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Turkey, adze and the West
Dictionaries describe adze as a cutting tool shaped somewhat like an axe that dates back to the Stone Age. They are used for smoothing or carving wood by hand, similar to an axe but with cutting edge perpendicular to the handle - a peculiarity because of which it is often used in only self-serving attitudes.
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Declaration of mobilization no joke
The supreme leader of Turkey declared at a routine congregation of village headmen at his extravagant palace that he had decided to declare a national mobilization against the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) gang and its extensions under various names, the radical Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) zealots as well as the "Fethullah Terror Gang" (FETÖ) and the Revolutionary People
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Journalists can't be provocateurs
Disguised as a journalist, the provocateur was on the screens again. He was cheering a security operation against the legal offices and elected executives of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democracy Party (HDP).
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A humorist as prime minister
The country has been passing through such horrible days that perhaps it would be great to have humorists occupying governmental seats. Even if there might be a president acting as if he has become a sultan or emperor, no one of course can claim that the prime minister and other ministers have started acting like imperial jokesters.
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Turkey's mistakes in Syria come home to roost
Having been left largely in the cold, Ankara is now trying to get back into the game in Syria in order to promote its security interests in the north of the country. It continues, however, to tread on thin ice.
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Turkey, NATO and a very dangerous discussion
One of the penslingers of the government was on TV during Eid al-Adha. Constantly rubbing his Islamist-style beard, the penslinger was explaining what kind of a wild animal the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was, how it has been tolerated and indeed abetted by the United States, Germany, Britain and many other "key allies" of Turkey in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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Seven simple and plain questions from the Turkish public
Question one is about the fact that there were no funerals for killed security forces before the June election. What happened for funerals to start again after the election?
The nation's difficult election
There are some serious claims regarding probable election fraud. Most of these claims cannot be substantiated with any reasonable explanation. Some of them, however, are verified with numerous, indeed, massive first-hand complaints.
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Erdo?an's message: Presidential system or no deal
The recent Newroz declaration of the jailed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan contained many ambiguities, but it could still be considered a positive step on the path of the so-called ?peace negotiations.?
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President Erdo?an opposes establishment of monitoring group for Kurdish peace proces
President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has slammed the announced plans to establish a monitoring panel as part of the government-led Kurdish peace process.