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Erdogan wants to write a new constitution in his own favour
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], February 22 (ANI): Quite unexpectedly Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on February 1 that the country needed a new 'democratic" constitution that would replace the 1982 constitution drawn by Turkish generals in the wake of the military coup of 1980. But what prompt
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Does Erdogan truly want to mend ties with US?
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], February 8 (ANI): While Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is supposed to be trying to mend ties with the United States, his Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu last week told Hurriyet newspaper that "it is blatantly clear that the US is behind the (failed coup of) July
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Erdogan is moving Turkey towards Russia and China
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus] February 1 (ANI): Facing sanctions from both the EU (European Union) and the US for a series of actions that caused anger and irritation to Ankara's western allies, President Tayyip Erdogan is gradually changing the orientation of Turkey and is moving away from the West a
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Was the ending of Qatar's blockade a victory, or does it signal the end of
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], January 11 (ANI): Last Tuesday, during a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain announced that they were ending the air, land and sea boycott of the state of Qatar. The summit issued a solidarity statement in which all s
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Women in Turkey are determined to stop femicide - murders of women
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], January 4 (ANI): On December 29 in Istanbul, a man named Kemal Delbe set on fire his former girlfriend Aylin Sozer, a lecturer at the Istanbul Aydin University, pouring a flammable liquid on her. Her murderer narrowly escaped lynching by Sozer's neighbours when taken in
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Netanyahu causes snap election in Israel to delay corruption cases against
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], December 28 (ANI): The Israeli Parliament dissolved last week after the deadline to approve the budget for 2020 expired.
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Autocratic Erdogan may soon be called by Biden to pay a price
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], December 7 (ANI): Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is becoming increasingly autocratic, reversing the secularist reforms of the founder of modern Republic of Turkey Kemal Ataturk, sends to jail thousands of journalists, writers, academics and people expressing opp
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Biden is expected to change US policies towards the Palestinians and Israe
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], November 16 (ANI): Joe Biden's election victory over Donald Trump was greeted with a sigh of relief in many parts of the world and is believed that it will refocus US policy towards the Middle East and possibly reverse Trump's damage done in the region.
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Erdogan's belligerent policies leave Turkey more isolated than ever
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Nicosia (Cyprus), November 02 (ANI): In the past few years Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has reversed the policy of his country from "zero problems with neighbours" and from a model of Muslim democracy and ally, into a country with almost zero friends and allies, while Ankara is currently
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