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Turkey police nab 52 Daesh suspects in NW province
Feb 14, 2019 09:59Security forces in Turkey have arrested 52 suspected members of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group in a counter-terrorism operation in the northwestern province of Bursa, police sources say.
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Turkey arrests 729 over ties to US-based Cleric Gulen
Feb 13, 2019 03:18Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday ordered the arrest of 1,112 people, and arrested over 700 of them, over their suspected links to the network of US-based Muslim Cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of orchestrating an attempted coup in 2016.
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Iran, Turkey agree to increase border trade traffic
Feb 12, 2019 12:16Iranian and Turkish customs officials reached an agreement to ease border traffic of trucks between the two countries, agreeing to let in over 450 trucks on both sides of the border on a daily basis.
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Russia, Turkey ‘agree on need for decisive measures’ in Syria's Idlib
Feb 12, 2019 05:45Russia and Turkey say they agree on the need to take “decisive measures” to stabilize the situation in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, ahead of a summit between the presidents of the three guarantor states of a negotiated Syrian ceasefire, namely Iran, Russia, and Turkey.
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China dismisses Turkey’s ‘unacceptable’ criticism on Uighur Muslims
Feb 11, 2019 10:09China has dismissed as “unacceptable” Turkey’s allegations over Beijing’s treatment of its Muslim ethnic Uighur community, urging Ankara to retract the “vile” remarks.
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Turkey slams 'concentration camps' for Muslims in China
Feb 10, 2019 05:50Turkey has condemned China's alleged mistreatment of more than one million Uighur Muslims in "internment camps," urging Beijing to respect fundamental rights of the Turkic-speaking minority.
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MBS told aide he would use ‘bullet’ on Khashoggi, intel gathered by US shows
Feb 08, 2019 16:12American intelligence agencies have revived communication — originally intercepted in 2017 — between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and a close aide in which Mohammed says he would use “a bullet” on Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi if he did not return to Saudi Arabia or stop criticizing the prince.
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Khashoggi 'victim of brutal killing by Saudi officials': UN probe
Feb 08, 2019 03:45A UN-led probe into Jamal Khashoggi's murder has concluded that the Saudi dissident was the victim of a “brutal and premeditated killing” planned and perpetrated by the kingdom's officials.
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At least two killed after building collapses in Turkey's Istanbul
Feb 07, 2019 03:10At least two people were killed and six wounded after an eight-story residential building collapsed in Istanbul on Wednesday, the governor's office said.
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Turkey raps French plan to mark Armenian ‘genocide’ day
Feb 06, 2019 08:57Turkey has condemned a decision by French President Emmanuel Macron to declare a national day for the commemoration of the “genocide” of Armenians by Turkish troops in World War I.