Turkey between the Middle East and Europe...

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The AKP's snub follows harsh anti-Israeli rhetoric by party leadership, and an incendiary television series on Turkey's publicly funded TV network that depicts Israelis as cold-blooded and evil.

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Since their electoral landslide victory in November 2002, Islamists within Turkey's Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) have camouflaged themselves as "democratic Islamic conservatives."[1] The AKP claims to be the Muslim equivalent of the Christian-D …

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ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish court ruled on Monday that President Abdullah Gul should stand trial for a fraud case a decade ago, a move that could fuel further animosity between the Islamist-rooted government and the secularist establishment.

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After attending three summits - of the Group of 20 richest countries, NATO and the European Union - President Obama ended his European trip in Turkey.

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"A trap awaits Turkey analysts seeking to explain rising anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism in Turkey. There is a tendency to look into the historic roots of both phenomena and to explain both as hardwired in the Turkish polity, not as products of current politics.

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ANKARA - On Sunday the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, is on the verge of losing around 8 percent of its support when compared with results of the 2007 general elections. ANALYSIS - Strong opposition shakes AKP's dominance

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"When Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan very publicly condemned President Shimon Peres at the World Economic Forum in Davos and then stalked off the stage in a huff, the incident was blamed on his short temper, and officials in Ankara and in Jerusalem rushed to dispel p …

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Certain limitations on alcohol put forward in a draft regulation prepared by a government institution is being perceived as a blanket alcohol ban in Turkey, according to several media reports. Turkey's Islamist-rooted AKP to propose new bans on alcohol

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A Turkish newspaper said on Wednesday a court had blocked access to its website at the request of an Islamist writer, the latest Internet censorship to raise concerns about freedom of speech in EU-applicant Turkey.

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Almost every critical newspaper put Erdogan's call and the reactions on their headlines. "We have never seen something like this," a leftist independent Cumhuriyet daily's headline read on Saturday.

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Facebook has become synonymous with social networking. For most people it's a way to keep in touch with friends and check out their holiday snaps. But in Turkey, Facebook is the centre of a fiery human rights debate.

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ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) -- Turkey's Constitutional Court has rejected a proposed ban on the country's Islamic-rooted ruling party -- the Justice and Development Party, or AKP -- for alleged anti-secularist activities, the leader of the court said Wednesday.

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On Sunday night, two consecutive explosions in the Güngören district of Istanbul–a poor, crowded, conservative slum near the Atatürk International Airport–killed 17 people, among them five children. The death toll may yet rise.

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"Turkey is facing a domestic political crisis that not only threatens the country's internal stability but could weaken its ties to the West and exacerbate instability in the Middle East.

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"I cover my head, not my brain," the Turkish First Lady tells The Times, her head swathed in white silk. But Harunisa Gül does not believe headscarves should be forced on women, and it would be hard to find anyone in Istanbul who disagreed with her - at least in public.

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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Prosecutors on Monday indicted 86 secular Turks, including ex-army officers, on terrorism charges for their alleged involvement in plots to topple the Islamic-rooted government, a chief prosecutor said.

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Turkey's Constitutional Court chairman Hasim Kilic said Wednesday it was not possible to give out a definite date for a decision in the Justice and Development Party (AKP) closure case.

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ISTANBUL, Turkey - A high-stakes political drama has gripped Turkey. And now the nation anxiously awaits the next development in an unfolding story that involves coup plots, arrests of journalists and generals, and charges of Islamist subversion.

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For Turkey's more radical secularists, there is a war going on between the defenders of Kemalism – the mix of authoritarian secularism, statism and nationalism that is still Turkey's official ideology – and a government intent on imposing Islam on the country.

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The prospect of successful careers in medicine should have brightened the mood of the four newly qualified doctors. Yet the glow of achievement was overshadowed by foreboding about the future.

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(CNN) -- Political tensions rose Tuesday across Turkey as police seized two retired generals, a prominent journalist and others accused of plotting to overthrow the government and prosecutors undertook a court case to ban the Islamic-rooted ruling party. Turkish Prime Minister T …

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Ret. Gen. Sener Eruygur and Ret. Gen. Hursit Tolon, as well as the Chairman of the Chamber of Trade in Ankara Sinan Aygun and anti-AKP Cumhuriyet daily's Ankara bureau chief Mustafa Balbay are among those who were taken into custody.

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Turkey's constitutional court is hearing evidence from the country's chief prosecutor in a case which calls for the ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) to be outlawed for violating the principle of secularism enshrined in the constitution.

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Mr. Erdogan's impatience with the rule of law and his dictatorial tendencies make him appear less an aggrieved democrat, and more a protégé of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin – a man whom Western officials now acknowledge to be a dictator.

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