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Afghanistan
Turkish FM expresses solidarity with Pakistan
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Libya
Libya’s new rulers offer weapons to Syrian rebels
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Al Qaeda
Libyan Islamist leader detained as tensions grow between rival factions
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Iraq
Iraq, Turkey end bans on flights, open skies to other country’s planes
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Syria
Turkey seen as door to Syrian “humanitarian corridor”
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Turkey
Police detained 15 suspected al Qaeda operatives during raids at several locations in the city of Konya. Police did not provide further details on the al Qaeda suspects.
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Muslim Brotherhood
Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood open to Turkish ‘role’
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Libya
Libyan cleric announces new party on lines of ‘moderate’ Islamic democracy
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Syria
In Syria, growing evidence of armed insurgency
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Afghanistan
Afghans, Pakistan may use talks to ease tensions: Turks
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Afghanistan
Mao’s Rockets and the Eastern Afghan Border War, Part I
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Turkey
Contradictory image of Turkey is confusing the Arab world
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Turkey
In its largest deployment in three years, Turkey sent 10,000 troops to the Iraqi border to battle PKK rebels. Saying Kurdish militants posed a “common problem” for Turkey and Iran, the two countries announced plans to cooperate against the Kurdistan PKK and its Iranian wing, the PJAK. Turkey urged Iran and the US to avoid raising tensions over the Saudi assassination plot.
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Iraq
Turkey steps up offensive in Iraq after Kurdish raids
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Turkey
Kurdish rebels in attacked army outposts in southeast Turkey, killing 26 Turkish soldiers. Hours later, Turkey launched an offensive into the Kurdish region in Iraq. Two weeks earlier the Turkish parliament had approved cross border raids and one week earlier Turkey had urged Iraq to crack down on Kurdish rebels.
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Iran
Iran tells Turkey: change tack or face trouble
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Egypt
Arab Debate Pits Islamists Against Themselves
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Turkey
Turkey’s Elephant in the Room – Religious Freedom
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Turkey
Turkey imposed an arms embargo on Syria and seized a Syrian ship. The United States has agreed in principle to deploy US Predator drones on Turkish soil to aid in the fight against Kurdish separatist rebels.
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Iraq
US to provide drones to Turkey: Erdogan
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Syria
Turkey seizes Syrian ship with weapons – PM Erdogan
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Saudi Arabia
Unlikely alliance in Turkey and Saudi Arabia a mixed blessing for US
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Egypt
G8 meets to cement Arab Spring transition plan
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Egypt
Tumult of Arab Spring Prompts Worries in Washington
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Turkey
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has signaled that Turkey could launch a joint operation with Iran against Kurdish militants’ main base in northern Iraq. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkey does not need the US to mediate its dispute with Israel.
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Iran
Turkey “may act with Iran against PKK in Iraq”
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Iraq
Cross-border incursion into Iraq possible at any time, Turkish minister says
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Iraq
US considering Ankara’s request to base Predators in Turkey to fight a Kurdish group in northern Iraq
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Egypt
Beyond Cairo, Israel Sensing a Wider Siege
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Turkey
Turkey threat of warships to Gaza ‘grave’: Israel
