![A stallholder sells fruits at a bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey January 30, 2016. Inflation has become Turkey's biggest economic challenge, hitting the pockets of ordinary people even as President Tayyip Erdogan and the ruling party have built their reputation largely on economic growth and stability. Picture taken January 30, 2016. REUTERS/Murad Sezer - GF10000296837](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2019/01/RTX25JCD.jpg/RTX25JCD.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=QKTOAe1Q)
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![A stallholder sells fruits at a bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey January 30, 2016. Inflation has become Turkey's biggest economic challenge, hitting the pockets of ordinary people even as President Tayyip Erdogan and the ruling party have built their reputation largely on economic growth and stability. Picture taken January 30, 2016. REUTERS/Murad Sezer - GF10000296837](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2019/01/RTX25JCD.jpg/RTX25JCD.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=QKTOAe1Q)
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![A security stand guard while supporters wawe Turkish national and AKP party flags during a mass campaign rally of ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on October 25, 2015 at Yenikapi in Istanbul, a week ahead of the country's general elections on November 1. AFP PHOTO/OZAN KOSE (Photo credit should read OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2016/11/GettyImages-494179866.jpg/GettyImages-494179866.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=zzKdQIEx)
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![Turkey's Energy Minister Berat Albayrak addresses the media in Ankara, Turkey July 27, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas - RTSJWB9](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2016/09/RTSJWB9.jpg/RTSJWB9.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=jFUB-sSF)
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![Policemen stand atop military armored vehicles after troops involved in the coup surrendered on the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey July 16, 2016. REUTERS/Murad Sezer - RTSI8W9](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2016/07/RTSI8W9.jpg/RTSI8W9.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=z_Hhq0eU)
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![A Turkish non-commissioned officer secures the road for a convoy of
Dutch army trucks carrying Patriot missile units and system parts as
they leave the southern Turkish coastal city of Iskenderun March 1,
2003. The second part of a Dutch patriot missiles system arrived in
Turkey to be deployed in southeast Turkish bases for protection against
a possible Iraqi strike. The Turkish parliament is due to hold a
crucial debate on Saturday to discuss the deployment of 62,000 U.S.
troops on its soil for a possible](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/11/RTRJ6BF.jpg/RTRJ6BF.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=1HS6Z8I8)
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![Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (R), Speaker of the Turkish parliament Cemil Cicek and Chief of Staff General Necdet Ozel (L) attend a ceremony at the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, marking the anniversary of his death, in Ankara November 10, 2014. Thousands of Turks visited Ataturk's mausoleum on his 76th death anniversary. Ataturk, the first president of Turkey from 1923 and founder of the modern secular state, died on November 10, 1938. He was 57. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS ANNIVE](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/11/RTR4DJAC-1.jpg/RTR4DJAC-1.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=bmwbBCQh)
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![Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (C), flanked by Chief of Staff General Necdet Ozel (L) and Defence Minister Ismet Yilmaz (R), leaves after a wreath-laying ceremony with members of the High Military Council at Anitkabir, the mausoleum of modern Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, ahead of a High Military Council meeting in Ankara August 4, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY ANNIVERSARY) - RTR415K3](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/11/RTR415K3.jpg/RTR415K3.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=ZThYeE0A)
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![Syrians wait to cross back into Syria at the Turkish Cilvegozu border, opposite the Syrian commercial crossing point Bab al-Hawa, in Reyhanli, Hatay province, May 14, 2013. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTXZLW2](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/11/RTXZLW2.jpg/RTXZLW2.jpg?h=077ac243&itok=C4kNev97)
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![Turkish army tanks and aircrafts take part in a parade marking the 91st anniversary of Victory Day in Ankara August 30, 2013. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY ANNIVERSARY) - RTX131DZ](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/10/RTX131DZ.jpg/RTX131DZ.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=8NKq-fxw)
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![Turkish army special force members stand guard during the EFES-2010 military exercise in Izmir May 25, 2010. REUTERS/ Osman Orsal (TURKEY - Tags: MILITARY) - RTR2ECRC](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/09/RTR2ECRC.jpg/RTR2ECRC.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=29kfuqKT)
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