U.S. Ambassador to Ankara John Bass has said Turkey should “avoid making the mistakes that the U.S. made” in its fight against terrorism, warning that an overly broad definition of terrorism could erode fundamental freedoms
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Turkey came back from the brink of a huge disaster on July 15, 2016, the day of the failed coup attempt, Doğan Group Honorary Chairman Aydın Doğan said on July 7.
A pregnant Syrian woman was raped and killed with her 10-month-old baby in the northwestern province of Sakarya on July 6
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Turkey has blamed the Greek Cypriot side for the collapse of the Cyprus reunification talks, with Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım saying Ankara “did its best” with regard to diplomatic efforts.
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’s ‘Justice March’ from Ankara to Istanbul is set to end with a mass meeting in Istanbul’s Maltepe district on July 9
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told leaders of the Group of 20 economic powers on July 7 that millions of people are hoping they can help solve the world’s problems, and warned them that they must be prepared to make compromises
Academic Esra Gürakar speaks to HDN about her book ‘Politics of Favoritism in Public Procurement in Turkey: Reconfigurations of Dependency Networks in the AKP Era’
President Erdoğan said on July 6 that the European Parliament’s vote to accept a report to suspend the country’s EU accession was not binding for Turkey
The jailed co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtaş, did not attend a hearing of his trial on July 7 after refusing to be handcuffed
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel held talks late on July 6 in Hamburg ahead of the G-20 summit
Turkey’s economic growth is expected to reach close to 6 percent in the second quarter of 2017 and exceed 5 percent by the end of the year, Turkish Science, Industry and Technology Minister Faruk Özlü has told Reuters.
On July 7, an Istanbul court ordered the acquittal of 23 conscripts who took part in the July 15 coup attempt, in what is the first verdict in the coup cases filed against soldiers in the city.
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ANKARA
Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has asked two jailed educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça to end their long-running hunger strikes, carried out in protest at their dismissal through state of emergency decrees.
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BUSINESS
The value of assets belonging to companies seized by the Turkish state during the ongoing state of emergency is nearly 41 billion Turkish Liras (around $11.3 billion), Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli stated on July 7.
MOSUL/TIKRIT – Reuters
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants attacked a village south of Mosul, killing several people including two journalists, even as they were about to lose their last redoubt in the city to an Iraqi military onslaught, security sources said on July 7
CAIRO – Reuters
At least 10 Egyptian soldiers were killed and several injured when two suicide car bombers hit army checkpoints in northern Sinai on July 7, security sources said
YOZGAT
Some 50,504 people are currently imprisoned over their alleged links to the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), widely believed to have been behind the July 15, 2016, failed coup attempt, Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ said on July 7.
ÇANAKKALE
Gendarmerie forces investigating the house of a local man who died while trying to obtain powder from a historic cannonball on July 6 have found a number of artifacts at his residence in the northwestern province of Çanakkale
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has criticized the European Parliament’s approval of a report recommending the suspension of Turkey’s accession to the European Union, underlying the opposition’s “struggle for justice.”
ADANA
An investigation has been launched into a fugitive Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant over sexually abusing a 15-year-old Indonesian girl in the southern province of Adana
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) announced on July 6 that it will join the “justice rally” to be held by the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) in Istanbul’s Maltepe district on July 9
ANKARA - Anadolu Agency
Turkey’s leading defense companies Aselsan and Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI, also known as TUSAŞ) signed a deal with the Indonesian companies PT Dirgantara and PT Len on July 6 to collaborate on defense products.
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A couple of hours after main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu entered the provincial borders of Istanbul on July 7, with 40 kilometers left to go to reach his target, I was having lunch with a diverse group of people
The option of becoming a politician was not even an option for us during the years when I was a student at Boğaziçi University.
“July 15 has compiled several lessons for us to draw from,” is the starting sentence of former National Security Organization (MİT) undersecretary Emre Taner’s opinion on the intelligence gap concerning last year’s coup attempt. Taner served between the years 2005 and 2010
A headline in the July 5 edition of daily Hürriyet drew my attention
“There is something rotten in the state of Denmark” says Marcellus in the first act of Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. Living in Ankara, I can relate to that.
The EU is largely viewed as a success story on the path of European integration and as a cornerstone of European stability and prosperity
The Turkish government has strongly denounced the July 6 vote at the European Parliament asking the European Commission to halt EU membership negotiations with Ankara.
There is a rise in the number of reports claiming that disagreements between Syrians and Turkish people have recently escalated amid several incidents across the country
Burdur’s untouched Salda Lake is likened to Turkey’s Maldives as it has the clearest and healthiest water to swim in and has been visited by many people in recent years
Excavations in İzmir’s Smyrna Agora have unearthed Greek language texts on the walls of a basilica. The texts reveal a sweet competition among three ancient cities in the same region
Culture and Tourism Minister Nabi Avcı has launched the opening of the Byzantine Hall in the Zeugma Mosaic Museum in the southeastern province of Gaziantep
The Ağlı municipality in Kastamonu is taking care of four stork chicks, whose mother has died from an electric shock. The officials feed the storks with meat, bread and water and check on their health every three days
The surprising and unexpected structure of a bath used by the Seljuk sultans has been discovered on top of Takkeli Mountain in Konya.
‘Blue crab tours,’ in which tourists catch blue crabs, learn about them and then set them free is drawing popularity among visitors to Turkey’s southwestern coasts
Arts and crafts retailer Hobby Lobby has agreed to forfeit thousands of illegally smuggled ancient Middle Eastern artifacts obtained from antiquities dealers for a Bible museum headed by its president, the company and U.S. officials said on July 5
The 24th Istanbul Jazz Festival will feature a tribute concert on July 8 for the cult guitarist of flamenco Paco de Lucia. The concert will bring together the artist’s collaborators with Turkish musicians
Comment(s)7/6/2017
Turkey’s world renowned pianist İdil Biret will interpret Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov’s works at Rahmaninov’s Museum House in the Russian city of Tambov