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Opposition mayor bans Syrians from beach in western Turkey

Syrians have been barred from public beaches by the mayor of Mudanya, a coastal district in the western Turkish province of Bursa, who said that he would not allow Syrians disturb Turkey’s own people, Karar newspaper reported on Saturday.

Hayri Türkyılmaz from the Republican People’s Party (CHP), who was elected for a second term as Mudanya’s mayor on March 31, also attempted to ban Syrians from using beaches in 2014, Karar said.

“Nobody has the right to bother others or restrict their freedoms”, tweeted Türkyılmaz. “While our children are dying (in Syria), our mothers are crying, our economy is going downhill, we won’t tolerate our people being annoyed as they live a life of comfort”.

Turkey hosts some 3.6 million registered refugees from Syria, according to the latest United Nations figures published in May. Many in Turkey object to their presence, and the tensions have been fuelled in part by viral reports – often fake – of misdeeds by refugees, as well as inaccurate reports on the benefits offered them by the Turkish government.

Turkish news site Gazete ABC reported that a high number of Syrians had been a fixture on the beaches in Mudanya for months, likening them to an “invasion”.

The Syrians had been moved off the beaches and municipal police posted to ensure they did not return, Gazete ABC said.

“They can either conform to us or they can go back to their own country”, Türkyılmaz said.

With a reported 79 percent of Turks holding unfavourable views of the refugees, nationalist politicians have brought the issue to the agenda over recent years. This year another newly elected CHP mayor, Tanju Özcan of the north western Turkish province of Bolu, announced that he was cutting aid to Syrian refugees.

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Thousands hold #sit-in protest in İstanbul against ongoing state of emergency

Thousands of people affiliated with the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) held a sit-in in İstanbul’s Taksim area on Monday protesting government plans to extend a state of emergency, known as OHAL, which was declared following a failed coup attempt in July 2016.

Police teams prevented the crowd from entering Taksim Square, forcing the group to gather on İstiklal Street.

Emergency rule was declared for three months on July 20, 2016. It was extended for another three months on Oct. 19, 2016, Jan.19, 2017, April 19, 2017, July 21, 2017, Oct.16 2017 and Jan.18, 2018.

On Wednesday, the Turkish government is expected to extend the emergency rule for the seventh time.

The CHP supporters chanted slogans saying, “Don’t be silent, scream ‘no to OHAL’,” “Shoulder to shoulder against fascism” and “Everywhere is Taksim, everywhere is resistance.”

CHP İstanbul deputy Mahmut Tanal, who was among the participants of the protest, said the independent judiciary and media in Turkey have been destroyed during the state of emergency.

“During the Nazi era in Germany, the press didn’t write anything other than what the government said. There are now innocent students who are in jail. There are teachers who have been removed from their posts. OHAL is the enemy of democracy. OHAL brings injustice,” said Tanal.

Under emergency rule, the government has pressed ahead with many controversial decrees that have the force of the law and are not required to be approved by Parliament. In line with these decrees, more than 150,000 people have been purged from state bodies on coup charges.

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#Turquie : réunion de l’#opposition au bord d’une route

Le chef du principal parti d’opposition turc a dirigé mardi une réunion de groupe parlementaire inhabituelle, au bord d’une route, au sixième jour d’une « marche pour la justice » en défi au président Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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In January, a deputy from Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) submitted an intriguing parliamentary question to the interior minister. Ali Ozgunduz wanted to know whether militants from Syria and Iraq were being trained in Turkey to be used in crackdowns on anti-government protest movements.

Turkey opposition vows to build new ‘mega-city’ in Anatolia | ACTURCA
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Turkey’s main opposition party on Thursday unveiled a plan to build a new mega-city in the centre of the country, in a bid to outflank the ambitious infrastructure projects of the ruling party ahead of elections.

Seeking not to be outdone by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s self-proclaimed « crazy projects », the Republican People’s Party (CHP) said the new city would create 2.2 million new jobs over the next two decades.

« The project would give a great push to the Turkish economy and would make our country an economic actor in the region that cannot be ignored, » CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu said in Istanbul.

He said the new city would eventually have three million inhabitants and could start working as soon as 2020.

At a crossroads between Europe and Asia, the city would be the « project of the century », Kilicdaroglu said.

In order to realise the project, $160 billion (145 billion euros) in foreign and Turkish investments would be needed over the next 20 years, he added.

Kilicdaroglu did not give the precise location of the new city but said it would be at the geographical heart of Turkey which would put it in Anatolia east of Ankara.

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Opposition MP says ISIS is selling oil in Turkey - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
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Opposition MP says ISIS is selling oil in Turkey

The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has been selling smuggled Syrian oil in Turkey worth $800 million, according to Ali Ediboglu, a lawmaker for the border province of Hatay from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP).