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Turkey, Russia forge uneasy alliance year after crisis

  Istanbul / AFP One year after the crisis that plunged relations between Russia and Turkey to a post-Cold War low, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have overseen a spectacular revival in ties at a time when both are facing new tensions with the West. The shooting down of a Russian military jet over the Syrian border by the ...

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2 killed in bomb attack in southern Turkey

  Istanbul / AFP Two people were killed and 21 wounded on Thursday when a car bomb exploded outside a local government building in the southern Turkish city of Adana, the latest attack to rock Turkey this year. The bomb exploded in the car park of the governor’s office for the Adana region, the governorate said in a statement.The explosion ...

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Turkish army blames Syria regime for deadly air strike

  Istanbul / AFP The Turkish army blamed the Syrian regime for an air strike on Thursday in northern Syria that killed three soldiers and wounded 10, it said in a statement. “In the air strike assessed to have been by Syrian regime forces, three of our heroic soldiers were killed and 10 soldiers wounded, one seriously,” said the statement ...

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