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TURKEY'S RULING PARTY TRIUMPHS

The Islamic-inspired ruling party of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan won a larger-than-expected victory in nationwide parliamentary elections on Sunday, taking close to half the total vote in a stinging rebuke to Turkey's old guard.
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Oh no, yet another Islamist in power. It is good that the army has already issued hi a warning.

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Turkish Military Shells Northern Iraq & Amasses 60,000 Troops on Border as U.S.-Turkey Relations Deteriorate Over House Vote on Armenian Genocide

Turkey's top general warned this weekend that US-Turkey relations would "never be the same again" if the United States House votes to declare the World War I-era mass killings of 1.5 million Armenians a genocide. Despite President Bush's plea, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted 27-21 Wednesday to call the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks "systematic," "deliberate," and amounting to "genocide."
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Turkey criticises Obama comments

Turkey criticises the US president for not emphasising its dead while marking the killing of Armenians by Turks. Ref. Source 9

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Turkish president 'facing trial'

A Turkish court rules that President Abdullah Gul should stand trial for alleged embezzlement in the late 1990s. Ref. Source 8

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US blames EU for Turkey 'drift'

Turkey's growing hostility to Israel could be partly caused by its effective rejection by the EU, the US defence secretary says. Ref. Source 7

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Exclusive: US Journalist Deported from Turkey After Reporting on Plight of Kurds

Twenty-five-year-old American journalist Jake Hess was arrested in Turkey nearly two weeks ago and deported back to the United States over the weekend. Turkey accused him of allegedly having ties with the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which Turkey and the United States classify as a terrorist organization. But Hess and his lawyer have maintained that Hess was targeted because of his writings. His recent articles for Inter Press Service have focused on Turkish soldiers deliberately starting forest fires, the depopulation of Kurdish villages, and Turkish-Iranian air strikes on Kurdish homes in northern Iraq. Ref. Source 4

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Violent crackdown on Turkey protest

Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters occupying a park in central Istanbul, injuring scores in the latest violent crackdown on anti-government demonstrations. Ref. Source 6