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Thousands in Turkey continue protest over plan to bulldoze park
ISTANBUL, Turkey — A weekend of protest in Turkey has left the country reeling, with thousands of dissidents taking to the streets after a brutal police crackdown, presenting the government with the most cohesive challenge in its more than a...
Tags: Politics, Islam, Dwayne Johnson, Government, Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Things you need to know for Monday
Good morning, Baltimore. There's a leaker in jail next door, Game of Thrones is a fantasy, and Turkey's flirting with anarchy. Welcome to your post-weekend trends report for June 3, 2013. Bradley Manning, the whistleblower accused of releasing a giant...Tags: Matt Smith, Fort Meade (military base), Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Bradley Manning, Doctor Who (tv program)
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State Senate passes last-minute resolution critical of Turkey
Tribune reporterIn a buzzer-beating vote, the Illinois Senate passed a non-binding resolution Friday criticizing the Turkish government's treatment of Eastern Orthodox religious leaders. The measure, approved just before lawmakers ended the spring session, included an...Tags: Politics, Illinois General Assembly, Christian Orthodoxy, Christianity, Religion and Belief
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Local demonstration supports Turkey protests
A group of demonstrators marched in Chicago yesterday to show support for anti-government protests in Istanbul and other large cities in Turkey. The local protesters marched through Pioneer Court, just north of the Chicago River at Michigan Avenue,...
Tags: Political Dissent, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Riots, Michigan Avenue, Demonstration
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Syria's Bashar Assad says a peace pact would face a referendum
BEIRUT — Any agreement reached at prospective peace talks on Syria would have to be approved by the Syrian people in a nationwide referendum, President Bashar Assad said in a television interview aired Thursday. A confident Assad said his...Tags: Russia, Moscow (Russia), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Peace Negotiations, Saudi Arabia
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Syria conflict: Hopes for peace conference may be dashed
BEIRUT— With violence increasingly spilling over Syria's borders, refugees swamping its neighbors and new arms transfers to both sides on the horizon, a solution to the Syrian conflict has rarely seemed so urgent — and so far beyond reach....
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Peace Negotiations, Lebanon, Weaponry, Beirut (Lebanon)
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Turkey strays from its democratic traditions
As the Arab Spring unfolded in Egypt and other countries in the Middle East, Turkey was held out as a model for how Islam and democracy could co-exist. This week's massive civil unrest in Turkey, erupting over the destruction of the Gezi Park in Istanbul'...Tags: Democracy, Crime, Law and Justice, Political Systems, Religion and Belief, Civil Rights
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Iran outmaneuvers U.S. in the Syrian proxy war
Syria's uprising offered the possibility of a strategic defeat of Iran. In this scenario, Iran would be weakened by the collapse of President Bashar Assad's regime, Tehran's single Arab ally and a vital link to Lebanon's Hezbollah militia. Isolated,...
Tags: Russia, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Brookings Institution, Rebellions, Saudi Arabia
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Dozens arrested in Turkey for 'inciting riots' using social media
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Turkish authorities detained 29 people overnight for “inciting riots” using social networking sites such as Twitter, local media reported on Wednesday. The detentions came in the coastal city of Izmir, where police...Tags: Culture, Social Media, Political Dissent, Politics, Sociology
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Syrian army, backed by Hezbollah, retakes key town of Qusair
CAIRO -- Syrian forces backed by Hezbollah militants stormed a strategic town Wednesday, pushing back rebels and seizing control of key supply routes after weeks of some of the heaviest fighting in the country's 2-year-old civil war. Syrian state...Tags: Bashar Assad, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Rebellions, Armed Forces, Wars and Interventions
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Woods to play in Turkish Open
World number one Tiger Woods is to compete in the inaugural Turkish Open in Antalya in November, the European Tour said on Tuesday. The $7 million event at the Montgomerie Maxx Royal course in Belek will form part of the new Final Series on the Race to...
Tags: Lee Westwood, Tiger Woods, Justin Rose
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