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Erdogan moots restoring death penalty in Turkey

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey should consider bringing back the death penalty, a decade after Ankara abolished capital punishment as part of reforms aimed at European...
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Erdogan moots restoring death penalty in Turkey

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey should consider bringing back the death penalty, a decade after Ankara abolished capital punishment as part of reforms aimed at European...
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Erdogan moots restoring death penalty in Turkey

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey should consider bringing back the death penalty, a decade after Ankara abolished capital punishment as part of reforms aimed at European...
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Turkish PM says talks with Kurdish militants possible

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's intelligence agency may hold talks with Kurdish militants if the time is right, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, as his government grapples with an...
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Turkish PM says talks with Kurdish militants possible

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's intelligence agency may hold talks with Kurdish militants if the time is right, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, as his government grapples with an...
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Turkey probes Kurdish MPs for meeting PKK rebels

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Turkey are investigating an impromptu roadside meeting at which pro-Kurdish MPs smiled and embraced separatist militants in the southeast of the country, an act which...
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Turkey probes Kurdish MPs for meeting PKK rebels

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Turkey are investigating an impromptu roadside meeting at which pro-Kurdish MPs smiled and embraced separatist militants in the southeast of the country, an act which...
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Turkey begins aid distribution on Syrian border

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has begun handing out food and other humanitarian aid to Syrians right on their common border as the worsening conflict in Syria makes aid distribution there...