Turkey
Turkey’s Communist Mayor blocked from taking office
April 5, 2019Mehmet Fatih Macoglu, as the mayor of a small town, Ovacik, was known for planting chickpeas, beans, and potatoes in municipal lands, distributing the income from the fields to low-income families and creating a scholarship for...
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Turkey condemned for deportation of journalist featured often in People’s World
April 2, 2019Morning Star's Steve Sweeney jailed by authorities and now barred from re-entering Turkey.
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Turkey’s Erdogan facing resistance to his dictatorial rule
February 14, 2019A ruler who sees democracy as nothing more than a temporary measure in his autocrat’s tool box has reason to fear coming local elections.
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Syria troop withdrawal welcomed, but Trump’s aim unclear
December 21, 2018What happens next—for U.S. imperial policy in the region, for Syria, and for the Kurdish people—is up in the air.
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Turkish president says he will give details Tuesday of Khashoggi murder
October 22, 2018Saudi Arabia has admitted that Khashoggi was murdered at its diplomatic compound in the Turkish city earlier this month, but it has blamed a "rogue operation" and denied that its powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered his death.
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