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“Czechs to work on ‘three Es’ in EU presidency

“Turkey cancels New Year party in Taksim Square over Israeli attacks

Galatasaray fan website, Ultraslan, has this support banner in its home page…. 

“Pinter remembered for work on Kurdish rights in Turkey

“Academic blogs attract growing audience

[updated] Official Kurdish TV channels starts test broadcasting…

New TV channel uses Kurdish usage of some words in which W or X letters are used. Some Kurdish originated Turkish citizens were tried and imprisoned in the last two decades just because they had used those  words…  Use of Kurdish itself was forbidden back in 1980…. A major positive development on the Kurdish question by AKP in an otherwise banally nationalistic political context…

More than 200 Palestinians murdered by Israeli attacks…

World Leaders React to Israeli Airstrikes on Gaza Voice of America

A few thousand demonstrators protested Israeli attacks in Istiklal Street, Taksim this evening…

“Photo Ed: Christians celebrate Christmas in Istanbul

“Turkey discussing

For a week now, Turkey has been the scene of debates regarding three texts.
These are: the "Apology to Armenians" campaign, "Being Different in Turkey: Alienation on the Axis of Religion and Conservatism," a joint study by the Open Society Institute (OSI) and Boğaziçi University, and the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) report, "A Roadmap for the Solution of the Kurdish Question: Policy Suggestions to the Government from the Region."

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