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The report by McClatchy, the U.S. publishing company, alleging that Turkish intelligence tipped off the al Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front, and led to the recent routing by the group of opposition forces trained in Turkey by the U.S., has seriously ruffled Ankara?s feathers.

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Tanju Bilgic said the report was an ?ill-intentioned and lowly slander.?

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu struggled to control his emotions at a party event in Ankara on Aug. 14, when he shed tears for a soldier recently killed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants.

The outlawed far-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) group aims to destabilize Turkey by targeting the country's key institutions and carrying out assassinations of top officials, Turkish security sources have said.  

The DHKP-C has been listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU.

Leadership behind bars

Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has called for the establishment of a no-fly zne over nothern Syria to to protect civilians fleeing the Islamic State (IS) group and Syrian government forces.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an is seeking compensation from the co-leader of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirta?, on charges of ?gross insults, slander and impeachment.?

A far-leftist militant who participated in an armed attack on the U.S. Consulate General in Istanbul on Aug. 10 was released from prison only 33 days ago, Turkish media has reported.

Four attacks, some of them carried out by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, have killed at least six police and army personnel in Turkey on Monday, according to Turkish media reports.

A Turkish police officer has been captured in footage while taking down a female militant after she opened fire on the U.S. consulate building in Istanbul with another assailant.

The All-Workers Militant Front (PAME), the Communist Party of Greece (KKE)-affiliated trade union, is protesting outside the Labor Ministry against the increase to pensioners’ health contributions by 4-6%. A PAME delegation is meeting with Labor Minister George Katrougalos to discuss EU-imposed changes to labor law.

The former house of Marxist revolutionary, theorist, Soviet politician and Red Army founder Leon Trotsky on Istanbul?s Büyükada Island is up for sale on a real estate website.