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    "I learned they offer two types of thesis services: master’s theses and PhD dissertations. A master’s thesis is 80 to 100 pages long, and costs between 2,500 and 7,000 lira ($415 to $1,160)" University theses for sale in Turkey | Maaz İbrahimoğlu

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    Pro-govt press blames economic woes on “crisis lobby” - media roundup || Ahval

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    Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani has won the Anna Politkovskaya investigative journalism award for his work documenting Australia’s offshore immigration detention program.

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    A five-meter-long 300 year old bridge located in Turkey’s northeastern province of Gümüşhane disappeared last week, leading locals to believe that the historic structure connecting their highlands to a village was stolen

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    Remembering investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, killed on this day in 2006.

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    T24: The Turkish President Erdoğan sent a warning to the country’s pro-Kurdish HDP ahead of the country’s 2019 municipal elections that any candidate "affiliated" with the PKK would be replaced by Ankara

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    McKinsey has shaken the AKP, so perhaps it seemed to Erdoğan that news headlines needed to be changed immediately: Erdoğan slams CHP over photograph of former leader İnönü holding U.S. flag in 1940s.

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    21 hours ago

    A Bulgarian news anchor was beaten, raped and left to die. Seeing my colleagues being assaulted and assassinated across Eastern Europe, I never thought I see the day the same would be happening in the EU. Everyone vilifying journalism and media is complicit.

    : In , regional TV TVN director/presenter Victoria Marinova was assassinated in Ruse last night. Her last broadcast: an interview w/ RISE Romania reporter and 's Dimitar Stoyanov on . We await more…
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  9. 16 hours ago

    Umm. OK. Opening, closing all EU chapters in 6 months possible - AKP spokesperson |

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  10. 17 hours ago

    Yüksel st.

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    If Khashoggi was murdered in the Saudi consulate, there should be severe consequences for KSA. But we are hampered by depending on the account of an unreliable Turkish gov't. When you lie all the time, & then tell an important truth, how do we know? A lesson for the Trump Admin.

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  12. 17 hours ago

    Here 5 workers getting arrested in what seems to be Ankara's Yuksek st. (heart of the city) yday for simply screaming "we want our jobs back". Gotta admire these people knowingly walking into a group of police forces to be detained for an unspecified period.

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    . Günü “işimizi geri istiyoruz” Öğlen açıklamasında. Alev şahin, selvi Polat. Nursel Tanrıverdi, İlker ışık ve Perihan pulat, Gözaltına alındı. …
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    Yday Turkish sources told Western news outlets that they would reveal evidence of Khashoggi murder today. Now Kışlakçı, who is closely linked to the Turkish govt, says Turkish police will show evidence showing claims of murder within next few days. Imp to follow up this.

    Turan Kışlakçı, head of the Turkish-Arab Media Association, says officials have told him that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate. He says Turkish police have evidenc…
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    there are moments when it’s difficult to believe in the possibility of change. for many, incl in US, this is one of them. & so many examples of rising authoritarianism & anti-democratic behavior. however, there have been moments to be inspired, too:

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    He announces a new program every other week after the previous one buried: Turkey's Finance Minister and son in law will announce a strong programme to combat inflation |

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  16. Oct 6

    Meanwhile, Turkish govt continues to arrest more journalists. Within last couple hours, journalist Cagdaş Kaplan was detained, accused of 'terror propaganda’ taken to Göztepe Police station, Istanbul. Photo while getting handcuffed:

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  17. Oct 6

    Turkey’s Anadolu news reported that 15 Saudi citizens, inc Saudi diplomats, arrived in Istanbul on 2 separate planes, were at consulate around same time as Mr. Khashoggi on Tuesday. Officials “confirmed 2 things: He was killed and his body was dismembered”

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    University theses for sale in Turkey

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    No, really?? | “It isn’t illegal to read or conduct a study on Kıvılcımlı,” said Zirngast's lawyer, who has argued similar cases. “The problem is the state itself - in order to pressure its opponents, [Turkey] criminalizes certain acts & situations.”

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  20. Oct 6

    Turkey kidnaps oppositions (mostly Gulenists) from abroad and jails Turkish journalists then launches investigation into disappearance of a foreign journalist:

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