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Turkey removes around 800 more police officers:

The government sacked or reassigned around 800 police officers on Jan. 30, as it pressed on with a purge of the country's police force in response to the ongoing high-level graft probe. Ref. Source 4

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Turkish police fire tear gas at Istanbul, Ankara protesters:

Turkish police on Saturday used tear gas and water cannons to disperse hundreds of demonstrators in Istanbul, who were defying a government ban on demonstrations to mark the one-year anniversary of the Gezi Park and Taksim Square mass protests last year. Ref. Source 3

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Dozens of Turkish police detained for alleged spying on government:

Dozens of Turkish police including high-ranking officers were detained on Tuesday, accused of spying and illegal wire-tapping of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his inner circle in what the chief prosecutor said was a concocted probe of an alleged terrorist group. Ref. Source 2

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Top Kurdish lawyer shot dead in southeast Turkey:

A prominent Kurdish lawyer and rights activist was shot in the head and killed in a street shootout in Turkey's troubled southeast on Saturday, much of the event captured on camera and broadcast around the world. Ref. Source 3p

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Istanbul police kill two female militants after standoff: reports:

The two women - members of the outlawed ultra-leftist Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) - had taken refuge in an apartment after their attack in the Bayrampasa district. Ref. Source 2z.

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Turkish police raid Istanbul courthouses, more officers detained:

Turkish police raided the country's biggest courthouse and two other halls of justice in Istanbul on Monday, detaining dozens of judicial personnel as part of their investigation into last month's attempted military coup. Ref. Source 6k.

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Turkey crackdown - 9,000 police officers suspended over alleged links to preacher Ref. Source 4z.

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Turkey is on the brink of being turned into an Islamic state like Iran and the founder of modern Turkey, Ataturk, must be rolling in his grave. He wanted the exact opposite for Turkey. Erdoğan is setting himself up to be a dictator. This has to make Greece nervous and possibly some of his Arab neighbors too. It only 100 years ago that the Ottoman Empire actually fell, and that Empire ruled all of the Middle East at one time.