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It was around 2014, at one of the last receptions of Abdullah Gül toward the end of his presidential term at the Çankaya Palace in Ankara, when it was still Turkey's presidential palace. A group of reporters had surrounded a minister or top bureaucrat to take their chances to find a bit of information.

This looks very familiar to me. These are signs of instrumentalization in the fight against the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ), particularly in the "FETÖ operation against the Doğan Group." 

The Independent printed its last edition on March 26 after a 30-year run. It has now decided to go digital-only.

The relative of a soldier killed last month in an attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) has been arrested by a Turkish court for ?insulting the president? in the latest instance of proceedings being opened against those alleged to have defamed Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. 

A harbor planned to be constructed for roll-on, roll-off (Ro-Ro) vessels in western Istanbul, aiming to carry up to 3,500 carrier trucks per day, will have negative urban and environmental impacts, the head of a civil organization dealing with urban affairs in Istanbul's Beylikdüzü district has told the Radikal news website. 

Turkish 10,000-meter runner Elvan Abeylegesse has said she has withdrawn from competitions until doping claims, which might strip her of her Olympics and world championships silver medals, have concluded after testing positive for steroids in a reanalysis of her doping samples.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Yalç?n Akdo?an has accused the Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) of exchanging efforts to find a peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue for surpassing the election threshold in the June 7 polls, adding the Kurdish issue-focused party was twisting the views of Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK). 

Years ago, when I was working for daily Radikal, I and our Ankara representative, Murat Yetkin, had a chat with a top-level security official. At those times, there was al-Qaeda. That official said, ?Turkey is catching dozens of al-Qaeda members each month and we are handing them over to our international interlocutors in appropriate ways.? Then he added this was strictly off the record. 

It was in the papers yesterday on July 22 that the suicide bomber of Suruç was from the southeastern city Ad?yaman, that he was tipped off to the police by his father for joining the Islamic State of Iraq and Levent (ISIL), that he was wanted by police as a terror-related suspect and that he had met the HDP rally bomber of Diyarbak?r at a tea shop in Ad?yaman. 

Readers of news website Radikal have selected Turkey’s top restaurants to eat doner kebab - a Turkish dish made of meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie, normally lamb but sometimes beef or chicken. Here is the list