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A mysterious disappearance: Hursit Kulter issue

A Kurdish politician named Hursit Kulter went missing after he was detained for his alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a militant group which is listed as terrorist by Turkey, the US, the EU and NATO and seeks to impose

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Claim: Rapists, robbers being released from prison

On 5 October 2016, a professor at Duke University claimed in a tweet that Turkey released “rapists” and “robbers” to imprison well-educated people.

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Which country hosts largest refugee population around world? A fact-check of Al Jazeera

On 4 October 2016, a news story was released by Al Jazeera in which Jordan was placed on top of a list of the countries tha

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Credit ratings agencies: an overview

On 24 September 2016, credit ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Turkey’s sovereign credit rating to B

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Claim: Kurds most effective anti-Assad fighters

On 14 September 2016, an article was published in The Huffington Post in which it was claimed that Kurdish militants are the most effective fighte

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Does Turkey arrest “defenders of democracy”?

On 11 September 2016, an open letter signed by Nobel Prize-winning authors Orhan Pamuk and J.M.

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Claim: All political parties united to oppose 15 July coup attempt

The Peoples' Democratic Party's (HDP) co-chair Figen Yuksekdag penned an article for Newsweek in which she claimed that all political parties united to oppo

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Why did Turkey replace 28 mayors with trustees?

On 11 September 2016, Turkey's Interior Ministry announced that the government replaced 28 mayors with state-appointed trustees as part of its fight against both the Kurdistan Work

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