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President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an chaired a cabinet meeting April 20 for the third time since he was elected president, with the A?r? incident and electorate security at the top of the agenda.

Cuban President Raul Castro and his US counterpart Barack Obama had an hour’s worth of talk during the “VII Cumbre De Las Americas”, held in Panama.

The face-to-face meeting between the two leaders, which is the first to take place since 1956, came to seal the two countries’ willingness to participate in negotiations, after half a century of hostility.

Turkish authorities blocked access to Twitter and YouTube due to the websites' refusal to remove photos of a public prosecutor, who was taken hostage last week and was later killed by his abductors.

Italian police have arrested a Turkish national allegedly linked to an outlawed far-left group blamed for two recent deadly shootouts in Istanbul, Turkish media reported on April 7.

Erdal Ünal, who was allegedly the instigator of a hostage situation in Istanbul?s Ça?layan courthouse on March 31, was detained in Italy, daily Habertürk reported on April 7.

For the past two years, Turkey has been in a downward political spiral where the language of hatred and demonization overshadows everything else. The spiral is only getting deeper and deeper by jumping to new levels with every new political crisis and drama. 

There still has not been a forensic report made public about the killing of prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz on March 31 during an act of terror by the militants of the outlawed Revolutionary People Liberation Party and Front (DHKP-C) as they raided his office in Istanbul?s Justice House.

The murder of Istanbul criminal prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz in a raid on his office in the Istanbul Courthouse by two militants of the outlawed Revolutionary People?s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) on March 31 triggered waves of trauma at a time when Turkey is heading for critical parliamentary elections on June 7.

Security forces have shot an assailant during an attack on the police headquarters in Istanbul in which two policemen were injured, Do?an News Agency reported on April 1.

The assailant opened fire on police stationed at the entrance of the building in Istanbul's Fatih district with a long-barreled weapon.

Security forces have shot two assailants during an attack on the police headquarters in Istanbul in which two policemen were injured, Do?an News Agency reported on April 1.

The assailants opened fire on police stationed at the entrance of the building in Istanbul's Fatih district with long-barreled weapons, the report said. 

Turkish police have detained 22 people in the southern province of Antalya in an operation against the outlawed far-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), a day after two militants with suspected links to the group took a prosecutor hostage in Istanbul.