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- EU MINISTER BAGIS MEETS GREEK FM DIMASTurkish Minister for European Union (EU) Affairs and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis met with Greek Foreign Minister Stavros Dimas in Athens on Wednesday as part of his unofficial trip to Greece.
- VP ARREST WARRANT PLUNGES IRAQ INTO CRISISIraq issued an arrest warrant for its Sunni vice president on anti-terror charges Monday, deepening a crisis that one leader warned threatened the unity government, just a day after US troops left.
- ERDOĞAN: TURKEY-ISRAEL RELATIONS ARE BROKENTurkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Turkey-Israel relations had been broken because of the tension escalated by Israel itself.
- CHP DEPUTIES TAKE OATHThe joint statement of the AKP and the CHP to solve the oath crisis did not include a concrete proposal for an amendement to the Constitution concerning the detained deputies. "We believe that all legislation, including the Constitution, has to interpreted within the framework of the rule of law, taking into account the principle of separation of powers, and to be implemented in a way to enhance freedoms" was the message given.
- OSAMA BIN LADIN DEAD, OBAMA SAYS JUSTICE IS DONEAl-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden was killed Sunday in a daring raid by US covert forces in Pakistan, and President Barack Obama declared "justice has been done" a decade after the September 11 attacks.
- BOOK HUNT AT DAILY RADİKAL'S OFFICESActing upon a court decision accompanied by orders from Ergenekon Prosecutor Zekeriya Öz, two police officers entered the Hürriyet Medya Towers in Istanbul's Güneşli neighborhood, going to the 13th floor to confiscate "a possible copy" of the unpublished manuscript from investigative reporter Ertuğrul Mavioğlu.
- A JOURNALIST: THIS IS TOO MUCH!Turkish McCarthyism? I agree with the critics who see a risk of "McCarthyism" here.. with the important difference being that while the Red Peril of Senator McCarthy was totally delusional, the Ergenekon threat is real. But exaggerating the threat and over-extending the probe is all too dangerous. It risks not only harming innocent people, but also unintentionally whitewashing the real criminals.
- OUTRAGE AT NEW ERGENEKON RAIDSOpposition, lawyers and colleagues express outrage at new Ergenekon raids.. Police raids of 16 homes in Ankara and Istanbul, including those of journalists and a former intelligence officer, have been slammed by media colleagues, lawyers and opposition politicians as an "illegal" attempt to silence critical voices.
- JOURNALISTS ON COUP TRIAL MOVED TO SEPERATE CELLSTuncay Özkan and Mustafa Balbay, two journalists who were being kept in the same jail cell as their trial on the Ergenekon case continues, were moved to two single-person cells in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Özkan explained in a letter sent to Istanbul Bar Association Chairman Ümit Kocasakal and the parliamentary committee on human rights that they had been removed from the cell they had shared until Feb. 28, and the prison authorities had used force and threatened both journalists when they resisted the move.
- ERDOĞAN DEFENDS PRESS FREEDOMPrime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stood behind freedom of the press Friday after the owner of an online news portal was arrested on charges of participating in a coup plot and inciting the public to hatred.
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