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Turkish local elections: Erdogan faces defeat, Opposition leads in Ankara,
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Apr 02 (ANI): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday suffered a major setback after his Justice and Development Party (AK) lost control of Ankara and Istanbul, considered to be its bastion since decades, for the first time since the party came to power in 2002.
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Turkey local elections: Litmus test for Erdogan
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], April 1 (ANI): Thousands of voters headed to the polls across Turkey on Sunday to cast their ballots in the local elections, which is viewed as a litmus test for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Erdogan urges world to unite, fight Islamophobia
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey] Mar 22 (ANI): In the wake of the recent Christchurch shooting in New Zealand, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday called on the world to fight against Islamophobia.
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Erdogan urges justice for New Zealand mosque attack victims
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Mar 16 (ANI): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday urged New Zealand to bring justice to the victims of Friday's twin mosque attacks and hold the accused accountable.
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Interpol red notices for 20 suspects over Khashoggi killing
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Mar 15 (ANI): Turkey on Thursday said that Interpol issued red notices for 20 suspects in connection to the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last year.
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Khashoggi’s body possibly burned in oven at Saudi consulate general’s resi
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Mar 4 (ANI): US-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s body was possibly burned in an oven at Saudi consulate general’s residence, reported Al Jazeera.
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Trump, Erdogan discuss on phone US troop withdrawal from Syria
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Ankara [Turkey] Feb 22 (ANI): United States President Donald Trump and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, during a telephone call, on Thursday (local time) agreed to carry out the US troops withdrawal from Syria in line with their mutual interest, reports the state-run agency Ana
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Turkey orders detention of over 1,000 people for links with failed coup
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Feb 13 (ANI): Turkey has ordered for the arrest of 1,112 people over suspected links to the failed 2016 coup attempt.
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Turkey calls on China to shut down Uighur "concentration camps"
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Feb 9 (ANI): Turkey slammed China for its "systematic assimilation policy towards Uighur Turks," labelling it a "great embarrassment for humanity" while urging Beijing to shut down the "concentration camps".
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‘Important for us that the body is found’, says Khashoggi's fiancée
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Feb 9 (ANI): Hatice Cengiz, fiancée of deceased scribe Jamal Khashoggi, on Friday (local time) called for the remains of the body of the former Washington Post columnist, while complaining that the deceased has not even received any proper burial where his loved ones can gri
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Khashoggi killing ‘planned and perpetrated by Saudi Arabia’: UN
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Feb 8 (ANI): The United Nation's (UN) special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, Agnes Callamard, leading the investigations into deceased scribe Jamal Khashoggi's death, on Thursday confirmed that evidence showed the latter to be victim of "a brutal and premeditated kil
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'No satisfactory plan' with US on Syria safe zone, says Erdogan
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Feb 6 (ANI): Weeks after United States President Donald Trump suggested the creation of a "safe zone" in northeastern Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that no acceptable plan has been tabled for the same.
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