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Metin Gurcan

Jun 13, 2016

Turkish soldiers patrol Sur district, which is partially under curfew, in the Kurdish-dominated southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Feb. 26, 2016. — REUTERS/Sertac Kayar

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Kurdish demonstrators gather behind a barricade as they clash with Turkish riot police during a protest against the curfew in Sur district, in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, February 21, 2016. REUTERS/Sertac Kayar - RTX27Y46

April showers bring … growing violence in southeast Turkey?

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Riot police block a street leading to Presidential Palace of Cankaya as members of Turkish Youth Union (TGB) protest against president-elect Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara August 11, 2014. Erdogan began the process of picking his successor as prime minister on Monday, a figure he hopes will triumph in next year's general election and secure his goal of forging a powerful presidency.
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Critics condemn AKP's tough police overhaul proposals

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An armoured vehicle drives near a Turkish police bus which was targeted in a bomb attack in a central Istanbul district, Turkey, June 7, 2016. REUTERS/Osman Orsal - RTSGBSA

Anti-terror, security expenses boost Turkey’s economic growth

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NUSAYBIN, TURKEY - FEBRUARY 25: Residents walk past the trenches of the armed group Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H), a youth division of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, in southeastern Turkish city of Nusaybin on February 25, 2016, Turkey. Since mid-December, the Turkish security forces placed to several predominantly Kurdish cities in Turkey under 24-hour martial law and curfew on the premise of restoring public order. (Photo by Cagdas Erdogan/Getty Images)

Turkey's southeast beginning to resemble Syria

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