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Turkey, Saudi partnership not genuine: Ex-NATO official
Edit Press TV 15 Apr 2016
... Turkish opposition daily Cumhuriyet published videos in June 2015 purportedly implicating the Turkish Intelligence Service, also known as the MIT, in ensuring safe passage into Syria for Daesh ... A still image grabbed from a video published on the website of the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet on May 29, 2015 shows mortar shells in boxes intercepted on a truck purportedly destined for Syria ... ....
Russia urges closure of Turkey-Syria border
Edit Press TV 15 Apr 2016
Russia has called for the closure of the Turkish-Syrian border to prevent the flow of Takfiri militants and weapons supplies into the Arab country ... Turkish opposition daily Cumhuriyet published videos in June 2015 purportedly implicating the Turkish Intelligence Service, also known as the MIT, in ensuring safe passage into Syria for Daesh ... At least 1,491 people have been killed in the chemical attacks ... ....
Closures and court cases leave Turkish media increasingly muzzled
Edit Dawn 14 Apr 2016
ISTANBUL. Metin Yilmaz, editor-in-chief of the Sozcu newspaper, one of the most outspoken critics of the government in the Turkish media, says he is weighing his words more carefully these days ... ‘Compromise’ ... The trial of the editor-in-chief and Ankara bureau chief of Cumhuriyet newspaper — who face life in prison on espionage charges — meanwhile prompted foreign diplomats to turn up at the courthouse two weeks ago in their support ... ....
Turkey's foreign policy takes shape in a time of terror
Edit The National 14 Apr 2016
In the arid hills of south-eastern Turkey, an increasingly bloody war is destabilising one of the region's most pivotal countries ... suppression of the Kurds ... When the Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet ran an investigative story about alleged supply lines with militants in Syria that were overseen by the National Intelligence Organisation, which is close to Erdogan, its editors were jailed on charges of treason ... Something will have to break ... ....
Turkish Journalists Say Free Press Under Fire And EU's Not Helping
Edit Radio Free Europe 11 Apr 2016
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Turkish TV news anchor Banu Guven said watching her president get grilled on press freedom by CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour hours earlier evoked a sense of schadenfreude ... Dundar, the editor in chief of the opposition Cumhuriyet daily, and Gul, its Ankara bureau chief, published a story in May that claimed that Turkish intelligence was disguising arms as humanitarian aid in a truck en route to Syria ... WATCH ... . ....
Reading the Drastic Shift in Turkish Foreign Policy After Arab Spring
Edit Huffington Post 11 Apr 2016
A research team in Columbia University's Program on Peace-building and Rights revealed even a report 'drawing on a variety of international sources -- The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, BBC, Sky News, as well as Turkish sources, CNN Turk, Hurriyet Daily News, Taraf, Cumhuriyet, and Radikal among others which ......
Turkey's PM and President Increasingly at Odds
Edit Voa News 07 Apr 2016
Dorian Jones. ISTANBUL— ... The Turkish military crackdown on the Kurdish rebel group the PKK has become the focal point of growing differences between the president and prime minister ... Iron grip on ruling party ... Political columnist Semih Idiz of Turkey’s Cumhuriyet newspaper and Al Monitor website says, despite Davutoglu's weak party position and isolation in government, it is still not easy for Erdogan to remove him ... 2, 2015 ... ....
Turkey wants to strip ‘terror backers’ of citizenship
Edit The Times of India 06 Apr 2016
ANKARA. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday proposed stripping Turkish citizenship from supporters of Kurdish rebels waging a deadly insurgency against the security forces ... Two journalists from the leading opposition daily Cumhuriyet are currently facing life in prison after being charged with revealing state secrets over a story that accused the government of seeking to illicitly deliver arms to rebels in Syria. ....
Erdogan says offended by Obama's remarks on press freedom
Edit Press TV 03 Apr 2016
Activists say Erdogan has filed hundreds of court cases against critics, including many journalists, for insulting him since he took office in August 2014.A demonstrator with his mouth covered stands outside the Istanbul courthouse on April 1, 2016, where Turkish opposition Cumhuriyet daily's editor-in-chief Can Dundar and Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gul attend their trial....
Turkish president says Obama spoke behind his back on press freedom
Edit The Oslo Times 03 Apr 2016
April 3, Ankara. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused U.S. counterpart Barack Obama of going behind his back for criticizing Turkey's press freedom record and linked it to efforts to "divide" Turkey, local media reported ... Can Dundar and Erdem Gul of Cumhuriyet face life in prison, Reuters news agency reported....
Obama Spoke 'Behind My Back' On Press Freedom
Edit Huffington Post 03 Apr 2016
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused U.S. counterpart Barack Obama of going behind his back for criticizing Turkey's press freedom record and linked it to efforts to "divide" Turkey, media reports said on Sunday ... Can Dundar and Erdem Gul of Cumhuriyet face life in prison. "I was saddened to hear that statement made behind my back ... He returned to Turkey after a five-day trip to Washington on Sunday ... 'MASTERMIND' ... U.S ... ....
Turkish reporters defiant over press freedom case
Edit Dawn 02 Apr 2016
Can Dundar, editor-in-chief of leading opposition daily Cumhuriyet, and Erdem Gul, his Ankara bureau chief, are also charged with revealing state secrets over a story accusing the government of seeking to illicitly deliver arms to rebels in Syria ... Cumhuriyet's report on a shipment of arms being intercepted at the Syrian border in January 2014 ......
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