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Turkey Shoots Down Syrian Plane It Says Violated Air Space

Mon, 2014-03-24 23:24 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Turkey shoots down Syrian plane

reuters.com - by Daren Butler - March 23, 2014

(Reuters) - Turkish armed forces shot down a Syrian plane on Sunday that Ankara said had crossed into its air space in an area where Syrian rebels have been battling President Bashar al-Assad's forces for control of a border crossing.

"A Syrian plane violated our airspace," Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told an election rally in northwest Turkey. "Our F-16s took off and hit this plane.

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Turkey PM Erdogan Threatens to Ban Facebook and YouTube

Mon, 2014-03-10 21:49 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

Mr Erdogan has increased his majority at each parliamentary election

bbc.com - March 7, 2014

Turkey's PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his government could ban Facebook and YouTube, arguing that opponents are using social media to attack him.

But President Abdullah Gul later called such a ban "out of the question".

Allegations of corruption against Mr Erdogan have been repeated on the social media sites.

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BREAKING: Turkey Threatens Doctors and First Responders, Violates Medical Neutrality

Sat, 2013-06-22 22:13 — Gina Angiola

By Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org
June 15th, 2013

The Turkish Health Ministry issued a threat to take medical licenses to practice away from doctors who have been providing treatment to the protesters in Istanbul. They are also demanding the names of all medical volunteers including Emergency Medicine Technicians. This threat constitutes a violation of the human right of the protesters to receive treatment and the principle of medical neutrality...

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