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Tulin Daloglu

Tulin Daloglu has written extensively for various Turkish and American publications, including The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, The Middle East Times, Foreign Policy, The Daily Star (Lebanon) and the SAIS Turkey Analyst Report.

Militant Islamist fighters wave flags as they take part in a military parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa province June 30, 2014. Militant Islamist fighters held a parade in Syria's northern Raqqa province to celebrate their declaration of an Islamic "caliphate" after the group captured territory in neighbouring Iraq, a monitoring service said. The Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot previously known as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), posted pictures online on Sunday of people wa

Group with alleged links to Islamic State gathers in Istanbul

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Makeshift tents of Syrian refugees are seen in a wooded area in central Ankara October 5, 2013. Some 150 Syrians, mostly from villages near Syria's Aleppo, prefer to settle in the central Turkish capital instead of refugee camps run by the Turkish government. According to the families, this allows them to work as daily workers. Most of them collect plastic and paper garbage from the trash cans of buildings for recycling and sell it to make money. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: SOCIETY IMMIGRATION POLIT

Syrian refugees test tolerance in Turkish cities

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A man searches for a book in a second hand book market in Istanbul March 14, 2012. REUTERS/Osman Orsal (TURKEY - Tags: SOCIETY) - RTR2ZBHM

Call to boycott work of Jewish Turkish writer backfires

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Shi'ite Turkmen children, whose families fled the violence in Mosul, play at a school in the town of Nahrawan, east of Baghdad, July 16, 2014. Baghdad has struggled to recapture territory from the insurgents who seized Mosul, Tikrit and other cities last month in a rapid offensive which threatens to fragment Iraq on ethnic and sectarian lines. REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) - RTR3YWMV

Fleeing atrocities, Iraqi Turkmens turned away at Turkey's border

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Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan stands on stage as he attends a political rally for members of the expatriate Turk community in Chassieu, near Lyon, June 21, 2014. Turkey will vote for its first directly-elected president in August. REUTERS/Emmanuel Foudrot (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) - RTR3V03A

Erdogan's Hitler comments take their toll

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Turkey reacts to Israel ground operation in Gaza

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Erdogan may win presidency but no promise of expanded powers

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Turkey's Prime Minister and presidential candidate Tayyip Erdogan is seen through a camera monitor as he makes a speech during a meeting to launch his election campaign in Istanbul July 11, 2014. REUTERS/Murad Sezer (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) - RTR3Y71D

Erdogan: Gaza strife threatens Turkish-Israeli rapprochement

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People take part in a gathering to celebrate Newroz, which marks the arrival of spring and the new year in Istanbul March 23, 2014. Jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) called on the Turkish government on Friday to create a legal framework for their peace talks, whose fate is looking increasingly uncertain a year after he called a ceasefire by his fighters. REUTERS/Osman Orsal (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY ANNIVERSARY) - RTR3I8YF

With Kurdistan in its name, this political party won't back down

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MPs of Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) shout slogans against the ruling AK Party (AKP) during a debate in Ankara March 19, 2014. Parliament convened in the capital Ankara for the hearing of a prosecutor report allegedly outlining the role of four former ministers in a corruption scandal that became public in December 2013. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3HS83

Opposition makes hopeless objection to Erdogan's candidacy

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Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan greets AK Party (AKP) members at a meeting where he is named as his party's candidate for the country's first direct presidential election in Ankara July 1, 2014. Tayyip Erdogan declared his candidacy on Tuesday for a more powerful presidency which rivals fear may entrench authoritarian rule and supporters, especially conservative Muslims, see as the crowning prize in his drive to reshape NATO member Turkey. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3WM8F

Erdogan declares his presidential candidacy

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A member loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) waves an ISIL flag in Raqqa June 29, 2014. The offshoot of al Qaeda which has captured swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria has declared itself an Islamic "Caliphate" and called on factions worldwide to pledge their allegiance, a statement posted on jihadist websites said on Sunday. The group, previously known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as ISIS, has renamed itself "Islamic State" and proclaimed its leader

ISIS raises flag at Turkish border

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