2018

US doesn’t let up the pressure on Turkey:   The United States should publicize Turkey’s involvement in the Venezuelan gold industry, a Treasury Department official said

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Ultra-nationalists shake Turkey’s Erdogan by calling off alliance

Source:Middle East Eye Date:24Oct2018

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP Party were shaken on Tuesday after the sudden announcement that their ultra-nationalist coalition partners were calling off an electoral

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Turkey’s All-Out Diplomacy

Source:Carnegie Europe Date:24Oct2018

Marc Pierini calls the spade a spade, by reminding Ankara that foreign policy successes will not substitue for sound economic management:   The first is that Turkey’s economy is on a cliff

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Turkey’s President Vows to Detail Khashoggi Death ‘in Full Nakedness’

Source:New York Times Date:22Oct2018

On Sunday, Mr. Erdogan broke his silence, promising that within 48 hours he would remove the lid completely from what his spokesmen are now calling a Saudi cover-up. “We will reveal it,” he said

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Erdoğan vows broadening rights, freedoms

Source:Hurriyet Daily News Date:22Oct2018

We keep our fingers crossed, but this is what he said:  “We will continue to work on expanding rights and freedoms, as well as improving democracy, although some people have made a habit of

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AKP to suffer greatest loss in Turkey’s 2019 local elections, says pollster

Source:Ahval News Date:21Oct2018

Turkey’s leading Justice and Development Party (AKP) will continue to lose voters to ally far-right nationalist Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the main opposition Republican People’s Party

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