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Buses for votes
Just days before the elections in Turkey, the most affected earthquake regions expect a reversed migration wave before May 14. The weak performance of the state after the earthquake could also alter the political arithmetics in the affected provinces.
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How Turkey’s Extremist ‘Grey Wolves’ Built a Cell in Bosnia
Cakalli is the founder of an informal Bosnian branch of a Turkish far-right group known as the Grey Wolves (Bozkurtlar), some of whose members support neo-fascist ideas. The Grey Wolves are officially called Idealist Hearths (Ulku Ocaklari) and their organisation is affiliated with the far-right Nationalist Movement Party, MHP, which is an ally of the Turkish ruling party.
What a TV series tells us about Erdogan’s Turkey
With President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey visiting President Trump in Washington this week, it might be useful to briefly turn away from the conventional explanatory sources and consider a wildly popular television series that is capturing the zeitgeist in Turkey.
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Erdoğan accuses CHP head of 'negotiating with coup plotters' to escape on coup night
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu of being in contact with the coup plotters on the night of the attempted putsch in July 2016.
Age of anger: A history of the present
'Age of Anger: A History of the Present' by Pankaj Mishra (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 416 pages, $27 )
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Turkey to hire 4,200 Turkish teachers for Syrian students
A group of Syrian students are seen at an edecation center in the Reyhanlı distrrict of the southern province of Hatay.
The Education Ministry plans to temporarily employ 4,200 teachers for Syrian students in Turkey to teach the Turkish language and integrate them into the education system.