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Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has said his government will not succumb to the Jewish lobby, the Armenian lobby or the lobby of the Turkish-Greek minority, a sentence he said in regards to President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s words on Jan. 31 that the Gülenists in the country, which he dubs ?the parallel structure,? have joined forces with the Israeli intelligence service.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an announced that those who allegedly wiretapped his office were finally caught in Romania, after singing his favorite song during an award ceremony organized by Turkey's Roma community on Feb. 6.

The Turkish banking regulator's decision to take over the management of Bank Asya did not affect the country's credit ratings, Standard & Poor's announced Feb. 6.

"The decision to transfer management of Bank Asya to the Savings Deposit Insurance Fund does not affect the unsolicited sovereign credit ratings on Turkey," the U.S.-based credit ratings agency said in a press release.

Following the government's initiative to open Turkish schools abroad, the Health Ministry is now planning to open hospitals abroad, starting with Somalia and Sudan.

Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Cevdet Erdöl said during a speech at parliament that the Health Ministry was considering opening training and research hospitals abroad.

Following the government's initiative to open Turkish schools abroad, the Health Ministry is now planning to open hospitals abroad, starting with Somalia and Sudan. 

Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Cevdet Erdöl said during a speech at parliament that the Health Ministry was considering opening training and research hospitals abroad.

Some 5 million people in Turkey were listened in on in 2012, Interior Minister Efkan Ala has stated, referring to a calculation that around 250,000 people who were wiretapped spoke to at least 20 people on the phone. He blamed officers affiliated with the movement of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen for the scandal.

Ankara has informed U.S. officials that the Turkish passport of Fethullah Gülen, a Pennsylvania-based Islamic scholar accused of building a ?parallel structure? within the Turkish state seeking to topple to the government, has been canceled. 

The move comes as Turkey seeks to ramp up pressure on the U.S. to deport Gülen. 

Did Fethullah Gülen, the U.S.-based Islamic scholar who has turned from being the Turkish government?s ally into its bête noire, die in September, 2013?

This question, highly speculative even in a country of wild conspiracy theories like Turkey, was asked by a mysterious reporter to Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Ar?nç during a post-cabinet meeting press conference late Feb. 3.

Justice Minister Bekir Bozda? said, ?Fethullah Gülen was planning to stage a return like Khomeini.?

If one year ago, anybody from the main opposition Republican People?s Party (CHP) had said, ?Fethullah Gülen is planning to stage a return like Khomeini,? then Bekir Bozda? would have snapped at him, ?Come on now, you secular paranoiac.?

Turkey?s semi-official Anadolu Agency has filmed the mansion complex of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, the ally-turned-bête noire of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

?The mansion in Pennsylvania, which is said to have once been flooded by visitors, is now silent,? the report stated on Jan. 29.