Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth on Wednesday reported on what the outlet described as a “massive show of force” by Hamas in the Ramallah stronghold of the rival Palestinian Fatah faction, a development likely to deepen emerging analyst concerns that a recently announced unity agreement between the two organizations may end...

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Reuters on Tuesday described the emergence and effects of a “golden loophole” in what had been Western efforts to impose sanctions on Iran, with the outlet conveying the contents of a Turkish police report outlining how Turkish channels were used to implement ‘an audacious, multi-billion-dollar scheme involving bribery and suspect food...

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A recent announcement from a top Turkish official – in which Science, Industry, and Technology Minister Fikri Isik declared that Ankara will begin indigenously producing weapons in order to circumvent potential import restrictions from supplier countries – has left “Western diplomats and military officials… puzzled” over Turkey’s intentions, according to...

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Turkish outlet Today’s Zaman on Tuesday described a rush by Iranian banks to open and expand branches in Turkey in the aftermath of “growth restrictions” being lifted: Bank Mellat, which has been in Turkey since 1982, faced restrictions in 2012 which led to a decline in its growth due to...

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Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News over the weekend characterized the country’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as having broken new legal ground after the Turkish leader applied for damages from the Turkish state as part of an ongoing controversy related to Twitter: The move has been described as a “first of...

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A university in Turkey canceled a panel debate on homosexuality after receiving threats from the İlke Haber Ajansı media outlet, affiliated with the Sunni-Islamist-Kurdish movement known as Turkish Hezbollah (largely unconnected to the Shi’ite Lebanese movement Hezbollah). The move came days after Ankara announced plans for the segregation of LGBT...

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The Turkish parliament on Thursday approved what both international and Turkish media described as a “controversial” new law widening the powers of the country’s National Intelligence Agency (MIT), a move that was widely read against the backdrop of ongoing efforts by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and...

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Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News disclosed on Wednesday that figures from European and U.S. defense firms have been heavily lobbying their counterparts in Turkey’s defense industry for help in blocking a controversial move by Ankara – announced last September, only to be met with immediate pushback by the West – to...

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Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News on Saturday summarized a weekend speech given by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as one in which the Turkish leader “lashe[d] out at all his ‘foes’,” outlining that Erdogan “maintained his angry criticism of the Constitutional Court, the Gezi Park protesters, Twitter and the Gulen movement.” Saying the...

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Turkey’s Constitutional Court this week appears to have opened its own Twitter account – and to have quickly amassed over 50,000 followers across just six tweets – amid legal and political battles that have seen the Court brush off demands by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party...

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