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World
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5/28/2023 10:59:56 AM
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dominated Turkish politics since his Islamic-rooted AKP party swept to power two decades ago. Here are the main milestones from his years of transformative rule.
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World
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Region
5/27/2023 10:29:37 AM
Turkish voters will head to the polls on May 28, 2023, for the second time in the month – this time facing a choice between a winnowed field of two candidates, each of whom is vowing to take the country in a very different direction.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
4/29/2023 9:19:00 AM
All eyes are on how the outcome of next month’s crucial elections in Turkey could reshape the regional order.
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Sports
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Africa
5/21/2022 12:13:21 AM
Moroccan side RS Berkane won their second African Confederation Cup title in three years after beating South Africa's Orlando Pirates 5-4 on penalties following a 1-1 draw at Nigeria's Godswill Akpabio Stadium on Friday.
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World
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Region
6/21/2021 5:27:31 PM
The prosecutor is demanding that the party be dissolved, that it be deprived of treasury funding and that about 450 party members be barred from holding political office for five years
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World
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Region
6/15/2021 11:04:47 AM
Seeing no logic in the state's approach, many blame their plight on Erdogan's conservative politics, opening a new culture war in the sharply polarised, mostly Muslim but officially secular country
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World
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International
5/23/2021 5:45:21 PM
Sedat Peker, an underworld mobster exiled abroad, has accused members of the government and the ruling AKP party of corruption and various crimes in a series of YouTube posts over the past three weeks.
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World
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Region
4/21/2021 12:40:01 PM
The stories accused trade minister Ruhsar Pekcan of awarding two companies run by her husband contracts for the purchase of disinfectant products worth nine million liras (more than one million dollars)
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World
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Region
4/5/2021 3:17:20 PM
He is being held on terrorism-related charges that he denies. The European Court of Human Rights has said his imprisonment is cover for limiting pluralism and debate, but Turkey has ignored its calls for his immediate release
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World
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Region
3/1/2021 5:03:10 PM
Gezen and Akpinar used their show to speak out against a crackdown Erdogan unleashed after surviving a coup attempt in 2016
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World
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Region
2/25/2021 4:56:57 PM
Nine of the HDP deputies were accused in connection with protests triggered by an Islamic State militant attack on the Syrian town of Kobani in 2014. The subsequent protests in Turkey led to the deaths of 37 people
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World
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Region
2/19/2021 8:34:52 PM
Many of the party's prominent members have been investigated, tried and jailed over terrorism charges. Selahattin Demirtas, the party's ex-leader, has been in jail for more than
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World
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Region
2/1/2021 9:36:28 PM
Rights groups and Turkey's Western allies have criticised what they see as increasing authoritarianism and threats to the rule of law under Erdogan
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World
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Region
12/27/2020 11:39:18 AM
Fines of up to 200,000 lira ($26,500.60) can be levied, compared to a previous maximum of 700 lira, in a move the seven organisations said will 'in practice lead to the closure of many associations'
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World
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Region
11/24/2020 4:20:42 PM
The MHP has attracted criticism from opposition parties in recent days while several newspaper reports have suggested there were problems in their alliance with Erdogan's AK Party (AKP)
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Books
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1/26/2020 4:45:31 PM
The author says that even though the changes in the last two decades to the society and the state have been deep, the existence of Islamization is conditioned on the presence of Erdogan himself
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World
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Region
7/26/2019 2:04:18 PM
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Opinion
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7/11/2019 12:12:19 PM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s involvement in the Libyan crisis is part of an increasingly desperate pattern of Turkish interventions in the region
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World
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Region
7/3/2019 9:31:38 PM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been accused of deceiving the Turkish people over reports of the delivery of a Russian missile system, writes Sayed Abdel-Meguid in Ankara
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Analysis
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7/3/2019 8:18:10 PM
Following the party’s defeat in the rerun of the elections for mayor of Istanbul last week, commentators are asking whether this could be the end of Turkey’s ruling AKP
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