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Turkey sees 10 percent increase in gun ownership in first quarter of 2017

May 6, 2017

The number of licensed guns possessed by civilians in Turkey numbered 338,052 as of the end of March, indicating a 10 percent increase in...

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HDP deputy claims İstanbul imam called for killings of Kurds

December 28, 2016

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Hüda Kaya claimed in a parliamentary commission that an imam in İstanbul called on people to take up...

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Ankara police chief: We would have armed civilians on July 15 if necessary

November 3, 2016

Testifying before the Coup Investigation Commission in the Turkish Parliament on Wednesday, the Ankara police chief said they did not hand out arms to...