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Turkey: Erdogan remains defiant over Soma protest
For a man proposing to stand in August for election as president of Turkey, the past 24 hours are a mighty embarrassment for Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan says the strategic Syrian border town of Kobani is about to fall to Islamic State militants.
More than 2,000 Syrian Kurds are evacuating the Kurdish town of Kobani, near the border between Syria and Turkey, as Islamic State militants advance towards the city centre.
Turkey is struggling to deal not only with thousands of Kurdish refugees fleeing Islamic State militants in Syria, but also re-energised ambitions among Turkish Kurds for their own independent state.
The United Nations Refugee Agency says almost 140,000 people – mainly Kurds – have crossed the border from Syria into Turkey since Friday.
More than 130,000 Syrian Kurd refugees have crossed into Turkey from the north of Syria in the last three days as they flee Islamic State militants.
Turkey closes some of its border crossings with Syria following an influx of more than 100,000 Kurdish refugees in two days, fleeing an advance by the Islamic State.
The death of hundreds of workers in the coal mines in Soma has unleashed a wave of grief across Turkey, writes Niall Finn, a student and blogger based in Ankara.
Police use tear gas and water cannon against thousands of demonstrators protesting against the deaths of almost 300 people in Turkey’s worst ever mining disaster.
For a man proposing to stand in August for election as president of Turkey, the past 24 hours are a mighty embarrassment for Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.
After the deaths of over 280 miners, a senior adviser to Turkish PM Erdogan is caught on camera kicking a protester against the government’s record on mine safety, provoking yet more anger.
Protests targeting the government following the Soma coal mine disaster are violently suppressed – but will Prime Minister Recep Erdogan once again ride out public anger?
Excavators dig mass graves as loudspeakers broadcast the names of the dead in Turkey, while protesters gather in major cities following the country’s deadliest industrial disaster.
At least 245 people are killed and 80 injured in a mining accident. As rescue efforts continue, the Turkish government is facing protests over its failure to improve mine safety.
Turkey is holding local elections today amid a corruption scandal involving embattled Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and a ban on Twitter and YouTube. What’s really at stake?
First Twitter, now YouTube – the Turkish prime minister blocks the video-sharing site after what he called the “villainous” leak of a secret recording of top security officials on the site.